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Workshop Search
Please note that workshops prior to 1994 are not yet accessible on our site.
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Upcoming Workshops: |
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| Critical Issues in Education Workshop: Teaching and Learning Algebra |
| May 14, 2008 to May 16, 2008 |
| Organized By: Al Cuoco, chair, (Center for Mathematics Education), Deborah Ball, ex officio (University of Michigan), Hyman Bass (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), James Fey (University of Maryland), Megan Franke (UCLA), Roger Howe (Yale University), Alan Schoenfeld (UC Berkeley), and Ed Silver (University of Michigan). |
| For over two decades, the teaching and learning of algebra has been a focus of mathematics education at the precollege level. This workshop will examine issues in algebra education at two critical points in the continuum from elementary school to undergraduate studies: at the transitions from arithmetic to algebra and from high school to university. In addition, the workshop will involve participants in discussions about various ways to structure an algebra curriculum across the entire K-12 curriculum. |
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| Hot Topics: Contact structures, dynamics and the Seiberg-Witten equations in dimension 3 |
| June 09, 2008 to June 13, 2008 |
| Organized By: Helmut Hofer, Michael Hutchings, Peter Kronheimer, Tom Mrowka and Cliff Taubes |
| This workshop will concentrate on recently discovered relationships between Seiberg-Witten theory and contact geometry on 3 dimensional manifolds. One consequence of these relationships is a proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension 3. Another is an isomorphism between the Seiberg-Witten Floer (co)homology and embedded contact homology, the latter a form of Floer homology that was defined by Michael Hutchings. The over arching plan is to introduce the salient features of both the contact geometry side of the story and the Seiberg-Witten side, and then discuss how they are related. |
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| MSRI-UP 2008 research topic: Experimental Mathematics |
| June 14, 2008 to July 27, 2008 |
| Organized By: Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Humacao), duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), and Suzanne Weeks (worcester Polytechnic Insitute). |
| The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support. |
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| CMI/MSRI Workshop: Modular Forms and Arithmetic |
| June 28, 2008 to July 02, 2008 |
| Organized By: Frank Calegari, Samit Dasgupta, David Ellwood, Bjorn Poonen, and Richard Taylor |
| This conference, jointly funded by MSRI and the Clay Mathematics Institute, will bring together researchers on many aspects of the arithmetic applications of modular (and automorphic) forms. This is currently a very broad and very active subject. Our intention is to encourage interaction between those working in different sub-disciplines. To this end it is hoped to limit lectures to 4 hours a
day, allowing plenty of time for informal interactions. On Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 7pm there will be a dinner to honor Ken Ribet on his 60th birthday. |
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| Climate Change Summer School |
| July 14, 2008 to August 01, 2008 |
| Organized By: Chris Jones (UNC Chapel Hill), Inez Fung (U.C. Berkeley), Eric Kostelich (Arizona State University), K.K. Tung (U. Washington), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College) |
| Supported by the Sea Change Foundation, this three-week summer school will incorporate a workshop for graduate students as well as an advanced research workshop. The mini-program is designed to introduce students and postdocs to a set of mathematical ideas and techniques that are highly relevant to climate change research. |
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| Mathematics Professional Development Institute (Wu Summer Institute) |
| July 21, 2008 to August 08, 2008 |
| Organized By: Dr. Hung-Hsi Wu (UC Berkeley), Kay Kirman and Hana Huang (Miraloma Elementary School, SF), and Dr. Sunil Koswatta (Harper College) |
| This three-week course in elementary mathematics directly addresses the mathematics needed for teaching Number Sense in K-7 classrooms. It develops whole numbers and fractions from the beginning, with an excursion into some elementary number theory about divisibility properties of whole numbers and the algorithm that yields the HCF of two numbers. Each day begins with mathematics lectures by a Berkeley mathematician and concludes with small group sessions guided by MPDI graduates. |
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| Bay Area Circle for Teachers Workshop |
| August 04, 2008 to August 08, 2008 |
| Organized By: Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University) and Joshua Zucker (Castilleja School) |
| The aimof the Circle for Teachers is to equip educators with an effective problem-solving approach to teachng mathematics. This style of learning is based on the math circle environment that has proven to be successful for students around the world. Participants will come away with a variety of resources, lesson modules, and a renewed sense of appreciation for the fascinating world of mathematics. |
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| Low Dimensional Topology |
| August 11, 2008 to August 15, 2008 |
| Organized By: Elisenda Grigsby, Rob Schneiderman,
Peter Teichner, and Kevin Walker |
| In recent years, there has been exciting progress in the following three branches of low-dimensional topology: Heegard Floer Homology, 4-Dimensional Manifolds, and Khovanov Homology. The format of this workshop will be three one-hour lectures every day, most likely one on each topic. The first day will consist of introductions to these areas; later talks will be given by experts in the areas who can explain the most recent developments. We plan to leave enough time for discussions in the hope that participants will interact intensely. |
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| Broader Connections: Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics |
| August 21, 2008 to August 22, 2008 |
| Organized By: Ben Green (University of Cambridge), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Emmanuel Lesigne (University of Tours), Anthony Quas (University of Victoria), Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis) |
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| Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics |
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| Introduction to Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics |
| August 25, 2008 to August 29, 2008 |
| Organized By: Ben Green (University of Cambridge), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Emmanuel Lesigne (University of Tours), Anthony Quas (University of Victoria), and Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis) |
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| Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics |
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| Broader Connections: Analysis of Singular Spaces |
| August 28, 2008 to August 29, 2008 |
| Organized By: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy, and Jared Wunsch |
| This two-day program will consist of a "crash course" in topics in PDE relevant to the Analysis of Singular Spaces main program, and in particular will attempt to get graduate students, postdocs, and even advanced
undergraduates ready for the Introductory Workshop the following week. The focus will be topics in analysis on smooth manifolds whose generalizations to singular spaces will be the focus of the main program. |
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| Analysis of Singular Spaces |
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| Introductory Workshop on Analysis of Singular Spaces |
| September 02, 2008 to September 05, 2008 |
| Organized By: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch |
| This four-day program will be an introduction to the main themes of the analysis of singular spaces program, geared toward graduate students and postdocs. It will consist of several minicourses, covering topics in
spectral and scattering theory, index theory, and $L²$-cohomology, as well as developing the technical tools needed as background. |
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| Analysis of Singular Spaces |
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| Topology of Stratified Spaces |
| September 08, 2008 to September 12, 2008 |
| Organized By: Greg Friedman, Eugénie Hunsicker, Anatoly Libgober, and Laurentiu Maxim |
| This workshop will bring together researchers interested in the topology of stratified spaces. It will focus roughly on four topics: topology of complex varieties, signature theory on singular spaces, L2 and intersection cohomology, and mixed Hodge theory and singularities. Aside from talks on current research, there will be a series of introductory lectures on these themes. These talks will be aimed at strengthening the connections among the various topology research groups and the connections between topology researchers and researchers at the program on Analysis of Singular Spaces, running concurrently. |
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| Modern Mathematics: An Introduction to MSRI's 2009-10 Programs |
| October 08, 2008 to October 09, 2008 |
| Organized By: Ive Rubio, Herbert Mendina, Kathy O'Hara, and Robert Megginson |
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| Promoting Diversity at the Graduate Level in Math: a National Forum |
| October 14, 2008 to October 17, 2008 |
| Organized By: Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes |
| Cultivating diversity and broadening participation of historically underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences are national goals that are identified by the National Science Foundation as "essential components of the innovation engine that drives the Nation's economy." The goal of this three-day conference is to stimulate, identify, and disseminate successful models that imporve retention of underrepresented groups in graduate programs in mathematics. |
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| Elliptic and Hyperbolic Equations on Singular Spaces |
| October 27, 2008 to October 31, 2008 |
| Organized By: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch |
| This workshop will focus on the study of PDEs on singular spaces and their connections with the spaces' underlying geometry. Topics will be cohomology theory, index theory, and spectral geometry on the elliptic
side; and wave propagation and associated inverse problems on the hyperbolic. A unifying theme will be asymptotic expansions of solutions in various regimes, as for instance high frequency eigenfunction expansions,
which draws techniques from hyperbolic equations into the elliptic theory. |
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| Analysis of Singular Spaces |
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| Discrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics |
| November 03, 2008 to November 07, 2008 |
| Organized By: Ben Green (University of Cambridge), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Emmanuel Lesigne (University of Tours), Anthony Quas (University of Victoria), Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis) |
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| Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics |
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| Connections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields |
| January 22, 2009 to January 24, 2009 |
| Organized By: Angela Gibney (U. Pennsylvania), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Diane Maclagan (Warwick U.) Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke), and Ravi Vakil (Stanford U.) |
| This workshop is part of the semester program on Algebraic Geometry, and
additional funding will be available for participants to attend the associated
"Introductory workshop: Classical algebraic geometry," January 26-30, 2009. |
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| Classical Algebraic Geometry |
| January 26, 2009 to January 30, 2009 |
| Organized By: Lucia Caporaso (U. Rome III), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), James McKernan (MIT), Mircea Mustata (U. Michigan), Mihnea Popa (U. Illinois - Chicago) |
| The main theme of the workshop will be to explore modern approaches to
problems originating in Classical Algebraic Geometry, and at the same time
offer an introduction to various subfields to the younger participants in
the semester-long program. |
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| Modern Moduli Theory |
| February 23, 2009 to February 27, 2009 |
| Organized By: I. Coskun (U. Illinois - Chicago), S. Katz (U. Illinois), A. Marian (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Pandharipande (Princeton U.), R. Thomas (Imperial College), H.H. Tseng (U. Wisconsin), R. Vakil (Stanford U.) |
| This workshop will convene experts specializing on the minimal model program, derived categories and moduli
spaces in an informal environment to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas across these different fields of algebraic geometry. |
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| Combinatorial, Enumerative and Toric Geometry |
| March 23, 2009 to March 27, 2009 |
| Organized By: Michel Brion (U. de Genoble), Anders Buch (Rutgers U.), Linda Chen (Ohio State U.), William Fulton (U. Michigan), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Frank Sottile (Texas A&M), Harry Tamvakis (U. Maryland), and Burt Totaro (Cambridge U.) |
| This workshop will present the state of the art in combinatorial, enumerative, and toric algebraic geometry. It
will highlight this part of modern algebraic geometry within the context of the broader parent program at MSRI, and convey its scope to young researchers. |
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