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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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| MSRI-UP 2009: Coding Theory |
| June 15, 2009 to July 24, 2009 |
| Organized By: Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), and Suzanne Weekes (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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| Summer Institute for the Professional Development of Middle School Teachers on Pre-Algebra (Wu Summer Institute) |
| July 06, 2009 to July 24, 2009 |
| Organized By: Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley), Stefanie Hassan (Little Lake City School District), Winnie Gilbert (Hacienda La Puente Unified School District), and Sunil Koswatta (Harper College). |
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| Connections for Women: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
| August 14, 2009 to August 15, 2009 |
| Organized By: Eleny Ionel (Stanford University), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University). |
| This will form a bridge between
the graduate student workshop which will just be ending and
the Introductory workshop. After some
elementary talks describing some of the main questions
in the field, there will be an extended discussion session
intended to explain basic concepts to those unfamiliar with the area.
There will also be an opportunity for young researchers in the field
to present their work, and an evening social event. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Introductory Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
| August 17, 2009 to August 21, 2009 |
| Organized By: John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University), and Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr). |
| This workshop aims both to introduce
people to a broad swath of the field
and to frame its most important problems.
Each day will be organized around a
basic topic, such as how to count holomorphic
curves with boundary on a Lagrangian submanifold (which
leads to various versions of Floer theory)
or how to understand the general structure of
symplectic and contact manifolds.
There will also be an introduction to the
analytic and algebraic aspects of symplectic
field theory, and a discussion of some applications. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Connections for Women: Tropical Geometry |
| August 22, 2009 to August 23, 2009 |
| Organized By: Alicia Dickenstein* (U Buenos Aires), Eva Maria Feichtner* (U Bremen) |
| The aim of this workshop is to introduce advanced graduate students and postdocs to tropical geometry. Various aspects of this multi-faceted field will be highlighted in two short-courses comprising lectures and exercise/discussion sessions as well as in research talks. The workshop will thus provide the participants with
an excellent introduction to the forthcoming events of the program. The scientific part will be complemented by a round table discussion on career issues of female mathematicians. |
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| Tropical Geometry |
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| Introductory Workshop: Tropical Geometry |
| August 24, 2009 to August 28, 2009 |
| Organized By: Eva Maria Feichtner (U Bremen), Ilia Itenberg* (U Strasbourg), Grigory Mikhalkin (U Genčve), Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley) |
| This workshop is to lay the foundations for the upcoming program. Mini-courses comprising lectures and exercise/discussion sessions will cover the foundational aspects of tropical geometry as well as its connections with adjacent areas: symplectic geometry, several complex variables, algebraic geometry (in particular enumerative and computational aspects) and geometric combinatorics. The mini-courses will be augmented by research talks on current tropical develpoments to open the scene and set up new goals in the beginning semester. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Tropical Geometry |
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| Black Holes in Relativity |
| September 14, 2009 to September 18, 2009 |
| Organized By: Mihalis Dafermos (University of Cambridge) and Igor Rodnianski (Princeton) |
| The mathematical study of the dynamics of the Einstein equations forms a central part of both partial differential equations and geometry, and is intimately related to our current physical understanding of gravitational collapse. |
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| Tropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra |
| October 12, 2009 to October 16, 2009 |
| Organized By: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), David Speyer* (MIT), Jenia Tevelev (U Mass Amherst), Lauren Williams (Harvard) |
| This workshop will concentrate on tropical methods in Combinatorics
and Algebra. Some of the topics we expect to explore are
tropical ideas and methods in combinatorial linear algebra and in
combinatorial representation theory, as well as computational issues and applications of tropical methods in algebraic statistics. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Tropical Geometry |
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| Algebraic structures in the theory of holomorphic curves |
| November 16, 2009 to November 20, 2009 |
| Organized By: Mohammed Abouzaid ( Clay Mathematics Institute), Yakov Eliashberg* (Stanford University), Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University), Eleny Ionel (Stanford University), Lenny Ng (Duke University), Paul Seidel (MIT). |
| The theory of holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds leads
to rich algebraic structures. The study of these structures is
increasingly important both for understanding the theory itself, and
for actual computations and applications. The aim of the workshop
is to survey ongoing developments in the area. Some of the topics
of interest are: cohomological field theories; relative and tropical
Gromov-Witten invariants; Symplectic Field Theory (SFT) and connections
with string topology; theories of holomorphic curves with Lagrangian
boundary conditions, such as relative SFT, open Gromov-Witten theory,
and Fukaya categories. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Tropical Structures in Geometry and Physics |
| November 30, 2009 to December 04, 2009 |
| Organized By: Mark Gross ( University of California San Diego), Kentaro Hori (University of Toronto), Viatcheslav Kharlamov (Université de Strasbourg (Louis Pasteur), Richard Kenyon (Brown University) |
| One of the successes of tropical geometry is its applications to a number of different areas of recently developing mathematics. Among these are enumerative geometry, symplectic field theory, mirror symmetry, dimer models/random surfaces, amoebas and algas, instantons, cluster varieties, and tropical compactifications. While these fields appear quite diverse, we believe the common meeting ground of tropical geometry will provide a basis for fruitful interactions between participants. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Tropical Geometry |
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| Connections for Women: Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
| January 21, 2010 to January 22, 2010 |
| Organized By: Elisenda Grigsby* (Columbia), Olga Plamenevskaya (SUNY/Stonybrook), and Katrin Wehrheim (MIT) |
| This 2-day workshop will serve as a prelude to the introductory workshop for the semester-long program on homology theories of knots and links. Survey talks in the mornings will position the work in Khovanov and Heegaard Floer homology in a broader context, focusing on:
1) applications to classical questions in low-dimensional topology, and
2) connections to contact and symplectic topology.
Research talks in the afternoons will highlight the range of current activity in the field. We plan a format of no more than four talks each day to allow ample time for presentation opportunities for younger researchers and formal and informal discussions. |
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| Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
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| Introductory Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
| January 25, 2010 to January 29, 2010 |
| Organized By: Dylan Thurston (Columbia university) |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
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| Bay Area Circle for Teachers Winter Workshop |
| January 30, 2010 |
| Organized By: Brandy Wiegers |
| The Winter workshop supports teachers in their development of problem solving skills as well as sharing with them information about upcoming mathematical opportunities for students and teachers. This will be a great opportunity for teachers new to the Math Circle program and experienced Math Circle teachers. |
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| Research workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
| March 15, 2010 to March 19, 2010 |
| Organized By: Peter S. Ozsváth (Columbia University) |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
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| Symplectic and contact topology and dynamics: puzzles and horizons |
| March 21, 2010 to March 26, 2010 |
| Organized By: Paul Biran (Tel Aviv University), John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Helmut Hofer (Courant Institute), Dusa McDuff *(Barnard College), Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University), |
| This workshop will focus on recent progress in central problems in
symplectic and contact topology and Hamiltonian dynamics such as
rigidity of Lagrangian submanifolds, algebra/topology/geometry of
symplectomorphism and contactomorphism groups, exotic symplectic and
contact structures, and existence of
periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and Reeb flows.
It will explain applications of the "large machines"
such as Floer Theory, Symplectic Field Theory and Fukaya categories,
showing where these machines do not yet provide satisfactory
answers. Special attention will also be paid to articulating
new problems and
directions, as well as to explaining
interactions between symplectic and contact
topology and other fields. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Connections for Women: Inverse Problems and Applications |
| August 19, 2010 to August 20, 2010 |
| Organized By: Tanya Christiansen (University of Missouri, Columbia), Alison Malcolm (MIT), Shari Moskow (Drexel), Chrysoula Tsogka (University of Crete), Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington, chair) |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Inverse Problems and Applications |
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| Introductory Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications |
| August 23, 2010 to August 27, 2010 |
| Organized By: Margaret Cheney (RPI), Michael Vogelius( Rutgers), Gunther Uhlmann* (chair) (University of Washington), Maciej Zworski (U.C. Berkeley) |
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| Inverse Problems and Applications |
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| Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications. I. |
| September 13, 2010 to September 17, 2010 |
| Organized By: Jinho Baik (University of Michigan), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alexander Its (IUPUI), Pierre van Moerbeke (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Brandeis University), Craig A. Tracy* (UC Davis) |
| In the spring of 1999, MSRI hosted a very successful and influential one-semester program on RMT and its applications. At the workshops during the semester, there was a sense of excitement as brand new and very recent results were reported. The goal of the 2010 Program is to showcase the many remarkable developments that have taken place since 1999 and to spur further developments in RMT and Related areas of interacting particle systems (IPS) and integrable systems (IS) as well as to highlight various applications of RMT. |
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| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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| Connections for Women: An Introduction to Random Matrices |
| September 20, 2010 to September 21, 2010 |
| Organized By: Estelle Basor (American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto), Alice Guionnet * (ENS Lyon), Irina Nenciu (UIC, Chicago) |
| Topics covered in this workshop will include fundamental problems in random matrices, including universality questions and connections to physics, free probability, Riemann Hilbert problems and applications to other areas of mathematics such as number theory and numerical analysis. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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| Inverse Problems: Theory and applications |
| November 08, 2010 to November 12, 2010 |
| Organized By: Liliana Borcea (Rice), Carlos Kenig (U. Chicago), Maarten de Hoop (Purdue), Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M), Lassi Paivarinta (U. Helsinki), Gunther Uhlmann* (U. Washington) |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Inverse Problems and Applications |
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| Random Matrix Theory and its Applications II |
| December 06, 2010 to December 10, 2010 |
| Organized By: Alexei Borodin (Caltech), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alice Guionnet (ENS, Lyon), Kenneth McLaughlin (University of Arizona), and Craig A.Tracy (UC Davis) |
| Random matrix theory (RMT) was introduced into the theoretical physics community by Eugene Wignerinthe 1950s as a model for the scattering resonances of neutrons off large nuclei. In multivariate statistics, random matrix models were introduced in the late 1920s by John Wishart and subsequently developed by Anderson, James and others. Since these early beginnings RMT has found an extraordinary variety of mathematical, physical and engineering applications that, to name some, include number theory, stochastic growth models, tiling problems and wireless communications. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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