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Workshop Search
Please note that workshops prior to 1994 are not yet accessible on our site.
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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* (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), Kenneth McLaughlin (University of Arizona), and Craig A. Tracy (University of California, 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* (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), and Irina Nenciu (University of Illinois at 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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| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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| 21st Bay Area Discrete Math Day (BADMath Day) |
| October 16, 2010 |
| Organized By: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Ruchira Datta (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Hsu (San Jose State University), Fu Liu (University of California, Davis), Carol Meyers (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Raman Sanyal* (University of California, Berkeley), Rick Scott (Santa Clara University), and Ellen Veomett (California State University, East Bay) |
| BADMath Days are one-day meetings aimed at facilitating communication between researchers and graduate students of discrete mathematics around the San Francisco Bay Area. These days happen twice a year and strive to create an informal atmosphere to talk about discrete mathematics. The term "discrete mathematics" is chosen to include at least the following topics: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, Graph Theory, Coding and Design Theory, Combinatorial Aspects of Computational Algebra and Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, Probabilistic Combinatorics, Combinatorial Aspects of Statistics, and Combinatorics in Mathematical Physics. |
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| Bay Area Differential Geometry (BADG) Seminar Fall 2010 |
| October 23, 2010 |
| Organized By: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Robert Bryant (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), David Hoffman* (Stanford University), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| The Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar meets 3 times each year and is a 1-day seminar on recent developments in differential geometry and geometric analysis, broadly interpreted. Typically, it runs from mid-morning until late afternoon, with 3-4 speakers. Box lunches will be available for purchase and the final talk will be followed by dinner. The schedule (with speakers) will be posted as soon as it becomes available.The October 23rd meeting takes place on the 60th birthday of Rick Schoen, and the dinner will recognize this happy coincidence. |
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| Hot Topics: Kervaire invariant |
| October 25, 2010 to October 29, 2010 |
| Organized By: Mike Hill (University of Virginia), Michael Hopkins (Harvard University), and Douglas C. Ravanel* (University of Rochester) |
| This workshop will focus on the ideas surrounding the recent solution to the Arf-Kervaire invariant problem in stable homotopy theory by Mike Hill, Mike Hopkins and Doug Ravenel. There will be talks on relevant aspects of equivariant stable homotopy theory, including the norm functor and the slice tower. The pertinent parts of chromatic homotopy theory will be covered including formal groups and formal $A$-modules, the Hopkins-Miller theorem, finite subgroups of Morava stabilizer groups and Ravenel's 1978 solution to the analogous problem at primes bigger than 3. There will also be several talks by the organizers giving a detailed account of the proof of the main theorem. Finally there will be a discussion of the questions raised by the unexpected statement of the theorem. |
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| Inverse Problems: Theory and Applications |
| November 08, 2010 to November 12, 2010 |
| Organized By: Liliana Borcea (Rice University), Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago), Maarten de Hoop (Purdue University), Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University), Lassi Paivarinta (University of Helsinki), and Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington) |
| Inverse Problems are problems where causes for a desired or an observed effect are to be determined. They lie at the heart of scientific inquiry and technological development. Applications include a number of medical as well as other imaging techniques, location of oil and mineral deposits in the earth's substructure, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes, and modelling in the life sciences.
The speakers in the workshop will cover a broad range of the most recent developments in the theory and applications of inverse problems. |
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| Inverse Problems and Applications |
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| SIAM/MSRI workshop on Hybrid Methodologies for Symbolic-Numeric Computation |
| November 17, 2010 to November 19, 2010 |
| Organized By: Mark Giesbrecht (University of Waterloo), Erich Kaltofen* (North Carolina State University), Daniel Lichtblau (Wolfram Research), Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University), and Lihong Zhi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) |
| This workshop will provide a forum for researchers on both sides (and the middle!) of hybrid symbolic-numeric computation. We anticipate inviting as primary speakers some of the original contributors in the field, as well as younger researchers making strong contributions on different aspects of the field. |
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| Random Matrix Theory and its Applications II |
| December 06, 2010 to December 10, 2010 |
| Organized By: Alexei Borodin* (California Institute of Technology), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alice Guionnet (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Pierre van Moerbeke (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Brandeis University), and Craig A.Tracy (University of California, 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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| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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| Connections for Women: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
| January 13, 2011 to January 14, 2011 |
| Organized By: Catherine Bandle (University of Basel), Claudia Lederman (University of Buenos Aires), Noemi Wolanski (University of Buenos Aires) |
| Contributions of women working in areas related to free boundary problems will be presented. It will include survey lectures on current problems and on standard techniques used in this field, as well as more specific new results of individual researchers. One of the major goals besides the scientific aspect, is to encourage women mathematicians to interact and to build networks. It addresses also to graduate students who are very welcome. A discussion on women’s experiences in the mathematical community should help them to find their way in their mathematical career. |
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| Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
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| Introductory Workshop: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
| January 18, 2011 to January 21, 2011 |
| Organized By: Tatiana Toro* (University of Washington) |
| Many problems in physics, industry, finance, biology, and other areas can be described by partial differential equations that exhibit apriori unknown sets, such as interfaces, moving boundaries or shocks for example. The study of such sets, also known as free boundaries, often plays a central role in the understanding of such problems. The aim of this workshop is to introduce several free boundary problems arising in completely different areas. |
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| Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
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| Connections for Women: Arithmetic Statistics |
| January 27, 2011 to January 28, 2011 |
| Organized By: Chantal David (Concordia University) and Nina Snaith* (University of Bristol) |
| The format of this 2-day workshop will be colloquium-style presentations that will introduce some of the major topics touched on by the "Arithmetic Statistics" program. They will be pitched so as to be understandable to researchers with a variety of mathematical backgrounds. There will be three themes, designed broadly as a lead-in to the program's initial workshop (taking place the following week): the Sato-Tate conjecture; Random matrix theory and L-functions; and Enumeration of number fields. The purpose will be to provide background but also to present the exciting areas where progress is happening fast, where major problems have been solved, or where there are significant open questions that need to be tackled. With this we aim to provide motivation for the Connections participants to involve themselves with the remainder of the program. |
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| Arithmetic Statistics |
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| Introductory Workshop: Arithmetic Statistics |
| January 31, 2011 to February 04, 2011 |
| Organized By: Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College) and Michael Rubinstein* (University of Waterloo) |
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| Arithmetic Statistics |
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| Workshop on Mathematics Journals |
| February 14, 2011 to February 16, 2011 |
| Organized By: James M Crowley (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Susan Hezlet* (London Mathematical Society), Robion C Kirby (University of California, Berkeley), and Donald E McClure (American Mathematical Society) |
| Mathematics relies on its journal literature as the main conduit for peer review and dissemination of research, and it does so more heavily and differently to other scientific fields. The conflict between universal access and the traditional subscription model that funds the journals has been debated for the past decade, while hard data on financial sustainability and usage under the different models has been slow to appear. However the last ten years have seen the move from print to the electronic version of journals becoming the version of record and the workshop plans to take an evidence-based approach to discussing dissemination, access and usage of mathematics journals. |
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| Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
| March 07, 2011 to March 11, 2011 |
| Organized By: John King (University of Nottingham), Arshak Petrosyan (Purdue University), Henrik Shahgholian* (Royal Institute of Technology), and Georg Weiss (University of Tokyo) |
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| Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
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| Arithmetic Statistics |
| April 11, 2011 to April 15, 2011 |
| Organized By: Brian Conrey (American Institute of Mathematics), Barry Mazur (Harvard University), and Michael Rubinstein* (University of Waterloo) |
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| Arithmetic Statistics |
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| Joint Introductory Workshop: Cluster Algebras and Commutative Algebra |
| August 27, 2012 to September 07, 2012 |
| Organized By: David Eisenbud* (University of California, Berkeley), Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan), Srikanth Iyengar (University of Nebraska), Bernhard Keller (Universit´e Paris VII, France), Bernard Leclerc (Universit´e de Caen, France), Ezra Miller (Duke University), Anurag Singh (University of Utah), and Karen Smith (University of Michigan), Alexander Vainshtein* (University of Haifa, Israel), Lauren Williams (University of California, Berkeley). |
| This workshop will take place at the opening of the MSRI special programs on Commutative Algebra and on Cluster Algebras. It will feature lecture series at different levels, to appeal to a wide variety of participants. There will be minicourses on the basics of cluster algebras, and others developing particular aspects of cluster algebras and commutative algebra. |
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| Cluster Algebras |
| Commutative Algebra |
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