MSRI Outlook December 2005

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OUTLOOK @MSRI: December 15, 2005 -- HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU!

Please let your colleagues know about these events and this newsletter,
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information at the end.]

=============== NEW YEAR IN THE NEW BUILDING! ==================

MSRI will be moving back into its expanded and renewed home in early
January, and the Spring 2006 Programs will take place there! The Simons
Auditorium, the Hearst Library, and the Baker Board/Seminar room are among
the major additions.

SAVE THE DATES: You are warmly invited to attend the Dedication of MSRI's
Chern Building on FRIDAY, March 3, 2-5pm. In celebration, Sir Roger Penrose
will give a public address on Sunday, March 5 (time & location TBA).

PLEASE NOTE: Currently, MSRI has moved to temporary headquarters at UC
Berkeley's Evans Hall during the final stage of construction of the new
building. MSRI's mailing address remain the same: 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley,
CA, 94720-5070; the main phone number remains (510)642-0143, however,
calling this or any other MSRI phone will lead to voicemail that will be
checked periodically. E-mail is best for immediate communications.
Deliveries should be sent directly to the Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute, 1015 Evans Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
94720. For info, see http://www.msri.org/specials/moving_back

You can watch construction of the new addition through a "live" webcam at
the building site:
go to http://msri-cam.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html

======================= NEXT WORKSHOP ==========================

Stringy Topology in Morelia, Mexico
January 09, 2006 to January 20, 2006
Organized By: R. Cohen, J. Morava, A. Adem, Y. Ruan; Local Organizers: M.
Aguilar (UNAM-Mexico City), D. Juan-Pineda (UNAM-Morelia), J.Seade
(UNAM-Cuernavaca)
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/310/show_workshop
 
==================== UPCOMING 2006 WORKSHOPS ===================

Introductory Workshop in Rational and Integral Points on Higher-Dimensional
Varieties January 16, 2006 to January 20, 2006 Organized By: Jean-Louis
Colliot-Thélčne, Roger Heath-Brown, János Kollár, Bjorn Poonen (chair),
Alice Silverberg, Yuri Tschinkel
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/301/show_workshop

Generalized McKay correspondences and representation theory March 20, 2006
to March 24, 2006 Organized By: Yongbin Ruan, H. Nakajima, G. Mason
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/311/show_workshop

Cohomological Approaches to Rational Points March 27, 2006 to March 31, 2006
Organized By: Fedor Bogomolov, Antoine Chambert-Loir, Jean-Louis
Colliot-Thélčne (chair), A. Johan de Jong, Raman Parimala
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/302/show_workshop

Mathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks April 10,
2006 to April 12, 2006 Organized By: Michael Gastpar, Gerhard Kramer,
Nicholas Laneman
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/325/show_workshop

Mathematical Systems Biology of Cancer
May 3, 2006 to May 5, 2006
Organized By: Dick Karp, Bahram Parvin, Terry Speed, Paul Spellman, Carolyn
Talcott, Wing Wong
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/326/show_workshop

Analytic Methods for Diophantine Equations May 13, 2006 to May 18, 2006
Organized By: Michael Bennett, Chantal David, William Duke, Andrew Granville
(co-chair), Yuri Tschinkel (co-chair)
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/303/show_workshop

Women in Mathematics: the Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik May 18, 2006
to May 20, 2006 Organized By: Susan Friedlander (Chair), Barbara Keyfitz,
Irene Gamba and Krystyna Kuperberg
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/328/show_workshop

New Developments in the Geometry and Physics of Gromov-Witten Theory May 22,
2006 to May 27, 2006 Organized By: Mina Aganagic, A. Klemm, Jun Li, R.
Pandharipande, Yongbin Ruan
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/315/show_workshop

Connections for Women: Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology
August 31, 2006 to September 1, 2006 Organized By: Susan Holmes
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/377/show_workshop

Introductory Workshop on Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology
September 5, 2006 to September 8, 2006 Organized By: G. Carlsson, P.
Diaconis, G. M. Ziegler
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/378/show_workshop

Connections for Women: Geometric analysis, Ricci flow, and porous medium
equations September 7, 2006 to September 8, 2006 Organized By: Christine
Guenther and Panagiota Daskalopoulos
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/379/show_workshop

================== WORKSHOPS AT BANFF IN 2007 ==================

MSRI remains a partner in operating the Banff International Research Station
(BIRS). For information on workshops in 2007, see
http://www.pims.math.ca/birs. You can also submit a proposal for Research in
Teams and Focused Research Groups at any time that is at least 4 months
before the requested start date.

===================== ARCHIMEDES SOCIETY =======================

The Archimedes Society helps MSRI to diversify and plan its future funding.
Archimedes Society donor levels celebrate interesting numbers. For example,
the Plato Donor level of $1,922 to $5,040 references The Laws, in which
Plato asserts that a suitable number of citizens for the ideal city would be
that number that contained the most numerous and most consecutive
subdivisions. He decided on 5,040, a number with 59 divisors (apart from
itself). Donors at the Museion level ($5,041+) are invited to two
dinner/lectures in Berkeley and one in New York. To join the Archimedes
Society, please go to http://www.msri.org/alumdev/archimedes/index_html

MSRI would also welcome mention in your Will or Living Trust. Visit
http://www.msri.org/alumdev/ways/index_html for more information. Please
notify us that you done so, and you will be recognized in the MSRI Gauss
Society.

==================== 2006 PROGRAMS @MSRI =======================

New Topological Structures in Physics
January 9, 2006 to May 19, 2006
http://www.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/229/show_program

Rational and Integral Points on Higher-Dimensional Varieties January 9, 2006
to May 19, 2006
http://www.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/230/show_program

Geometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics August 14, 2006 to May 18,
2007 http://www.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/242/show_program

Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology August 14, 2006 to December
15, 2006 http://www.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/243/show_program

======================== STREAMING VIDEO =======================

Many lectures given at MSRI are videotaped and made available via streaming
video through MSRI'S Vmath program. Please take a look at:
http://www.msri.org/communications/vmath/index_html

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The Outlook was written by Anne Brooks Pfister; to contact the editor,
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