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OUTLOOK @MSRI: January 2, 2008 (Wednesday)

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

CONNECTIONS FOR WOMEN: Introduction to the Spring, 2008 programs
January 16, 2008 to January 18, 2008
Organized By: Bhama Srinivasan and Monica Vazirani

=========== VISIT MSRI AT MATH INSTITUTES OPEN HOUSE  ===========

You are warmly invited to attend the Mathematical Institutes Open 
House reception at the AMS-MAA Joint Meeting on Sunday, January 6, 2008, 
from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in Ballroom F of the San Diego Marriott 
Hotel & Marina. The reception precedes the Gibbs lecture by 
Avi Wigderson at 8:30pm. For more info, please see
http://www.msri.org/calendar/specialevents/SpecialEventInfo/312/show_specialevent

===== RECEPTION FOR MAA COMMITTEE ON MINORITY PARTICIPATION =====

You are also warmly invited to attend the Minority Participation 
Informal Gathering reception at the AMS-MAA Joint Meeting on 
Monday, January 7, from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM in Ballroom D of the 
San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina, located at 333 West Harbor Dr. 
The reception will provide underrepresented minority students with 
the opportunity to meet other students and mathematicians and to 
share experiences and opinions on different aspects of graduate 
school and career paths. Co-sponsored by several North American 
Math Institutes, including MSRI.

====== M*A*T*H: ALAN ALDA IN CONVERSATION WITH BOB OSSERMAN =====

Please join MSRI for a special event with Alan Alda, one of America's 
most beloved and prolific actors--whose Emmy-winning career has 
spanned television, film, and theater--will talk with mathematician 
Bob Osserman about Alda's lifelong interest in science. Alda has 
also sought to promote a greater understanding of science by the 
public, which led him to become the host of "Scientific American 
Frontiers" on PBS. The M*A*T*H event will be held on 
Thursday, JAN. 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre. 
Tickets are $22 & $14, call the Box Office at 510.647.2949 or go online to
http://www.berkeleyrep.org/ticketing/calendar/index.aspx
For more info visit:
http://www.msri.org/calendar/specialevents/SpecialEventInfo/314/show_specialevent

============== MSRI 25th Anniversary Special Event ==============

You are invited to attend "Christopher Taylor in conversation with 
David Benson and Robert Osserman" on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM 
in MSRI's Simons Auditorium. Acclaimed pianist Christopher Taylor, 
who has a background in math, will talk with David Benson, author 
of "Music: A Mathematical Offering," and Robert Osserman, Special 
Projects Director at MSRI. FREE ADMISSION. In celebration of MSRI's 
25th Anniversary, a special reception will follow the event in the 
Institute's Atrium at 5:30 PM.
http://www.msri.org/calendar/specialevents/SpecialEventInfo/308/show_specialevent

============== MSRI's 25th Anniversary Celebration ==============

MSRI is Celebrating 25 Years!
January 27, 2008 to January 30, 2008 (Sunday to Wednesday)
Conference organized By: Alejandro Adem, Isadore Singer, and Robert Bryant
http://www.msri.org/25

==================== UPCOMING 2008 WORKSHOPS ====================

Introductory Workshop on Combinatorial Representation Theory
January 22, 2008 to January 25, 2008 (Tuesday-Friday)
Organized By: Persi Diaconis, Arun Ram, Anne Schilling (Chair)

Introductory Workshop on the Representation Theory of Finite Groups
February 4, 2008 to February 8, 2008
Organized By: Jonathan Alperin (Chair), Robert Boltje, Markus Linckelmann

Lie Theory
March 10, 2008 to March 14, 2008
Organized By: Alexander Kleshchev, Arun Ram, Richard Stanley (Chair), Bhama Srinivasan

Topics in Combinatorial Representation Theory
March 17, 2008 to March 21, 2008
Organized By: Sergey Fomin, Bernard Leclerc, Vic Reiner (Chair)

Homological Methods in Representation Theory
March 31, 2008 to April 4, 2008
Organized By: David Benson, Daniel Nakano (Chair), Raphael Rouquier

Exterior Differential Systems and the Method of Equivalence
May 5, 2008 to May 9, 2008
Organized By: Jeanne Clelland, William F. Shadwick (Chair), George Wilkens

CRITICAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION: Teaching and Learning Algebra
May 14, 2008 to May 16, 2008 (Wednesday-Friday)
Organized By: Al Cuoco (Chair), Deborah Ball, Hyman Bass, Herb Clemens, 
James Fey, Megan Franke, Roger Howe, Alan Schonfeld, Ed Silver

HOT TOPICS: Contact Structures, Dynamics and the Seiberg-Witten Equations in Dimension 3
June 9, 2008 to June 13, 2008
Organized By: Helmut Hofer, Michael Hutchings, Peter Kronheimer, Tom Mrowka and Cliff Taubes

MSRI-UP 2008 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM: Research Topic - Experimental Mathematics
June 14, 2008 to July 27, 2008
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. See
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/450/show_workshop

Modular Forms and Arithmetic
June 28, 2008 to July 2, 2008
Organized By: Frank Calegari, Samit Dasgupta, Bjorn Poonen, Richard Taylor

Mathematics Professional Development Institute
(Wu Summer Institute)
July 21, 2008 to August 8, 2008

Low Dimensional Topology
August 11, 2008 to August 15, 2008
Organized by: Elisenda Grigsby, Rob Schneiderman, Peter Teichner, Kevin Walker

BROADER CONNECTIONS: Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics
August 21, 2008 to August 22, 2008 (Thursday & Friday)
Organized by: Ben Green, Bryna Kra, Emmanuel Lesigne, Anthony Quas, Mate Wierdl

Introduction to Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics
August 25, 2008 to August 29, 2008
Organized By: Ben Green, Bryna Kra, Emmanuel Lesigne, Anthony Quas, Mate Wierdl

BROADER CONNECTIONS: Analysis of Singular Spaces
August 28, 2008 to August 29, 2008 (Thursday & Friday)
Organized By: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose,
Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy, and Jared Wunsch

Introductory Workshop on Analysis of Singular Spaces
September 2, 2008 to September 5, 2008
Organized By: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose,
Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy, Jared Wunsch

MODERN MATHEMATICS: An Introduction to MSRI's 2009-10 Programs
October 8, 2008 to October 9, 2008 (Wednesday & Thursday)
Organized By: Ive Rubio, Herbert Mendina, Kathy O'Hara, Robert Megginson

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

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, Jared Wunsch

Discrete Rigidity Phenomena
November 3, 2008 to November 7, 2008
Organized By: Ben Green, Bryna Kra, Emmanuel Lesigne, Anthony Quas, Mate Wierdl

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

The Archimedes Society helps MSRI to implement important programs 
and, diversify and plan its future funding. Archimedes Society 
donor levels celebrate interesting numbers and places. For example, 
the Museion donor level is named for the Mouseion, "the Hall of 
the Muses", Ptolemy I's institute at ancient Alexandria. Scholars 
came to study and advance science, and the adjacent library was 
said to be the greatest in the world at the time. Museion donors 
(giving $5,041 or more) are invited to dinner/lectures, two of 
which are held in Berkeley each year, and a third in New York 
City. All Archimedes Society donors are invited at no or reduced 
cost to special events, and are offered reserved seating and 
special post-event receptions. 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/plannedgifts for more 
information. Please notify MSRI's Development Director, Jim Sotiros, 
at JSotiros AT msri.org or 510-643-6056 when you have done so, and 
you will be recognized in the MSRI Gauss Society. The first meeting
 of the Gauss Society took place on Jan. 6, 2007 at a dinner 
recognizing members at Galatoire's restaurant in New Orleans 
during the Joint Meetings. The second will be held at the AMS / MAA 
Joint Meetings in January in San Diego.

====================== EAST BAY MATH CIRCLE =====================

The Oakland/East Bay Math circle will start its Spring term on 
Monday, Feb. 4, 2008 at Laney College. It offers secondary students 
who love math in the greater Oakland area an opportunity to further 
discover mathematics in a free, after school enrichment program. 
See http://oebmc.mathcircles.org for more info.

================== CORPORATE PARTNERS PROGRAM ===================

Corporations contribute generously to MSRI and receive benefits 
from a close relationship with the Institute through various 
forms of sponsorship. MSRI Corporate Partners provide general 
support, fund workshops, support senior research professorships, 
post-doctoral associates or interns, and provide underwriting for 
community education or outreach programs.

Corporate Partners members enjoy a variety of benefits including 
invitations to special events and listing in MSRI publications. 
For more information about the Corporate Partners program go to:
http://www.msri.org/corpaffiliates/index_html or contact Nancy Stryble, 
Director of Corporate Relations, at 510-642-0771 or nancys AT msri.org.

==================== 2008-10 PROGRAMS @MSRI =====================

Combinatorial Representation Theory
January 14, 2008 to May 23, 2008

Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics
January 14, 2008 to May 23, 2008

Analysis of Singular Spaces
August 18, 2008 to December 19, 2008

Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics
August 18, 2008 to December 19, 2008

Algebraic Geometry
January 12, 2009 to May 22, 2009

Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
August 17, 2009 to May 21, 2010

Tropical Geometry
August 17, 2009 to December 18, 2009

Homology Theories of Knots and Links
January 11, 2010 to May 21, 2010

Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems
August 16, 2010 to December 17, 2010

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

Many lectures and special events 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/

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