Persi Diaconis, HARNESSING CHANCE; THE CASE OF RANDOM PACKING January 27,2008, 08:30 AM to 09:30 AM
Andrei Okounkov, Counting curves in 3-folds January 27,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Ravi Vakil, Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces January 27,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Daniel Freed, Remarks on Chern-Simons theory January 27,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
Bryna Kra, Beyond Fourier Analysis January 28,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
George Papanicolaou, Sensor Imaging January 28,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Peter Ozsváth, Heegaard Floer homology and knots January 28,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
Gunnar Carlsson, Topology and Data January 28,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
Deborah Ball, Herb Clemens, Ricardo Cortez, Hugo Rossi, Hung-Hsi Wu, Education Panel January 28,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Deborah Ball, Herb Clemens, Ricardo Cortez, Hugo Rossi, Hung-Hsi Wu, Education Panel January 28,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Deborah Ball, Herb Clemens, Ricardo Cortez, Hugo Rossi, Hung-Hsi Wu, Education Panel January 28,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Deborah Ball, Herb Clemens, Ricardo Cortez, Hugo Rossi, Hung-Hsi Wu, Education Panel January 28,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Deborah Ball, Herb Clemens, Ricardo Cortez, Hugo Rossi, Hung-Hsi Wu, Education Panel January 28,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Kenneth Ribet, Class groups and Galois representations January 29,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Richard Melrose, Configuration and Moduli Spaces January 29,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Charles Fefferman, Whitney's extension problem and interpolation of functions January 29,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
Inez Fung, Mathematics of Climate Change January 29,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
Alejandro Adem, Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant, Tony Chan, David Eisenbud, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler, Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future January 29,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Alejandro Adem, Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant, Tony Chan, David Eisenbud, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler, Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future January 29,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Alejandro Adem, Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant, Tony Chan, David Eisenbud, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler, Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future January 29,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Alejandro Adem, Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant, Tony Chan, David Eisenbud, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler, Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future January 29,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Alejandro Adem, Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant, Tony Chan, David Eisenbud, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler, Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future January 29,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Alejandro Adem, Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant, Tony Chan, David Eisenbud, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler, Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future January 29,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Alejandro Adem, Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant, Tony Chan, David Eisenbud, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler, Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future January 29,2008, 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Vaughan Jones, MSRI and interactions between operator algebras, physics and low dimensional topology January 30,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
H. Blaine Lawson, Dirichlet Duality and the Nonlinear Dirichlet Problem January 30,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Paul Seidel, Pair-of-pants decompositions January 30,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
Michael Hopkins, Topological Field Theories January 30,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM

Introductory Workshop on the Representation Theory of Finite Groups

February 4, 2008 to February 8, 2008

Burkhard Kuelshammer, Blocks and Counting Conjectures February 4,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Jonathan Brundan, Representations of Algebriac Groups in Characteristic p February 4,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Markus Linckelmann, Representation Theory and Topology February 4,2008, 02:45 PM to 03:45 PM
Joe Chuang, Broué's Abelian Defect Group Conjecture February 4,2008, 04:15 PM to 05:15 PM
Burkhard Kuelshammer, Blocks and Counting Conjectures February 5,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Jonathan Brundan, Representations of Algebriac Groups in Characteristic p February 5,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Markus Linckelmann, Representation Theory and Topology February 5,2008, 02:45 PM to 03:45 PM
Joe Chuang, Broué's Abelian Defect Group Conjecture February 5,2008, 04:15 PM to 05:15 PM
Burkhard Kuelshammer, Blocks and Counting Conjectures February 6,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Cedric Bonnafe, Introduction to Deligne-Lusztig Theory February 6,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Cedric Bonnafe, Introduction to Deligne-Lusztig Theory February 7,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Markus Linckelmann, Representation Theory and Topology February 7,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Joe Chuang, Broué's Abelian Defect Group Conjecture February 7,2008, 02:45 PM to 03:45 PM
Radha Kessar, On Duality Inducing Automorphisms and Sources of Simple Modules in Finite Classical Groups February 7,2008, 04:15 PM to 05:15 PM
Gabriel Navarro, Around the McKay Conjecture February 8,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Paul Fong, A Bijection towards Counting Conjectures in Finite Reductive Groups February 8,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Serge Bouc, Biset Functors February 8,2008, 02:45 PM to 03:45 PM
Dave Benson, Squeezed Resolutions over the Group Algebra of a Finite Group February 8,2008, 04:15 PM to 05:15 PM

Lie Theory

March 10, 2008 to March 14, 2008

Georgia Benkart, Bases, Lattices, Hyperbolic Kac-Moody Algebras March 10,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Victor Ginzburg, Mirabolic affine Grassmannian and character sheaves March 10,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Viktor Ostrik, Tensor categories attached to cells in Weyl groups March 10,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Sergey Fomin, Cluster algebras March 10,2008, 04:10 PM to 05:00 PM
George Lusztig, Canonical bases and construction of Chevalley groups over Z March 11,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Peter Littelmann, Superbosonization of invariant matrix ensembles March 11,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Bernard Leclerc, Monoidal categorifications of cluster algebras March 11,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Peter Fiebig, Sheaves on affine flag varieties, modular representations and Lusztig's conjecture March 11,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
Alexander Premet, Small nonrestricted representations and completely prime primitive ideals. March 12,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Cedric Bonnafe, Semicontinuity properties of Kazhdan-Lusztig cells March 12,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Ivan Loseu, Quantized symplectic actions and W-algebras March 13,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Edward Frenkel, Langlands correspondence for loop groups March 13,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Vyjayanthi Chari, Abelian Ideals, KR--modules and Koszul algebras March 13,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Victor Kac, Poisson vertex algebras and integrable systems March 13,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Meinolf Geck, James' conjecture for Hecke algebras of exceptional type March 14,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Susumu Ariki, Two applications of Littelmann's path model March 14,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Gustav Lehrer, Coxeter group actions on the cohomology of toric varieties March 14,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
Gunter Malle, Counting Characters of p'-degree March 14,2008, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM

Topics in Combinatorial Representation Theory

March 17, 2008 to March 21, 2008

John Stembridge, Admissible W-graphs March 17,2008, 09:15 AM to 10:30 AM
Thomas Lam, Hopf algebras, Towers of Algebras and Dual graded graphs March 17,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Michael Kapovich, Restrictions of irreducible representations to Levi subgroups and ideal triangles in Euclidean buildings March 17,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
George Lusztig, Unipotent classes and special Weyl group representations March 17,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Andrei Zelevinsky, Combinatorics of Coxeter elements and cluster algebras of finite type March 18,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Jan Schroeer, Dual semicanonical bases and cluster algebras March 18,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Alexander Postnikov, Total positivity, matroids, and clusters March 18,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
David Speyer, Sortable elements -- beyond finite type March 18,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Arun Ram, Path models March 19,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Cristian-Paul Lenart, Hall-Littlewood polynomials, alcove walks, and the Macdonald polynomial inv statistic March 19,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Anne Schilling, Schubert Polynomials for the affine Grassmannian of the symplectic group March 20,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Mark Shimozono, k-Schur functions via multidegrees of Matrix Affine Schubert Varieties March 20,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Mark Haiman, LLT polynomials March 20,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Philippe di Francesco, The Razumov-Stroganov conjecture: loop gas, alternating sign matrices, plane partitions and orbital varieties March 21,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Rinat Kedem, Quantum algebra characters and cluster algebras March 21,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Harm Derksen, Quivers with Potentials March 21,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Anatoly Vershik, Some Problems of Asymptotic Representation Theory (ART) March 21,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM

Homological Methods in Representation Theory

March 31, 2008 to April 4, 2008

Markus Linckelmann, On graded centers of stable and derived module categories March 31,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Cedric Bonnafe, Deligne-Lusztig restriction of modular Gelfand-Graev representations March 31,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Cornelius Pillen, Cohomology of finite groups of Lie type March 31,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Dave Benson, Classifying spaces and cohomology of finite groups March 31,2008, 04:10 PM to 05:00 PM
Paul Balmer, The geometry of tensor triangulated categories of representations April 1,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Srikanth Iyengar, Localizing subcategories of the stable module category of a finite group April 1,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
David Hemmer, An application of topology to computing the cohomology of Young modules for the symmetric group April 1,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Brian Parshall, Reduced standard modules, filtrations, and cohomology April 1,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
Bernhard Keller, Mutations of quivers with potentials and derived equivalences April 2,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Jesper Grodal, Local-to-global principles for groups and p-local finite groups April 2,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Henning Andersen, Tensoring with the Steinberg module April 3,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Jonathan Kujawa, Cohomology and Varieties for Lie Superalgebras April 3,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Eric Friedlander, p-nilpotent operators and vector bundles April 3,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Radha Kessar, Controlling fusion in saturated fusion systems April 3,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
Jon Carlson, Generic kernels and other constructions of modules over group (scheme) algebras April 4,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Julia Pevtsova, Spectra of tensor triangulated categories April 4,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Alison Parker, Homomorphisms and higher extensions for Schur algebras and symmetric groups April 4,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Henning Krause, The representation dimension of a finite dimensional algebra April 4,2008, 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM

Exterior Differential Systems and the Method of Equivalence

May 5, 2008 to May 9, 2008

Robert Bryant, Riemannian Foliations in Space Forms May 5,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Colleen Robles, Rigidity of projective homogeneous varieties and Lie algebra cohomology May 5,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Keizo Yamaguchi, Contact Geometry of Second Order May 5,2008, 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Michael Eastwood, Prolongation on Contact Manifolds May 5,2008, 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Ana Cascon, William Shadwick, The Geometry of Probability Distributions: A New Central Limit Theorem May 6,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Ana Cascon, William Shadwick, The Geometry of Probability Distributions: A New Central Limit Theorem May 6,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Shankar Sastry, Parking cars with N trailers and Nonholonomy: reflections on the applications of BC3G May 6,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Pawel Nurowski, GL(2,R) geometry of ODEs May 6,2008, 01:30 PM to 02:30 PM
Hubert Goldschmidt, Infinitesimal isospectral deformations of symmetric spaces of compact type May 6,2008, 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM
Niky Kamran, 09:30AM - 10:30AM Niky Kamran Wave equations and the Penrose process in Kerr geometry May 7,2008, 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Thomas Ivey, Backlund Transformations and Darboux Integrability for Nonlinear Wave Equations May 7,2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Critical Issues in Education Workshop: Teaching and Learning Algebra

May 14, 2008 to May 16, 2008

Hot Topics: Contact structures, dynamics and the Seiberg-Witten equations in dimension 3

June 9, 2008 to June 13, 2008

MSRI-UP 2008 research topic: Experimental Mathematics

June 14, 2008 to July 27, 2008

A Window into Zeta and Modular Physics

June 16, 2008 to June 27, 2008

CMI/MSRI Workshop: Modular Forms and Arithmetic

June 28, 2008 to July 2, 2008