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Workshop Recent Results in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and their Interactions with Geometry
Frank Pacard, Neil Trudinger and Paul YangShow All Collapse Oct 31, 2004
Sunday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMCurvature Estimate for 4-dimensional Einstein Equation.
Gang Tian (Princeton University)Oct 31, 2005
Monday11:00 AM - 12:00 PMOn the Calabi Functional in Kahler Manifold
Xiu-Xiong Chen12:00 PM - 01:00 PMVolume Growth, Curvature Decay, and Critical Metrics
Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin)02:30 PM - 03:30 PMRegularity of Radial Minimizers and Extremal Radial Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations.
Xavier Cabré (Polytechnical University of Cataluña (Barcelona))Nov 01, 2005
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMBlowup Issues for the Yamabe Equation on High Dimensional Manifolds.
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMGlobal Convergence of the Yamabe Flow in Dimension 6 and Higher.
Simon Brendle12:00 PM - 01:00 PMThe Prescribed Scalar Curvature Problem.
Olivier Druet02:30 PM - 03:30 PMThe First Dirac Eigenvalue in a Conformal Class.
Bernd Ammann04:00 PM - 05:00 PMKahler-Ricci Flow and Certain Complex Monge-Ampere Equation.
Xiaohua ZhuNov 02, 2005
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMRigidity Inequalities Via Inverse Mean Curvature Flow.
Gerhard Huisken (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe Mean Curvature Equation in Pseudohermitian Geometry.
Jih-Hsin Cheng12:00 PM - 01:00 PMBoundary Estimates for Some Fully Nonlinear PDEs and Applications to Conformal Geometry.
Szu-yu Sophie Chen02:30 PM - 03:30 PMSmooth Local Isometric Embedding of Surfaces with Gauss Curvature Changing Sign Monotonically Across a Curve.
Qing Han04:00 PM - 05:00 PMSelfdual Variational Principles for PDEs and Evolution Equations.
Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia)Nov 03, 2005
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMOn Semi-linear Conformally Invariant PDE.
Jie Qing11:00 AM - 12:00 PMComplete Hypersurfaces of Constant Curvature in Hyperbolic Space with Prescribed Asymptotic Boundary.
Joel Spruck12:00 PM - 01:00 PMEinstein Metrics and Higher Rank Geometry.
Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University)02:30 PM - 03:30 PMGetting a Handle on the Helicord.
Brian White04:00 PM - 05:00 PMFully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications in Geometry.
Xu-Jia Wang (Australian National University)Nov 04, 2005
Friday11:00 AM - 12:00 PMConformal Invariants Associated with a Smooth Measure.
Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University)12:00 PM - 01:00 PMConformal Laplacian Operators and Q-curvature on Einstein Manifolds.
Ashwin Gover02:30 PM - 03:30 PMIntrinsic Submanifolds of Heisenberg Group.
Bruno Franchi04:00 PM - 05:00 PMOn the Higher Order Q Curvature on the Sphere.
Fengbo Hang -
Workshop Mathematical Circles and Olympiads
Hugo Rossi, Tatiana Shubin, Zvezdelina Stankova, Paul ZeitzThe purpose of this workshop is to start a National Network of Math Circles and a set of resources for new Circles
Show All Collapse Dec 16, 2004
Thursday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMMath Circles and Olympiads; Historical, Conceptual and Structural
Dmitri Fomin, Robert Megginson (University of Michigan), Steve Olson, Alexander Soifer10:15 AM - 11:00 AMDiscovering and Developing Mathematical Talent, Part 1
Wade Ellis, Robert Megginson (University of Michigan), Timothy Sanders11:10 AM - 12:00 PMStudy of Exceptional Talent
Carol Blackburn, Steve Olson, James Tanton01:00 PM - 02:30 PMThe Boston Math Circle
Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan02:45 PM - 03:45 PMDiscussion of Various Approaches and Possible Adaptions
Joe Gillian, Harvey Keynes, Walter Mientka03:00 PM - 04:30 PMThe Berkeley Math Circle
Zvezdelina Stankova (Mills College)Dec 17, 2004
Friday09:00 AM - 10:30 AMExperiences as a Math Olympic Competitor
Igor Ganichev, Maksim Maydanskiy, Melanie Wood, Inna Zakharevich10:45 AM - 11:45 AMDiscovering and Developing Mathematical Talent, Part 2
Helmer Aslaksen, George Berzsenyi, John Howe, David Scott, Samuel Vandervelde (St. Lawrence University)01:15 PM - 02:45 PMMath Circle Materials and Preparation
Thomas Davis, Richard Rusczyk, Peter Trapa (University of Utah)03:15 PM - 04:45 PMPanel Discussion of Math Competitions: Problems, Good and Bad
Kiran Kedlaya (University of California, San Diego), Richard Rusczyk, Alexander Soifer, Zvezdelina Stankova (Mills College), Ravi Vakil (Stanford University), Paul Zeitz (University of San Francisco)Dec 18, 2004
Saturday09:00 AM - 11:30 AMOlympiad Training and Math Camps
Mira Bernstein, Zuming Feng, Tom Roby, Rick Sommer, Abigail Thompson (University of California, Davis)01:00 PM - 02:30 PMPanel Discussion of the Impact of Math Circles and Camps on Classroom Instruction
Mary Fay-Zenk, Thomas Rike, James Tanton03:00 PM - 04:00 PMDiscussion of the Network of Math Circles (Including Parents' Advisory Group)
Robert Megginson (University of Michigan) -
Workshop HOT TOPICS: Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Visualization and Analysis of High Dimensional Data
Gunnar Carlsson, Susan Holmes, Persi DiaconisShow All Collapse Dec 09, 2004
Thursday09:15 AM - 10:15 AMAlgebraic Topology and Visualization
Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University)10:30 AM - 11:15 AMProjection Pursuit
Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)11:30 AM - 12:30 PMEigenspace Decompositions for Graphs.
Susan Holmes (Stanford University)02:00 PM - 03:00 PMNonlinear Dimension Reduction.
Andreas BujaDec 10, 2004
FridayAll DayHessian-based Locally Linear Embedding.
Carrie Grimes09:00 AM - 10:00 AMPersistence with Applications
Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University)10:30 AM - 11:15 AMManifold Learning
Sam Roweis11:30 AM - 12:30 PMHarmonic Forms in Computational Topology.
Vin de SilvaDec 11, 2004
Saturday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMGaussian Meets Minkowski
Richard Vitale10:30 AM - 11:15 AMDimension Estimation
Elizaveta Levina11:30 AM - 12:15 PMGGobi for Graphs.
Deborah Swayne02:00 PM - 02:45 PMProtein Docking with Elevation.
Herbert Edelsbrunner (Duke University)Dec 12, 2004
Sunday09:00 AM - 09:45 AMGeneGobi
Di Cook09:50 AM - 10:30 AMCoordinate-free Sensor Networks.
10:30 AM - 11:20 AMA Split-Merge Sampler for Discovering Classes in Relational Data.
Tom Griffiths02:00 PM - 02:45 PMText Data Mining with Minimal Spanning Trees.
Edward Wegman -
Workshop Combinatorial Aspects of Hyperplane Arrangements
Eva Maria Feichtner, Philip Hanlon, Peter Orlik, Alexander VarchenkoThis workshop will be part of MSRI's Special Semester in Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications.
Show All Collapse Nov 01, 2004
Monday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMHyperplane Face Semigroups and their Algebras.
Ken Brown (University of Glasgow)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMAre there Q-deformations of Hyperplanes that are Useful for Shuffling?
Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)Nov 02, 2004
Tuesday08:10 AM - 09:10 AMIntroduction to Matroid Polytopes.
Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley Math Faculty)09:30 AM - 10:30 AMNested Set Complexes in Geometric Combinatorics.
Eva Feichtner (Universität Bremen)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMCombinatorics of DeConcini-Procesi Resolutions ofthe Real Permutation Action.
Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov02:00 PM - 03:00 PMCombinatorial Stratifications of the Grassmanians: Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorial Fiber Bundles.
Nicoli Mnev03:30 PM - 04:00 PMBergman Complexes and Coxeter Arrangements.
Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University)04:15 PM - 04:45 PMCohomology Rings of Complex Projective Arrangements.
Carsten SchultzNov 03, 2004
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMReductive Groups Over a Field of X Elements, X an Indeterminate
Michel Broué (Institute Henri Poincare)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe Flag Variety Structure for Solutions of the Bethe Ansatz Equations.
Alexander Varchenko (University of North Carolina)12:15 PM - 12:45 PMCombinatorics of Rational Functions and PBW Expansions of the Canonical U(n_)-valued Differential Form.
Laura StevensNov 04, 2004
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMHyperplane Arrangements and Special Relativity.
Richard Stanley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMReal Rootedness and Unimodality in Discrete Geometry.
Volkmar Welker02:00 PM - 03:00 PMHyperplane Arrangements and Ideals Generated by Powers of Linear Forms.
Alexander Postnikov03:30 PM - 04:00 PMSome Remarks on Modular Elements in Lattices.
Patricia Hersh04:15 PM - 05:15 PMReflection Groups and Modular Invariants Theory.
Anne SheplerNov 05, 2004
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMCatalan and Narayana Numbers for Weyl Groups.
Christos Athanasiadis02:00 PM - 03:00 PMOn the Multi-Free Arrangements.
Hiroaki Terao (Hokkaido University)02:00 PM - 03:00 PMA Look at Right-Angled Artin Groups.
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Workshop Topology of Arrangements and Applications
Daniel C. Cohen, Michael Falk (chair), Peter Orlik, Inna Scherbak, Alexandru Suciu, Hiroaki Terao, Sergey YuzvinskyThis workshop will focus on the following topics: Characteristic varieties and resonance varieties, homotopy types of arrangements, moduli of arrangements, Gauss-Manin connections, KZ and qKZ equations, elliptic hypergeometric functions, and hypergeometric functions associated with curves of arbitrary genus.
Show All Collapse Oct 04, 2004
Monday10:00 AM - 11:00 AMGauss-Manin Connections for Arrangements.
Peter Orlik (Central Michigan University)11:15 AM - 12:15 PMArrangements and Moduli.
Eduard Looijenga02:00 PM - 03:00 PML2-Cohomology of Artin Groups and Hyperplane Complements.
Michael Davis (Ohio State University)03:30 PM - 04:30 PMOn a Question of Serre: The Role of the Alexander Invariant.
Stefan PapadimaOct 05, 2004
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMModels for Configuration Spaces.
Dev Sinha (University of Oregon)11:00 AM - 11:45 AMSchlafi Functions and Iterated Integrals on Configuration Spaces.
Toshitake Kohno (University of Tokyo)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMGaudin Model and Opers.
Edward Frenkel (University of California, Berkeley)02:00 PM - 02:45 PMBethe Ansatz for Arrangements of Hyperplanes and the Gaudin Model.
Alexander Varchenko (University of North Carolina)03:30 PM - 04:00 PMModuli of Hyperplane Arrangements.
Paul Hacking04:00 PM - 04:45 PMChow Groups of Zero-Cycles Relative to Hyperplane Arrangements.
Karl-Dieter CrismanOct 06, 2004
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMConnections Between Braid Groups, Homotopy Theory, and Low Dimensional Topology.
Frederick CohenOct 07, 2004
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMFundamental Group, Topology and Combinatorics of Line Arrangements.
Enrique Artal Bartolo11:00 AM - 11:50 AMArrangements with Isolated Non Noraml Crossings.
Anatoly Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago)02:00 PM - 02:45 PMWeight Filtration of the Mixed Hodge Structure of Period Integrals and Hyperplane Arrangements.
Susumu Tanabe03:30 PM - 04:00 PMIntersection Homology and Alexander Modules of Hypersurface Complements.
Laurentiu Maxim04:00 PM - 04:40 PMHomology of Resonant Local Systems.
Daniel MateiOct 08, 2004
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMArrangements in the Schubert Calculus of Grassmannians.
Inna Scherbak (Tel Aviv University)11:00 AM - 11:55 AMOn the Genus of Configuration Spaces.
Mario Salvetti02:00 PM - 02:45 PMRegularizable Cycles Associated eith a Selberg Type Integral Under Some Resonance Condition.
Katsuhisa Mimachi03:30 PM - 04:30 PMBlow-ups and Complements in Zonotopal Complexes.
Richard Scott (Santa Clara University) -
Workshop Clay Mathematics Institute and MSRI Conference on Recent Progress in Dynamics
Michael Brin, Boris Hasselblatt (chair), Gregory Margulis, Yakov Pesin, Peter Sarnak, Klaus Schmidt, Ralf Spatzier, Robert ZimmerThis conference on dynamical systems will have a fairly wide scope, with emphasis on specific problems that have seen much progress but where significant problems vital to the field remain open.
Show All Collapse Sep 27, 2004
Monday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMHyperbolic Dynamics and Riemannian Geometry.
Gerhard Knieper01:35 PM - 02:20 PMSymbolic Extension and Entropy Structure.
Mike Boyle02:30 PM - 03:15 PMLong time Asymptotics in Averaging.
Dmitry Dolgopyat04:15 PM - 05:15 PMFive Most Resistant Problems in Dynamics.
Anatole KatokSep 28, 2004
Tuesday09:00 AM - 09:45 AMRigidity , KAM and other Methods.
Danijela Damjanovic11:15 AM - 12:00 AMLocal Rigidity: Past, Present, Future.
David Fisher01:45 PM - 02:30 PMParameter Exclusion and Markov Structure for Henon-like Families.
Michael Jakobson02:40 PM - 03:35 PMMeasure Rigidity of Higher Rank Actions.
Manfred Einsiedler04:00 PM - 04:45 PMAveraging Revisited.
Yuri KiferSep 29, 2004
Wednesday09:55 AM - 10:40 AMHorocycle Flow on Periodic Surfaces.
François Ledrappier11:15 AM - 12:00 AMThe Zorich-Kontsevich Conjecture.
Marcelo Viana01:45 PM - 02:45 PMOn Area Preserving Disc Diffeomorphisms.
Bassam Fayad02:50 PM - 03:15 PMThe Lorenz Attractor is Mixing.
Stefano Luzzatto03:15 PM - 03:45 PMStatistical Limit Theorems for Suspension Flow.
Andrew Torok04:00 PM - 04:20 PMStability of Mixing and Rapid Mixing for Axiom A Flows.
Michael Field04:30 PM - 04:55 PMUnique Ergodicity for Non-Uniquely Ergodic Systems.
Omri Sarig05:00 PM - 05:40 PMStable Ergodicity.
Keith Burns05:45 PM - 06:00 PMEquilibriums of Some Non-Holder Potentials.
Huyi HuSep 30, 2004
Thursday09:00 AM - 09:45 AMIsomorphism Rigidity.
Karl Schmidt09:50 AM - 10:35 AMClassifying Anosov Diffeomorphisms.
Ralf Spatzier (University of Michigan)11:00 AM - 11:45 AMRigidity of Compact Foliations.
Steven Hurder01:15 PM - 02:00 PMUnderstanding Genomes Using Dynamical Systems.
James Yorke02:15 PM - 03:00 PMSome Applications of Hitting Time Asymptotics -from Circle Covers to Dyadic Approximation.
Joerg Schmeling04:15 PM - 05:00 PMFacts and Problems in a more Quantitative Symplectic Geometry.
Helmut Hofer (Institute for Advanced Study)Oct 01, 2004
Friday09:00 AM - 09:45 AMMarkov Approximations and Stochastic Properties of Billiards.
Domokos Szasz09:50 AM - 10:35 AMQuasi Simplicity and Disjointness.
Jean-Paul Thouvenot11:15 AM - 12:00 PMFlat Surfaces.
Anton Zorich02:00 PM - 02:45 PMSelf-Similiar Sets in the Plane with Positive Measure.
Mark Pollicott02:50 PM - 03:35 PMErgodic Natural Measures.
Michal Misiurewicz04:10 PM - 05:00 PMSymbolic Extensions and Smooth System
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Workshop Introductory Workshop in Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications
Michael Falk, Peter Orlik (Chair), Alexander Suciu, Hiroaki Terao, and SergeyYuzvinskyShow All Collapse Aug 23, 2004
Monday11:00 AM - 12:00 PMIntroduction: The Combinatorics and Topology of Hyperplane Arrangements
Michael Falk (Northern Arizona University)02:00 PM - 03:00 PMOrlik-Solomon Algebras from Different Angles
Sergey Yuzvinsky (University of Oregon)03:30 PM - 04:30 PMFree Arrangements of Hyperplanes (A Survey)
Hiroaki Terao (Hokkaido University)Aug 24, 2004
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMFundamental Group and Characteristic Varieties
Alexandru Suciu (Northeastern University)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLocal Systems on Complements of Arrangements
Daniel Cohen (Louisiana State University)02:00 PM - 03:00 PMFibrations, Isotopies and Cell Structures on Arrangements
Richard Randell03:30 PM - 04:30 PMHypergeometric Integrals and Arrangements of Hyperplanes ( An Introduction Using the Classical Examples)
Hiroaki Terao (Hokkaido University)Aug 25, 2004
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMResonance Varieties
Michael Falk (Northern Arizona University)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMArrangements and Massey Products
Daniel MateiAug 26, 2004
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLie Algebras Associated to Arrangements
Alexandru Suciu (Northeastern University)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMKoszul Duality and the Homotopy Lie Algebra
Graham Denham02:00 PM - 03:00 PMApplications of Morse Theory
Stefan Papadima03:30 PM - 04:30 PMCommutative and Homological Methods for Hyperplane Arrangements
Henry SchenckAug 27, 2004
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMBoundary Manifolds of Arrangements
Daniel Cohen (Louisiana State University)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMArrangements and Vector Bundles
Masahiko Yoshinaga02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblems and Demo I
Multiple Speakers02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblems and Demo II
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