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Workshop on Computational Algebraic Analysis

January 5-7, 2000

• Toshinori Oaku Free resolutions in algorithms for D-modules
• Toby Stafford Invariant holonomic systems on reductive Lie algebras
• Carlos Berenstein An effective Nullstellensatz in arbitrary Characteristic
• I-Chiau Huang A concrete realization of the Bott formula
• Harry Tsai Computation of homomorphisms between holonomic D-modules
• Anton Leykin On computing Bernstein-Sato polynomials.
• Michel Granger The standard fan of an analytic D-module
• Alicia Dickenstein Rational hypergeometric functions
• Niky Kamran Non-linear differential operators with invariant subspaces of analytic functions and separation of variables
• Timur Sadykov Horn system of partial differential equations and series of hypergeometric type.
• Fumitsuna Maruyama The F4 algorithm in the Weyl algebra.
• Tewodros Amdeberhan WZ and q-WZ Cohomology: from hard core to Computational
• Frederic Chyzak Algorithmic Proof of Combinatorial Identities of Holonomic Type
• Robin Pemantle Extracting coefficients of meromorphic functions of several variables
• Greg Smith Irreducible components of characteristic varieties
• Bruno Salvy Computation of Convolution Integrals
• Andrei Gabrielov Rational functions with real critical points, real Schubert calculus, and a conjecture of Shapiro and Shapiro
• Jose Maria Ucha On AnnD (1/f) and some D-modules of dimension 2
• Mikael Passare Multiple Laurent series and amoebas

Combinatorial Algebra

January 10-14, 2000

• Charles Leedham-Green On the Classification of p-Groups and Pro-p Groups
• Michael Newman Lie algebras, p-groups and computers
• Vladislav Kharchenko A Combinatorial Approach to Quantizations of Lie Algebras
• Antonio Giambruno On Minimal Varieties of Associative Algebras and Exponential Growth
• Victor Petrogradsky The Hierarchies of Growth and Generating Functions for Lie Algebras
• Bernd Sturmfels Noncommutative Grobner Bases for Commutative Algebras
• Kyu-Hwan Lee Grobner-Shirshov Basis Theory for Irreducible sl_[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "n" hasn't been defined.] -Modules
• Leonid Bokut Grobner-Shirshov Bases and the Composition Diamond Lemma for Associative Conformal Algebras
• Rostislav Grigorchuk The Theory and Applications of Branch Groups
• Victor Ufnarovski Noncommutative Computer Algebra - What Can Be Done?
• Uzi Vishne Primitive Algebras with Arbitrary GK-dimension
• Victor Kac Integrable Representations of Affine Superalgebras and Appel's Function
• Yiftach Barnea Representations of Free Pro-p Groups
• Alexander Retakh Simple Conformal Algebras of Finite Growth
• Chongying Dong Vertex Operator Algebras, Quantum Doubles, and Dual Pairs
• Elena Poletaeva Superconformal Algebras, Semi-infinite Cohomology, and Lie Superalgebrasof the Hodge Theory
• Michael Roitman Universal Constructions in the Theory of Conformal and Vertex Algebras
• Vladimir Shpilrain Measuring Sets in a Free Group
• Olivier Mathieu Classification of Weight Modules
• Pavel Shumyatsky A Verbal Version of the Restricted Burnside Problem
• Rosa Orellana q-Centralizer Algebras for Spin Groups
• Dmitri Rumymin Amitsur-Levitski Theorem and Reduced Enveloping Algebras
• Isaiah Kantor A Vector Field Formula for the Lie Algebra of a Homogeneous Space
• Maria Gorelik On Theorems of Kostant and Duflo for Lie Superalgebras
• Ana Cristina Vieira Identities in the Lower Central Series of the Gupta-Sidki 3-Group and theIterated Wreath Product of Z_p
• Martin Liebeck Powers of Classes in Simple Groups and Applications
• Benjamin Klopsch Pro-p Groups of Linear Subgroup Growth
• Jie-Tai Yu Some Remarks on Nagata's Problem
• Vera Serganova On Weight Representations of Lie Algebras and Generalized Harish-Chandra Modules
• Ivan Shestakov Speciality of Lie-Jordan Algebras
• Igor Pak Generating Random Group Elements
• Yuri Bahturin Identities of Graded Algebras

Mathematics of Quantum Computation

February 7-11, 2000

• Richard Jozsa Quantum Information and Compression
• Andrew Yao Quantum Protocols
• Sumit Daftuar How many dimensions are needed for catalysts of entanglement transformations?
• Ashwin Nayak Holevo's theorem and its implications for quantum communication and computation
• Umesh Vazirani Fourier Transforms, Quantum Algorithms, and Complexity
• Michael Freedman A topological modular functor which is universal for quantum computation
• Robert Solovay Lie Groups and Quantum Circuits
• Zhenghan Wang A modular functor which is universal for quantum computation
• Lisa Hales Fourier Sampling Arbitrary Periodic Functions
• Samuel Lomonaco The Non-Abelian Fourier Transform and Quantum Computation
• Daniel Gottesman Group Theory and Quantum Error Correction
• Dorit Aharonov Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing
• Daniel Lidar Universal Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation On Decoherence-Free Subspaces
• Miklos Santha Self-Testing of Universal and Fault-Tolerant Sets of Quantum Gates
• Andris Ambainis Quantum lower bounds by quantum arguments
• Mary Beth Ruskai Minimal Entropy of States Emerging from Noisy Channels
• Nolan Wallach Extrema for Entropy of n-qubit States and Quantum Error Correcting Codes
• Isaac Chuang Quantum Computers: Physical Implementation
• Timothy Havel Geometric Algebra Methods for Quantum Information Processing
• Leonard Schulman Molecular Scale Heat Engines and Scalable Quantum Computation
• Gilles Brassard Trading Entanglement for Communication
• Alexi Kitaev Fermionic Quantum Computation

Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra

February 14-25, 2000

• Hanspeter Kraft Computational Invariant Theory: A survey and some new developments
• Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann Geometry of chain complexes and outer automorphisms under derived equivalence
• Mikhail Kapranov Noncommutative neighborhoods and noncommutative Fourier transform
• Victor Ginzburg Noncommutative Geometry and Calogero-Moser space
• Tim Hodges Degeneration of R-matrices
• Georgia Benkart Down-up Algebras and Some Generalizations
• William Crawley-Boevey Singularities arising from quivers
• Ed Letzter Is there a computational noncommutative algebraic geometry?
• Christine Riedtmann Degenerations of modules
• James Zhang Some applications of dualizing complexes
• Iain Gordon Blocks of enveloping algebras in positive characteristic and related algebras
• Lutz Hille Toric Quiver Varieties
• Aidan Schofield Division algebras and moduli spaces
• Jerzy Weyman Quiver representations and Invariant Theory
• Andrzej Skowronski Tame algebras and complete intersections
• Grzegorz Zwara Smooth morphisms of module varieties
• Tony Giaquinto PBW basis for certain Schur algebras
• Henning Haahr Andersen Quantum analogues of cohomology of vector bundles on flag varieties
• Yan Soibelman On some questions of deformation theory and non-commutative geometry
• Amnon Yekutieli The Auslander Condition and Perverse Sheaves
• Christof Geiss Derived tame tree algebras
• Darin Stephenson Weighted Quantum Polynomial Rings
• Eric Vasserot Quiver varieties with symmetries
• Paul Smith Intersection theory for non-commutative surfaces
• David Patrick Blowing-up noncommutative weighted projective spaces
• Izuru Mori Intersection Multiplicity over Noncommutative Algebras
• Thierry Levasseur Invariant differential operators under the action of a reductive group
• Gerald Schwarz Finite Dimensional Representations of Invariant Differential Operators
• Ian Musson Completion of solvable enveloping algebras at the clique of the augmentation ideal
• Severino Collier Coutinho Holomorphic foliations and nonholonomic modules
• Colin Ingalls Quantum Toric Varieties
• Nicolai Reshetikhin Integrability of characteristic systems
• Michaela Vancliff The Points of Quadratic Algebras
• Alexei Bondal A symplectic groupoid of triangular bilinear forms and the braid group
• Daniel Chan Noncommutative polarizations
• Daniel Levcovitz Algebraic D-modules and Characteristic varieties
• Jacques Alev Hochshild (co)homology of certain algebras of invariant differential operators
• Jean-Luc Brylinski Chern-Simons theory and bundles of infinite-dimensional matrix algebras
• Alexander Rosenberg Noncommutative schemes and spaces
• Kennis Keeler Sigma-ample divisors
• Ranee Brylinski Is there equivariant deformation quantization?
• Alan Weinstein Nonassociative geometry?

Geometric and Topological Aspects of Group Theory

May. 8 -12, 2000

• Mark Feighn The topology at infinity of Out(F_n)
• Michah Sageev CAT(0) cube complexes and the Kropholler-Roller conjecture
• Geoffrey Mess Ends and boundaries of groups
• Mike Handel Abelian subgroups of Out(F_n)
• Peter Scott Canonical splittings of groups and of 3-manifolds
• Hyam Rubinstein CAT(0) structures on 3-manifold groups
• Peter Shalen Boundary slopes of knots, and 3-manifolds with cyclic fundamental group
• Marc Culler Smallish knots in small 3-manifolds
• Noel Brady Dimensions of CAT(0) E(G) and underline[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "E" hasn't been defined.] (G) spaces
• Roger Alperin Uniform exponential growth
• Benson Farb Pushouts (after Serre and Gersten-Stallings)
• Mladen Bestvina Van Kampen's embedding obstruction for discrete groups
• Lee Mosher Quasi-actions on trees
• Kevin Whyte The large scale geometry of graphs of groups
• Martin Bridson Combings of groups and grammatical complexity
• Karen Vogtmann The geometry of spaces of finite labelled trees
• Ruth Charney Automorphisms of Coxeter groups
• Dani Wise Negative curvature and residual finiteness

MSRI/PMMB Short Course: Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Molecular and Cell Biology

June 12-23, 2000

• Sylvia Spengler, Basic Biology for NonBiologists
• Terry Speed, Chromosome maps
• Terry Speed, Molecular evolution and database searching
• Ram Samudrala, Protein Structure Prediction
• Lior Pachter, The Mathematics of Gene Recognition
• Wilma Olson, DNA Sequence and Three-dimensional Structure
• Nick Cozzarelli, Mechanisms of DNA Unlinking and Chromosome Segregation
• Richard Karp, Some Combinatorial and Algorithmic Problems Related to DNA Microarrays
• David Baker, Prediction and design of protein structures and folding mechanisms
• James Wang Transertion, gene silencing, and DNA supercoiling in bacteria
• Michael Levitt, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
• James White, Geometry and Topology of DNA
• De Witt Sumners, DNA Knots
• Steve Levene, Modern Theory of Gel Electrophoresis
• Alexander Vologodskii, Large-scale conformational properties of DNA
• Orly Alter, Singular Value Decomposition for Genome-Wide Expression Data Processing and Modeling
• Ignacio Tinoco, RNA Structure and Function
• Sandrine Dudoit, Linkage Analysis of Complex Human Traits Using Identity by Descent Data
• David Bensimon, Elastic properties of twisted stretched single DNA
• Philip Green, Construction of human expressed sequence tag (EST) contigs and their usein estimating gene number
• John Marko, How are centimeter-long chromosomes dealt with inside micron-scalecells?
• Elizabeth Thompson, 1. Monte Carlo Likelihood for genetic analyses and 2. Coalescents, phylogenies, and disequilibrium mapping
• Eric Siggia, Extracting Regulatory Motifs from Genomes and Microarray data

Mathematics and Computational Biology of Genome Analysis

June 12-23, 2000

• Kelly A. Frazer, Active conservation of noncoding sequences revealed by cross species comparsions
• Pavel A. Pevzner, Identification of Modified Proteins by Tandem Mass-Spectrometry
• Gary A. Churchill, Making the Most of Microarray Experiments
• William S. Hancock, An Integrated View of Bioinformatics for both Genomics and Proteomics
• Wing Hung Wong, A model-based expression index from oligonucleotide expression arrays.
• Brian D. Ripley , Finding Needles in Haystacks: Tools for Finding Structure in Large Datasets .
• Nancy J. Cox, Genetic Variation in the NIDDM1 Region .
• Amir Ben-Dor, Computational Methods in Analyzing Gene Expression Data .
• Elizabeth A. Thompson , LINKAGE ANALYSIS; past, present and future
• Bruce Conklin , G-protein control of electrically active tissue

Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop

July 24-28, 2000

• Elwyn Berlekamp, Environmental Go
• Bill Spight, Analysis of the 4/21/98 Jiang-Rui endgame
• Bill Fraser, Analysis Tools: "Brute-Force" and "Winsolve"
• Matthew Cook, Still Life
• Jurg Nievergelt, Half-a-century of computer chess: The longest running experiment in knowledge engineering
• Michael Lachmann, Cris Moore, Ivan Rapaport, Who wins Domineering on rectangular boards?
• Fabian Maeser, Global threats in combinatorial games: A computation model with applications to chess endgames
• Vadim Anshelevich, The game of Hex: The hierarchical approach
• Tom Ferguson, Another form of Matrix Nim
• Frank Harary, Wolfgang Slany, Oleg Verbitsky, A symmetric strategy in graph avoidance games
• Len Haff, A natural map of numbers and combinatorial games
• Georg Snatzke, Amazons
• Richard Nowakowski, The game of End-Nim
• Katherine Scott, Loony dots and boxes endgame
• Howard Landman, Alternate proof of the periodicity of the Sprague Grundy Function of Wythoff's Game
• Dong Geon Kim, A decoding scheme for 4-ary lexicodes with minimum distance 4
• Eric Demaine, Martin Demaine, Helena Verrill, Coin-moving puzzles
• Cris Moore, One-dimensional Peg Solitaire
• Matthew Ginsberg, Games of some chance: Extending computational techniques to games of imperfect information
• Arthur Benjamin, Le Her
• John Conway, Infinite Games
• Scott Huddleston,Jerry Shurman, Transfinite Chomp
• Jacob Lurie, Vines
• David Wolfe, Go endgames are hard
• David Eppstein, Searching for spaceships
• Aviezri Fraenkel, Two-player games on cellular automata
• Martin Mueller, Arrows: A Program that Plays Amazons
• Takenobu Takizawa, An Application of Mathematical Game Theory to Go Endgames -- Some Width Two-Entrance Rooms with/without Kos --
• Sol Golomb, Hypercube Tic-Tac-Toe
• David Moews, The abstract structure of the group of games.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, The Games Computers (and People) Play
• Bob Li, A game of switching network and a game of triangles.
• Robert McEliece, How Close to Maximum Likelihood is Iterative (Turbo) Decoding?
• Gadiel Seroussi, Elliptic curves / cryptology
• Dilip Sarwate, Fast Implementations of Berlekamp's BCH Decoding Algorithm
• Oscar Moreno, Exponential sums and improved minimum distance bounds for codes and improvements on the Chevalley-Warning and Ax-Katz results.
• Noam Elkies, The influences of algebraic geometry of curves over finite fields on coding theory.

Non Workshop Lectures

• Ehud Friedgut The Probabalistic Method
• Herbert Edelsbrunner Mathematical Problems in the Reconstruction of Shapes
• Bruce Beasley On The Use of Computers in the Design of Sculpture

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Clay Mathematics Institute Introductory Workshop in Algorithmic Number Theory

Aug. 14 - 23, 2000

• Hendrik Lenstra: Solving Pell's Equation
• Dan Bernstein: Fast multiplication
• Stan Wagon: Computational Number Theory: Basic Algorithms
• Jeffrey Shallit: The complexity of Euclid's GCD algorithm
• Carl Pomerance: Smooth numbers and the quadratic sieve
• Dan Bernstein: Applications of fast multiplication
• Bjorn Poonen: Elliptic Curves I
• Stan Wagon: Computational number theory: Subtler basic algorithms
• Peter Stevenhagen: Number field sieve
• Carl Pomerance: Primality
• Hendrik Lenstra: Lattices I
• Jeffrey Shallit: Algorithmic Number Theory Before Computers
• Hendrik Lenstra: Lattices II
• Andrew Odlyzko: Lattice basis reduction algorithms in cryptanalysis
• Dan Bernstein: Protecting communications against forgery
• Umesh Vazirani Quantum Computation
• Rene Schoof Infrastructure
• Bjorn Poonen Elliptic Curves II
• Daqing Wan Zeta Functions over Finite Fields
• Andrew Granville: Smooth numbers I
• Joe Buhler: L-series in algorithmic number theory
• William Stein: How to get your hands on modular forms using modular symbols
• Rene Schoof: Number field algorithms
• Bjorn Poonen: Elliptic curves III
• Andrew Granville: Smooth numbers II
• Noriko Yui: Congruent number problems in dimension one and two
• Henri Cohen: Computational class field theory

Clay Mathematics Institute Introductory Workshop in Operator Algebras

August 24 - September 2, 2000

• Dietmar Bisch Subfactors and Planar Algebras 1
• Dietmar Bisch Subfactors and Planar Algebras 2
• Dietmar Bisch Subfactors and Planar Algebras 3
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 1
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 2
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 3
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 4
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 5
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 6
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 7
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 8
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 9
• Richard Kadison The Theory of Operator Algebras - A Survey 10
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 1
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 2
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 3
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 4
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 5
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 6
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 7
• Michael Pimsner Introduction to K-theory for Operator Algebras 8
• Marc Rieffel Non-commutative geometry 1
• Marc Rieffel Non-commutative geometry 2
• Marc Rieffel Non-commutative geometry 3
• Thomas Schucker The standard model of gravitational, electro-magnetic, weak and strong forces
• Thomas Schucker The almost commutative version of the standard model
• Dimitri Shlyakhtenko Introduction to Free Probability Theory 1
• Dimitri Shlyakhtenko Introduction to Free Probability Theory 2
• Dimitri Shlyakhtenko Introduction to Free Probability Theory 3
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 1
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 2
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 3
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 4
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 5
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 6
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 7
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 8
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 9
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 10
• Antony Wassermann/Valerio Toledano Laredo Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory 11

The Panorama Of Mathematics, A conference in honor of S. S. Chern

September 14-16, 2000

• Robert Bryant,On the Geometry of Differential Equations
• Jeremy Gray, A Hundred Years of the Hilbert Problems
• Phillip Griffiths, Abel's Differential Equations
• Isadore Singer, Hermitian Line Bundles in String Theory and M Theory
• Leonard Adleman, DNA Computation
• Richard Karp, Mathematical Challenges from Genomics and Molecular Biology

Simple C*-algebras and Non-commutative Dynamical Systems

September 25, 2000 to September 29,2000

• Robert T. Powers New results concerning semigroups of *-endomorphisms of B(H)
• Ian Putnam The Lefschetz formula for hyperbolic dynamical systems and non-commutative topology
• George Elliott A brief survey of progress on the classification problem for amenable C*-algebras
• Mikael Rordam A characterization of the nuclear, separable C*-algebras that absorb the Cuntz algebra O'
• Thierry Giordano Some extremely amenable groups
• Claudia Pinzari Noncommutative pressure and the variational principle for Cuntz-Krieger-type C*-algebras
• Jean Bellissard The gap labelling theorem for aperiodic media
• Erling Stormer The variational principle for a class of asymptotically abelian C*-algebras
• Kenneth J. Dykema Simple C*-algebras arising as free products
• Guihua Gong On the classification of simple inductive limit C*-algebras
• Peter Friis The Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem revisited
• Palle Jorgensen Decidability of isomorphism for ordered simple dimension groups
• Joachim Zacharias Entropy and quasi-free C*-dynamics for Cuntz-Pimsner algebras
• Etienne Blanchard Purely infinite C*-algebras: The Hausdorff case
• Nathanial Brown Topological entropy of free product automorphisms
• Jean N. Renault Singly generated dynamical systems and their C*-algebras
• Ola Bratteli The infinite distance between AF flows and flows allowing continuous symmetry breaking
• Huaxin Lin Simple C*-algebras with tracial topological rank zero
• Anatoly Vershik Constructions of factor representations for some locally finite groups
• Masamichi Takesaki Characteristic square, extended modular automorphisms and grading
• William Arveson Interactions in non-commutative dynamics
• Simon Wassermann Tensor products of reduced free product algebras
• Marcelo Laca A C*-algebraic dynamical system from number theory
• Marius Dadarlat Embeddings of exact C*-algebras
• Jesper Villadsen Comparison of projections and unitary elements in simple C*-algebras
• Shaloub Razak Classification of simple stably projectionless C*-algebras
• Eberhard Kirchberg The passage to non-simple algebras
• Claire Anatharaman-Delaroche Exact groupoids
• Klaus Thomsen A second order pairing between K-theory and traces
• Boris Tsirelson New examples of product systems
• Dan Kucerovsky Weyl-von Neumann theorems: An abstract approach
• Marie Choda Dynamical completely positive approximation entropy of exact C*-algebras
• Serban Stratila The commutation theorem for tensor products over subalgebras
• Andrew Dean An invariant for actions of the reals on a UHF algebra
• Dimitri Shlyakhtenko Cuntz-Pimsner C*-algebras and reduced amalgamated free products
• Cornel Pasnicu Tensor products of C*-algebras with the ideal property
• Sergey Neshveyev Comparing entropy of a system and its subsystem
• Soren Eilers Invariants for C*-algebras with one/two/many ideals
• Bruce Blackadar Scaling elements revisited
• Ruy Exel KMS states on Cuntz-Krieger algebras over infinite matrices

Short Course on Foundations of Cryptography

October 14 - 15, 2000

• Cynthia Dwork: Foundations of Cryptography
• Cynthia Dwork: Encryption - Part I
• Cynthia Dwork: Interactive Proofs & Zero Knowledge
• Moni Naor: Pseudo-Random Functions and Permutations
• Moni Naor: Committments and Applications
• Moni Naor: Good Encryption Schemes

Number-Theoretic Cryptography Workshop

October 16 - 20, 2000

• Gerhard Frey: Discrete logarithm systems based on polynomial orders
• Joseph H. Silverman: Lattices and cryptography in theory and practice
• Ueli Maurer: Index search, discrete logarithms, and Diffie-Hellman
• Antoine Joux: Tripartite Diffie-Hellman using pairing on elliptic curves
• Kristin Lauter: Microsoft Research: Genus three curves over finite fields
• Neil Koblitz: Security and efficiency issues in elliptic curve cryptography
• Ming-deh Huang: Discrete logarithm problems arising from curve based cryptography
• Johannes Buchmann: Identification and signatures based on class groups
• Michael Anshel: The Arithmetica Key exchange
• Don Coppersmith: Solving low-degree polynomials
• Glenn Durfee: Cryptanalysis of RSA using lattice-based root finding techniques
• Phong Nguyen: The orthogonal lattice and its applications to cryptanalysis
• Arjen Lenstra: The XTR public key system
• Dan Bernstein: Design and implementation of a public-key signature system
• Daniele Micciancio: Improving lattice based cryptosystems using the Hermite Normal Form
• Moni Naor: What is a proper cryptographic assumption, or The complexity of refutation

Special Event: October 19, 2000

• Anthony E. Sale: Code Breaking in WW II: The Enigma: the Colossus, and Bletchley Park
  

Emerging Applications of Combinatorial Design

November 5 - 10, 2000

• Jeff Dinitz: Scheduling tournaments and leagues
  
• Charles Colbourn: Applications of combinatorial designs in communications and networking
  
• Ronald C. Mullin: A survey of packing and covering designs
  
• Sid Dalal: Factor-covering designs for testing software
  
• Malcolm Greig: Constructing Large Designs
  
• Art Owen: Combinatorial problems arising in high dimensional integration and approximation
  
• Benno Schwikowski: Small and beautiful: Designing DNA sequences for molecular recognition
  
• William Martin: Combinatorics of the ordered Hamming space
  
• Qing Xiang: Recent results on difference sets with classical parameters
  
• Myra Cohen: Ladder orderings for double erasure codes
  
• Lucia Moura: The integer programming approach for generating designs
  
• Peter Gibbons: Computational methods for combinatorial design construction
  
• Vladimir Tonchev: Applications of combinatorial designs in digital communication
  
• Frank Hwang: Using combinatorial designs in the construciton of pool designs for clone screening
  
• Mark Lawrence: The need for speed: Combinatorial implications of an important application of Monte Carlo methods in financial risk management
  
• Toby Berger: Sharp asymptotic bounds on two-stage group testing efficiency
  
• Julie Ward: Designing storage area network fabrics
  
• Martin Tompa: Quality control in manufacturing DNA arrays: A combinatorial design approach
  
• Alan Ling: Some applications of combinatorial designs to extremal graph theory
  
• David Torney: Biologically motivated design problems
  
• Helen Verrall: Hamilton decompositions of directed wrapped butterfly graphs
  
• Tran Van Trung: Selected applications of combinatorial designs
  
• Jonathan Jedwab: Two applications of combinatorial design theory
  

Subfactors and Algebraic Aspects of Quantum Field Theory

December 4 - 8, 2000

• Sergio Doplicher: Aspects of duality
  
• Roberto Longo: Completely Rational Conformal Quantum Field Theory
  
• Michael Mueger: Completely rational CQFTs, local extensions and modular invariants
  
• Marta-T Asaeda: Exotic subfactor and the spindle algebra
  
• Dmitri Nikshych: Bimodule categories of subfactors and representation theory of quantum groupoids
  
• Michel Enock: Inclusions of von Neumann algebras, and quantum groupoids
  
• Sorin Popa (at Evans Hall, Room 60): Universal constructions and functoriality in the theory of subfactors
  
• Adrian Ocneanu: Higher Coxeter systems
  
• Antony Wassermann: Quantum subgroups and vertex algebras
  
• Valerio Toledano Laredo: Connes fusion and KZ equations
  
• Michael Freedman: Anyons in mathematics, computer science and physics
  
• Zhenghan Wang: On TQFT representations of mapping class groups
  
• Richard Borcherds: Vertex algebras are trivial
  
• Dror Bar-Natan: Finite type invariants and a strange breed of planar algebras
  
• Ruth Lawrence: Almost modularity of quantum 3-manifold invariants
  
• Dylan Thurston: Hyperbolic Volume and the Jones Polynomial: A Conjecture
  
• Dirk Kreimer: Combinatorics of quantum field theory
  
• Zeph Landau: Exchange relations planar algebras
  
• Feng Xu: Algebraic coset conformal field theories
  
• Vaughan Jones: E_6 is a breeze, E_8's a tease
  
• Dietmar Bisch: Singly generated planar algebras of small dimension
  
• V.S. Sunder: Spectra of principal graphs
  
• Nobuya Sato: Two approaches in 3-dimensional topological quantum field theories from subfactors
  
• Peter Goddard: An axiomatic approach to conformal field theory
  
• Uffe Haagerup: Old and new results on spin models
  
• Akihiro Tsuchiya: Seiberg-Witten differentials as periods of rational elliptic surfaces
  
• Vijay Kodiyalam: Paragroups and Hopf algebras
  
• Masaki Izumi: Non commutative Poisson boundaries and compact quantum group actions
  
• David Evans: Modular invariants from subfactors
  
• Yasuyuki Kawahigashi: Braiding and extension of endomorphisms of subfactors
  
• Hans Wenzl: Braid groups and subfactors
  
• Rosa Orellana: Finite dimensional representations of the braid group of type B and Markov traces
  
• Yoshimichi Ueda: Minimal actions of compact quantum groups and subfactors
  
• Dimitri Shlyakhtenko: Some applications of free probability to subfactor theory
  
• Edward Frenkel: Vertex algebras and the geometric Langlands correspondence
  

Arithmetic Geometry

December 11 - 15, 2000

• Armand Brumer: Odds and ends on curves of low genus
  
• Joseph Wetherell: Chabauty and covers for curves with an automorphism
  
• Michael Stoll: Uniform Chabauty bounds for twists
  
• Alexandra Shlapentokh: Diophantine undecidability of function fields of positive characteristic finitely generated over fields algebraic over a finite field
  
• Greg Anderson: Wick's theorem and the calculation of genus one Jacobians
  
• John Cremona: Reduction of binary forms
  
• Tom Fisher: Descent calculations for the elliptic curves of conductor 11
  
• Catherine O'Neil: The period-index problem
  
• Franz Lemmermeyer: Second 2-descents for y^2 = x^3 - d^2 x
  
• Sylvain Duquesne: Explicit Weierstrass Preparation Theorem in several variables and rational points on the hyperelliptic curve y^2=x^9 - 6x^8 + 31x^7 - 81x^6 + 177x^5 - 176x^4 - 9x^3 + 107x^2 + 19x + 1
  
• Henri Darmon: The calculation of periods on $H_ptimes H$ and Heegner points attached to real quadratic fields: a progress report
• Takakazu Satoh: Algorithms for computing zeta functions of elliptic curves over finite fields and related topics.
  
• Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas: Picard-Fuchs equations and computing zeta functions p-adically
  
• Florian Hess: On the computation of the divisor class group of global function fields
  
• Vinay Deolalikar: On splitting rational places in algebraic extensions of function fields over finite fields
  
• Nils Bruin: Explicit covering techniques
  
• Leopoldo Kulesz: Algebraic curves of genus at least 2 with many rational points
  
• Tony Shaska: Curves of genus two covering elliptic curves
  
• William Stein: Visibility of Shafarevich-Tate groups of abelian varieties
  
• Bas Edixhoven: On computing coefficients of eigenforms.
  
• Helena Verrill: Computation of periods of higher weight modular forms
  
• David Kohel: Shimura curve invariants
  
• Ki-ichiro Hashimoto: Q-curves over quadratic fields and jacobian surfaces of GL2-type
  
• Jordan Ellenberg: Ljunggren's equation and modular Q-curves
  
• Joan-C. Lario: Manin ideals for Q-curves
  
• Enrique Gonzalez Jimenez: Modular curves of genus 2
  
• Qing Liu: Rational points of the group of components of a Neron model.
  
• Dino Lorenzini: Special fibers of Neron models
  
• Rania Wazir: A Nagao-type formula for elliptic threefolds
  
• Fabrizio Andreatta: Uniformization of Neron models of semistable Jacobians
  
• Luis V. Dieulefait: Images of three-dimensional Galois representations
  
• Victor Rotger: On the group of automorphisms of Shimura curves and applications
  
• Tom Tucker: Thue equations and the method of Chabauty-Coleman
  
• Charles Doran: From K3 lattices to explicit K3 moduli
  

Non-Workshop Lectures

• Jim Holt: What Trivial Beings Talk About When They Talk About Math
• Donald G. Saari: Using chaos and symmetry groups to analyze election and decision procedures
• Donald G. Saari: Why Voting Procedures Can Create a Mess; A Mathematician Looks at Elections

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Free Probability and Non-commutative Banach Spaces

January 22 - 27, 2001

• L. Ge: Applications of free entropy
  
• T. Cabanal-Duvillard: Large deviations for Gaussian matrices and free entropies
  
• M. Stefan: Some properties of free group subfactors
  
• Z-J. Ruan: Non-commutative ${\cal L}_p$ spaces and their connections with operator algebras
  
• R. Smith: Approximation properties for crossed products
  
• G. Pisier: Multipliers of H1 and power bounded operators
  
• E. Christensen: The length of a Gamma factor
  
• W.B. Arveson: Curvature and Dirac operator of a commuting d-tuple
  
• N. Randrianantoanina: Subspaces of non-commutative Lorentz-spaces
  
• D. Voiculescu: Free probability analogue of the Wasserstein distance on trace state space
  
• P. Zinn-Justin: The enumeration of planar maps, links and knots
  
• A. Nica: R-cyclic families of matrices in free probability
  
• P. Biane: Free cummulants , matrix orbits and characters of symmetric groups
  
• R. Speicher: A characterization of freeness by a factorization of operator-valued cummulants
  
• M. Anshelevich: Ito formula for free Levy processes
  
• M. Junge: On the local theory of noncommutative L_p spaces
  
• T. Oikhberg: On finite representability of operator spaces
  
• M. Musat: Approximation of hyperfinite martingales by finite dimensional martingales
  
• H.P. Rosenthal: Semi-Transitive Operator Algebras
  
• A. Sinclair: Singular masas in factors from hyperbolic groups
  
• B. Magajna: Normal modules and maps
  
• E. Kirchberg: C* Spaces
  
• D. Blecher: Multiplier operator algebras and M-structure
  
• A. Arias: An operator Hilbert space without the operator approximation property
  
• D. Gaboriau: l^2 -invariants for groups and equivalence relations
  
• F. Radulescu: Convex sets of moments in von Neumann algebras
  
• H. Bercovici: Strong and weak limit theorems for free random variables
  
• S. Thorbjoernsen: Self decomposability and Levy processes
  
• D. Shlyakhtenko: On free Araki-Woods factors
  
• K. Dykema: Decomposability of Voiculescu's circular operator
  
• P. Sniady: Invariant subspaces of R-diagonal operators
  
• V. Paulsen: Variations on injectivity
  
• P.W. Ng: Completely contractive projections on non-commutative L^1 spaces
  
• E. Ricard: H1 has no completely unconditional basis
  
• C. Le Merdy*: Operator space properties of decomposable operators
  
• N. Ozawa*: On the lifting problem for separable C*-algebras
  
• V. Zarikian*: One-sided M-structure in operator spaces
  
• E. Effros*: New directions and problems in operator space theory
  
• N. Muraki*: Monotonic independence for noncommutative random variables
  
• M. Bozejko*: From lacunary sets on groups to free and boolean probability with applications to operator spaces
  
• F. Lehner*: Cummulants, lattice paths and orthogonal polynomials
  

*Due to techincal difficulties, there is no video for this lecture

The Preparation of Math Majors in the First Two Years

February 09 - 11, 2001

• Hung-Hsi Wu: Rethinking the Mathematics Major
  

Analysis Models and Methods: A conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Methods in memory of Fred Howes

March 1 - 3, 2001

• Darryl Holm: Lagrangian-mean and Eulerian-mean turbulence models
  
• Marsha Berger: Space filling curves and parallel multigrid on Cartesian meshes with embedded geometry
  
• Peter Lax: Trace formulas
  
• Jack Dongarra: The impact of computer architecture on linear algebra algorithms
  
• Robert O'Malley: Viscous shocks featuring exponential or algebraic asymptotics
  
• David Brown: Adaptive moving overlapping grids for the solution of partial differential equations in complex geometry
  
• Jorge More: Evolution and revolution in optimization
  
• Barry Smith: Towards optimal complexity algorithms for optimal design
  
• Bruce Hendrickson: Combinatorial algorithms in scientific computing
  
• Alexandre Chorin: Optimal prediction
  

Geometric Aspects of Spectral Theory

March 12 - 16, 2001

• Victor Guillemin: The mapping torus of a symplectic mapping
• Yves Colin de Verdiere: Singular Bohr-Sommerfeld rules
• Charles Fefferman: Singular scenarios for 2-D and 3-D incompressible fluids
• Percy Deift: Perturbation theory for infinite dimensional integrable systems on the line
• Bent Oersted: Equivariant zeta functions and conformal geometry
• Richard Schoen: Spectral issues in geometric variational problems
• Matthew Gursky: A fully non-linear equation in conformal geometry and some applications
• Jochen Bruening: Towards a spectral theory of stratified spaces
• Steve Zelditch: The inverse spectral problem for analytic plane domains
• Jean-Michel Bismut: Equivariant de Rham torsions
• Kai Koehler: Equivariant holomorphic torsion and arithmetic geometry
• Richard Melrose: The eta invariant as a determinant
• Weiping Zhang: An index theorem for Toeplitz operators on manifolds with boundary
• Tobias Colding: Geodesic laminations on the two-sphere and index bounds
• Werner Mueller: Spectral theory for Dirac operators on manifolds with fibred cusps and applications
• Jie Qing: Finiteness of Kleinian groups in space
• Wei-Min Wang: Supersymmetry and spectral theory of random Schroedinger operators
• Christophe Soule: Arithmetic genera
• Paolo Piazza: Higher eta invariants and metrics of positive scalar curvature
• Peter Sarnak: L-4 norms of eigenfunctions

Nonlinear Estimation and Classification

March 19 - 29, 2001

• Robert Gray: Gauss mixture vector quantization: Clustering Gauss mixtures with the minimum discrimination information distortion for modeling, compression, and classification
• Tom Dietterich: Some experiments with ensemble methods for classification and conditional density estimation
• Edward I. George: Dilution priors for model uncertainty
• Maria DeIorio, Peter Mueller, Gary Rosner & Steven MacEachern: An ANOVA model for dependent random measures with an application to population models
• Ernest Fokoue: Aspects of stochastic simulation based inference for some mixtures of latent structures
• Yuhong Yang: Combining regression estimators under a fixed design
• David Scott: Clustering by partial mixture estimation
• Angelika van der Linde: Model complexity and model priors
• Grace Wahba: Optimal properties and adaptive tuning of support vector machines (SVM's)
• Robert Burbidge: Adaptive kernels for SV classification
• Mario A. T. Figueiredo: Unsupervised sparse regression
• Steve Ellis: Instability in nonlinear estimation and classification
• Charles Stone: Extended linear modeling with splines
• Linda Zhao: Bayesian approaches in nonparametric estimation problems
• Charles Kooperberg & Charles Stone: Logspline density estimation with free-knot splines
• Jennifer Pittman: Adaptive splines and genetic algorithms with an application to classification
• Heping Zhang: Mixed-effects multivariate adaptive splines models: An automated procedure for fitting longitudinal data and growth curves
• Sally Wood: Bayesian mixture splines for spatially adaptive nonparametric regression
• Michael Jordan: Variational inference for clustering and classification
• Bill Cleveland: Modeling internet traffic
• John Rice: A simple model for a complex system: Predicting travel times on freeways
• Andrew Nobel: Denoising deterministic time series
• Barbara Bailey: A statistical approach to quantifying the predictability of noisy nonlinear systems
• Claudia Tebaldi: Looking for nonlinearities in the large scale dynamics of the atmosphere
• Nando DeFreitas: Non-stationary, nonlinear classification and model selection
• Ashis Gangopadhyay & Kin Cheung: Semiparametric estimation of the long-memory parameter in farima models
• Terry Speed: Nonlinear estimation and classification: Challenges from genomics
• Gilles Blanchard: Bounding generalization error of aggregate classifiers through empirical margin distributions
• Servane Gey & Elodie Nedelec: Model selection for CART regression trees
• Adam Krzyzak: Nonlinear function learning and classification using optimal radial basis function networks
• Ludger Ruschendorf: On adaptive estimation by neural nets type estimators
• Alexandre Tsybakov: Fast rates and adaptation in nonparametric classification
• Richard Baraniuk: Besov vs. Plato: Multiscale image modeling
• Martin Vetterli: Wavelets, Approximation Compression and Sampling: Review and New Results
• Ronald DeVore: Harmonic Analysis of BV
• Minh Do and Martin Vetterli: Texture characterization and retrieval using steerable hidden Markov models
• Maarten Jansen: Thresholding second generation wavelet coefficients for noisy, non-equispaced data
• Eric Kolaczyk and Robert Nowak: A multiresolution analysis for statistical likelihoods: Theory and methods
• Donald Geman: Coarse-to-fine classification and visual indexing
• Tomaso Poggio: From bits to information: Theory and applications of learning machines
• David Denison: Bayesian prediction using adaptive ridge estimators
• Jorg Rahnenfuhrer: Data compression and statistical inference
• Juan Lin: Local curved gaussian models
• Amy Braverman: Compressing and analyzing massive geophysical data sets by Monte Carlo extended ECVQ
• Rahul Shukla, Minh Do and Martin Vetterli: Best adaptive tiling in a rate-distortion sense
• Enrico Capobianco: Multi-resolution properties of semi-parametric volatility models
• Harri Kiiveri: Environmental monitoring using a time series of satellite images and other spatial data sets
• Adrian Raftery: Bayesian multidimensional scaling and choice of dimension
• Katherine Pollard and Mark van der Laan: Computationally intensive statistical methods for microarray based drug discovery
• Saira Mian: Analysis of Transcription Profiling Data Using Generative and Discriminative Methods
• Alexander Loguinov, Rus Yukhananov, Christopher Vulpe and Saira Mian: Using robust and resistant regression analysis (MM-estimator) to find differentially expressed genes in microarray data
• Ingo Ruczinski, Charles Kooperberg and Michael L. LeBlanc: Logic Regression
• Jerome Friedman: Predictive data mining with multiple additive regression trees
• Rob Schapire: Logistic regression, AdaBoost and Bregman distances
• Margaret H. Wright: Where does mainstream optimization fit?
• Steve Marron: High dimension - low sample size data analysis
• Vin de Silva: A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction
• Jacqueline J. Meulman: Multivariate optimal scaling techniques for the analysis of large and complicated data sets
• Nelson Butuk: Construction of low dimensional DME reaction state space trajectories

Conference on Randomized Algorithms in Finance

March 30 - April 1, 2001

• Phelim Boyle: Applications of the Monte Carlo Method in Finance
• Claudia Kluppelberg: Extreme Value Statistics in Finance
• Francis Longstaff: Solving American option and portfolio choice problems using the Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) Algorithm
• Alistair Sinclair: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
• Marco Avellaneda: Arbitrage pricing of equity basket options
• Pedro Santa Clara: Simulated likelihood estimation of diffusions with an application to exchange rate dynamics in incomplete markets
• Jin-Chuan Duan: Risk premium and pricing of derivatives in complete markets
• Michael Dempster: Wavelet-based PDE and fast Monte Carlo valuation of complex derivatives
• Jeremy Staum: Early stopping in financial simulations
• Eckhard Platen: Numerical solution of stochastic differential equations with applications in finance

Quantization and Non-commutative Geometry

April 23 - 27, 2001

• Guennadi Kasparov: Automorphic forms and K-theory
• Abhay Ashtekar: Quantization, Geometry and Black Holes
• Mariusz. Wodzicki: Vestigia vestiganda
• Jose M. Gracia-Bondia: Anomalies, the Noncommutative Index Theorem and the S-matrix
• Jerry Kaminker: Boundaries and approximation properties for group C*-algebras
• Jonathan Rosenberg: Z/k index theory via noncommutative geometry
• Klaas Landsman: Quantization as a functor
• Guaoliang Yu: The Baum-Connes conjecture for hyperbolic groups
• Birant Ramazan: Groupoids and C*-algebraic quantization
• Martin Schlichenmaier: Asymptotic expansion of the Berezin transform
• Dirk Kreimer: Residues of quantum field theory
• Alan Weinstein: Dirac structures and their quantization
• Alain Connes: Noncommutative geometry and quantum field theory
• Mikhail Shubin: Semiclassical asymptotics and quantum Hall conductivity
• Harald Upmeier: Toeplitz and Weyl quantization of symmetric domains
• Henrique Bursztyn: Semiclassical geometry of quantum line bundles and Morita equivalence of star products
• Vincent Lafforgue: Banach KK-theory and the Baum-Connes conjecture
• Boris Tsygan: Index theorem for general deformations and applications
• George Skandalis: Groupoids: examples and remarks
• Albert Schwarz: Noncommutative instantons: a new approach
• Frederic Cadet: Deformation and quantization for toric manifolds
• Pierre Julg: The Baum-Connes conjecture with coefficients for Sp(n,1)
• Alfons Van Daele: Locally compact quantum groups
• Teodor Banica: Compact quantum groups and subfactors
• Joseph C. Varilly: Quantum Symmetry of Noncommutative Spheres
• Ryszard Nest: Connes-Kasparov conjecture is true
• Judy Packer: Wavelet filter functions and K-theory
• Paul Baum: Equivariant-bivariant Chern Character

29th Canadian Symposium on Operator Algebras

April 29 - May 1, 2001

• Alain Connes: Factors and Geometry
• Dietmar Bisch: Subfactors and planar algebras
• Guihua Gong: A Reduction Theorem on a class of AH-algbras including simple AH algebras and real rank zero AH algebras
• Marius Dadarlat: Approximation by subalgebras and the UCT
• Mikael Rordam: A simple C*-algebra containing a finite and an infinite projection
• Mahmood Khoshkam : Groupoids, Inverse Semigroups, and their C*-algebras
• Dan Voiculescu: Cyclic derivatives and von Neumann algebras
• Joachim Cuntz: Non-commutative simplicial complexes and characteristic classes
• Liming Ge: Riemann zeta function and Connes's noncommutative geometry
• Kenneth Davidson: Free semigroup algebras
• Eberhard Kirchberg: Classification of non-simple purely infinite algebras
• Roland Speicher: Invariant subspaces of R-diagonal operators
• Dimitri Shlyakhtenko: Free Araki-Woods factors
• N. Christopher Phillips: Isomorphism theorems for C*-algebras of minimal diffeomorphisms

Critical Percolation and Conformally Invariant Processes

April 30 - May 4, 2001

• John Cardy: Mean number of crossing clusters and related results
• Stanislav Smirnov: Conformal invariance of critical percolation
• Gilles Schaeffer: Random triangulations and planar maps
• Itai Benjamini: Random metrics
• Stanislav Smirnov: Tutorial: Conformal invariance of critical percolation
• Richard Kenyon: Random maps from Z^2 to Z/qZ
• Sergey Fomin: Loop-erased walks and total positivity
• Russell Lyons: A Bird's-Eye View of Uniform Spanning Trees and Forests
• Oded Schramm: Conformally invariant scaling limits and SLE
• Yuval Peres: Geometry of the uniform spanning forest
• Bertrand Duplantier: Conformally invariant scaling curves and quantum gravity
• Gregory Lawler: SLE and the self-avoiding walk
• Charles Newman: Critical Percolation for 2D Coarsening
• Schramm, Lawler, Werner: Tutorial: SLE
• Bernard Nienhuis: On the groundstate of the percolation transfer matrix
• David Wilson: Winding Angle Variance of Random Curves
• Jennifer Chayes: Finite-Size Scaling in Probability and Computer Science: Part I
• Christian Borgs: Finite-Size Scaling in Probability and Computer Science: Part II
• Vincent Beffara: On some conformally invariant subsets of the Brownian curve
• Yu Zhang: Power laws and conformal invariance on the two dimensional triangular lattice
• Michael Aizenman: What next?

 

Geometric Scattering Theory and Elliptic Theory on Noncompact and Singular Spaces

May 7 - 11, 2001

• Jared Wunsch*: Propagation and diffraction at conic singularities
• Boris Vaillant: An index theorem for manifolds with generalized fibred cusps
• Mike Anderson: Einstein metrics with prescribed conformal infinity on 4-manifolds
• C. Robin Graham: Conformal geometry, Einstein metrics and scattering
• Mikhail Shubin: Discreteness of spectrum and strict positivity for magnetic Schrodinger operators
• Raphael Ponge: Local index formulae for pseudo-Hermitian manifolds through non-commutative geometry
• Daniel Grieser: Some remarks on the Stokes Theorem and Hodge Theory on singular varieties
• Peter Perry: Determinants of Laplacians and compactness of isopolar sets for Riemann surfaces of infinite area

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Continuum Hypothesis

May 29 - June 1, 2001

• Tomek Bartoszynski: Continuous Images of Strongly Meager Sets
• Slawomir Solecki: Complexity of Subgroups of Polish Groups
• Greg Hjorth: The Topological Vaught Conjecture and Related Problems
• Paul Larson: Revisiting Godel's Argument for the True Power of the Continuum
• Martin Zeman: The Principle and Mahlo Cardinals
• Jindrich Zapletal: Definable Real Forcings
• Matt Foreman: A New Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem
• Tom Jech: Infinite Games and Forcing
• Ilijas Farah: Maximal Rigidity
• Moti Gitik: The Current State of the Singular Cardinals Problem
• Stevo Todorcevic: Localized Reflection and the Size of the Continuum

 

Clay Mathematics Institute 2001 Summer School on the Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces: Summer Graduate Program and Research Component

June 25 - July 6, 2001

Lecture Series:

• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 1
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 2
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 3
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 4
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 5
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 6
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 7
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 8
• Frank Morgan: Geometric Measure Theory and the Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Lecture 9

• Matthias Weber: Computational Aspects of Minimal Surface Theory, Lecture 1
• Matthias Weber: Computational Aspects of Minimal Surface Theory, Lecture 2
• Matthias Weber: Computational Aspects of Minimal Surface Theory, Lecture 3
• Matthias Weber: Computational Aspects of Minimal Surface Theory, Lecture 4
• Matthias Weber: Computational Aspects of Minimal Surface Theory, Lecture 5

• Konrad Polthier: Lecture 1
• Konrad Polthier: Lecture 2
• Konrad Polthier: Lecture 3

• Rick Schoen: Mean Curvature in Riemannian Geometry and General Relativity, Lecture 1
• Rick Schoen: Mean Curvature in Riemannian Geometry and General Relativity, Lecture 2
• Rick Schoen: Mean Curvature in Riemannian Geometry and General Relativity, Lecture 3

• Brian White: Minimal Surfaces and Total Curvature of Curves
• Brian White: The Classical Plateau Problem
• Brian White: Flat Chains Over General Coefficient Groups

Background Lectures:

• Bill Meeks: Geometric Results in Classical Minimal Surface Theory, Lecture 1
• Bill Meeks: Geometric Results in Classical Minimal Surface Theory, Lecture 2
• Bill Meeks: A Survey of Unsolved Problems in Minimal Surface Theory and Approaches for Solving Them

• John McCuan: Background Lecture 1
• John McCuan: Background lecture 2
• John McCuan: Background Lecture 3

• David Hoffman: Background Lecture

Individual Talks

• Mohammad Ghomi: Topology of Minimal Surfaces with Convex Boundary
• Nicolaos Kapouleas: Singular Perturbation Constructions for Minimal Surfaces
• Hermann Karcher: Conjugate Plateau Surfaces
• Francisco Martin: Complete Nonorientable Minimal Surfaces in R^3
• Robert Osserman: A Historical Survey of some Aspects of Minimal Surfaces
• Joaquin Perez: Parabolicity and Minimal Surfaces
• Harold Rosenberg: Periodic Minimal Surfaces

CMI Summer School Research Component

July 9 - July 27, 2001

Third Week Lecture Series

• Antonio Ros: The Isoperimetric Problem - Lecture 1
• Antonio Ros: The Isoperimetric Problem - Lecture 2
• Antonio Ros: The Isoperimetric Problem - Lecture 3
• Antonio Ros: The Isoperimetric Problem - Lecture 4
• Manolo Ritore: The Isoperimetric Problem - Lecture 5

• Mike Wolf: Flat Structures
• Mike Wolf: Moduli Spaces of Flat Structures and Period Problems
• Mike Wolf: Handle Addition for Minimal Surfaces
• Matthias Weber: Embedded Minimal Surfaces of Finite Topology, Lecture 1
• Matthias Weber: Embedded Minimal Surfaces of Finite Topology, Lecture 2

• Joel Spruck: Geometric Aspects of the Theory of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations - Lecture 1
• Joel Spruck: Geometric Aspects of the Theory of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations - Lecture 2
• Joel Spruck: Geometric Aspects of the Theory of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations - Lecture 3
• Joel Spruck: Geometric Aspects of the Theory of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations - Lecture 4
• Bo Guan: Geometric Aspects of the Theory of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations - Lecture 5

Third Week Seminar Lectures

• Jaigyoung Choe: Isoperimetric Inequalities of Minimal Surfaces
• Pascal Collin: Conformal Type of Proper Minimal Surfaces in Euclidean Space
• Mohammad Ghomi Convexity Problems in Classical Differential Geometry and Topology
• David Hoffman: A Family of Singly Periodic Minimal Surfaces Asymptotic to the Helicoid
• Hermann Karcher: The Flexibility of Conjugate Plateau Constructions
• Francisco J. Lopez: Some Picard Theorems for Minimal Surfaces
• Rafe Mazzeo: Surgery on Geometric Structures and Applications
• Joaquin Perez: Uniqueness of the Riemann Minimal Surfaces
• K. Tenenblat: Minimal and CMC Surfaces Obtained by Ribaucour Transofrmations
• Henry Wente: The Plateau and Douglas Problems for Surfaces of Constant Mean Curvature
• Fang Yi: Protein Folding Problem, A Geometric Method

Fourth Week Lecture Series

• Harold Rosenberg: Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces in R^3 of Finite Topology, I
• Harold Rosenberg: Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces in R^3 of Finite Topology, II
• Harold Rosenberg: Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces in R^3 of Finite Topology, III
• Bill Meeks: Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces in R^3 of Finite Topology, IV
• Bill Meeks: Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces in R^3 of Finite Topology, V

• Martin Traizet: Construction of Minimal Surfaces by Gluing Weierstrass Representations, I
• Martin Traizet: Construction of Minimal Surfaces by Gluing Weierstrass Representations, II
• Martin Traizet: Construction of minimal Surfaces by Gluing Weierstrass Representations, III

• Nicolaos Kapouleas: Constructions of Minimal Surfaces by Gluing Minimal Immersion, I
• Nicolaos Kapouleas: Constructions of Minimal Surfaces by Gluing Minimal Immersion, II

• Bill Minicozzi: Embedded Minimal Surfaces in a Ball, I
• Bill Minicozzi: Embedded Minimal Surfaces in a Ball, II
• Bill Minicozzi: Embedded Minimal Surfaces in a Ball, III
• Bill Minicozzi: Embedded Minimal Surfaces in a Ball, IV
• Bill Minicozzi: Embedded Minimal Surfaces in a Ball, V

Fourth Week Seminar Lectures

• Pascal Collin: Construction of Bryant Surfaces by Cousin Correspondence
• Tom Ilmanen: Embedded Minimal Hypersurfaces with L^2 Curvature Bounds
• Rob Kusner: Soap Bubbles and Riemann Surfaces
• Frank Pacard: CMC-1 Surfaces in Hyperbolic Space
• Ricardo Sa Earp: Meromorphic Data for Mean Curvature One Surfaces in Hyperbolic Space
• Joel Spruck: Two-dimensional Minimal Graphs over Unbounded Domains
• Masaaki Umehara: Surfaces of Constant Mean Curvature-1 in the Hyperbolic 3-space

Fifth Week Lecture Series

• Rick Schoen: Variational Problems in Lagrangian Geometry: Special Lagrangian Submanifolds, Part I
• Rick Schoen: Variational Problems in Lagrangian Geometry: Special Lagrangian Submanifolds, Part II
• Jon Wolfson: Variational Problems in Lagrangian Geometry: Special Lagrangian Submanifolds, Part III
• Dominic Joyce: Constructions of Special Lagrangian m-folds in $\C^m$
• Dominic Joyce: Special Lagrangian Fibrations and the SYZ Conjecture

• Joel Hass: Topology of Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds, Part I
• Joel Hass: Topology of Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds, Part II
• Joachim Hyam Rubinstein: Topology of Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds, Part I
• Joachim Hyam Rubinstein: Topology of Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds, Part II
• Joachim Hyam Rubinstein: Topology of Minimal Surfaces in 3-manifolds, Part III

• Pascal Collin:Asymptotic geometry of embedded Bryant surfaces, Part I
• Pascal Collin:Asymptotic geometry of embedded Bryant surfaces, Part II
• Pascal Collin:Asymptotic geometry of embedded Bryant surfaces, Part III

• Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann: The Conjugate Cousin Construction for Constant-Mean-Curvature Surfaces in Three Space
• Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann: Existence of Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces with Finite Topology and Genus Zero

• Joachim Hyam Rubinstein: The Steiner Problem in 3-dimensions and Applications, Part I
• Joachim Hyam Rubinstein: The Steiner Problem in 3-dimensions and Applications, Part II

Fifth Week Seminar Lectures

• Valerio Batista: Construction of New Embedded Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces in R^3
• Alexander Bobenko: Adding handles to the helicoid
• Joel Hass: Computational Complexity and the Area of Unknotting Disks
• R. Langevin: Short Talk
• John McCuan: Some Observations Concerning Scherk-type Minimal Graphs
• Bill Meeks: Topological Properties of Minimal Surfaces
• Chikako Mese: Minimal Surfaces and Harmonic Mappings in Singular Geometry
• Franz Pedit: Quaternionic Plucker Formula and Area Estimates of CMC Tori
• Peter Topping: Approaching the Willmore Conjecture via Integral Geometry

 

Introductory Workshop in Inverse Problems and Integral Geometry

August 13 - 24, 2001

• Gunther Uhlmann: Microlocal Analysis and Inverse Problems - Part I
• Giovanni Alessandrini: Cracks and Other Inverse Problems with Unknown Boundaries: Geometric Critical Points
• Giovanni Alessandrini: Cracks and Other Inverse Problems with Unknown Boundaries: Some Uniqueness Results and Open Problems
• Carlos A. Berenstein: Localization of the 2-D Radon Transform
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part I
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part II
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part III
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part IV

Non-Workshop Lectures

• Sir Michael Atiyah: Configurations of points in 3-dimensional Euclidean space
• Charles Fefferman: Poincare metrics for conformal structure - Part I
• Charles Fefferman: Poincare metrics for conformal structure - Part II
• David Eisenbud: Chow Forms and Resultants - old and new

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Introductory Workshop in Inverse Problems and Integral Geometry

August 13 - 24, 2001

• Giovanni Alessandrini: Cracks and Other Inverse Problems with Unknown Boundaries: Geometric Critical Points
• Giovanni Alessandrini: Cracks and Other Inverse Problems with Unknown Boundaries: Some Uniqueness Results and Open Problems
• Carlos A. Berenstein: Localization of the 2-D Radon Transform
• Joseph Bernstein: Analytic Continuation of $P^{\lambda}$
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part I
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part II
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part III
• Liliana Borcea: Electrical Impedance Tomography - Part IV
• Robert Bryant: The X-ray Transform in Finsler Geometry
• David Colton: Inverse Scattering and Ill-posed Problems
• David Colton: The Inverse Acoustic Scattering Problem for an Obstacle
• David Colton: The Inverse Acoustic Scattering Problem for an Inhomogeneous Medium
• David Colton: The Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problem
• Michael Eastwood: The Penrose Transform - Part I
• Michael Eastwood: The Penrose Transform - Part II
• Michael Eastwood: The Penrose Transform - Part III
• Michael Eastwood: The Penrose Transform - Part IV
• Simon Gindikin: The Radon Transform and its Variations - Part I
• Simon Gindikin: The Radon Transform and its Variations - Part II
• Simon Gindikin: The Radon Transform and its Variations - Part III
• Simon Gindikin: The Radon Transform and its Variations - Part II
• Simon Gindikin: The Radon Transform and its Variations - Part V
• Alexander Goncharov: Integral Geometry and Linear Differential Equations - Part I
• Alexander Goncharov: Integral Geometry and Linear Differential Equations - Part II
• Alexander Goncharov: Integral Geometry and Linear Differential Equations - Part III
• Alexander Goncharov: Integral Geometry and Linear Differential Equations - Part IV
• Alexander Goncharov: Integral Geometry and Linear Differential Equations - Part V
• Rainer Kress: Uniqueness in Inverse Obstacle Scattering
• Frank Natterer: X-ray Tomography: Integral Geometry
• Frank Natterer: X-ray Tomography: Inversion Algorithms
• Frank Natterer: X-ray Tomography: Non-standard Problems
• Frank Natterer: X-ray Tomography: Applications
• Gunther Uhlmann: Microlocal Analysis and Inverse Problems - Part I
• Gunther Uhlmann: Microlocal Analysis and Inverse Problems - Part II
• Gunther Uhlmann: Microlocal Analysis and Inverse Problems - Part III
• Gunther Uhlmann: Microlocal Analysis and Inverse Problems - Part IV

 

Integral Geometry in Representation Theory

October 8 - 12, 2001

• Toshio Oshima: Twisted Radon transforms on Grassmannians
• Mike Eastwood: Symmetry in Integral Geometry
• Joachim Hilgert: The dual horospherical Radon transform for polynomials'
• Eric van den Ban: Residues in the Plancherel formula for a semisimple symmetric space
• Takaaki Nomura: Geometric connection of the Poisson kernel with a Cayley transform for homogeneous Siegel domains
• Richard Penney: The Helgason (KKMOOT) Theorem for non-symmetric Kähler manifolds
• Sigurdur Helgason: Totally geodesic Radon transform on symmetric spaces
• Patrick Delorme: D(G/H) and K-finite functions on a reductive symmetric space G/H
• Simon Gindikin: Horospherical transform and Plancherel formula on symmetric spaces
• Yurii Neretin: Analysis of Berezin kernels on symmetric spaces
• Bent Orsted: The Maslor index and bounded cohomology
• Peter Trapa: Applications of the discrete spectrum of semisimple symmetric spaces
• Robert Stanton: Holomorphic aspects of representations: geometry and harmonic analysis
• Toshiyuki Kobayashi: Conformal geometry and analysis on minimal representations of O(p,q)
• Alexander Dvorsky: Jordan algebras and good models for unipotent representations
• Jing-Song Huang: Helgason's conjecture and its generalization to affine symmetric spaces
• Bertram Kostant: The generalized Cayley map from an algebraic group to its Lie algebra

 

Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Inverse Problems

October 29 - November 2, 2001

• Gunther Uhlmann: Electrical impedance tomography, part 1
• Ricardo Weder: The time-dependent approach to inverse scattering, part 1
• Jorge Zubelli: Tomography in the presence of diffusion and scattering, part 1
• Jorge Zubelli: Tomography in the presence of diffusion and scattering, part 2
• Adel Faridani: Mathematical problems in computed tomography, part 1
• Gunther Uhlmann: Electrical impedance tomography, part 2
• Maarten V. de Hoop: The impact of microlocal analysis on exploration seismology
• Clifford Nolan: Acoustical inverse scattering, part 1
• Jorge Zubelli: Tomography in the presence of diffusion and scattering, part 3
• Adel Faridani: Mathematical problems in computed tomography, part 2
• Adel Faridani: Mathematical problems in computed tomography, part 3
• Clifford Nolan: Acoustical inverse scattering, part 2
• Ricardo Weder: The time-dependent approach to inverse scattering, part 2
• Ricardo Weder: The time-dependent approach to inverse scattering, part 3
• Gunther Uhlmann: Electrical impedance tomography, part 3
• Clifford Nolan: Acoustical inverse scattering, part 3

 

Inverse Problems and Applications

November 5 - 16, 2001

• William Symes: Nonlinear problems in seismic inverse scattering
• Ricardo Weder: Aharonov-Bohm effect and time-dependent inverse scattering theory
• Heinz W. Engl: Identification of parameters in polymer crystallization, semiconductor models and elasticity via iterative regularization methods
• David Colton: The linear sampling method for anistropic media
• Plamen Stefanov: An inverse scattering problem for the 2D transport equation
• William Rundell: Local uniqueness theorems in inverse obstacle scattering and associated reconstruction methods
• David Finch: Geometric singularities in tomography
• Samuli Siltanen: A direct regularized reconstruction method for EIT
• Maarten V. de Hoop: Microlocal analysis of seismic inversion: Characteristic strips, generalized Radon transform and differential semblance optimization
• Maciej Zworski: Birkhoff normal forms in semi-classical inverse problems
• Clifford Nolan: Microlocal aspects of synthetic aperture imagery
• Victor P. Palamodov: Phase space analysis of stability of inverse problems
• Fadil Santosa: Inverse and optimization problems involving eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
• Andras Vasy: Inverse problems in many-body scattering
• Matti Lassas: Inverse problem for Maxwell equation in time-domain
• David Dobson: Ultrasound-modulated optical imaging of biological tissue
• David Isaacson: Electrical impedance imaging
• Daniel Tataru: Unique continuation problems for parabolic equations
• Claude Bardos: Deterministic mathematical anlysis of the time reversal mirror
• Gregory Eskin: Global uniqueness in the inverse scattering problem for the Schrodinger operator with external Yang-Mills potentials
• Adrian I. Nachman: Ultrasound imaging using eigenfunctions of the scattering operator
• Gang Bao: Recent studies of an inverse medium problem
• Frank Natterer: Inversion and range of the attenuated Radon transform
• Roland Potthast: Reconstruction of a current distribution from its magnetic field
• Russell Brown: $L^2$ estimates for a scattering transform in two dimensions
• Simon R. Arridge: Reconstruction methods in optical tomography
• John C. Schotland: Near-field optical tomography
• Vasan Venugopalan: Application of photon migration to sub-millimeter length scales and highly absorbing tissues
• F. Alberto Grunbaum: A nonlinear inverse problem for a Markov chain: Recovering the one-step transition probability matrix from boundary measurements
• Sarah Patch: F. John's ultrahyperbolic equation and 3D computed tomography
• Emmanuel J. Candes: Curvelets and linear inverse problems
• Anders Melin: Intertwining operators, nonlinear Radon transforms and inverse backscattering
• Gabor T. Herman: Three-dimensional reconstruction of two-dimensional crystals
• Mathias Fink: Time reversed acoustics
• George Papanicolaou: Imaging and time reversal in random media
• Knut Solna: Scaling relations with time reversed refocusing
• Lawrence Carin: Inverse scattering for elastic targets in a shallow water channel
• Josselin Garnier: Long-range transmission of nonlinear waves in random media
• Chrysoula Tsogka: Time reversal in solids
• Liliana Borcea: Imaging in random media
• Oliver Dorn: Time reversal and the adjoint method
• David Chambers: Spectrum of the time reversal operator
• Peter Blomgren: Some recent results in time reversal and imaging in random media
• Mathias Fink: Shear modulus imaging of tissues with transient elastography
• James F. Greenleaf: Ultrasound stimulated vibro-acoustography
• William A. Kuperman: Application of time-reversal methods to ocean acoustics
• James G. Berryman: Time-reversal acoustics for multiple targets
• Hong-Kai Zhao: Can we hear the size of the target?
• Andres Larraza: Tank-scale experiments on applications to time-reversal acoustics
• Guillaume Bal: Time reversal for classical waves in random media
• Leonid Ryzhik: Refocusing for classical waves in complicated media
• Jean-Pierre Fouque: Separation of scales asymptotics for waves in random media

 

Special values of Rankin L-series

December 10 - 14, 2001

• Bryan Birch: Heegner points: The beginnings
• Benedict Gross: Heegner points and Rankin L-series, 1980-1987
• Harold Stark: The origins of conjectures on derivatives of L-functions at s=0
• Noam Elkies: CM points and arithmetic of modular elliptic curves: Variants, computations and conjectures
• Dorian Goldfeld: The Gauss class number problem
• Henri Darmon: Stark-Heegner points
• Vinayak Vatsal: Uniform distribution of Heegner points
• Massimo Bertolini: Arithmetic of elliptic curves over anticyclotomic towers
• Henri Darmon: Euler systems and Stark-Heegner points
• Richard Borcherds: The Gross-Kohnen-Zagier theorem in higher dimensions
• Christophe Cornut: Mazur's conjecture through the Andre-Oort conjecture
• Benedict Gross: Heegner points in the context of representation theory
• Shouwu Zhang: The kernel for Rankin-Selberg convolution
• Stephen Kudla: Special cycles and derivatives of Eisenstein series
• Doug Ulmer: Gross-Zagier theorems and the conjecture of Birch and Swinerton-Dyer over function fields
• Shouwu Zhang: The geometric pairing for CM-points
• Adrian Iovita: Derivatives of p-adic L-functions, Heegner cycles and monodromy modules attached to modular forms
• Tonghai Yang: On derivatives of Eisenstein series and Faltings' height

Non-Workshop Lectures

Special lectures on p-adic symmetric domains

• P. Schneider: Introduction to Rigid Analysis
• E. de Shalit: An Introduction to Drinfeld's p-adic Symmetric Space Domain
• E. de Shalit: The Cohomology of Drinfeld's Space
• J. Teitelbaum: Differential Forms on the Drinfeld Space, I
• P. Schneider: Differential Forms on the Drinfeld Space, II

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Introductory Workshop on Algebraic Stacks, Intersection Theory, and Non-Abelian Hodge Theory

January 10 - 16, 2002

• William Fulton: What is a Stack?
• Tony Pantev: Review of Abelian Hodge Theory
• Angelo Vistoli: Topological Stacks
• Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology of Coherent Sheaves
• Bertrand Toen: Non-abelian Cohomology
• Andrew Kresch: Intersection Theory on DM Stacks
• Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology with Discrete Coefficients
• Tony Pantev: Non-Abelian Hodge Theory in Degree One
• Rahul Pandharipande: Moduli spaces of curves and combinatorial models
• David Ben-Zvi: Geometric Class Field Theory
• Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology of Quotient Stacks and DM Stacks
• David Ben-Zvi: Factorization
• Rahul Pandharipande: Moduli spaces of Maps and GW Theory
• Tony Pantev: Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory, I
• Bertrand Toen: Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory, II
• David Ben-Zvi: Quantization of Hitchin's Hamiltonians

 

Information Theory

February 25 - March 1, 2002

• Neri Merhav: On Large-Deviations Tradefoff Between Code-Length and Distortion in Certain Lossy Source Coding Problems
• Jorma Rissanen: MDL Theory as a Foundation for Statistical Modeling
• Marcelo Weinberger: New Settings for the Sequential Decision Problem
• Jacob Ziv: An Efficient Universal Prediction Algorithm for Unknown Sources with Limited Training Data
• Babak Hassibi: Multi-antenna Communications: Information Theory and Algorithms
• David Tse: Diversity and Freedom: A Fundamental Tradeoff in Multiple Antenna Wireless Communications
• Frans Willems: Weighting and Waiting
• Wojtek Szpankowski: Analytic Combinatorics, Information Theory and Algorithmics: Precise Redundancy Rate Problem
• Amin Shokrollahi: Efficient Content Delivery and Low Complexity Codes
• Jonathan Yedidia: Generalized Belief Propagation and Free Energy Minimization
• Martin Wainwright: Stochastic Processes on Graphs with Cycles: Approximate Inference and Bounds
• Vahid Tarokh: Information Theoretic Energy Reduction in Deep Submicron Computation Modules
• Shlomo Shamai: Information Theoretic Aspects of Constrained Systems
• Chris Heegard: Information Theory and Spread Spectrum Communications
• Prakash Narayan: Common Randomness and Secret Key Capacities
• Tom Cover: The Role of Side Information in Communication and Data Compression
• Kannan Ramchandran: Duality Between Source Coding and Channel Coding with Side Information
• Brian Marcus: Concatenation of Modulation Encoders and ECC Encoders

 

Intersection Theory on Stacks

March 11 - 15, 2002

• Henri Gillet: Intersection Theory on Algebraic Stacks: The Approach of Totaro, Edidin and Graham
• Bernd Sturmfels: Multigraded Hilbert Schemes
• Andrew Kresch: Intersection Theory on Artin Stacks: Chow Groups for Artin Stacks
• Rahul Pandharipande: Gromov-Witten Theory of P^1 - PartI
• Andrei Okounkov: Gromov-Witten Theory of P^1 - Part II
• Dan Edidin: Riemann-Roch for Quotients and Todd Classes of Simplicial Toric Varieties
• Jun Li: Degeneration Formula of Gromov-Witten Invariants
• Jason Starr: Quot Schemes for Deligne-Mumford Stacks
• Tamas Hausel: Intersection Theory on Toric Hyperkahler Varieties
• Yongbin Ruan: Cohomology Ring of Crepant Resolutions of Orbifolds
• Laurent Lafforgue: Toric Stacks of Pavings
• Martin Olsson: Logarithmic Geometry and Algebraic Stacks
• Aaron Bertram: How Many Gromov-Witten Invariants of Rational Curves are There, Really?
• Mikhail Kapranov: Differential Graded Schemes in Algebraic Geometry
• Roy Joshua: Higher Intersection Theory for Algebraic Stacks
• Kai Behrend: A 2-Categorical Approach to Differential Graded
• Bertrand Toen: K-Theory of Algebraic Stacks
• William Graham: On Symmetric Degeneracy Loci

 

Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Program

March 18 - 22, 2002

• Alexander Beilinson: On Langlands Correspondence in the de Rham Setting, I
• Ivan Mirkovic: Perverse Sheaves on Loop Grassmannians
• Dennis Gaitsgory: Geometric Langlands for GL(n) and a Vanishing Conjecture
• Gerd Faltings: Introduction to Shimura Varieties
• Michael Rapoport: Local Models of Shimura Varieties in the Ramified Case
• Thomas Haines: Cominatorial Patterns in the Weight Filtration on the Nearby Cycles for some Shimura Varieties with Bad Reduction
• Laurent Lafforgue: Pavings of Polyhedra, Glueing of Schubert Cells and Compactification of Configuration Spaces, I
• Gerd Faltings: Line-Bundles on the Moduli-Space of G-Torsors
• Roman Bezrukavnikov: Sheaves on Affine Flags, and Modular Representations of the Langlands Dual Lie Algebra
• Matthew Emerton: p-adic Automorphic Representations
• Alexander Beilinson: On Langlands Correspondence in the de Rham Setting, II
• Laurent Lafforgue: Pavings of Polyhedra, Glueing of Schubert Cells and Compactification of Configuration Spaces, II
• Michael Finkelberg: Uhlenbeck Spaces for A^2 and Affine Lie Algebra $\hat{sl}_n$
• Marie-France Vigneras: Modular Representations of p-adic Groups and q-affine Schur Algebras 1
• Alexander Braverman: Formal Arcs to Algebraic Semi-Groups and Automorphic L-functions
• Dima Arinkin: Fourier Transform for Quantized Completely Integrable Systems

 

Non-Abelian Hodge Theory

March 28 - April 5, 2002

• S. Ramanan: Twisted Higgs Bundles and the Fundamental Group of Compact Kahler Manifolds
• Oscar Garcia-Prada: Representations of Surface Groups in Unitary Groups with Indefinite Signature
• William Mark Goldman: Branched Hyperbolic Structures and Rank 2 Higgs Bundles
• Euguene Xia: Higgs Bundles and Representation Varieties
• Ron Donagi: The Gerbe of Higgs Bundles
• Eyal Markman: Group Valued Higgs Bundles over a Punctured Elliptic Curve
• Tamas Hausel: Intersection Theory on the Moduli Space of Higgs Bundles
• Gregory Pearlstein: Higgs Fields and Variations of Mixed Hodge Structure
• Michael Thaddeus: Higgs Bundle Spaces as Mirror Partners
• Jorgen Andersen: Hitchin's Connection, Higgs BUndles and Representations of the Mapping Class Group
• Hans Boden: An Integer Valued SU(3) Casson InvarianAn Integer Valued SU(3) Casson Invariant
• Domingo Toledo: Fundamental Group of the Moduli Space of Real and Complex Cubic Surfaces
• Richard Hain: Iterated Integrals and Motives
• Donu Arapura: The Hodge Conjecture for some Moduli Spaces of Bundles
• Mikhail Kapranov: A Riemann-Roch Theorem for (Higher) Determinantal Gerbes and Differentiable Manifolds
• Bertrand Toen: An Introduction to Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory
• Andre Joyal: The Theory of Quasi-Categories
• Amnon Neeman: A Counterexample to a 1961 Theorem in Homological Algebra
• Thomas Leinster: A Language for Higher Categorical Structures
• Vladimir Hinich: Formal Deformations of Sheaves of Algebras
• Gerd Faltings: p-adic Hodge Theory, I
• Olivier Penacchio: Mixed Hodge Structures and Fiber Bundles over the Projective Plane
• Lawrence Breen: The Differential Geometry of Gerbes
• Thomas A. Nevins: Sklyanin Algebras and Hilbert Schemes of Points
• Gerd Faltings: p-adic Hodge Theory, II
• Ludmil Katzarkov: Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Schematization of Homotopy Types
• Bertrand Toen: Higher Tannaka Duality
• Gabriele Vezzosi: Homotopy Algebraic Geometry
• Dmitri Orlov: Equivalences of Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves
• John Baez: n-Categories in Homology Theory

 

Conformal Field Theory and Supersymmetry

April 15 - 26, 2002

• Boris Dubrovin: Frobenius Manifolds and Integrable Systems
• Barry McCoy: Sl_2 Loop Algebra Symmetry in the Six Vertex Model at Roots of Unity
• Hirosi Ooguri: Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model
• Jean-Bernard Zuber: Some Mathematical Problems in Conformal Field Theory
• Werner Nahm: Exploring a Moduli Space: CFT on K3
• Joerg Teschner: Quantum Liouville Theory versus Quantum Teichmueller Space
• Akihiro Tsuchiya: Conformal Field Theory Associated to Regular Chiral Vartex Operator Algebras
• Ivan Cherednik: Gauss-Selberg Sums
• Alexander Kirillov, Jr.: Tensor Categories and orbitforld Vertex Algebras
• Edward Frenkel: Affine Kac-Moody Algebras and Geometric Langlands Correspondence
• Igor Frenkel: Representation Theory Beyond Affine Lie Algebras: A Perspective
• Alexander Voronov: Semisimplicity of Orbifold Vertex Algebras
• Feodor Smirnov: Quantization of Affine Jacobian and Duality
• Vladimir Bazhanov: Conformal Field Theory as a Completely Integrable Quantum System
• Richard Borcherds: Formal Group laws for Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras
• Anton Kapustin: TBA
• Ian Grojnowski: Generalized Kirillov-Reshetkhin Modules over Quantum Affine Algebras
• George Wilson: Ideals in the Weyl Algebra
• Pierre van Moerbeke: Matrix Integrals, Random Words and Walks
• Antony Wassermann: Operator Algebraic Analysis of Solvable Lattice Models
• Feng Xu: Local Conformal Field Theory
• Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Group-Theoretic and Low-Dimensional Origins of SuperSymmetry
• Daniel S. Freed: Introduction to Supersymmetry
• Bruno Zumino: Gauge Theories on Noncommutative Spaces
• Victor Kac: Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Linearly Compact Lie Superalgebras
• John Lott: Superconnections in Geometry, Commutative and Noncommutative
• John Morgan: Variations of Hodge Structure Associated to Calabi-Yau Three Folds with h^3=4
• Vera Serganova: Representations and Characters for Lie Superalgebras
• Maria Gorelik: The Centre of P-type Lie Superalgebra
• Kentaro Hori: D-branes, Supersymmetry, and Mirror Symmetry
• Amer Iqbal: Del Pezzo Surfaces in String Theory
• Arkady Vaintrob: Chiral De Rham Complex
• Jeff Rabin: N=2 Supersymmetry of Super KP Equations
• Albert Schwarz: Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
• Duong H. Phong: Superstring Scattering Amplitudes and Modular Forms
• Giovanni Felder: From Numbers to q-numbers to Elliptic Numbers: The Elliptic Gamma Function
• Dirk Kreimer: From Unique Factorization of Graphs to Gauge Symmetries
• Elena Poletaeva: On Representations of Contact Superconformal Algebras
• Gregg Zuckerman: A Generalization of Harish-Chandra's Discrete Series to Lie Superalgebras
• Misha Verbitsky: Hodge Theory and Supersymmetry on Kahler, Hyperkahler and Hyperkahler Torsion Manifolds

 

Statistical Challenges for Meta-Analysis of Medical and Health-Policy Data

May 9 - 11, 2002

• John Pope and others: Special Panel on Journalistic Reporting of Medical Studies
• Phil Henry Poole: The Value of Prospectively Planned Integrated Analyses Across a Drug Development Programme

 

Finsler Geometry

June 3 - 7, 2002

• Keti Tenenblat: Minimal Surfaces of Rotation in a Special Rnders Space
• Chang-Wan Kim: Rigidity Issues in Finsler Geometry
• Aurel Bejancu: On Randers Metrics of Constant Positive Curvature
• Giorgio Patrizio: Finsler Geometry in Complex Analysis
• Sandor Bacso: Projective Finsler Geometry
• Tadashi Aikou: Kahler Fibrations and Finsler Manifolds
• Tomasz Zastawniak: Stochastic Analysis on Finsler Manifolds
• Laszlo Kozma: Holonomy Groups in Finsler Geometry
• Vasile Sabau: Cellular Growth and Berwald Curvatures
• Zoltan I. Szabo: The Classification of Berwald Metrics
• Xinyue Chen: Randers Metrics and their Curvature Properties
• Zhongmin Shen: A Catalog of Schur Type Results, with Examples
• S. S. Chern: A Videotaped Interview with Shiing-Shen Chern
• Patrick Foulon: Anasov Flows and Finsler Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature
• Hans-Bert Rademacher: Sphere Theorem
• Hideo Shimada: Randers Space Forms and the Yasuda-Shimada Theorem
• Robert L. Bryant: The Generality of Finsler Metrics of Constant Flag Curvature and some Exotic Holonomy Groups
• Ralph Beil: Finsler Geometry and Relativistic Field Theory
• David Bao: Ricci Curvature in Finsler Geometry
• Colleen Robles: Einstein Metrics of Randers Type

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1999 Von Neumann Conference Symposium on Arithmetic Fundamental Groups and Noncommutative Algebra

August 16 and 27, 1999

• Small, Introduction to Ring Theory 1
• Harbater, Introduction to Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups
• Matzat, Hilbert's approach and Galois Groups over k(t)
• Small, Introduction to Ring Theory 2
• Saltman, Generic Extensions and the Noether Problem
• Debes, Topological and Analytic Methods in Galois theory
• Fried, Arithmetic and Branched Covers
• Raynaud, Introduction to Moduli of Stable Curves 1
• Small, Introduction to Ring Theory 3
• Raynaud, Introduction to Moduli of Stable Curves 2
• Wewers, Hurwitz Spaces: the Moduli of Covers
• Fried, Braid Rigidity and Hurwitz Spaces
• Zelmanov, Combinatorial Ring Theory and Lie Algebras 1
• Elkies, Other Applications of Branched Coverings
• Stevenson, Topological Fundamental Groups
• Zelmanov, Combinatorial Ring Theory and Lie Algebras 2
• Haran, Profinite Groups 1
• Lenstra, Etale Fundamental Groups 1
• Stafford, Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry 1
• Saidi, Rigid and Formal Geometry
• Montgomery, Hopf Algebras 1
• Pop, Etale Fundamental Groups 2
• Stafford, Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry 2
• Zelmanov, Combinatorial Ring Theory and Lie Algebras 3
• Ihara (1.5 hours), Galois action on the projective line minus three points and noncommutative power series
• Schneps, The Grothendieck-Teichmuller group and fundamental groups of moduli spaces
• Montgomery, Hopf Algebras 2
• Szamuely, Introduction to anabelian geometry
• Mestre, Profinite Groups 2
• Stafford, Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry 3
• Harbater, Abhyankar's Conjecture
• Montgomery, Hopf Algebras 3
• Research Seminar, Schneps, Grothendieck-Teichmuller group and Hopf algebras
• Mazat, Rigidity and Embedding Problems
• Fried, Cyclic cohomology and the Hurwitz modular tower

Constructive Galois Theory workshop

October 4-8, 1999

• S.S. Abhyankar Desingularization and modular Galois descent
• G. Malle Explicit Galois realizations
• D. Haran Algebraic patching
• G. Frey Geometric realization of Galois groups and diophantine Problems
• H. Lenstra Exceptional covers
• K. Magaard Groups of bounded genus
• R. Guralnick Branched Covers of Curves by Curves of Fixed Genus
• P. Mueller Co-finite Hilbert Sets
• K. Stevenson Formal patching and covers of curves
• J.-L. Colliot-ThËlËne Rational connectedness and Galois covers of the projective line
• D. Harbater Embedding problems with local conditions
• M. Matignon Automorphisms of p-adic formal discs
• G. Frey Algebraic curves with infinite rational fundamental groups
• H. Voelklein A transformation principle for covers of P^1
• M. Fried Cusps attached to noncongruence covers of the j-line and the Inverse Galois Problem
• M. Jarden Non PAC fields
• H. Matzat Constructive Differential Galois Theory
• J. Koenigsmann Transferring absolute Galois groups from characteristic 0 to characteristic p
• D. Saltman Trying to use H^3 in Noether's problem

Galois Actions and Geometry Workshop

October 11-15, 1999

• P. DËbes "Fields of definition and families of covers"
• F. Pop "Birational anabelian geometry over algebraically closed base fields"
• A. Tamagawa "Fundamental groups and geometry in positive characteristic"
• L. Zapponi "Flowers, trees and cells"
• M. Raynaud "Reduction mod.p of Galois covers of the projective line minus 3 points"
• I. Efrat "Reconstruction of fields from absolute Galois groups"
• M. SaÔdi "On the specialization homomorphism of fundamental groups of curves in positive characteristic"
• K. Ribet "Almost rational torsion points on abelian varieties"
• H. Darmon "Constructing rational points on elliptic curves: beyond complex multiplication?"
• E. Kani "p-adic representations of the K-rational geometric fundamental group of a curve over a number field"
• R. Hain "Weighted completion of arithmetic fundamental groups"
• M. Matsumoto "Weighted completion of Galois groups and the Deligne-Ihara conjecture"
• S. Mochizuki "The Hodge-Arakelov theory of elliptic curves"
• E. Black "Generic Galois extensions and related questions"
• E. Bayer "Galois cohomology of the classical groups"
• M. Fried "Sequences of j-line covers and theta-characteristics"
• H. Nakamura "Some aspects of Galois-Teichm[cedilla]ller modular groups of small type"

Hopf Algebras Workshop

October 25 - 29, 1999

• Nicolai Reshetikhin Factorizable Hopf algebras and quantum integrable systems
• David Radford Quantum coalgebras, 1-1 tangle and knot invariants
• Yevgenia Kashina Semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension 2ⁿ
• Sonia Natale Semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension pq²
• Yorck Sommerh[per thou]user On central character rings
• Mitsuhiro Takeuchi Cylinder braidings, cylinder algebras, and cylinder matrices
• Marc Rosso Lyndon words and Universal R-matrices
• Nicols Andruskiewitsch Finite quantum groups of Cartan type
• Margaret Beattie Twistings of Hopf Galois Extensions
• Ed Green The Hopf Project: A computer package to study algebras and Hopf algebras
• Serban Raianu Hopf modules and Galois extensions
• Yinhuo Zhang An exact sequence of the Brauer group of a finite quantum group
• Yongchang Zhu Hecke algebras and representation rings of Hopf algebras
• Yukio Doi BiFrobenius algebras
• Shlomo Gelaki The Classification of Triangular Hopf Algebras
• Dmitri Nikshych Quantum groupoids and symmetries of von Neumann algebras
• Claudia Menini Connections, Symmetry Operators and Descent Data for Triples
• Claude Cibils Hopf quivers
• Gail Letzter Coideal Subalgebras and Quantum Symmetric Pairs
• Dragos Stefan Descent theory and Amitsur cohomology of adjoint functors
• Akira Masuoka Examples of Galois Objects and Cocycle Deformations
• Davida Fischman On Yetter-Drinfel'd categories and H-commutativity
• Shenglin Zhu Separable functors for Doi-Hopf modules
• William Chin Almost Split Sequences for Comodules
• Sorin Dascalescu Co-Frobenius Hopf algebras
• Earl Taft The topological bialgebra of polynomially recursive sequences
• Richard G. Larson Applications of bialgebras to finite automata, control theory, and data mining
• Peter Schauenburg A quantum Kac sequence
• Sarah Witherspoon A Hopf structure on Down-up algebras
• Matias GraÒa Examples of Nichols algebras over non-abelian groups
• Stefaan Caenepeel Separable algebras, Frobenius algebras, and solutions of the FS-equation

Mathematics in Imaging Workshop

November 1-5, 1999

• Carlos Berenstein, Radon transform and wavelets
• James G. Berryman, Underground Imaging of Electrically Conducting Contaminant Plumes
• Liliana Borcea, Imaging high contrast conductive and dielectric media with low frequency electromagnetic fields
• Thomas F. Budinger, Biomedical Imaging: Instrumentation and Mathematical Challenges
• Emmanuel J. Candes and David L. Donoho, Curvelets
• Tony F Chan and H.M. Zhou, Adaptive ENO-wavelets for discontinous functions with applications to image compression
• Margaret Cheney, Acoustic Distinguishability In The Half-Space Geometry
• David Colton, Inverse Acoustic Scattering Theory
• O. Dorn, A Nonlinear Inversion Method for 3D-Electromagnetic Induction Tomography Using Adjoint Fields
• Herbert A. Hauptman, The Phase Problem Of X-Ray Crystallography
• Gabor T. Herman, Tomography in Electron Microscopy
• Frank Natterer, The Kaczmarz method in nonlinear imaging.
• Clifford Nolan, High--frequency inversion and imaging in anisotropic materials
• Stanley Osher, Fast Algorithms for Etching, Image Restoration and Surface Interpolation
• George Papanicolaou, Super-resolution in time-reversal imaging
• Sarah K. Patch, John's Equation Improves 3D Computed Tomography
• Larry Shepp, An Application of Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions to Fast Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
• Wm. J. Welch,
• Jorge P. Zubelli, Imaging the Interior of Objects that Scatter and Diffuse Radiation

The Future of Mathematical Communication: 1999

December 1-5, 1999

• David Hoffmann Setting Up and Maintaining Streaming Video
• Patrick Ion Lessons from the past of Mathematical Communication
• June Lester Communicating with Interactivity
• Rob Corless Software Tools for Mathematical Communication
• Howard Ratner Reference Linking Using DOI
• Robby Robson Metadata for Mathematical Resources: Show and Tell
• Eberhard Hilf Professional Home Pages of Institutions and Scientists - New Add-on Services for Learned Societies
• Alexei Zhizhchenko Integrated System of Information Resources of RAS
• Zsuzsa Koltay Project Euclid
• Martin Groetschel MathNet: A Model for the Future Role of the Mathematical Community in Information and Communication?
• Loki Jorgenson Prospects for Open Source Scholarly Publishing
• Jim Crowley SIAM projects
• Bernd Wegner Projects in Electronic Information and Electronic Publication supervised by EMS
• John Ewing Predicting (and Protecting) the Future
• Robert Miner The Surprising Success of MathML
• Ursula Martin The role of computational logic in mathematical communication
• Konrad Polthier Online Experiments and Visualization with JavaView
• Ulli Kortenkamp Communicating Interactive Geometry
• Paul Wang Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation: A Progress Report
• Jeremy Gunawardena WebSeminars
• Mark Steinberger Journal Quality
• Andre Kuzniarek Mathematical communications initiatives from Wolfram Research
• Mike Doob The Mathematician-Publisher interface: the recent past, the near future, and the potholes in the road.
• Olga Caprotti OpenMath: Accessing and Using Mathematical Information Electronically
• James Davenport Electronic Publishing and OpenMath, and what to do about LaTex
• Nathalie Sinclair Survival of the Fit: Communicating with our future mathematicians
• Thorsten Bahne, Gunter Torner Changing the Representation medium - Changing the Standards?
• Dave Morrison Future uses of the mathematics arXiv
• Rob Kirby Competing with the commercial journals
• Ulf Rehmann DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA: Efficient Production of Mathematical Literature
• Bill Casselman A survey of mathematical exposition in Java
• Carol Hutchins GNU Librarians and Messyware
• Andrew Odlyzko The rapid evolution of scholarly communication
• Phil Agre Rethinking the Institutions of Research

Modularity of Elliptic Curves and Beyond

December 6-10, 1999

• Richard Taylor On the modularity of rational elliptic curves I: the general strategy
• Kevin Buzzard Weight 1 modular forms and a conjecture of Artin
• Chris Skinner Modular Forms and Residually Reducible Representations I
• Henri Darmon Diophantine applications of the modularity conjecture: rigid coverings, modular forms, and the generalized Fermat equation
• Mark Dickinson On the modularity of certain 2-adic Galois representations
• Christophe Breuil On the modularity of rational elliptic curves II: filtered phi_1 modules
• Jean-Marc Fontaine Semi-Stable Galois Representations I
• Chris Skinner Modular Forms and Residually Reducible Representations II
• Nick Shepherd-Barron Finding abelian varieties
• Matthias Flach On the Bloch-Kato conjectures
• Fernando Villegas Integral elements of K_2 of an elliptic curve
• Chris Skinner Modular Forms and Residually Reducible Representations III
• Jordan Ellenberg Modularity of Q-curves
• Pierre Colmez Semi-Stable Galois Representations II
• Fred Diamond On the modularity of rational elliptic curves III: global arguments
• Kazuhiro Fujiwara An approach to a non-abelian class field theory for cyclotomic towers
• Ken Ribet Serre's conjectures mod 2
• Brian Conrad On the modularity of rational elliptic curves IV: local arguments
• Pierre Colmez Semi-Stable Galois Representations III
• Henri Darmon Complex multiplication and beyond? Uniformisation of elliptic curves by HpxH/SL2(Z[1/p])
• Jean-Marc Fontaine Geometric Galois Representations, motives and modular forms

Non-Workshop Lectures

Elwyn Berlekamp

Dots and Boxes and Related Mathematical Games

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Introductory Workshop, Random Matrix Models and their Applications

January 19-23, 1999

• Madan Lal Mehta Random Matrices I
• Peter Sarnak Random Matrix Models
• Eduoard Brezin Random Matrices and Random Surfaces 1
• Harold Widom Kernels of Integral Operators and Eigenvalue Distribution in Random Matrix Ensembles I
• Madan Lal Mehta Random Matrices 2
• Eduoard Brezin Random Matrices and Random Surfaces 2
• Peter Sarnak 0's of Zeta Functions and Random Matrices
• Xin Zhou Reimann Hilbert Problems
• Percy Deift Integral Operators
• Eduoard Brezin Universalities in Random Matrices
• Harlod Widom Kernels of Integral Operators and Eigenvalue Distribution in Random Matrix Ensembles II
• Pierre van Moerbeke Integral Systems and Random Matrices 1
• Boris Dubrovin Frobenius Manifolds, Isomonodromy Deformations, and Integrable Hierarchies 1
• Xin Zhou Steepest Descent Method
• Percy Deift Orthogonal Polynomial and Random Matrix Theory
• Pierre van Moerbeke Integral Systems and Random Matrices 2
• Peter Forrester Matrix Enssembles with General B, 1
• Madan Lal Mehta Random Matrices 3
• Peter Forrester Matrix Enssembles with General B, 2
• Estelle Basor Distribution Functions for Linear Statistics
• Pierre van Moerbeke Integral Systems and Random Matrices 3
• Boris Dubrovin Frobenius Manifolds, Isomonodromy Deformations, and Integrable Hierarchies 2

Random Matrix, Statistical Mechanics, and Integrable Systems Workshop

February 22-26, 1999

• Mourad Ismail Discriminants, q-Differences and Electrostatics
• Eduoard Brezin Scaling limit of random matrices and KdV flow
• Giovanni Cicuta Phase Transitions and Random Matrices
• Takahiro Shiota Fay Identities, Fredholm determinants, soliton formulas and random matrices
• Persi Diaconis What is HAAR Measure Anyways?
• Percy Deift Asymptotics for random permutations
• Rodney Baxter Chiral Potts Model
• Barry McCoy Correlation Functions of XXZ model at finite temperature
• Vladimir Korepin Algebra of Integral Operators and Correlation functions of 1D electron gas
• Nikita Slavnov The operator-valued RHP for the correlation functions of the Quantum NLS
• Sergei Novikov Operators on Graphs and Symplectic Geometry
• Bill Sutherland Behavior of a Quantum Fluid Interacting by an Inverse-square Potential in a Time-dependent Harmonic Trap
• Jean-Bernard Zuber Boundary conformal field theory and representation of the fusion algebra
• Tetsuji Miwa Extended Vertex operator algebras and monomial bases
• Edward Frenkel Baxter's Q-operator and the Virasoro algebra
• Alexander Veselov Locus Configurations in the Theory of Calogero-Moser systems and WDVV equations
• Paul Bleher Universality and Scaling for Zeros of Random Polynomials
• Anthony Zee Some unsolved problems in the Random MAtrices and Hamiltonians
• Ken McLaughlin On the semi-classical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation
• Peter Clarkson On the relationship between the discreet and continuous Painleve equations
• Eric Delabaere Quantum Resurgence
• Mark Adler Integrable Structures Inherent in Random Matrix Theory
• Sarbarish Chakravarty Ageneralized Darboux-Halphen system, 2
• Samson Shatashvili D-particle bound states and generalized instantons

Self-Assembling Geometric Structures in Material Science: The Geometry of Interfaces in Mesoscopic Materials

April 12-14, 1999

• Robert Meyer Symmetry and textures in thin films of smectic liquid crystals
• Greg Forest Interactions between microstructure and flow of liquid crystal polymers
• Eliot Fried Generalized Ginzburg-Landau and Cahn-Hilliard equations and their sharp-interface limits
• Joseph Zasadzinski Frustration and Defects in Liquid Crystals and Liposomes
• John Seddon Micellar and Inverse Micellar Cubic Phases of Lipids and Surfactants
• Veit Elser Novel Space Partitioners
• Karsten-Grosse Brauckmann Triply periodic interfaces with curvature properties
• J.F. Charvolin Study of the phase transformation between two cubic structures
• Richard Templer Breaking the Energetic Degeneracy Between Bicontinuous Cubic Phases of Associate Periodic Minimal Surfaces
• Peter W. Bates Converegence of level sets for solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation to the Mullins-Sekerka flow
• Thomas Lubensky Scherk's First Surface, Screw Dislocations, and Twist Grain Boundaries
• Frank Bates Control with Block Copolymers: From Melts to Micelles
• Murugappan Muthukumar Pattern-Directed Self Assembly
• Edwin Thomas The Geometry of Intermaterial Dividing Surfaces in Block Copolymers

Random Matrices and their Applications

June 7-11, 1999

• Oriel Bohigas On the distribution of the total energy of a system of non-interacting fermions
• Gernot Akemann Universality of unitary ensembles in the microscopic scaling limit
• Shinsuke Nishigaki Deformed Random Matrix ensembles and Anderson Hamiltonian
• Stephane Nonnenmacher Algebraic Study of the Pair correlation function for quantum maps
• Martin Zirnbauer Dual Pairs in Random Matrix Theory
• Pavel Bleher Double Scaling Limit for Orthogonal Polynomials
• Shinobu Hikami Random Matrix with deterministic source
• Alexei Khorunzhy On Universality of the Smoothes Eigenvalue density of large random matrices
• Steve Zelditch Universality and Scaling of correlations of Zeros and complex manifolds
• Andre Voros Exact Quantization method for General 1D polynomials potentials
• Eugene Bogomolny Spectral Statistics
• Paul Zinn-Justin Matrix Models, Links and Knots
• Mark Srednicki Correlations in Chaotic Eigenfunctions in Space and Time
• Peter Sarnak Random matrix theory and zeroes of zeta functions - a survey
• Michael Rubinstein Zeros of L-functions: computations and the behavior of low zeros
• Jon Keating RMT
• Steven Gonek The Second moment of the reciprocal of the Riemann zeta functin and it's derivative
• Alex Gamburd Spectra of Elements in Group rings and Random Matrix Theory
• Patricio Leboeuf Random Polynomials in Quantum Chaos: a Review
• Ali Ozluk Zeros of Quadratic L-funcions close to the Real Axis
• Atle Selberg Linear combinations of L-functions and Zeros on the Critical Line
• Dennis Hejhal Linear combinations of L-functions and Zeros off the Critical Line
• Jeff Lagarias Complements to Li's Criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis
• Audrey Terras Artin L-functions of Graph Coverings
• Kannan Soundararajan Beyond Pair Corelation
• Svetlana Katok Spanning sets for automorphic forms and dynamics of the frame flow on complex hyperbolic spaces
• Zeev Rudnick The quantized cat map and quantum ergodicity
• Daniel Goldston The Logarithmic Derivative of the Riemann Zeta-Function and Pair Correlation of Zeros
• David Farmer Mean Values of L-functions and symmetry
• Philippe DiFrancesco Coloring Random Triangulations
• Kurt Johansson Discrete orthogonal polynomials ensembles
• Jinho Baik The Asymptotics of Monotone of subsequences of involutions
• Alexei Borodin Z-Measures on the partitions, Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence

Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of CAD

June 4-5, 1999

• H. Edelsbrunner Computational Geometry and Discrete Mathematics in CAD
• T.N.T Goodman Splines, subdivision methods, and wavelets
• Helmut Pottmann Applications of Special Geometries in CAD
• John Sullivan Discrete Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces

Summer Graduate Program in Nonlinear dynamics of low-dimensional continua

June 21-July 2, 1999

• Anette Hosoi Dynamics of Points
• Anette Hosoi Numerical Methods for ODEs
• Anette Hosoi Mechanics I
• Anette Hosoi Numerical Methods for PDEs
• Anette Hosoi Patterns in Material Science
• L. Mahadevan Scaling and Dimensional Analysis
• L. Mahadevan Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
• L. Mahadevan Mechanics II
• L. Mahadevan Mechanics III
• L. Mahadevan Patterns in Geomorphology
• L. Mahadevan Patterns in Chemistry
• L. Mahadevan Patterns in Biology

Lie groups and the method of the moving frame

July 12-23, 1999

• Jeanne N. Clelland Differential Forms
• Jeanne N. Clelland Euclidean and affine spaces, homogenous spaces in general
• Jeanne N. Clelland Curves in Euclidean and affine spaces: curvature and arc length
• Jeanne N. Clelland Surfaces in Euclidean, elliptic and hyperbolic spaces
• Jeanne N. Clelland Surfaces in projective space
• Jeanne N. Clelland Generalized surfaces and Backlund's theorem
• Jeanne N. Clelland Minimality and variational calculations
• Jeanne N. Clelland Weierstrass Formulae
• Jeanne N. Clelland Moving frames in the nonhomogeneous case: frame bundles

Exterior Differential Systems

July 12-23, 1999

• Robert Bryant Basic Systems: The Frobenius and Pfaff-Darboux Theorems
• Robert Bryant Applications 1: Scalar First order PDE and Lie Groups
• Robert Bryant Cartan-Kahler Theory: Integral manifolds and elements
• Robert Bryant Cartan-Kahler Theorem: Statement, ideas in the proof
• Robert Bryant Applications 2: surface theory, self dual 2-forms in 4D
• Robert Bryant Prolongation: Discussion of the Cartan-Kuranishi theorem
• Robert Bryant Applications 3: special geometries and prescribed curvature
• Robert Bryant G-structures: Examples, pseudo-connections, and torsion
• Robert Bryant Applications 4: CR geometry, holonomy, and special metrics

The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women

July 16-18, 1999

• Christa Binder Fraulein Dr. Taussky in Vienna and Gottingen
• Evelyn Boyd Granville Looking Back .....Looking Ahead
• Lisa R. Goldberg Portfolio Risk: Diversification in Volatile Markets
• Fern Y. Hunt Measurement Science and Measure Theory: A Mathematician at NIST today
• Diane Lambert Statistics: Is it Really A Mathematical Science?
• Cathleen Synge Morawetz Problems, including mathematical problems, from my early years
• Linda R. Petzold Math, with an Attitude
• Panel: Issues and Inside Information for women in mathematics
• Richard Varga Remembrances of Olga Taussky Todd, and her impact on me and on her many students
• Helene Shapiro Numbers, Matrices, and Commutativity
• Margaret H. Wright A Selection of Mathematical Experiences
• Lani Wu Following my interest
• Symposium: The Many Careers of Olga Taussky
• Panel: Finding a Traditional or Nontraditional Job and Growing in It

Non Workshop Lectures

• Donald Knuth The Birth of the Giant Component
• Irving Kaplansky Fun with mathematics: some thoughts from seven decades

Sponsors Day, March 5, 1999

• Craig Tracy Universality of the Distributions of Random Matrix Theory
• Don McClure U.S. PhD Production and the Job Market

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Algorithmic Algebra and Geometry: Summer Program for Graduate Students of MSRI Sponsoring Institutions

July 6-17, 1998

• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 1
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 2
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 3
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 4
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 5
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 6
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 7
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 8
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 9
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 10
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 11
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 12
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 13
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 14
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 15
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 16
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 17
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 18
• Anders Bjorner Combinatorics and Homology of Graph Properties
• Bernd Sturmfels Cutting Corners

Introductory Workshop on Foundations of Computational Mathematics and Symbolic Computation in Geometry and Analysis

August 17 - 26, 1998

• Michel Coste Real algebraic geometry, part 1
• Michel Coste Real algebraic geometry, part 2
• Michel Coste Real algebraic geometry, part 3
• Jesus De Loera Combinatorial methods, part 1
• Jesus De Loera Combinatorial methods, part 2
• Arieh Iserles Geometric integration, part 1
• Arieh Iserles Geometric integration, part 2
• Arieh Iserles Geometric integration, part 3
• Teresa Krick Solving polynomial equations, part 1
• Teresa Krick Solving polynomial equations, part 2
• Teresa Krick Solving polynomial equations, part 3
• Tien Yien Li Homotopy methods, part 1
• Tien Yien Li Homotopy methods, part 2
• Tien Yien Li Homotopy methods, part 3
• Tien Yien Li Homotopy methods, part 4
• Jim Renegar Optimization and interior point methods, part 1
• Jim Renegar Optimization and interior point methods, part 2
• Jim Renegar Optimization and interior point methods, part 3
• William Sit Differential ideal theory, part 1
• William Sit Differential ideal theory, part 2

Minorities and Applied Mathematics

September 17-19, 1998

• David Bailey Challenges of Future High-End Computing
• David B. Serafini A View from the Front Lines: Computational Math in the "Real" World
• Dr. Fadil Santosa Emerging Opportunities in Mathematics
• Dr. Juan Meza I want to be a Computational Mathematician
• Dr. Rosemary Renaut Flavours of Computational Mathematics: A Perspective from Academia
  

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Cryptography and Mathematics

January 11-12, 1998

• Josh Benaloh A problem in computational group theory and its application to structured hashing
• Neal Koblitz Overview of elliptic curve cryptography
• Susan Landau Cryptographic policy
• Kevin McCurley A whirlwind tour of cryptography
• Luke O'Connor Using formal languages to analyse exponentiation algorithms
• Jim Omura Commercial applications of cryptography
• Bart Preneel Cryptanalysis and design of message authentication codes
• Dan Simon On the derivability of collision-intractable hash functions

Introductory Workshop on Model Theory of Fields

January 12-16, 1998

• Edward Bierstone Geometry, part 1
• Edward Bierstone Geometry, part 2
• Zoe Chatzidakis Model Theory of Fields
• Jan Denef Geometry, part 1
• Jan Denef Geometry, part 2
• Bradd Hart Dimension Theory, part 1.
• Bradd Hart Dimension Theory, part 2
• Bradd Hart Dimension Theory, part 3
• Ehud Hrushovski Recent Developments, part 1
• Ehud Hrushovski Recent Developments, part 2
• Angus Macintyre Recent Developments, part 3
• Dugald Macpherson Dimension Theory, part 1
• Dugald Macpherson Dimension Theory, part 2
• Dugald Macpherson Dimension Theory, part 3
• Dave Marker Basic Model Theory, part 1
• Dave Marker Basic Model Theory, part 2
• Dave Marker Basic Model Theory, part 3
• Dave Marker Model Theory of Differential Fields
• Barry Mazur Geometry, part 1
• Barry Mazur Geometry, part 2
• Lou van den Dries Model Theory of Fields, part 1
• Lou van den Dries Model Theory of Fields, part 2
• Lou van den Dries Model Theory of Fields, part 3

Chern Symposium

March 5-7, 1998

• Raoul Bott Configuration space invariants of knots and 3-manifolds
• Robert Bryant Finsler manifolds of constant flag curvature
• Xiu-Xiong Chen Extremal metrics in Riemann Surfaces and the Uniformization Theorem
• S. S. Chern Projective Geometry
• Phillip Griffiths Neo-modern Hodge theory
• Friedrich Hirzebruch Why do I like Chern classes?
• Blaine Lawson Algebraic cycles and the classical groups
• Kefeng Liu Mirror Principle
• Ekhard Meinrenken Duistermaat-Heckman formulas for group valued moment maps and moduli spaces of flat connections
• James Simons Introductory remarks
• Chuu-Lian Terng Backlund transformations and loop ground actions
• Alan Weinstein From Riemann geometry to Poisson geometry and back again

Workshop on Geometric Stochastic Analysis and Fine Properties of Stochastic Processes

March 23-27, 1998

• A. Atsuji Value distribution theory for holomorphic and harmonic maps by stochastic techniques
• J. Bertoin Two problems involving the geometry of regenerative sets
• K. Burdzy A new Ray-Knight theorem
• T. Colding Spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds
• P. Li Mean value inequality on complete manifolds
• J. Pitman Ranked functionals of Brownian and Bessel excursions
• S. Rosenberg Bounded and L^2 harmonic forms on complete manifolds

Workshop on Homotopy theory for algebraic varieties with applications to K-theory and quadratic forms

May 11-16, 1998

• Eric Friedlander Algebraic and topological K-theory
• Fabien Morel The Steenrod Algebra
• Fabien Morel Basic facts and problems in the homotopy theory of algebraic varieties
• Fabien Morel Grothendieck-Witt rings of quadratic forms in the homotopy theory of algebraic varieties
• Markus Rost On multiplicative functions and characteristic numbers Examples of norm varieties
• Andrei Suslin Bloch-Lichtenbaum spectral sequence
• Vladimir Voevodsky Introduction to homotopy theory I
• Vladimir Voevodsky Introduction to homotopy theory II Algebraic cobordism
• Vladimir Voevodsky Degree formula

Understanding the Genome: Technological and Mathematical Challenges

May 21-23, 1998

• David Botstein Of Genes and Genomes
• Elbert Branscomb Comparative Genomics: What, Why, Problems and Challenges
• Phil Green Genome Sequence Assembly
• David Haussler Using Hidden Markov Models for Biosequence Analysis: Recent Tests and New Methods
• Leroy Hood Future Mathematical Challenges Posed by the Systems Analysis of Genomes and Proteomes
• Robert Lipshutz Genes, Chips, and Genomes
• Pavel Pevzner Gene Hunting Without Genomic Sequencing: the Twenty Questions Game with Genes
• David Siegmund Statistical aspects of gene mapping
• Donna Slonim Mining Gene Expression Data
• Gary Stormo Uncovering Regulatory Networks Using Pattern Recognition Algorithms
• Ellen Wijsman
  Statistical and Computational Contributions to Gene Mapping: History and Current Developments

Model Theory, Algebra and Arithmetic

June 1-5, 1998

• Lou Van den Dries Logarithmic-exponential series: model theoretic aspects
• Kobi Peterzil Expansions of algebraically closed field in o-minimal structures
• Emmanuel Ullmo Points of small height on curves of genus g>1
• Florian Pop Elementary equivalence and Isomorphism
• Anand Pillay Effective bounds and the isotrivial case of Mordell-Lang
• Deirdre Haskell Elimination of imaginaries in algebraically closed valued fields
• Diane Meuser On the rationality of zeta functions
• Hans Schoutens Bounds in Cohomology
• Andrei Gabrielov Complexity of Computations with Pfaffian and Noetherian Functions
• Paul Vojta Recent developments in the relation between diophantine problems and Nevanlinna theory
• Alexandru Buium An Arithmetic Analogue of Differential Algebraic Geometry
• Thomas Scanlon Diophantine Consequences of Dichotomy Theorems in Differential and Difference Fields
• Olga Kharlampovich Elementary theory of free groups I
• Andrei Myasnikov Elementary theory of free groups II
• Patrick Speissegger The pfaffian closure of an o-minimal structure
• Boris Zil'ber Fields with pseudo-exponentiation
• Frank Wagner Groups in Simple Theories
• Angus Macintyre Primes and their residue fields in weak systems of arithmetic
• Dan Abramovich Lang's conjecture and uniformity
• Henri Gillet On the integrally closed subrings of the field of algebraic numbers
• Ehud Hrushovski Around the first order theory of Frobenius

Low Dimensional Topology - The KirbyFest

June 22-26, 1998

• Fredric Ancel Contractible open n-manifolds (n>4) are determined by their Z-boundaries
• Joan Birman Vassiliev invariants of knots and links: a survey
• Andrew Casson Setting the Stage: Surgery in the Sixties
• Daryl Cooper The Orbifold Theorem
• Simon Donaldson Symplectic and Lagrangian surfaces in 4-space
• Robert Edwards That marvelous torus
• Michael Freedman Some Ideas of Kirby's: in, around, and outside of mathematics
• Stavros Garoufalidis The stable cohomology of the mapping class group with arbitrary coefficients
• Cole Giller Emerging mathematical ideas in neurosurgery
• Bob Gompf Applications of Kirby Calculus
• Cameron Gordon The knot complement theorem
• Michael Hirsch Foliated surfaces and algorithms for unknots
• Vaughan Jones Noncommutative Geometry
• Curt McMullen Foliated Teichmuller theory
• John Morgan Holomorphic bundles over elliptic curves and families of del Pezzo surfaces
• Yoav Moriah Non-isotopic Heegaard Splittings of nonmimimal genus
• Rob Kirby Problem Session
• Colin Rourke The Compression Theorem
• Danny Ruberman Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
• Larry Siebenmann Kirby and the promised land of topological manifolds: memories and memorable arguments
• Ron Stern Some curious symplectic and non-symplectic 4-manifolds
• Dennis Sullivan Combinatorial topology and the continuum model of geometry
• Cliff Taubes The Geometry of the Seiberg-Witten Invariants
• Larry Taylor Remarks on an old friend of Rob's: R⁴'s from then 'til now
• Peter Teichner Filtering the knot concordance group by Whitney Towers
• Charles Thomas Complexifying Diffeomorpism Groups of a Surface
• William P. Thurston Are 3-manifolds transparent? Diamonds, glass and surgery

Algorithmic Algebra and Geometry: Summer Program for Graduate Students of MSRI Sponsoring Institutions

July 6-17, 1998

• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 1
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 2
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 3
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 4
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 5
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 6
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 7
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 8
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 9
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 10
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 11
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 12
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 13
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 14
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 15
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 16
• Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 17
• Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 18

• Anders Bjorner Combinatorics and Homology of Graph Properties
• Bernd Sturmfels Cutting Corners

Non Workshop Lectures Spring 1998

Conversations between Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics Researchers

• Kieth Devlin Life by the Numbers (April 20, 1998)
• Harriette Stevens The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (March 30, 1998)

Model Theory of Fields Seminar, April 20 - 23, 1998

• Alex Wilkie Some (counter) examples in o-minimality I
  
• Alex Wilkie Some (counter) examples in o-minimality II
  
• Alex Wilkie Some (counter) examples in o-minimality III

Three Talks on Physical Oceanography, February 23, 1998

• T. M. Chin Kalman filter and other data assimilation techniques in physical oceanography today
• Frank Henyey Linear stochastic PDE's for acoustics and internal waves in the ocean
• Peter Muller Stochastic Forcing of Oceanic Motions (or how far you can get with dX(t)= -alpha X(t)dt + sigma dW(t))

Miscellaneous Talks

• Jennifer Chayes Hyperscaling and Critical Crossing Probabilities in Percolation (January 19, 1998)

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Introductory Workshop on Low-dimensional Topology

August 12-23, 1996

• Cameron Gordon Combinatorial Methods in Low-dimensional Topology 1
• Cameron Gordon Combinatorial Methods in Low-dimensional Topology 2
• Cameron Gordon Combinatorial Methods in Low-dimensional Topology 3
• Cameron Gordon Combinatorial Methods in Low-dimensional Topology 4
• Cameron Gordon Combinatorial Methods in Low-dimensional Topology 5

Workshop on Computational and Algorithmic Methods in Three Dimensional Topology

March 10-14, 1997

• John Conway Knotation

Harmonic Analysis - Introductory Workshop

August 18-22, 1997

• Carlos Kenig Oscillatory Integrals of Nonlinear PDE, I
• Carlos Kenig Oscillatory Integrals of Nonlinear PDE, II
• Carlos Kenig Oscillatory Integrals of Nonlinear PDE, III
• Carlos Kenig Oscillatory Integrals of Nonlinear PDE, IV
• Carlos Kenig Oscillatory Integrals of Nonlinear PDE, V
• Tatiana Toro Geometric Measure Theory, Harmonic Analysis and Potential Theory, I
• Tatiana Toro Geometric Measure Theory, Harmonic Analysis and Potential Theory, II
• Tatiana Toro Geometric Measure Theory, Harmonic Analysis and Potential Theory, III
• Tatiana Toro Geometric Measure Theory, Harmonic Analysis and Potential Theory, IV
• Tatiana Toro Geometric Measure Theory, Harmonic Analysis and Potential Theory, V
• Ana Vargas Recent Developments in Harmonic Analysis, I
• Ana Vargas Recent Developments in Harmonic Analysis, II
• Ana Vargas Recent Developments in Harmonic Analysis, III
• Ana Vargas Recent Developments in Harmonic Analysis, IV
• Ana Vargas Recent Developments in Harmonic Analysis, V

Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Analysis

November 3-7, 1997

• D. Bell Regularity of a class of non-Markov Ito processes
• A. B. Cruzeiro Weitzenbock formulae and estimates for anticipative stochastic integrals
• B. Driver Quasi-invariance of heat kernel measures on loop groups
• O. Enchev Yet another variation on a theme of J. M. Bismut
• M. Fukushima On smoothness of signed measures and decomposition of additive functionals
• H. H. Kuo Stochastic differential equations in white noise space
• Z. M. Ma The log-Sobolev inequality on loop space over a compact Riemannian manifold (Slides for this talk are not presently available.)
• P. Malliavin Heat equation in infinite dimensions
• M. Sanz-Sole A two dimensional stochastic wave equation: Smoothness of the law
• D. Stroock Logarithmic derivatives of the heat kernel, again

Non-Workshop Lectures

Stochastic Analysis Seminar

September 10,1997

• Boris Rozovskii Nonlinear Filtering, SPDE's, and Wiener Chaos

Conversations between Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics Researchers

• Mel Slugbate (Colin Adams) "Selling Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space: Investment Opportunities for the 90's" (December 11, 1996)

Empenage Seminar

• Marcelo Weinberger Stochastic Modeling in Data Compression (Tuesday October 7, 1997)
• Vern Paxson Why Analyzing the Internet is Painfully Hard (Tuesday January 7, 1997)
• Tamara Munzner Visualizing the Structure of the MBone on the Globe and the Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space (December 17, 1996)

Miscellaneous Talks

• Zvezdelina Stankova-Frenkel The High School Olympiads - Excitement, Talent, and Determination (December 9, 1997)
• T. Y. Lam, Irving Kaplansky, Tom Lehrer, and others Irving "Kap" Kaplansky's 80th Birthday Celebration (March 19, 1997)
• Donald E. Knuth Some Research Problems for Combinatorialists
• Gordon Shaw Computation by Symmetry Operations in a Structured Neural Model of the Brain: Music and Abstract Reasoning (February 4 & 5, 1997)
• The Mozart Effect Music Training Causes Long-Term Enhancement of Spatial-Temporal Reasoning and Mathematical Conceptualization in Young School Children
• Robert Osserman, Lenore Blum, Karl Rubin, Ken Ribet, John Conway, and Lee Dembart. Musical interludes by Morris Bobrow; songs by Tom Lehrer; and moderated by San Francisco Examiner publisher Will Hearst. Fermat's Last Theorem - The Theorem and Its Proof: An Exploration of Issues and Ideas (July 28, 1993)

MSRI User Education Seminars

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Clay Mathematics Institute

MILLENNIUM EVENT: A Celebration of the Universality of Mathematical Thought, May 24, 2000, Paris, France

• Keynote Address, Timothy Gowers
• Millennium Prize Problems, John Tate
• Millennium Prize Problems, Sir Michael Atiyah, introduction by Arthur Jaffe

San Francisco State University
Fall 2000

Algorithmic Number Theory

• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 1]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 2]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 3]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 4]
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• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 9]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 10]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 11]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 12]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 13]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 14]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 15]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 16]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 17]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 18]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 19]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 20]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 21]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 22]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 23]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 24]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 25]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 26]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 27]
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• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 29]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 30]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 31]
• Peter Stevenhagen: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 32]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 33]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 34]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 35]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 36]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 37]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 38]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 39]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 40]
• Serkan Hosten: Algorithmic Number Theory [Class 41]

San Francisco State University
Spring 2001

Bergman Spaces and Their Operators

• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 1]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 2]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 3]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 4]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 5]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 6]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 7]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 8]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 9]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 10]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 11]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 12]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 13]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 14]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 15]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 16]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 17]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 18]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 19]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 20]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 21]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 22]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 23]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 24]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 25]
• Alex Schuster: Bergman Spaces and Their Operators [Class 26]

Board on Mathematical Sciences

Dynamical Modeling of Complex Biomedical Systems

April 26 - 28, 2001, Washington, D.C.

• Eduardo Marban: Gene Transfer/Gene Therapy
• Terry Speed: Statistics and Microarray Data
• Charles Peskin: A Virtual Heart for Pathophysiology and Prosthesis Design
• James Weiss: Biological Pattern Formation: From Arrhythmias to Embryos
• Michael Phelps: Genetic Engineering, Molecular Imaging and Molecular Drug Design
• Douglas Lauffenburger: Cell Engineering: Quantitative Modeling and Experimental Studies of How Cell Functions Depend on Molecular Properites
• Dan Roden: Using Genetics to Predict Individual Responses to Drugs - Hope or Hype?
• Bruce Levin: Mathematical Models of the Population Dynamics of Antibiotic Therapy
• John Tyson: CyberYeast: A Computational Model of Cell Cycle Regulation in Budding Yeast
• Byron Goldstein: Modeling Immunoreceptor Signaling: From the Generic to the Detailed
• Garrett Odell: Dynamical Models of Cellular Processes
• John Rinzel: Modeling the Thalamus in Sleep and Awake States
• Don Johnson: Information Processing: Data Analysis and Theory
• Larry Abbott: The Effects of Noise on Neural Response Dynamics and Gain
• Emery Brown: Dynamics of Spatial Information Encoding in the Rat Hippocampus

Banff International Research Station
Opening Ceremonies

September 24, 2001

• Minisymposium on Math in Science and Engineering
  in honor of the founding of the Banff International Research Station
  Master of Ceremonies: David Eisenbud, Director, MSRI

  Speakers in order of appearance:
  Joyce McLaughlin: Scientific Challenges -- What's the Math?
  Michael Callahan: The Efflorescence of Mathematical Technology
  Keith Promislow: Mathematics in Fuel Cells
  Dianne O'Leary: Mathematics of Information Processing: Image and Text

• Joint US/Canada Inaugural Ceremony
  Master of Ceremonies in Banff: Nassif Ghoussoub, Director, PIMS
  Master of Ceremonies in Washington, D. C.: David Eisenbud, Director, MSRI

  Speakers in order of appearance:
  Ms. Mary Hofstetter, President and CEO of The Banff Centre
  Dr. Rita Colwell, Director, NSF
  Dr. Tom Brzustowski, President, NSERC
  Dr. Robert Church, Chair of Board, Alberta Science and Research Agency
  The Hon. Cindy Ady, MLA for Calgary Shaw
  Mr. Raul E. Chavera, US Consul General in Calgary
  Dr. Philippe Tondeur, Director of Division for the Mathematical Sciences, NSF

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Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

World of Science Lectures

• Dr. David J. Bishop Can Silicon Micromachines Make It Big?
• Dr. Ingrid B. Carlbom The Real World of Virtual Worlds
• Dr. Mark R. Pinto The Ever Amazing Transistor -- How Much Smaller, Faster and Cheaper Can We Go?
• Dr. Gordon A. Thomas How a Light Beam Can Laugh
• Dr. William L. Wilson More Bytes for the Buck: Advances in Optical Storage Technologies

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, February 7, 1998

• Xiu-Xiong Chen Extremal Kahler metrics on Riemann surfaces and uniformization of surfaces with boundary
• Ana Canas da Silva Folding Symplectic Manifolds
• Jun Li Comparison of algebraic and symplectic Gromov-Witten invariants
• Kefeng Liu Heat kernel, moment map and moduli space

San Francisco State Univ.

Markov Processes, Decisions, and Evolution

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• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 1]
• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 2]
• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 3]
• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 4]
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• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 10]
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• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 17]
• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 18]
• Jean-Pierre P. Langlois Markov Processes [Part 19]

SIAM

SIAM, October 21-23, 1998, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

• David E. Bernholdt Object Oriented Methods Without Object Oriented Languages: Can Intermediate Approaches Facilitate Adoption of Object Oriented Methods in the Research Community?
• Myron Ginsberg Current and Future Status of HPC in the World Automotive Industry
• Bill Gropp Exploiting Existing Software in Libraries: Successes, Failures, and Reasons Why
• Eric Grosse Netlib after the Web Revolution
• Michael E. Henderson When the "One Size Fits All" Doesn't Fit.
• Laxmikant Kale Flexibility and interoperability in a parallel biomolecular dynamics code
• Scott R. Kohn Language Interoperability Mechanisms for High-Performance Scientific Applications ]
  
• David Long What makes good numeric software? A circuit simulation perspective
  
• Atanas Radenski Development and Utilization of Parallel Generic Algorithms for Scientific Computations
• Samuel H. Russ Developing an Integrated Environment for Computational Field Simulation
• Barry Smith A Microkernel Design for Component-based Numerical Software Systems
• Michael R. Yokell General Exchange of Methods and Data at Lockheed Martin

UC Berkeley

Bowen Lectures 1998

• Barry Mazur Introduction to the ABC conjucture
• Barry Mazur The Circle Method
• Barry Mazur The Mordell Equation

MSRI/Evans Hall Lectures, 1998

• Angus MacIntyre Finite Fields and Model Theory
• Angus MacIntyre Nonstandard Frobenius Automorphisms
• Angus MacIntyre Logic and Intersection Theory

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Dartmouth College

Chance Lectures, December 1997

• Mark Breen , Fairbanks Museum Local weather forecasting
• Daniel Wilks , Cornell University National weather forecasting
• Arnold Barnett , MIT Risks in Everyday Life
• Sheri Aggarwal , Dartmouth College Stock Market Valuation
• Olaf Vancura , Harvard University Probability and statistics in gaming
• David Moore , Gallup Organization How are polls carried out?
• Bruce Weir , North Carolina State University The use of DNA fingerprinting in the courts
• Ray Hyman , University of Oregon Statistical issues in ESP research
• Hal Stern , Iowa State University Statistics in sports

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, November 9, 1996

• Dusa McDuff Symplectomorphisms and the flux homomorphism
• Ron Stern Knots, Links and 4-Manifolds

SIAM

45th Annual Meeting, July 1997

• Eric Grosse The Impact of the Internet on Scientific Computing
• John L. Hennessy High Performance Computer Architecture
• William Kahan The Baleful Effect of Computer Languages and Benchmarks Upon AppliedMathematics, Physics and Chemistry
• Joseph B. Keller Mathematics of Games and Sports
• Paul C. Messina Clusters and Massively Parallel Computers: Are the Architectures Converging?
• Peter Schršder Multiresolution Algorithms in Computer Graphics
• Margaret H. Wright The Pursuit of Optimality: From the Big Picture to the Gory Details

Stanford University

An Ahlfors Celebration, September 15 - 19, 1997

• Jerry Alexanderson Ahlfors - Fields Medalist
• Kari Astala Quasiconformal Mappings, Homogenization and Optimal Conductivity Estimates for Composite Materials
• James Cannon Discrete Riemann Mappings
• Linda Keen Relating the Geometric and Analytical Approaches to Classifying Punctured Tori
• Steven Krantz Lars Ahlfors: Geometer and Teacher
• Robert Osserman The Schwarz-Pick-Ahlfors Lemma
• Dennis Sullivan The Ahlfors-Bers measurable Riemann mapping theorem for higher dimensions
• Paul Voltja Some Problems in Nevanlinna Theory Related to the abc Conjecture
• Michael Wolf Flat Structures of Complete Minimal Surfaces in Euclidean 3-space

UC Berkeley

Floer Lecture 1997

• Simon Donaldson Lefschetz Fibrations of Symplectic 4-manifolds

Bowen Lectures 1997

• Simon Donaldson The Moment Map in Differential Geometry, pt 1.
• Simon Donaldson The Moment Map in Differential Geometry, pt 2.
• Simon Donaldson The Moment Map in Differential Geometry, pt 3

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The National Academies
Board on Mathematical Sciences

The Mathematical Sciences' Role in Homeland Security

April 26 - 27, 2002, Washington, D.C.

• Peter Bickel: Welcome and Overview of Sessions
  Chair, Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications
  Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

Session One: Data Mining, Unsupervised Learning and Pattern Recognition

• Jim Schatz: Introductions by Session Chair
  National Security Agency

• Jerry Friedman, Stanford University: Data Mining in Role of Homeland Security
• Diane Lambert, Bell Laboratories: Statistical Detection from Communication Streams
• Rakesh Agrawal, IBM-Almaden: Data Mining: Potentials and Challenges

Review and Discussion

• Don McClure, Brown University: Discussant #1
• Werner Steutzle, University of Washington: Discussant #2
• Plenary Discussion

Session Two: Detection and Epidemiology of BioTerrorist Attacks

• Claire Broome: Introductions by Session Chair
  Senior Advisor to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School: Ambulatory Anthrax Surveillance
• Stephen Eubank, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Mathematics of Epidemiological Simulations for Response Planning
• Sally Blower, UCLA: Predicting the Unpredictable in an Age of Uncertainty

Review and Discussion

• Simon Levin, Princeton University: Discussant #1
• Art Rheingold, UC Berkeley: Discussant #2
• Plenary Discussion

Session Three: Image Analysis and Voice Recognition

• Roberta Lenczowski: Introductions by Session Chair
  Technical Directory (Bethesda), National Imagery and Mapping Agency

• Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley: Computational Vision
• Ronald Coifman, Yale University: Math Challenges for Imaging
• Larry Rabiner, AT & T: Challenges in Speech Recognition

Review and Discussion

• David McLaughlin, New York University: Discussant #1
• David Donoho, Stanford University: Discussant #2

Session Four: Communications and Computer Security

• Howard Schmidt: Introductions by Session Chair
  Vice Chairman, Critical Infrastructure Board, Office of Homeland Security

• Doroty Denning, Georgetown Univerity: A Security Challenge: Return on Security Investment
  
• David Wagner, UC Berkeley: A Few Open Problems in Computer Security
  

Review and Discussion

• Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota: Discussant #1
  
• Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research: Discussant #2
  
• Plenary Discussion

Session Five: Data Integration/Fusion

• Alexander Levis: Introductions by Session Chair
  Air Force Chief Scientist

• Tod Levitt, IET, Inc.: Reasoning about Rare Events
  
• Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University: Knowledge Representation and Inference for Multisource Fusion
• Valen Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Estimating Reliability of Complex Systems

Review and Discussion

• Art Dempster, Harvard University: Discussant #2
  
• Alberto Grunbaum, UC Berkeley: Discussant #2
  
• Plenary and General Discussions

 

Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB)
Mathematics and Molecular Biology VII:
Modeling Across the Scales - Atoms to Organisms

La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
January 5 - 10, 2002

• De Witt Sumners: Introduction
• Nancy Sung: Introduction

• Dorothy Buck: Mathematics Tutorial, I
• Sandrine Dudoit: Mathematics Tutorial, II

• Steve Levene: Biology Tutorial, I
• Steve Levene: Biology Tutorial, II

• Susan Taylor: Structure, Function and Localization of PKA: An Interdisciplinary Approach

• Panel Discussion: Using Your Postdoctoral Fellowship to launch Your Career
  Moderator: Tamar Schlick

• Women in Science, I
• Women in Science, II - The Legacy of Gertrude Elion

Session I: Modeling Molecules

• Michael Levitt: Protein Folding: A paradigm for Computational Solutions to Biological Problems
• Mark Gerstein: Computational Proteomics
• Seth Darst: Structural Studies of Prokaryotic Transcription
• Tamar Schlick: Polymerase Beta Opening Motion Explored by Dynamic Simulations

Session II: Modeling Organisms
Chair: David Mumford, Co-chair: De Witt Sumners

• Bonnie Berger: Mathematical Challenges in Protein Motif Recognition and Discovery
• Nancy Kopell: Rhythms in the Nervous System: Themes and Variations
• Simon Levin: The Evolution fo Robustness
• David Mumford: The Brain as a Computer: A Flawed Metaphor

Session III: Bioinformatics

• Terry Gaasterland: Evaluating Metabolic Pathways Through Gene Expression Data
• Chip Lawrence: Computational Identification and Characterization of Regulatory Modules
• David Siegmund: Statistical Analysis of Pairwise Local Sequence Alignments
• Gene Meyers: Reconstructing Genomes: Experience from Our Human and Mouse Project

Session IV: Single Molecules

• Julio Fernandez: Single Molecule Studies of the Mechanical Stabilit of Proteins
• Klaus Schulten: Modeling the Mechanical Functions of Proteins and DNA
• Steven Smith: Reversible and Irreversible Unfolding of Single RNA Molecules by Force
• Sunney Xie: Single-Molecule Enzymatic and Conformational Dynamics

Session V: Cellular Gene Expression

• Roland Stoughton: Framework for Microarray Analysis Methods Development
• Wynn Walker: DNA Hybridization Modeling and its Application to the Design of Microarrays
• Wing Wong: Some Recent Progress in Microarray Analysis: Examples and Lessons
• Jonathan Alger: Collaborating with Industry: Making Contacts and Protecting Your Interests

Session VI: Mesoscale Modeling

• Muhammad Zaman: The Entropic Benefit of a Cross-Link in Protein Association
• Christopher Patil: Genomic Analysis of the Unfolded Protein Response: Prediction and Discovery of Novel Regulatory Motifs
• David Swigon: Micromechanics of DNA Looping
• Andrew Ewald: The Molecular Control of Cell Movements in the Early Vertebrate Embryo
• Jody White: Spontaneous Calcium Release in Ventricular Myocytes: Mechanisms and Implications

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