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1. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms

Organizers: Laurent Berger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Ariane Mézard (L'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), LEAD Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University), Shou-Wu Zhang (Princeton University)

The goal of this workshop is to give a practical introduction to some of the main topics and techniques related to the August-December 2014 MSRI program, "New geometric methods in number theory and automorphic forms."   The workshop is aimed at graduate students and interested researchers in number theory or related fields.

There will be  lecture series on periods of automorphic forms, Shimura varieties, and representations of p-adic groups,as well as more advanced topics, including p-adic Hodge theory and the cohomology of arithmetic groups.

Updated on Aug 27, 2014 04:44 PM PDT
2. # WorkshopConnections for Women: New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms

Organizers: Wenching Li (Pennsylvania State University), LEAD Elena Mantovan (California Institute of Technology), Sophie Morel (Princeton University), Ramdorai Sujatha (University of British Columbia)

This 2-day workshop will showcase the contributions of female mathematicians to the three main themes of the associated MSRI program: Shimura varieties, p-adic automorphic forms, periods and L-functions. It will bring together women who are working in these areas in all stages of their careers, featuring lectures by both established leaders and emerging researchers. In addition, there will be a poster session open to all participants and an informal panel discussion on career issues.

Updated on Aug 27, 2014 04:44 PM PDT
3. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometry and Analysis

Organizers: Hans-Joachim Hein (Imperial College, London), LEAD Aaron Naber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Geometric and complex analysis is the application of tools from analysis to study questions from geometry and topology. This two week summer course will provide graduate students with the necessary background to begin studies in the area. The first week will consist of introductory courses on geometric analysis, complex analysis, and Riemann surfaces. The second week will consist of more advanced courses on the regularity theory of Einstein manifolds, Kahler-Einstein manifolds, and the analysis of Riemann surfaces.

Updated on Aug 11, 2014 12:16 PM PDT
4. # Summer Graduate SchoolStochastic Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: Yuri Bakhtin (New York University, Courant Institute), LEAD Ivan Corwin (Columbia University), James Nolen (Duke University)

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs) serve as fundamental models of physical systems subject to random inputs, interactions or environments. It is a particular challenge to develop tools to construct solutions, prove robustness of approximation schemes, and study properties like ergodicity and fluctuation statistics for a wide variety of SPDEs.

The purpose of this two week workshop is to educate graduate students on the state-of-the-art methods and results in SPDEs. The three courses which will be run simultaneously will highlight different (though related) aspects of this area including (1) Fluctuation theory of PDEs with random coefficients (2) Ergodic theory of SPDEs and (3) Exact solvability of SPDEs

Updated on Jun 24, 2014 02:31 PM PDT
5. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgebraic Topology

Organizers: LEAD Jose Cantarero-Lopez (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas), LEAD Michael Hill (University of Virginia)

Modern algebraic topology is a broad and vibrant field which has seen recent progress on classical problems as well as exciting new interactions with applied mathematics. This summer school will consist of a series of lecture by experts on major research directions, including several lectures on applied algebraic topology. Participants will also have the opportunity to have guided interaction with the seminal texts in the field, reading and speaking about the foundational papers.

Updated on Jun 26, 2014 08:51 AM PDT
6. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI 2014: Mathematics and Materials

Organizers: Mark Bowick (Syracuse University), David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie Mellon University), Govind Menon (Brown University), Charles Radin (University of Texas)

The program in 2014 will bring together a diverse group of mathematicians and scientists with interests in fundamental questions in mathematics and the behavior of materials. The meeting addresses several themes including computational investigations of material properties, the emergence of long- range order in materials and self-assembly, the geometry of soft condensed matter and the calculus of variations, phase transitions and statistical mechanics. The program will cover several topics in discrete and differential geometry that are motivated by questions in materials science. Many central topics, such as the geometry of packings, problems in the calculus of variations and phase transitions, will be discussed from the complementary points of view of mathematicians and physicists.

Updated on Mar 06, 2014 12:12 PM PST
7. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2014: Counting Arithmetic Objects

Organizers: Henri Darmon (McGill University), Andrew Granville (University of Montreal), Benedict Gross (Harvard University)

Updated on Jan 16, 2014 08:48 AM PST
8. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2014: Arithmetic Aspects of Elementary Functions

Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), LEAD Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. Due to funding restrictions, only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply and the program cannot accept foreign students regardless of funding. The academic portion of the 2014 program will be led by Dr. Victor Moll from Tulane University.

Updated on Jan 07, 2014 01:54 PM PST
9. # Summer Graduate SchoolDispersive Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: Natasa Pavlovic (University of Texas), Nikolaos Tzirakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce graduate students to the recent developments in the area of dispersive partial differential equations (PDE).

Dispersive equations have received a great deal of attention from mathematicians because of their applications to nonlinear optics, water wave theory and plasma physics. We will outline the basic tools of the theory that were developed with the help of multi-linear Harmonic Analysis techniques. The exposition will be as self-contained as possible.

Updated on Jun 16, 2014 10:14 AM PDT
10. # SeminarModel Theory Seminar: Exponentially Closed Fields and the Conjecture on Intersections with Tori

Updated on May 20, 2014 09:59 AM PDT
11. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Existentially closed prime-model extensions of Abelian lattice-ordered groups.

Updated on May 15, 2014 02:57 PM PDT
12. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:44 AM PST
13. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Some results and conjectures about NTP2

Updated on May 15, 2014 02:59 PM PDT
14. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:24 AM PST
15. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Jet Spaces and Diophantine Geometry

Updated on May 16, 2014 12:58 PM PDT
16. # SeminarAT Open Problems Seminar

Created on May 16, 2014 11:49 AM PDT
17. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Power operations, coactions and cellular constructions for E-infinity ring spectra

Updated on May 09, 2014 09:26 AM PDT
18. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Characteristics for E-infinity ring spectra

Updated on May 09, 2014 12:53 PM PDT
19. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:43 AM PST
20. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: Galois and Hopf-Galois correspondences in homotopy theory

Updated on May 09, 2014 09:20 AM PDT
21. # WorkshopModel Theory in Geometry and Arithmetic

Organizers: Raf Cluckers (Université de Lille I (Sciences et Techniques de Lille Flandres Artois)), LEAD Jonathan Pila (University of Oxford), Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley)

The workshop will feature talks in a range of topics where model theory interacts with other parts of mathematics, especially number theory and arithmetic geometry, including: motivic integration, algebraic dynamics, diophantine geometry, and valued fields.

Updated on May 27, 2014 01:57 PM PDT
22. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:23 AM PST
23. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar

Created on Feb 07, 2014 09:37 AM PST
24. # SeminarAT Seminar

Created on Apr 14, 2014 09:17 AM PDT
25. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk : Short-Range Entanglement and Invertible Field Theories

Updated on May 02, 2014 11:37 AM PDT
26. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Short-Range Entanglement and Invertible Field Theories

Updated on May 02, 2014 11:39 AM PDT
27. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar: Introductory Talk: Fixed points, homotopy fixed points, and all that...

Created on May 02, 2014 10:50 AM PDT
28. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar: Main Talk: Uncompleting the Segal conjecture, and homotopical representation theory

Updated on May 02, 2014 02:29 PM PDT
29. # SeminarFinite Structures Seminar: Independence, via limits

Created on May 06, 2014 10:18 AM PDT
30. # SeminarUC Berkeley Model Theory Seminar: Questions in the model theory of almost complex manifolds

Updated on May 06, 2014 11:18 AM PDT
31. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Multiplicative order mod p : problems and some results

Updated on May 02, 2014 09:00 AM PDT
32. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Pseudofinite dimension and generalisations of asymptotic classes of structures

Updated on May 02, 2014 09:02 AM PDT
33. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:43 AM PST
34. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: The Telescope and Chromatic Splitting Conjectures

Updated on May 02, 2014 11:30 AM PDT
35. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:18 AM PST
36. # SeminarFinite Structures Seminar

Created on Apr 28, 2014 10:44 AM PDT
37. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Homotopy and arithmetic: a duality playground

Updated on Apr 25, 2014 11:19 AM PDT
38. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: A case of the dynamical Andre-Oort conjecture

Updated on May 06, 2014 10:17 AM PDT
39. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Counting rational points on definable sets

Created on Apr 25, 2014 02:33 PM PDT
40. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Duality in algebra and topology (background from work with Dwyer and Iyengar)

Updated on Apr 25, 2014 10:58 AM PDT
41. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Duality and THH

Updated on Apr 25, 2014 11:17 AM PDT
42. # SeminarUC Berkeley Model Theory Seminar

Created on Apr 25, 2014 10:17 AM PDT
43. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar: Main Talk

Created on Apr 25, 2014 10:39 AM PDT
44. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar: Introductory Talk

Created on Apr 25, 2014 10:35 AM PDT
45. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Some remarks on definable fundamental sets in o-minimal structures

Updated on Apr 25, 2014 09:59 AM PDT
46. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Questions about isogenies, automorphisms, and bounds

Updated on Apr 25, 2014 09:46 AM PDT
47. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:42 AM PST
48. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:18 AM PST
49. # SeminarAlegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:23 AM PST
50. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: The (un)reasonable effectiveness of model theory in mathematics

Updated on Apr 15, 2014 11:58 AM PDT
51. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: A case of the dynamical Andre-Oort conjecture

Updated on Apr 25, 2014 12:53 PM PDT
52. # SeminarLogic Colloquium: The Differential Field of Transseries

Created on Apr 22, 2014 12:04 PM PDT
53. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: The Mirror Symmetry Conjecture and Cobordisms

Updated on Apr 17, 2014 05:00 PM PDT
54. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: The Dold-Kan correspondence and commutative monoids

Updated on Apr 17, 2014 04:57 PM PDT
55. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: An algebraic model for commutative HZ-algebras.

Updated on Apr 23, 2014 09:24 AM PDT
56. # SeminarBerkeley Topology Seminar: Part I: Introductory Talk Equivariant Homotopy and Mackey Functors

Created on Apr 17, 2014 04:52 PM PDT
57. # SeminarBerkeley Topology Seminar: Part II: Main Talk - A variant of Rohlin's Theorem: on eta cubed

Created on Apr 17, 2014 04:55 PM PDT
58. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:42 AM PST
59. # SeminarSpecial day in differential and difference algebra

Updated on Apr 18, 2014 09:01 AM PDT
60. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: A journey through motivic integration

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 03:43 PM PDT
61. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: Problems arising from an interface between homotopy theory and knot theory.

Updated on Apr 17, 2014 04:34 PM PDT
62. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:18 AM PST
63. # SeminarUnlikely intersections in semi-abelian schemes.

Created on Apr 11, 2014 02:11 PM PDT
64. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: The classification of Taylor towers for functors from based spaces to spectra

Updated on Apr 14, 2014 11:20 AM PDT
65. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Module structures on Goodwillie derivatives

Updated on Apr 14, 2014 10:50 AM PDT
66. # SeminarAlgebraic K- and L-theory of groups rings and their applications to topology and geometry, Part II: Main Talk

Created on Apr 14, 2014 11:19 AM PDT
67. # SeminarBerkeley Model Theory Seminar: Higher amalgamation and polygroupoids.

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 02:06 PM PDT
68. # SeminarBerkeley Model Theory Seminar: Pseudo Real Closed fields and NTP2

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 02:01 PM PDT
69. # SeminarIntroduction to the middle K-theory of group rings and their relevance in topology, Part One: Introductory Talk

Created on Apr 14, 2014 11:17 AM PDT
70. # SeminarFinite Structures Seminar

Created on Apr 09, 2014 03:24 PM PDT
71. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Torsion free groups definable in o-minimal structures.

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 01:38 PM PDT
72. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

Created on Apr 14, 2014 11:22 AM PDT
73. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Tameness and coincidence of dimensions in expansions of the real field

Updated on Apr 11, 2014 01:54 PM PDT
74. # SeminarAlegbraic Topology Open Problems / Work in Progress Seminar

Created on Jan 30, 2014 08:24 AM PST
75. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:16 AM PST
76. # SeminarUC Berkeley Model Theory Seminar: Locally definable groups as covers of definable groups.

Created on Apr 04, 2014 10:01 AM PDT
77. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: The Finite Submodel Property and Definability in Classes of Finite Structures.

Updated on Apr 04, 2014 12:57 PM PDT
78. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: On the fundamental complexity of simple theories

Updated on Apr 04, 2014 09:47 AM PDT
79. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:15 AM PST
80. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Sullivan's conjecture and applications to arithmetic

Updated on Apr 01, 2014 03:43 PM PDT
81. # WorkshopReimagining the Foundations of Algebraic Topology

Organizers: Vigleik Angeltveit (Australian National University), Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Julie Bergner (University of California), LEAD Andrew Blumberg (University of Texas)

Recent innovations in higher category theory have unlocked the potential to reimagine the basic tools and constructions in algebraic topology. This workshop will explore the interplay between these higher and $\infty$-categorical techniques with classical algebraic topology, playing each off of the other and returning the field to conceptual, geometrical intuition.

Updated on Apr 15, 2014 11:30 AM PDT
82. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Galois equivariance and stable motivic homotopy theory

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 01:16 PM PDT
83. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar

Created on Feb 06, 2014 09:21 AM PST
84. # SeminarProblem Sessions in Model Theory

Created on Mar 27, 2014 11:58 AM PDT
85. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Compactified string topology

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 12:07 PM PDT
86. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Introduction to string topology and to combinatorial models for the moduli space of Riemann surfaces

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 11:41 AM PDT
87. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar Intro talk: Prerequisites on ring spectra and nilpotence

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 10:37 AM PDT
88. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar: On a nilpotence conjecture of J.P. May

Created on Mar 28, 2014 11:25 AM PDT
89. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Towards a Z/ell analogue of Bogomolov's birational anabelian geometry.

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 09:40 AM PDT
90. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Bounding the density of rational points on trascendental hypersurfaces via model theory

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 09:53 AM PDT
91. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Deformation of tame sets and additive invariants.

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 09:18 AM PDT
92. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:14 AM PST
93. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Uses of commutative rings in homotopy theory

Updated on Mar 28, 2014 10:11 AM PDT
94. # SeminarMT Basics

Created on Mar 21, 2014 02:26 PM PDT
95. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: On VC-minimality and variants

Created on Mar 21, 2014 10:23 AM PDT
96. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Weight functions on Berkovich spaces and poles of maximal order of motivic zeta functions.

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 10:07 AM PDT
97. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:37 AM PST
98. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Newtonian fields

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 09:56 AM PDT
99. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: A two-headed monster in algebra and topology

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 10:58 AM PDT
100. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:14 AM PST
101. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Connections between Ramsey Theory and Model Theory.

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 11:24 AM PDT
102. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Strong minimality of the $j$-function

Updated on Mar 21, 2014 11:13 AM PDT
103. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Why do algebraic topologists care about categories?

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 10:27 AM PDT
104. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Some recent aspects of anabelian geometry

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 12:40 PM PDT
105. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: K-Theory of Formal Power Series

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 10:25 AM PDT
106. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: The Goodwillie Taylor Tower of the K-theory of Parametrized Endomorphisms

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 10:21 AM PDT
107. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar: Topological Hochschild homology and topological cyclic homology via the Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel norm.

Created on Mar 14, 2014 10:19 AM PDT
108. # SeminarUC Berkeley Number Theory Seminar: Unlikely Intersections and Pell's equation in polynomials

Created on Mar 14, 2014 11:19 AM PDT
109. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar Intro talk: What is topological Hochschild homology and how can we compute it?

Created on Mar 14, 2014 10:08 AM PDT
110. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Created on Feb 10, 2014 08:34 AM PST
111. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: The arithmetic of dynamical sequences

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 10:35 AM PDT
112. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Preperiodic portraits modul primes

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 10:34 AM PDT
113. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:13 AM PST
114. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Galois, Hopf, Grothendieck, Koszul, and Quillen

Updated on Mar 11, 2014 03:24 PM PDT
115. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: Topological states of matter

Updated on Mar 14, 2014 10:04 AM PDT
116. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: A hop, skip, and a jump through the degrees of relative provability

Updated on Mar 07, 2014 03:04 PM PST
117. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Toward a formal theory of adjunctions, monads, and descent

Updated on Mar 06, 2014 04:06 PM PST
118. # SeminarBerkeley--Stanford student topology seminar

Created on Mar 07, 2014 12:06 PM PST
119. # SeminarBerkeley--Stanford student topology seminar

Created on Mar 07, 2014 11:31 AM PST
120. # SeminarBerkeley--Stanford student topology seminar

Created on Mar 07, 2014 11:33 AM PST
121. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Symplectic Homotopy Theory

Updated on Mar 06, 2014 03:57 PM PST
122. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Calabi-Yau categories, string topology, and the sympletic field theory of the cotangent bundle

Updated on Mar 07, 2014 01:49 PM PST
123. # SeminarUC Berkeley Topology Seminar

Created on Mar 06, 2014 03:32 PM PST
124. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: The Dynamical Mordell-Lang problem.

Updated on Mar 07, 2014 11:10 AM PST
125. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
Tuesdays, 3:45-6pm in Evans 939
Organizer: David Eisenbud
http://hosted.msri.org/alg

Updated on Mar 05, 2014 09:29 AM PST
126. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Relative computability of models of a strongly minimal theory.

Updated on Mar 07, 2014 11:15 AM PST
127. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: New Applications of Algebraic Topology

Updated on Mar 06, 2014 12:15 PM PST
128. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:11 AM PST
129. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: Homotopical perspectives on constructions in representation theory

Updated on Mar 06, 2014 03:26 PM PST
130. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: coFiltration of factorization homology, and formal moduli

Updated on Feb 28, 2014 09:14 AM PST
131. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: General topology meets model theory, on p and t

Updated on Feb 28, 2014 09:22 AM PST
132. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Global algebraic K-theory

Updated on Feb 28, 2014 09:13 AM PST
133. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Introduction to global equivariant homotopy theory

Updated on Feb 28, 2014 09:13 AM PST
134. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Nash groups.

Updated on Feb 27, 2014 04:27 PM PST
135. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Local vs. finite Galois obstructions to rational points.

Updated on Feb 27, 2014 04:24 PM PST
136. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: Koszul duality and homotopy automorphisms of E_n-operads

Updated on Feb 28, 2014 09:11 AM PST
137. # SeminarBowen Lectures

Created on Jul 22, 2013 02:42 PM PDT
138. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:11 AM PST
139. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 03:51 PM PST
140. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Mumford Conjecture, Characteristic Classes, Manifold Bundles, and the Tautological Ring

Updated on Feb 21, 2014 09:07 AM PST
141. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Moduli spaces of manifolds

Updated on Feb 21, 2014 09:06 AM PST
142. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Moduli spaces of manifolds

Updated on Feb 21, 2014 09:05 AM PST
143. # SeminarAT Postdoc Seminar: Groups, Fixed Points, and Algebraic Topology

Updated on Feb 21, 2014 09:02 AM PST
144. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
Tuesdays, 3:45-6pm in Evans 939
Organizer: David Eisenbud
http://hosted.msri.org/alg

Updated on Feb 21, 2014 08:55 AM PST
145. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: The unlikelihood of integrability in elementary terms.

Updated on Feb 18, 2014 09:05 AM PST
146. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: Exponential polynomials

Updated on Feb 18, 2014 09:03 AM PST
147. # SeminarConformal Field Theory

Created on Feb 19, 2014 08:07 AM PST
148. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: Power Operations in Equivariant Elliptic cohomology

Updated on Feb 21, 2014 09:00 AM PST
149. # SeminarMT Postdoc Seminar: Finite VC-dimension in model theory and elsewhere

Updated on Feb 20, 2014 02:34 PM PST
150. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: The Whitehead conjecture and the Goodwillie tower of the circle.

Created on Feb 13, 2014 12:30 PM PST
151. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Calculating the homology of maps between spaces of the form QX.

Updated on Feb 13, 2014 12:24 PM PST
152. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

Updated on Feb 14, 2014 12:19 PM PST
153. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: A topological tameness result for Berkovich spaces.

Updated on Feb 14, 2014 12:41 PM PST
154. # SeminarAT Open Problems/Work in Progress Seminar: Free group actions on finite complexes

Updated on Feb 13, 2014 12:23 PM PST
155. # WorkshopHot Topics: Perfectoid Spaces and their Applications

Organizers: Sophie Morel (Princeton University), Peter Scholze (Universität Bonn), LEAD Richard Taylor (Institute for Advanced Study), Jared Weinstein (Boston University)

Since their introduction just two years ago, perfectoid spaces have played a crucial role in a number of striking advances in arithmetic algebraic geometry: the proof of Deligne's weight-monodromy conjecture for complete intersections in toric varieties; the development of p-adic Hodge theory for rigid analytic spaces;  a p-adic analogue of Riemann's classification of abelian varieties over the complex numbers; and the construction of Galois representations for torsion classes in the cohomology of many locally symmetric spaces (for instance arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds). We will start the week with an exposition of the foundations of the theory of perfectoid spaces, with the aim of teaching novices to work with them. Then we will discuss their current and potential applications.

Updated on Mar 04, 2014 01:42 PM PST
156. # SeminarFive Minute Talks

Updated on Feb 12, 2014 09:05 AM PST
157. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: Theory and practice in K(2)-local homotopy theory

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 11:09 AM PST
158. # SeminarMT Research Seminar: An Ax-Schanuel theorem for the modular curve and the j-function.

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 10:50 AM PST
159. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: Theory and practice in K(2)-local homotopy theory

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 11:08 AM PST
160. # SeminarMT Informal Seminar: Workshop Follow Up

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 11:12 AM PST
161. # SeminarUC Berkeley Model Theory Seminar: On Transformations in the Painlevé family.

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 11:14 AM PST
162. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 11:43 AM PST
163. # SeminarAT Open Problems Seminar: Redshift

Updated on Feb 07, 2014 10:53 AM PST
164. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Model Theory and Its Interactions with Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry

Organizers: Kirsten Eisentraeger (Pennsylvania State University), Julia Gordon (University of British Columbia), Deirdre Haskell (McMaster University)

The development of model theory has always been influenced by its potential applications.
Recent years have seen a remarkable flowering of that development, with many exciting applications of model theory in number theory and algebraic geometry. The introductory workshop will aim to increase these interactions by exposing the techniques of model theory to the number theorists and algebraic geometers, and the problems of number theory and algebraic geometry to the model theorists. The Connections for Women workshop will focus on presenting current research on the borders of these subjects, with particular emphasis on the contributions of women. In addition, there will be some social occasions to allow young women and men to make connections with established researchers, and a panel discussion addressing the challenges faced by all young researchers, but especially by women, in establishing a career in mathematics.

Updated on Feb 12, 2014 09:59 AM PST
165. # WorkshopPacific Northwest and Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Winter 2014

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz), david hoffman (Stanford University)

The seminar will take place from 10AM to 5PM on Saturday, and 9:15AM to 1PM on Sunday. Participants and their significant others are invited to a dinner to be arranged at a local restaurant on Saturday evening. The cost of the dinner will be reduced for students and postdocs. There is a signup link on the interactive program.

Location:  Stanford University Department of Mathematics, Room 380C

INTERACTIVE PROGRAM (PDF)

Updated on Jan 16, 2014 04:46 PM PST
166. # SeminarAT Research Seminar: The second cohomology group of finite groups and fusion systems.

Updated on Jan 31, 2014 09:22 AM PST
167. # SeminarAT Research Seminar Pre-Talk: The second cohomology group of finite groups and fusion systems.

Updated on Jan 31, 2014 09:21 AM PST
168. # SeminarEisenbud Seminar: Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

Created on Jan 31, 2014 09:00 AM PST
169. # SeminarModel Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar

Created on Feb 04, 2014 09:11 AM PST
170. # SeminarAT Open Problems Seminar: Pattern recognition in chromatic homotopy theory

Updated on Jan 31, 2014 09:19 AM PST
171. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory

Organizers: Elisabeth Bouscaren (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)), Antoine Chambert-Loir (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay)), LEAD Rahim Moosa (University of Waterloo)

Model theory is a branch of mathematical logic whose structural techniques have proven to be remarkably useful in arithmetic geometry and number theory. We will introduce in this workshop some of the main themes of the program.

In particular, we will be offering the following tutorials:
1. An Introduction to Stability-Theoretic Techniques, by Pierre Simon.
2. Model Theory and Diophantine Geometry, by Antoine Chambert-Loir, Ya'acov Peterzil, and  Anand Pillay.
3. Valued Fields and Berkovich Spaces, by Deirdre Haskell and Martin Hils.
4. Model Theory and Additive Combinatorics, by Lou van den Dries.

In addition to the tutorials there will be several "state of the art" lectures on the program topics, indicating recent results as well as directions for future work. Speakers include Ekaterina Amerik, Ehud Hrushovski, Alice Medvedev, Terence Tao, and Margaret Thomas.

The introductory workshop aims to familiarize graduate students, postdocs, and non-experts to major and new topics of the current program. Though the audience is expected to have a general mathematical background, knowledge of technical terminology and recent findings is not assumed.

Updated on Feb 10, 2014 11:01 AM PST
172. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Around Approximate Subgroups

Updated on Jan 20, 2014 09:31 AM PST
173. # SeminarModel theory for dummies

Created on Jan 30, 2014 12:31 PM PST
174. # SeminarExtension of Gauss valuations, stably dominated types and piecewise-linear subsets of Berkovich spaces

Created on Jan 24, 2014 01:39 PM PST
175. # SeminarUniversal covers of commutative finite Morley rank groups

Created on Jan 24, 2014 01:46 PM PST
176. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Algebraic Topology

Organizers: Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), Jesper Grodal (University of Copenhagen), Kathryn Hess (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), LEAD Michael Hill (University of Virginia)

Algebraic topology is a rich, vibrant field with close connections to many branches of mathematics. This workshop will describe the state of the field, focusing on major programs, open problems, exciting new tools, and cutting edge techniques.

The introductory workshop serves as an overview to the overlying programmatic theme. It aims to familiarize graduate students, postdocs, and non-experts to major and new topics of the current program. Though the audience is expected to have a general mathematical background, knowledge of technical terminology and recent findings is not assumed.

Updated on Jan 27, 2014 11:44 AM PST
177. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Topological cyclic homology

Updated on Jan 15, 2014 09:05 AM PST
178. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Algebraic Topology

Organizers: Julie Bergner (University of California), LEAD Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), Brooke Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago)

This two-day workshop will consist of short courses given by prominent female mathematicians in the field. These introductory courses will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in related areas. The workshop will also include a panel discussion featuring successful women at various stages in their mathematical careers.

Updated on Aug 26, 2014 11:45 AM PDT
179. # ProgramModel Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory

Organizers: Ehud Hrushovski (Hebrew University), François Loeser (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)), David Marker (University of Illinois), Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley), Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame), LEAD Carol Wood (Wesleyan University)

The program aims to further the flourishing interaction between model theory and other parts of mathematics, especially number theory and arithmetic geometry. At present the model theoretical tools in use arise primarily from geometric stability theory and o-minimality. Current areas of lively interaction include motivic integration, valued fields, diophantine geometry, and algebraic dynamics.

Updated on Feb 19, 2014 02:02 PM PST
180. # ProgramAlgebraic Topology

Organizers: Vigleik Angeltveit (Australian National University), Andrew Blumberg (University of Texas), Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University), Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), LEAD Michael Hill (University of Virginia), Jacob Lurie (Harvard University)

Algebraic topology touches almost every branch of modern mathematics. Algebra, geometry, topology, analysis, algebraic geometry, and number theory all influence and in turn are influenced by the methods of algebraic topology. The goals of this 2014 program at MSRI are:

Bring together algebraic topology researchers from all subdisciplines, reconnecting the pieces of the field

Identify the fundamental problems and goals in the field, uncovering the broader themes and connections

Connect young researchers with the field, broadening their perspective and introducing them to the myriad approaches and techniques.

Updated on Jan 21, 2014 11:44 AM PST
181. # WorkshopMacaulay2 Workshop

Organizers: Sonja Mapes (University of Notre Dame), Frank Moore (Wake Forest University), David Swinarski (University of Georgia)

The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms.

Updated on Aug 05, 2013 05:39 PM PDT
182. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar (Tentative)

Created on Dec 13, 2013 12:53 PM PST
183. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Splitting Theorem

Updated on Dec 13, 2013 11:05 AM PST
184. # SeminarPD Seminar: 4-stochastic measures and polyconvexity

Updated on Dec 12, 2013 01:57 PM PST
185. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:40 AM PDT
186. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: The analogues in free probability theory of the Wasserstein distance and of the Talagrand inequality.

Updated on Dec 10, 2013 11:29 AM PST
187. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Graceful exit from inflation for minimally coupled Bianchi A scalar field models

Updated on Dec 04, 2013 11:56 AM PST
188. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:37 AM PDT
189. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:56 PM PDT
190. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On the asymptotic behavior of global solutions of Einstein's equations.

Updated on Oct 30, 2013 09:12 AM PDT
191. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Geometry of Wasserstein space

Updated on Dec 02, 2013 02:49 PM PST
192. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Created on Dec 02, 2013 02:40 PM PST
193. # WorkshopInfinite-Dimensional Geometry

Organizers: Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University), Robert McCann (University of Toronto), LEAD Stephen Preston (University of Colorado)

The purpose of this workshop is to gather researchers working in various areas of geometry in infinite dimensions in order to facilitate collaborations and sharing of ideas. Topics represented include optimal transport and geometries on densities, metrics on shape spaces, Euler-Arnold equations on diffeomorphism groups, the universal Teichmuller space, geometry of random Riemann surfaces, metrics on spaces of metrics, and related areas. The workshop will be held on the campus of University of California Berkeley (60 Evans Hall) the weekend of December 7-8, 2013. It is funded by an NSF grant.

Updated on Dec 05, 2013 02:55 PM PST
194. # SeminarPD Seminar: Regularity of shadows and the singular set associated to a Monge-Ampere equation

Updated on Nov 15, 2013 09:42 AM PST
195. # SeminarPD Seminar: The spherically symmetric SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills equations

Updated on Nov 15, 2013 09:41 AM PST
196. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Some mathematical aspects of the Hawking effect for rotating black holes

Updated on Nov 18, 2013 09:38 AM PST
197. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:56 PM PDT
198. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:37 AM PDT
199. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Numerically evolving the Ricci Flow on S^3

Updated on Nov 12, 2013 11:45 AM PST
200. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: On kinetic models for the collective self-organization of agents.

Updated on Nov 27, 2013 11:31 AM PST
201. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Optimal transportation in sub-Riemannian geometry

Updated on Nov 27, 2013 02:27 PM PST
202. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Could the Universe have an Exotic Topology?

Updated on Nov 25, 2013 01:05 PM PST
203. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:56 PM PDT
204. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Ricci curvature type lower bounds for sub-Riemannian structures on Sasakian manifolds

Updated on Nov 13, 2013 02:49 PM PST
205. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: BKL singularity, spikes and inhomogeneous cosmology

Updated on Nov 08, 2013 09:46 AM PST
206. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:35 PM PDT
207. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Exploring the corner: linearised gravitational waves near space-like and null-infinity

Updated on Oct 30, 2013 09:03 AM PDT
208. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Inverse mean curvature flow, black holes and quasi-local mass

Updated on Nov 19, 2013 10:57 AM PST
209. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Properties of weak CD(K,N) spaces

Updated on Nov 27, 2013 02:29 PM PST
210. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Stability of CD/RCD spaces

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:43 PM PST
211. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:32 PM PDT
212. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:36 AM PDT
213. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Heat Equation

Created on Nov 04, 2013 04:04 PM PST
214. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:28 PM PDT
215. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar

Created on Oct 11, 2013 09:57 AM PDT
216. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar

Updated on Oct 10, 2013 04:41 PM PDT
217. # WorkshopInitial Data and Evolution Problems in General Relativity

Organizers: LEAD Piotr Chrusciel (Universität Wien), LEAD Igor Rodnianski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

This workshop discusses recent developments both in the study of the properties of initial data for Einstein's equations, and in the study of solutions of the Einstein evolution problem. Cosmic censorship, the formation and stability of black holes, the role of mass and quasi-local mass, and the construction of solutions of the Einstein constraint equations are focus problems for the workshop. We highlight recent developments, and examine major areas in which future progress is likely.

Updated on Nov 26, 2013 09:16 AM PST
218. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Properties of weak CD(K,N) spaces

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:41 PM PST
219. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: On an information-theoretical interpolation inequality

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 02:38 PM PDT
220. # SeminarPD Seminar: The geodesic hypothesis in general relativity

Updated on Nov 08, 2013 12:39 PM PST
221. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: CD and CD*(K,N) spaces (including characterization)

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:40 PM PST
222. # SeminarPD Seminar: Martingales, robust hedging and the Skorokhod embedding

Updated on Nov 07, 2013 10:24 AM PST
223. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Non-zero rest-mass fields in cyclic cosmologies.

Updated on Nov 05, 2013 10:11 AM PST
224. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:25 PM PDT
225. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Bochner formula

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:39 PM PST
226. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:55 PM PDT
227. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:36 AM PDT
228. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Arnold diffusion in nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems

Updated on Nov 06, 2013 09:31 AM PST
229. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Numerical simulations of gravitational singularities

Updated on Nov 05, 2013 10:27 AM PST
230. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:24 PM PDT
231. # SeminarConstraint FRG

Created on Nov 06, 2013 01:31 PM PST
232. # SeminarPD Seminar: Adding a vanishing Dirichlet energy to the Monge cost: some surprising effects

Updated on Oct 30, 2013 03:07 PM PDT
233. # SeminarPD Seminar: The Einstein-Yang-Mills phase space and the First Law of black hole mechanics

Updated on Oct 30, 2013 03:07 PM PDT
234. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Comparison Theorems (Bishop-Gromov, Levy-Gromov, Caffarelli)

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:39 PM PST
235. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Geometric Boundary Data for the Gravitational Field

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 03:06 PM PDT
236. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: The Cartan-Hadamard conjecture via optimal transport

Updated on Oct 31, 2013 09:49 AM PDT
237. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:23 PM PDT
238. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Oct 22, 2013 03:03 PM PDT
239. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Oct 18, 2013 10:43 AM PDT
240. # SeminarChern Lecture: Self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 08:50 AM PDT
241. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Ricci curvature and displacement convexity; Brunn-Minkowski

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:38 PM PST
242. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:22 PM PDT
243. # SeminarChern Lecture: CFT and SLE and 2D statistical physics

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 08:48 AM PDT
244. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Nonlinear wave equations on time dependent inhomogeneous backgrounds.

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 02:59 PM PDT
245. # SeminarChern Lecture: The Ising model of a ferromagnet from 1920 till 2020

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 08:48 AM PDT
246. # SeminarChern Lectures

Created on Jul 22, 2013 02:41 PM PDT
247. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: The HWI inequality

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 09:11 AM PST
248. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: A Compactness Theorem for Sequences of Rectifiable Metric Spaces

Updated on Oct 31, 2013 12:01 PM PDT
249. # SeminarMonge and Kantorovich Meet Einstein

Created on Nov 01, 2013 09:10 AM PDT
250. # SeminarPD Seminar: Rigidity of singularities and Lorentzian splitting geometry.

Updated on Oct 23, 2013 04:35 PM PDT
251. # SeminarPD Seminar: Convergence of harmonic maps.

Updated on Oct 23, 2013 04:36 PM PDT
252. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:12 PM PDT
253. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On construction of time functions.

Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:33 AM PDT
254. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:54 PM PDT
255. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:35 AM PDT
256. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Optimal Transport Problem For Contact Structures

Updated on Oct 24, 2013 09:33 AM PDT
257. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: On Gluing Techniques in Calibrated Geometry

Updated on Oct 24, 2013 09:35 AM PDT
258. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Future stability of cosmological models without cosmological constant

Updated on Oct 08, 2013 12:24 PM PDT
259. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:11 PM PDT
260. # SeminarPD Seminar: Linear waves on Kerr--de Sitter cosmologies

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 11:27 AM PDT
261. # SeminarPD Seminar: Interior curvature estimates and the asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 11:26 AM PDT
262. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:10 PM PDT
263. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On local wellposedness of ideal relativistic, and more general, fluids.

Updated on Oct 10, 2013 11:55 AM PDT
264. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:34 AM PDT
265. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:54 PM PDT
266. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:36 AM PDT
267. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Sub-level Set Convex Analysis

Updated on Oct 15, 2013 10:52 AM PDT
268. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:08 PM PDT
269. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Resonances in general relativity

Updated on Sep 19, 2013 01:14 PM PDT
270. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Stable stationary states for repulsive-attractive potentials

Updated on Oct 15, 2013 10:51 AM PDT
271. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Polyconvex integrands in the calculus of variations.

Updated on Oct 16, 2013 03:43 PM PDT
272. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:36 AM PDT
273. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Fall 2013

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz), LEAD david hoffman (Stanford University)

The Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar meets 3 times each year and is a 1-day seminar on recent developments in differential geometry and geometric analysis, broadly interpreted. Typically, it runs from mid-morning until late afternoon, with 3-4 speakers. Lunch will be available and the final talk will be followed by dinner.

Updated on Sep 18, 2013 12:07 PM PDT
274. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Local well-posedness for the minimal surface equation in Minkowski space

Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:31 AM PDT
275. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:53 PM PDT
276. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:34 AM PDT
277. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: The angular momentum-mass inequality for general axisymmetric initial data

Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:31 AM PDT
278. # WorkshopFluid Mechanics, Hamiltonian Dynamics, and Numerical Aspects of Optimal Transportation

Organizers: Yann Brenier (École Polytechnique), Michael Cullen (Met Office), LEAD Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Institute of Technology), Allen Tannenbaum (SUNY)

The workshop will be devoted to emerging approaches to fluid mechanical, geophysical and kinetic theoretical flows based on optimal transportation. It will also explore numerical approaches to optimal transportation problems.

Updated on Nov 05, 2013 12:34 PM PST
279. # SeminarPD Seminar: Strict convexity properties of solutions to Monge-Ampere type equations

Updated on Oct 10, 2013 12:57 PM PDT

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 10:21 AM PDT
281. # SeminarPD Seminar: Far from constant mean curvature solutions to the Einstein constraint equations on compact manifolds

Updated on Oct 03, 2013 11:19 AM PDT
282. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Far-from CMC solutions to the Einstein Constraint Equations on Compact Manifolds with Boundary

Updated on Oct 02, 2013 01:30 PM PDT
283. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:03 PM PDT
284. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:33 AM PDT
285. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:53 PM PDT
286. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Symmetres and conserved quantities

Updated on Sep 09, 2013 09:48 AM PDT
287. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Symmetric Monge-Kantorovich problems and polar decompositions of vector fields

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:01 AM PDT
288. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:02 PM PDT
289. # SeminarPD Seminar: Noncollision singularities in the Newtonian N-body problem

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 02:38 PM PDT
290. # SeminarPD Seminar: Type-II singularities for Ricci flow on $R^n$

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 02:39 PM PDT
291. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:59 PM PDT
292. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Stable big bang formation in near-flrw solutions to the einstein-scalar field system.

Updated on Oct 03, 2013 10:11 AM PDT
293. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:52 PM PDT
294. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:32 AM PDT
295. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:59 PM PDT
296. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Unique continuation from infinity for linear waves.

Updated on Aug 29, 2013 12:00 PM PDT
297. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: PDEs of Monge-Ampere type.

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:00 AM PDT
298. # SeminarPD Seminar: Microlocal analysis of radial points.

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:02 AM PDT
299. # SeminarPD Seminar: Bochner inequality and the entropic curvature dimension condition for metric measure spaces.

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:02 AM PDT
300. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:45 PM PDT
301. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: On optimal transport and rotation numbers

Updated on Sep 19, 2013 10:34 AM PDT
302. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On the existence, structure and stability of static and stationary solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system

Updated on Aug 28, 2013 03:33 PM PDT
303. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:52 PM PDT
304. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 20, 2013 02:57 PM PDT
305. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
306. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Multimarginal optimal transport with Coulomb cost

Updated on Sep 19, 2013 10:33 AM PDT
307. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On the mass-aspect tensor of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds

Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:37 AM PDT
308. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: On the topology and future stability of the universe

Updated on Sep 11, 2013 01:02 PM PDT
309. # SeminarPD Seminar: Multimarginal optimal transport on Riemannian manifolds.

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:42 AM PDT
310. # SeminarPD Seminar: On the mass/angular momentum inequality

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:44 AM PDT
311. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:25 PM PDT
312. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: The Newtonian Limit of Cosmological Spacetimes

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 01:21 PM PDT
313. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Type II ancient solutions to the Yamabe flow

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:11 AM PDT
314. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Solution of the Monge problem

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:34 AM PDT
315. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:30 AM PDT
316. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:51 PM PDT
317. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes

Updated on Aug 28, 2013 09:33 AM PDT
318. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Uniqueness of solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the space of probability measures.

Updated on Sep 06, 2013 02:16 PM PDT
319. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Updated on Aug 26, 2013 02:24 PM PDT
320. # Seminar5 Minute Talks

Created on Sep 06, 2013 09:50 AM PDT
321. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Displacement Interpolation

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:32 AM PDT
322. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Kantorovich duality

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:31 AM PDT
323. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Several examples of hidden convexity in nonlinear PDEs will be addressed. Most of them are related to the theory of “optimal transportation”, which is the theme of one of the two MSRI programs this fall: see http://www.msri.org/programs/277.

Updated on Sep 10, 2013 11:00 AM PDT
324. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Several examples of hidden convexity in nonlinear PDEs will be addressed. Most of them are related to the theory of “optimal transportation”, which is the theme of one of the two MSRI programs this fall: see http://www.msri.org/programs/277.

Updated on Sep 10, 2013 10:59 AM PDT
325. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: On the topology of black holes and beyond.

Updated on Aug 19, 2013 10:38 AM PDT
326. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Mathematical Relativity

Organizers: LEAD Justin Corvino (Lafayette College), Greg Galloway (University of Miami), Hans Ringström (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))

Mathematical relativity is a very widely ranging area of mathematical study, spanning differential geometry, elliptic and hyperbolic PDE, and dynamical systems. We introduce in this workshop some of the leading areas of current interest associated with problems in cosmology, the theory of black holes, and the geometry and physics of the Cauchy problem (initial data constraints and evolution) for the Einstein equations.

The introductory workshop serves as an overview to the overlying programmatic theme. It aims to familiarize graduate students, postdocs, and non-experts to major and new topics of the current program. Though the audience is expected to have a general mathematical background, knowledge of technical terminology and recent findings is not assumed.

Updated on Oct 23, 2013 10:04 AM PDT
327. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Several examples of hidden convexity in nonlinear PDEs will be addressed. Most of them are related to the theory of “optimal transportation”, which is the theme of one of the two MSRI programs this fall: see http://www.msri.org/programs/277.

Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:47 AM PDT
328. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Geometric analysis on the space of metric measure space

Created on Aug 28, 2013 03:37 PM PDT
329. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: A smallness measure of deviation from Kerr-Newman and applications to black hole uniqueness

Created on Aug 28, 2013 03:39 PM PDT
330. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Several examples of hidden convexity in nonlinear PDEs will be addressed. Most of them are related to the theory of “optimal transportation”, which is the theme of one of the two MSRI programs this fall: see http://www.msri.org/programs/277.

Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:46 AM PDT
331. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Mathematical General Relativity

Organizers: Beverly Berger (None), LEAD Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan), Iva Stavrov (Lewis and Clark College)

Ever since the epic work of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat on the well-posedness of Einstein's equations initiated the mathematical study of general relativity, women have played an important role in many areas of mathematical relativity. In this workshop, some of the leading women researchers in mathematical relativity present their work.

Updated on Oct 23, 2013 10:03 AM PDT
332. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Swarming by Nature and by Design

Updated on Aug 12, 2013 02:46 PM PDT
333. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics

Organizers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore), Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Alessio Figalli (University of Texas)

The workshop is intended to give an overview of the research landscape surrounding optimal transportation, including its connections to geometry, design applications, and fully nonlinear partial differential equations.

As such, it will feature some survey lectures or minicourses by distinguished visitors and/or a few of the organizers of the theme semester, amounting to a kind of summer school. These will be complemented by a sampling of research lectures and short presentations from a spectrum of invited guests and other participants, including some who attended the previous week's {\em Connections for Women} workshop.

The introductory workshop aims to familiarize graduate students, postdocs, and non-experts to major and new topics of the current program. Though the audience is expected to have a general mathematical background, knowledge of technical terminology and recent findings is not assumed.

Updated on Oct 23, 2013 10:02 AM PDT
334. # WorkshopConnections for Women on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics

Organizers: Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University), Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University), Robert McCann (University of Toronto), Maria Westdickenberg (RWTH Aachen)

This two-day event aims to connect women graduate students and beginning researchers with more established female researchers who use optimal transportation in their work and can serve as professional contacts and potential role-models. As such, it will showcase a selection of lectures featuring female scientists, both established leaders and emerging researchers.

These lectures will be interspersed with networking and social events such as lunch or tea-time discussions led by successful researchers about (a) the particular opportunities and challenges facing women in science---including practical topics such as work-life balance and choosing a mentor, and (b) promising new directions in optimal transportation and related topics. Junior participants will be paired with more senior researchers in mentoring groups, and all participants will be encouraged to stay for the Introductory Workshop the following week, where they will have the opportunity to propose a short research communication.

Updated on Oct 02, 2013 08:49 AM PDT
335. # ProgramOptimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics

Organizers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore), Yann Brenier (École Polytechnique), Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University), Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), Alessio Figalli (University of Texas), Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Institute of Technology), LEAD Robert McCann (University of Toronto), Felix Otto (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften), Neil Trudinger (Australian National University)

In the past two decades, the theory of optimal transportation has emerged as a fertile field of inquiry, and a diverse tool for exploring applications within and beyond mathematics. This transformation occurred partly because long-standing issues could finally be resolved, but also because unexpected connections emerged which linked these questions to classical problems in geometry, partial differential equations, nonlinear dynamics, natural sciences, design problems and economics. The aim of this program will be to gather experts in optimal transport and areas of potential application to catalyze new investigations, disseminate progress, and invigorate ongoing exploration.

Updated on Sep 29, 2013 11:41 PM PDT
336. # ProgramMathematical General Relativity

Organizers: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Piotr Chrusciel (Universität Wien), Greg Galloway (University of Miami), Gerhard Huisken (Math. Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach), LEAD James Isenberg (University of Oregon), Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University), Igor Rodnianski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Richard Schoen (Stanford University)

The study of Einstein's general relativistic gravitational field equation, which has for many years played a crucial role in the modeling of physical cosmology and astrophysical phenomena, is increasingly a source for interesting and challenging problems in geometric analysis and PDE. In nonlinear hyperbolic PDE theory, the problem of determining if the Kerr black hole is stable has sparked a flurry of activity, leading to outstanding progress in the study of scattering and asymptotic behavior of solutions of wave equations on black hole backgrounds. The spectacular recent results of Christodoulou on trapped surface formation have likewise stimulated important advances in hyperbolic PDE. At the same time, the study of initial data for Einstein's equation has generated a wide variety of challenging problems in Riemannian geometry and elliptic PDE theory. These include issues, such as the Penrose inequality, related to the asymptotically defined mass of an astrophysical systems, as well as questions concerning the construction of non constant mean curvature solutions of the Einstein constraint equations. This semester-long program aims to bring together researchers working in mathematical relativity, differential geometry, and PDE who wish to explore this rapidly growing area of mathematics.

Updated on Nov 05, 2013 04:41 PM PST
337. # Summer Graduate SchoolIntroduction to the Mathematics of Seismic Imaging

Organizers: LEAD Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)

In this two week program we will develop some of the mathematical foundations of seismic imaging that is a basic tool used in Imaging the Earth Interior". This is one of the components of the Mathematics of Planet Earth year in 2013.

The goal in seismic imaging is to determine the inner structure of the Earth from the crust to the inner core by using information provided by earthquakes in the case of the deep interior or by measuring the reflection of waves produced by acoustic or elastic sources on the surface of the Earth. The mathematics of seismic imaging involves solving inverse problems for the wave equation. No previous experience on inverse problems will be assumed.

Updated on Jul 25, 2013 09:45 AM PDT
338. # Summer Graduate SchoolNew Geometric Techniques in Number Theory

Organizers: Toby Gee (Imperial College, London), LEAD Ariane Mézard (L'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), David Nadler (University of California, Berkeley), Peter Scholze (Universität Bonn)

The branches of number theory most directly related to automorphic forms have seen enormous progress over the past five years. Techniques introduced since 2008 have made it possible to prove many new arithmetic applications. The purpose of the current workshop is to drow the attention of young students or researchers to new questions that have arisen in the course of bringing several chapters in the Langlands program and related algebraic number theory to a close. We will focus especially on some precise questions of a geometric nature, or whose solutions seem to require new geometric insights. A graduate level in Number Theory is expected.

This two-week workshop will be devoted to the following subjects: Automorphy lifting theorems, p-adic local Langlands program, Characters of categorical representations and Hasse-Weil zeta function. During the first week, the lecturers present an open question and related mathematical objects. The first exercice sessions serve to direct the participants to an appropriate subject depending on their level. During the second week, the lecturers give some more advanced lectures on the field.

Updated on Jul 02, 2013 10:48 AM PDT
339. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer 2013: Geometric Analysis

Organizers: Hubert Bray (Duke University), Greg Galloway (University of Miami), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University)

This Summer Graduate Workshop will be held in Park City, Utah.

The Graduate Summer School bridges the gap between a general graduate education in mathematics and the specific preparation necessary to do research on problems of current interest. In general, these students will have completed their first year, and in some cases, may already be working on a thesis. While a majority of the participants will be graduate students, some postdoctoral scholars and researchers may also be interested in attending.

The main activity of the Graduate Summer School will be a set of intensive short lectures offered by leaders in the field, designed to introduce students to exciting, current research in mathematics. These lectures will not duplicate standard courses available elsewhere. Each course will consist of lectures with problem sessions. Course assistants will be available for each lecture series. The participants of the Graduate Summer School meet three times each day for lectures, with one or two problem sessions scheduled each day as well.

Updated on May 06, 2013 11:06 AM PDT
340. # WorkshopPacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) Congress 2013

Organizers: Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Marston Conder (University of Auckland), David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia), Anthony Guttmann (University of Melbourne), Lee Minh Ha, Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin), Alejandro Jofre, Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo), Jong Keum (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)), Douglas Lind (University of Washington), Kyewon Park (Ajou University), Shige Peng (Shandong University), Jose Seade (UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Gang Tian (Princeton University), Tatiana Toro (University of Washington)

The Second Pacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) Congress will be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, on June 24-28, 2013.

PRIMA is an association of mathematical sciences institutes, departments and societies from around the Pacific Rim, established in 2005 with the aim of promoting and facilitating the development of the mathematical sciences throughout the Pacific Rim region.

$1000 travel grants are available to representatives from MSRI Academic Sponsoring Institutions. These grants are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Travel Support Available from an NSF Grant The NSF has awarded a substantial grant for travel by scientists at US universities to the PRIMA Congress in Shanghai. For further information and application details, please see https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/152 Updated on May 06, 2013 12:00 PM PDT 341. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2013: Physics and Mathematics of Link Homology Organizers: Sergei Gukov (California Institute of Technology), Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University), Johannes Walcher (McGill University) This Summer Graduate Workshop will be held in Montreal, Canada. Homology theories of knots and links is a burgeoning field at the interface of mathematics with theoretical physics. The 2013 edition of the SMS will bring together leading researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics working in this area, with the aim to educate a new generation of scientists in this exciting subject. The school will provide a pedagogical review of the current state of the various constructions of knot homologies, and also encourage interactions between the communities in order to facilitate development of the unified picture. Updated on May 06, 2013 09:37 AM PDT 342. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgebraic Topology Organizers: Andrew Blumberg (University of Texas), Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), LEAD Michael Hill (University of Virginia) Modern algebraic topology is a broad and vibrant field which has seen recent progress on classical problems as well as exciting new interactions with applied mathematics. This summer school will consist of a series of lecture by experts on major research directions, including several lectures on applied algebraic topology. Participants will also have the opportunity to have guided interaction with the seminal texts in the field, reading and speaking about the foundational papers. Updated on Jun 25, 2013 08:38 PM PDT 343. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2013: Algebraic Combinatorics Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), LEAD Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. Due to funding restrictions, only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply and the program cannot accept foreign students regardless of funding. The academic portion of the 2013 program will be led by Dr. Rosa Orellana from Dartmouth College. Updated on Aug 15, 2013 08:52 AM PDT 344. # SeminarVanishing and Lifting Reading Seminar Updated on May 15, 2013 01:28 PM PDT 345. # SeminarNoncommutative Clusters (NAGRT) Updated on May 17, 2013 09:57 AM PDT 346. # SeminarFrobenius Singularity Day Updated on May 17, 2013 05:04 PM PDT 347. # SeminarOn a conjecture of Derksen about syzygies Updated on May 17, 2013 01:31 PM PDT 348. # SeminarUntwisting a twisted Calabi-Yau algebra (NAGRT) Updated on May 17, 2013 09:59 AM PDT 349. # SeminarThe category of F-module has finite global dimension (COMMA) Updated on May 15, 2013 04:45 PM PDT 350. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2013 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Robert Bryant (Duke University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz), david hoffman (Stanford University) The Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar meets 3 times each year and is a 1-day seminar on recent developments in differential geometry and geometric analysis, broadly interpreted. Typically, it runs from mid-morning until late afternoon, with 3-4 speakers. Lunch will be available and the final talk will be followed by dinner. Location: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:09 PM PDT 351. # SeminarConnectedness Theorems (COMMA) Updated on May 13, 2013 10:53 AM PDT 352. # SeminarGrowth of groups using Euler characteristics Updated on May 10, 2013 10:59 AM PDT 353. # SeminarTotally nonnegative matrices: efficient cell recognition (NAGRT) Updated on May 10, 2013 11:31 AM PDT 354. # SeminarGorenstein liaison of algebraic varieties (COMMA) Updated on Apr 22, 2013 08:20 AM PDT 355. # SeminarInvariant Theory of AS Regular Algebras: AS Gorenstein fixed subrings (NAGRT) Updated on May 10, 2013 11:30 AM PDT 356. # SeminarDeformation of F-Injective Singularities (COMMA) Updated on May 09, 2013 10:05 AM PDT 357. # SeminarMSRI/NRing Women in Math Lunch Updated on May 03, 2013 01:38 PM PDT 358. # SeminarOrders in the elliptic Weyl algebra Updated on May 02, 2013 12:06 PM PDT 359. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Feb 05, 2013 02:24 AM PST 360. # WorkshopThe Commutative Algebra of Singularities in Birational Geometry: Multiplier Ideals, Jets, Valuations, and Positive Characteristic Methods Organizers: Craig Huneke (University of Virginia), Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo), Mircea Mustata (University of Michigan), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), Kei-ichi Watanabe (Nihon University) The workshop will examine the interplay between measures of singularities coming both from characteristic p methods of commutative algebra, and invariants of singularities coming from birational algebraic geometry. There is a long history of this interaction which arises via the "reduction to characteristic p" procedure. It is only in the last few years, however, that very concrete objects from both areas, namely generalized test ideals from commutative algebra and multiplier ideals from birational geometry, have been shown to be intimately connected. This workshop will explore this connection, as well as other topics used to study singularities such as jets schemes and valuations. Updated on Jun 05, 2013 09:44 AM PDT 361. # SeminarAlgebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (COMMA) Updated on May 02, 2013 12:29 AM PDT 362. # SeminarLyubeznik-like invariants of local rings of mixed characteristic (COMMA) Updated on Apr 29, 2013 01:56 PM PDT 363. # SeminarOn Fourier-Mukai type functors (NAGRT) Updated on May 01, 2013 12:20 PM PDT 364. # SeminarHow the P versus NP problem manifests itself in invariant theory (COMMA) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:48 AM PDT 365. # SeminarHamiltonian flow on complete intersections (NAGRT) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:49 AM PDT 366. # SeminarHochschild-Witt homology (NAGRT) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:47 AM PDT 367. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:48 AM PDT 368. # SeminarOn generalized Hilbert-Kunz function and multiplicity (COMMA) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:46 AM PDT 369. # SeminarA motivic approach to Potts models Updated on Apr 15, 2013 06:42 AM PDT 370. # SeminarRepresentation theory of Hecke algebras and connections with Cherednik algebras (NAGRT) Updated on Jul 17, 2013 10:48 AM PDT 371. # SeminarAn introduction to certain Frobenius invariants (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 12:41 PM PDT 372. # SeminarOverview of Combinatorial Game Theory Updated on Apr 19, 2013 08:04 AM PDT 373. # SeminarDefining a Notion of Noncommutative Complete Intersection via Point Modules (NAGRT) Updated on Apr 30, 2013 04:45 PM PDT 374. # SeminarVarious uniform bounds for very ample line bundles on toric varieties (COMMA) Updated on Apr 18, 2013 10:15 AM PDT 375. # SeminarF-singularities reading seminar: Vanishing theorems and lifting Updated on Jul 02, 2014 11:43 AM PDT 376. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Apr 19, 2013 02:45 AM PDT 377. # SeminarNoncommutative deformations of curves and spherical twists (NAGRT) Updated on Sep 11, 2013 10:23 AM PDT 378. # SeminarOpening of Frobenius Topics Updated on Apr 18, 2013 04:10 AM PDT 379. # SeminarSome results on local cohomology in positive characteristic (COMMA) Updated on Jun 25, 2014 11:12 AM PDT 380. # SeminarAutoequivalences arising from variation of GIT (NAGRT) Updated on May 17, 2013 04:45 PM PDT 381. # Seminar2013 Chern Lectures: Correspondences. Updated on Apr 10, 2013 07:12 AM PDT 382. # SeminarCOMMA Local Cohomology Day Updated on Apr 11, 2013 08:44 AM PDT 383. # SeminarAdjoint associativity: an invitation to higher algebra (COMMA) Updated on May 06, 2013 01:09 PM PDT 384. # SeminarGeigle-Lenzing spaces, d-canonical algebras and d-representation infinite algebras (NAGRT) Updated on Apr 11, 2013 03:05 AM PDT 385. # SeminarSpeculations on A-Hilb CC^4 for some diagonal Abelian groups A in SL(4), and on Hilb^n CC^3 (NAGRT) Updated on Apr 11, 2013 03:04 AM PDT 386. # SeminarF-singularities organizational meeting Updated on Apr 12, 2013 08:51 AM PDT 387. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Apr 16, 2013 03:02 AM PDT 388. # Seminar2013 Chern Lectures: Twistors and holomorphic geometry. Updated on Apr 10, 2013 07:12 AM PDT 389. # SeminarLocal cohomology with support in ideals of maximal minors and sub-maximal Pfaffians (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 390. # SeminarMSRI/NRing Women in Math Lunch Updated on Mar 07, 2013 02:02 AM PST 391. # SeminarThe 2013 Chern Lectures: Moduli spaces Updated on Apr 05, 2013 06:14 AM PDT 392. # SeminarGorenstein in codimension 4, applications and the general theory (COMMA) Updated on Apr 03, 2013 06:28 AM PDT 393. # SeminarThe 2013 Chern Lectures: Quaternionic manifolds Updated on Apr 05, 2013 06:04 AM PDT 394. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Jul 03, 2014 09:12 AM PDT 395. # WorkshopInteractions between Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry Organizers: Victor Ginzburg (University of Chicago), Iain Gordon (University of Edinburgh, UK), Markus Reineke (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany), Catharina Stroppel* (University of Bonn, Germany), and James Zhang (University of Washington) In recent years there have been increasing interactions between noncommutative algebra/representation theory on the one hand and algebraic geometry on the other. This workshop would aim to examine these interactions and, as importantly, to encourage the interactions between the three areas. The precise topics will become more precise nearer the time, but will certainly include: Noncommutative algebraic geometry; Noncommutative resolutions of singularities and Calabi-Yau algebras; Symplectic reflection and related algebras; D-module theory; Deformation-quantization Updated on May 14, 2013 12:12 PM PDT 396. # SeminarSome examples, theorems, and problems on asymptotic regularity (COMMA) Updated on May 13, 2013 04:20 PM PDT 397. # SeminarNew examples of hereditary categories with Serre duality (NAGRT) Updated on May 23, 2013 11:01 AM PDT 398. # SeminarCategory O over symplectic reflection algebras: a diagrammatic approach (NAGRT) Updated on Jun 25, 2014 10:46 AM PDT 399. # SeminarSuperduality Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 400. # SeminarDQ-modules on bionic symplectic manifolds Updated on Mar 28, 2013 09:36 AM PDT 401. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2013: Assessment of Mathematical Proficiencies in the Age of the Common Core Organizers: Mark Thames* (University of Michigan), Kristin Umland* (University of New Mexico), Noah Heller (Math for America) and Alan Schoenfeld (University of California, Berkeley) This workshop will explore the fundamental problems of trying to assess students' mathematical proficiency, seeking to take a more comprehensive perspective on what it is to learn, know, and use mathematics. The advent of the Common Core State Standards both increases the demand and broadens the conception of what it is to be mathematically skillful, and opens new opportunities and challenges to improving our ability to assess what students understand and can do. Updated on Sep 09, 2013 09:31 PM PDT 402. # SeminarHochster's Theta Pairing for Matrix Factorizations Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:29 PM PDT 403. # SeminarIrreducible components of varieties of representations (NAGRT) Updated on Mar 28, 2013 04:56 AM PDT 404. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Mar 28, 2013 06:41 AM PDT 405. # SeminarIntroduction to Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity (COMMA) Updated on May 02, 2013 01:42 PM PDT 406. # SeminarFrom Linear Algebra to Noncommutative Resolutions of Singularities (No April Fools\\' Joke!) Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:29 PM PDT 407. # SeminarCherednik algebras and affine Lie algebras at negative level (NAGRT) Updated on Aug 06, 2014 01:00 PM PDT 408. # SeminarCartier Crystals (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 02:07 PM PDT 409. # SeminarConstructing modules with prescribed cohomology (COMMA) Updated on Mar 22, 2013 07:58 AM PDT 410. # SeminarA-infinity structures associated with curves (NAGRT) Updated on Aug 25, 2014 11:44 PM PDT 411. # SeminarSemisimple Hopf actions on commutative domains (NAGRT) Updated on May 24, 2013 11:22 AM PDT 412. # SeminarTest Ideals of Non-principal Ideals (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 11:35 AM PDT 413. # SeminarCategorification (NAGRT) Updated on Aug 05, 2014 01:01 PM PDT 414. # SeminarMatrix Factorizations in Knot Theory (Matrix Factorization Day) Created on Mar 15, 2013 05:13 AM PDT 415. # SeminarOrlov spectra: bounds and gaps (Matrix Factorization Day) Created on Mar 15, 2013 05:10 AM PDT 416. # SeminarOrbifold completion of defect bicategories (Matrix Factorization Day) Created on Mar 15, 2013 05:12 AM PDT 417. # SeminarLandau-Ginzburg/CFT correspondence via Temperley-Lieb categories (Matrix Factorization Day) Updated on Mar 15, 2013 06:09 AM PDT 418. # SeminarHochschild homology, Grothendieck duality, and Brown representability (COMMA) Updated on May 17, 2013 04:46 PM PDT 419. # SeminarMorita theory of the affine Hecke category Updated on Aug 26, 2014 12:40 PM PDT 420. # SeminarCategorification (NAGRT) Updated on Aug 05, 2014 01:01 PM PDT 421. # SeminarLocal cohomology of modules of covariants Updated on May 23, 2013 02:59 PM PDT 422. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Mar 18, 2013 03:40 AM PDT 423. # WorkshopHot Topics: Surface subgroups and cube complexes Organizers: Ian Agol* (University of California, Berkeley), Danny Calegari (University of Chicago), Ursula Hamenstädt (University Bonn), Vlad Markovic (California Institute of Technology) Recently there has been substantial progress in our understanding of the related questions of which hyperbolic groups are cubulated on the one hand, and which contain a surface subgroup on the other. The most spectacular combination of these two ideas has been in 3-manifold topology, which has seen the resolution of many long-standing conjectures. In turn, the resolution of these conjectures has led to a new point of view in geometric group theory, and the introduction of powerful new tools and structures. The goal of this conference will be to explore the further potential of these new tools and perspectives, and to encourage communication between researchers working in various related fields. Updated on Jun 06, 2013 05:54 PM PDT 424. # SeminarGeometry of Hurwitz Spaces Updated on Mar 18, 2013 05:18 AM PDT 425. # WorkshopAWM Research Symposium 2013 Organizers: Hélène Barcelo (MSRI), Estelle Basor (AIM), Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ruth Charney (Brandeis University), Frank Farris (Santa Clara University), Jill Pipher (Brown University and ICERM) AWM launches a New Series of Biennial Research Symposia AWM Research Symposium 2013 will be held at Santa Clara University March 16 -17, 2013. The symposium, the initial event in the series, will showcase the research of women in the mathematical professions. It will feature three plenary talks, special sessions on a broad range of research in pure and applied mathematics, poster sessions for graduate students, and a panel discussion of the "imposter syndrome." Join us next spring on the Santa Clara University campus. Updated on Jun 06, 2013 05:54 PM PDT 426. # SeminarFree divisors: examples and conjectures (COMMA) Updated on Feb 02, 2014 11:58 AM PST 427. # SeminarModules over deformation quantization (NAGRT) Updated on May 16, 2013 03:34 PM PDT 428. # SeminarConformal field theory in a nutshell (COMMA) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 01:59 AM PST 429. # SeminarExistence of good ideals in 2-dimensional normal Gorenstein rings (COMMA) Updated on May 10, 2013 12:33 PM PDT 430. # SeminarThe Poincare series of modules over generic Gorenstein Artinian algebras (COMMA) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 02:02 AM PST 431. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 432. # SeminarMatrix factorizations of higher codimension (COMMA) Updated on Aug 25, 2014 01:20 PM PDT 433. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 01:42 AM PST 434. # SeminarCoxeter groups, path algebras and preprojective algebras (NAGRT) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 02:01 AM PST 435. # SeminarModules for elementary abelian groups and vector bundles on projective space Updated on May 24, 2013 10:08 AM PDT 436. # SeminarCOMMA Focus Area Seminar Updated on Dec 19, 2012 02:50 AM PST 437. # SeminarNoncommutative ruled surfaces Updated on May 24, 2013 12:22 PM PDT 438. # SeminarCategorification Updated on Aug 05, 2014 01:01 PM PDT 439. # SeminarSeparating invariants and finite reflection groups Updated on May 24, 2013 12:12 PM PDT 440. # Seminarlimits of graded families of ideals Updated on May 13, 2013 04:20 PM PDT 441. # SeminarSkew Calabi-Yau algebras and homological identities Updated on Sep 11, 2013 03:32 PM PDT 442. # SeminarBernstein-Sato polynomials, Jacobian ideals, and logarithmic vector fields Updated on May 28, 2013 08:06 AM PDT 443. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory: Resolution of length three, part 2 Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 444. # SeminarTensor Ideals and Varieties for Modules Updated on May 24, 2013 09:50 AM PDT 445. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 01, 2013 05:05 PM PDT 446. # SeminarKn{\o}rrer periodicity and finite MF representation type Updated on Aug 12, 2013 08:15 AM PDT 447. # SeminarMatrix factorizations and topological field theory Updated on May 24, 2013 11:13 AM PDT 448. # SeminarCategorification - Commons Room Updated on Jun 24, 2014 10:36 AM PDT 449. # SeminarInformal seminar on matrix factorizations Updated on Jul 14, 2014 09:14 AM PDT 450. # SeminarSplittings for Rings of Modular Invariants Updated on May 17, 2013 10:31 AM PDT 451. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory: Resolution of length three, part 1 Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 452. # SeminarOn the rank and decompositions of symmetric tensors Updated on May 01, 2013 05:05 PM PDT 453. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 24, 2013 11:03 AM PDT 454. # SeminarNoncommutative Unique Factorization in Quantum Algebras Updated on Sep 06, 2013 02:17 PM PDT 455. # SeminarAn Introduction to Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry Updated on May 24, 2013 11:18 AM PDT 456. # SeminarInvariants and separating morphisms Updated on May 24, 2013 12:12 PM PDT 457. # SeminarSingularity categories of small categories Updated on May 23, 2013 12:37 PM PDT 458. # SeminarSimilarities between algebra and topology across characteristics. Updated on May 23, 2013 09:23 AM PDT 459. # SeminarStudying local cohomology modules using invariant theory Updated on May 24, 2013 11:07 AM PDT 460. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory Seminar: Introduction to Vinberg representations Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 461. # SeminarModules of constant radical type and associated bundles Updated on Feb 12, 2013 01:44 AM PST 462. # SeminarA vanishing theorem for D-modules, and applications to t-structures for quantized symplectic varieties Updated on Aug 05, 2014 12:32 PM PDT 463. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 464. # SeminarInformal seminar on matrix factorizations Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:29 PM PDT 465. # SeminarDerived representation schemes and non-commutative geometry Updated on Feb 19, 2013 01:26 AM PST 466. # WorkshopRepresentation Theory, Homological Algebra, and Free Resolutions Organizers: Luchezar Avramov (University of Nebraska), David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley), and Irena Peeva* (Cornell University) The workshop will focus on recent breakthroughs in understanding and applications of free resolutions and on interactions of commutative algebra and representation theory, where algebraic geometry often appears as a third player. A specific goal is to stimulate further interaction between these fields. Updated on Aug 28, 2014 09:57 PM PDT 467. # SeminarMultiplicities of graded families of ideals Updated on May 13, 2013 04:20 PM PDT 468. # SeminarCounting Moduli of Quiver Representations with Relations Updated on Jan 29, 2013 05:26 AM PST 469. # SeminarBehrend's function is constant on Hilb^n(C^3) Updated on Jul 02, 2014 11:04 AM PDT 470. # SeminarSecant and tangential varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties Updated on May 24, 2013 09:51 AM PDT 471. # SeminarBeyond pure resolutions and vector bundles with supernatural cohomology: Complexes associated to triplets Updated on Jan 29, 2013 04:11 AM PST 472. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory Seminar: Introduction to Vinberg representations Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 473. # SeminarPeriodicity of Betti numbers of some semigroup rings Updated on Jun 25, 2014 09:25 AM PDT 474. # SeminarResidues and Duality for Schemes and Stacks Updated on Jan 31, 2013 01:16 AM PST 475. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Feb 01, 2013 08:26 AM PST 476. # SeminarKoszul homology of ideals generated by invariants and analogues of determinantal varieties Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 477. # Seminar(Quantum) fusion versus (quantum) intersection Updated on Aug 05, 2014 01:01 PM PDT 478. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory Organizers: Michael Artin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT), Michel Van den Bergh* (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and Toby Stafford (University of Manchester) This workshop will provide several short lecture series consisting two or three lectures each to introduce postdocs, graduate students and non-experts to some of the major themes of the conference. While the precise topics may change to reflect developments in the area, it is likely that we will run mini-series in the following subjects: Noncommutative algebraic geometry; D-Module Theory; Derived Categories; Noncommutative Resolutions of Singularities; Deformation-Quantization; Symplectic Reflection Algebras; Growth Functions of Infinite Dimensional Algebras. Updated on Aug 22, 2014 09:17 PM PDT 479. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory Organizers: Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin), Ellen Kirkman* (Wake Forest University), and Susan Sierra (Princeton University & University of Edinburgh) The Connections for Women workshop associated to the MSRI program in noncommutative algebraic geometry and representation theory is intended to bring together women who are working in these areas in all stages of their careers. As the first event in the semester, this workshop will feature a "tapas menu" of current research and open questions: light but intriguing tastes, designed to encourage further exploration and interest. Talks will be aimed at a fairly general audience and will cover diverse topics within the theme of the program. In addition, there will be a poster session for graduate students and recent PhD recipients and a panel discussion on career issues, as well as free time for informal discussion. Updated on Aug 28, 2014 09:33 PM PDT 480. # SeminarBuilding Cohen-Macaulay modules from a single module Updated on Jan 11, 2013 12:47 AM PST 481. # Seminar5-minute talks Updated on Jan 18, 2013 05:59 AM PST 482. # SeminarGalois groups of Schubert problems Updated on May 24, 2013 11:03 AM PDT 483. # ProgramNoncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory Organizers: Mike Artin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Viktor Ginzburg (University of Chicago), Catharina Stroppel (Universität Bonn , Germany), Toby Stafford* (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Michel Van den Bergh (Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium), Efim Zelmanov (University of California, San Diego) Over the last few decades noncommutative algebraic geometry (in its many forms) has become increasingly important, both within noncommutative algebra/representation theory, as well as having significant applications to algebraic geometry and other neighbouring areas. The goal of this program is to explore and expand upon these subjects and their interactions. Topics of particular interest include noncommutative projective algebraic geometry, noncommutative resolutions of (commutative or noncommutative) singularities,Calabi-Yau algebras, deformation theory and Poisson structures, as well as the interplay of these subjects with the algebras appearing in representation theory--like enveloping algebras, symplectic reflection algebras and the many guises of Hecke algebras. Updated on May 06, 2013 04:21 PM PDT 484. # SeminarEkedahl invariants for Finite Groups Created on Dec 17, 2012 06:06 AM PST 485. # SeminarHereditary Chip-Firing Ideals Updated on Dec 04, 2012 01:18 AM PST 486. # SeminarFock-Goncharov Reading Seminar Updated on Oct 19, 2012 03:09 AM PDT 487. # SeminarThe generic initial ideal of a matroid. Updated on Dec 07, 2012 03:34 AM PST 488. # SeminarGraded quiver varieties and quantum cluster algebras Updated on Dec 07, 2012 03:33 AM PST 489. # SeminarResolutions of monomial ideals using simplicial complexes Updated on Nov 30, 2012 01:44 AM PST 490. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Problem Session, Atrium Updated on Dec 07, 2012 12:44 AM PST 491. # SeminarHall algebra and Counting Updated on Dec 07, 2012 12:45 AM PST 492. # SeminarToric varieties, higher duals and polytopes Updated on Sep 05, 2013 02:03 PM PDT 493. # SeminarWhen do monomial ideals have linear resolutions? Updated on Dec 07, 2012 06:33 AM PST 494. # SeminarThe combinatorics of toric ideals of hypergraphs Updated on Dec 07, 2012 06:35 AM PST 495. # SeminarLogarithmic vector fields and curve configurations Updated on Jun 25, 2014 09:03 AM PDT 496. # SeminarJoint MSRI/NRing: Women in Mathematics Lunch Updated on Nov 28, 2012 06:48 AM PST 497. # SeminarConstruction of quantum clusters via noncommutative UFDs Updated on May 02, 2013 11:37 AM PDT 498. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Problem Session Updated on Nov 27, 2012 01:10 AM PST 499. # SeminarWonder of sine-Gordon Y-systems Updated on Nov 27, 2012 01:23 AM PST 500. # WorkshopCombinatorial Commutative Algebra and Applications Organizers: Winfried Bruns (Universität Osnabrück), Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University), Allen Knutson* (Cornell University), and Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley) This workshop on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra aims to bring together researchers studying toric algebra and degenerations, simplicial objects such as monomial ideals and Stanley-Reisner rings, and their connections to tropical geometry, algebraic statistics, Hilbert schemes, D-modules, and hypergeometric functions. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 01:20 PM PDT 501. # SeminarMonoidal Categorification of cluster algebras. Updated on Jul 07, 2014 11:24 AM PDT 502. # SeminarExamples of Frobenius splitting in combinatorial commutative algebra Updated on Nov 21, 2012 06:59 AM PST 503. # SeminarThe Positive Part of a Tropical Variety Updated on Nov 21, 2012 04:49 AM PST 504. # SeminarBox splines, polynomial interpolation, and zonotopal algebra Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:03 AM PDT 505. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Problem Session, Atrium Updated on Nov 20, 2012 01:23 AM PST 506. # SeminarRigidity of quantum tori and description of automorphism groups Updated on May 02, 2013 11:37 AM PDT 507. # SeminarIdeals generated by 2-minors Updated on Jul 14, 2014 09:14 AM PDT 508. # SeminarRees Algebras of Some Classes of Simplicial Complexes Updated on Nov 21, 2012 05:26 AM PST 509. # SeminarGreen's Hyperplane Restriction Theorem Updated on Jun 24, 2014 11:10 AM PDT 510. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Nov 21, 2012 05:13 AM PST 511. # SeminarThe Robbins phenomenon: cluster algebras and numerical p-adic arithmetic Updated on Nov 20, 2012 01:19 AM PST 512. # SeminarTropical Moduli Spaces Updated on Oct 18, 2012 11:07 AM PDT 513. # SeminarQuiver mutation and quantum dilogarithm identities Updated on Nov 16, 2012 02:29 AM PST 514. # SeminarPolytropes and Tropical Eigenspaces Updated on Nov 21, 2012 05:01 AM PST 515. # SeminarCohen-Macaulayness of large ordinary and symbolic powers of Stanley-Reisner ideals Updated on Jun 24, 2014 01:42 PM PDT 516. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Topics Updated on Nov 15, 2012 06:56 AM PST 517. # SeminarSplittings for Rings of Modular Invariants Updated on May 17, 2013 10:31 AM PDT 518. # SeminarTriangular and tropical properties of dual canonical bases of quantum cluster algebras Updated on Nov 15, 2012 06:57 AM PST 519. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:03 AM PDT 520. # Seminarj-multiplicity: A survey Updated on Nov 16, 2012 06:49 AM PST 521. # SeminarThe UC Berkeley Combinatorics Seminar Updated on Sep 10, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 522. # SeminarOn the computation of generalized Ehrhart series Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:22 PM PDT 523. # SeminarSecant Varieties, Symbolic Powers, Statistical Models Updated on Oct 19, 2012 02:31 AM PDT 524. # SeminarFock-Goncharov Reading Seminar: Surfaces and Wall-Crossing Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:08 AM PST 525. # SeminarMatroids over rings Updated on Nov 07, 2012 11:39 AM PST 526. # Seminarc-vectors as dimension vectors Updated on Nov 12, 2012 12:34 AM PST 527. # SeminarVector bundles on P^n and representations of GL_n Updated on Aug 25, 2014 01:20 PM PDT 528. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Topics Updated on Nov 08, 2012 04:55 AM PST 529. # SeminarGlicci ideals Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:11 AM PST 530. # SeminarRegularity of associated graded modules in dimension one Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:04 AM PST 531. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Aug 14, 2014 02:19 PM PDT 532. # SeminarAsymptotic triangulations Updated on Jul 02, 2014 11:03 AM PDT 533. # SeminarChip-Firing and Binomial Ideals Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:02 AM PST 534. # SeminarTwo short talks on some geometry Updated on Nov 01, 2012 06:04 AM PDT 535. # SeminarHigher Laminations and the Fock-Goncharov Duality Conjectures Updated on Aug 22, 2014 12:35 PM PDT 536. # SeminarHyperdeterminants of polynomials Updated on Nov 15, 2012 06:31 AM PST 537. # SeminarTensor complexes Updated on Sep 16, 2013 10:17 AM PDT 538. # SeminarRelations of minors Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:22 PM PDT 539. # SeminarThe Geometry of Generic Lagrangian Ffibres: An Illustrating Example Updated on Oct 31, 2012 09:46 AM PDT 540. # SeminarIntegrability of higher pentagram maps Updated on Oct 31, 2012 05:54 AM PDT 541. # SeminarThe Arithmetical Rank of the Edge Ideals of Whisker Graphs Updated on Nov 01, 2012 09:26 AM PDT 542. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Oct 31, 2012 06:23 AM PDT 543. # SeminarFrom Briancon-Skoda to Scherk-Varchenko: the story of the monodromy theorem Updated on May 01, 2013 04:41 PM PDT 544. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Jul 10, 2014 01:15 PM PDT 545. # SeminarCones of Hilbert Functions Updated on Oct 25, 2012 03:02 AM PDT 546. # WorkshopCluster Algebras in Combinatorics, Algebra, and Geometry Organizers: Claire Amiot (Université de Strasbourg), Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan), Bernard Leclerc (Université de Caen), and Andrei Zelevinsky* (Northeastern University) Cluster algebras provide a unifying algebraic/combinatorial framework for a wide variety of phenomena in settings as diverse as quiver representations, Teichmuller theory, Poisson geometry, Lie theory, discrete integrable systems, and polyhedral combinatorics. The workshop aims at presenting a broad view of the state-of-the-art understanding of the role of cluster algebras in all these areas, and their interactions with each other. Updated on Jul 10, 2014 10:40 AM PDT 547. # SeminarThree facets of the Lefschetz properties Updated on Jun 07, 2014 01:46 PM PDT 548. # SeminarThe pentagram map Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 549. # SeminarHigher analogues of Teichmuller spaces Updated on Oct 18, 2012 09:46 AM PDT 550. # SeminarThe moduli space of points on the projective line and its ring of invariants. Updated on Oct 18, 2012 05:07 AM PDT 551. # SeminarBertini Theorems over a finite field Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:44 AM PDT 552. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:03 AM PDT 553. # SeminarThe geometry of cluster algebras and locally acyclic cluster algebras Updated on Oct 17, 2012 04:42 AM PDT 554. # SeminarRecurrence relations and cluster algebras Updated on Oct 11, 2012 07:05 AM PDT 555. # SeminarCombinatorics of the abelian-nonabelian correspondence Updated on Feb 10, 2014 10:53 AM PST 556. # SeminarEquivariant aspects of Boij-Soederberg theory Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 557. # SeminarThe Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon Updated on Oct 12, 2012 02:42 AM PDT 558. # SeminarLower Bounds for the Arithmetical Rank of a Homogeneous Ideal in a Polynomial Ring Updated on Jul 09, 2014 08:47 AM PDT 559. # SeminarQuantum dilogarithms and a$q$-deformation of the X-space Updated on Oct 12, 2012 02:44 AM PDT 560. # SeminarDuality in Boij--Soederberg Theory (detailed) Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:44 AM PDT 561. # SeminarBounds on the number of generators of ideals Updated on Oct 11, 2012 02:40 AM PDT 562. # SeminarBrane Tilings and Cluster Algebras Updated on Sep 10, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 563. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 23, 2013 01:31 PM PDT 564. # SeminarCategorification of quiver mutation Updated on Oct 05, 2012 01:41 AM PDT 565. # SeminarDuality in Boij--Soederberg Theory (overview) Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:44 AM PDT 566. # SeminarInverse problem in cylindrical electrical networks Updated on Sep 21, 2012 04:01 AM PDT 567. # SeminarMinimal elements of linkage classes. Updated on Oct 05, 2012 02:02 AM PDT 568. # SeminarCategorification to Rank 2 Quantum Cluster Algebras Updated on Oct 05, 2012 07:13 AM PDT 569. # SeminarDilogarithms Updated on Oct 05, 2012 05:36 AM PDT 570. # SeminarOn the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves: Arithmetic invariant theory (Bowen Lecture) Updated on Oct 03, 2012 04:10 AM PDT 571. # SeminarSuperflatness Updated on Oct 03, 2012 02:18 AM PDT 572. # SeminarCones of Betti numbers and Hilbert functions Updated on Oct 03, 2012 02:15 AM PDT 573. # SeminarOn the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves: Hyperelliptic curves with a rational Weierstrass point (Bowen Lecture) Updated on Oct 03, 2012 04:08 AM PDT 574. # SeminarOn the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves: The rank of elliptic curves (Bowen Lecture) Updated on Oct 03, 2012 04:06 AM PDT 575. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:03 AM PDT 576. # SeminarCluster structures in rings of SL_3 invariants Updated on May 14, 2014 11:44 AM PDT 577. # SeminarOn singularity confinement for the pentagram map Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 578. # SeminarA Gentle Introduction to Quantum Cohomology Updated on Feb 10, 2014 10:53 AM PST 579. # SeminarLaminations and the Fock-Goncharov Conjectures for Surfaces and SL_2 Updated on Sep 10, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 580. # SeminarThe poset of Hilbert functions in graded algebras. Updated on Jul 10, 2014 11:51 AM PDT 581. # SeminarIntegral closures of ideals and modules Updated on May 28, 2013 10:20 AM PDT 582. # SeminarContinuous Cluster Categories Updated on Apr 30, 2013 04:44 PM PDT 583. # SeminarIntroduction to cluster algebras Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:10 AM PDT 584. # SeminarLinkage of ideals. Updated on Sep 25, 2012 03:09 AM PDT 585. # SeminarTropicalization method in cluster algebras Updated on Sep 21, 2012 03:54 AM PDT 586. # SeminarThe Fock-Goncharov Conjectures in type A_n Updated on Sep 21, 2012 08:39 AM PDT 587. # SeminarCanonical bases of cluster algebras via tropical geometry. Updated on Sep 21, 2012 02:12 AM PDT 588. # SeminarSyzygies, singularities and implicitization for tensor product surfaces Updated on Jun 07, 2014 01:46 PM PDT 589. # Seminar(Multigraded) Hilbert functions Updated on Sep 10, 2013 10:21 AM PDT 590. # SeminarBounds on the Projective Dimension of Ideals Updated on Sep 14, 2012 06:56 AM PDT 591. # SeminarParametrization of generic bases for cluster algebras Updated on Sep 20, 2012 02:43 AM PDT 592. # SeminarTropical Geometry Seminar Updated on Sep 13, 2012 09:25 AM PDT 593. # SeminarCommutative Algebra Open Problems Session Updated on May 27, 2014 04:18 PM PDT 594. # SeminarPositivity and greedy bases in rank 2 cluster algebras Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:10 AM PDT 595. # SeminarMustafin Varieties Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:03 AM PDT 596. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Jul 09, 2014 08:47 AM PDT 597. # SeminarUlrich ideals and modules. Updated on Jul 09, 2014 09:36 AM PDT 598. # Seminar5-minute talks Updated on Aug 30, 2012 04:56 AM PDT 599. # Seminar5-minute talks Updated on Aug 30, 2012 04:57 AM PDT 600. # SeminarLaurent phenomenon algebras II Updated on Sep 04, 2012 06:39 AM PDT 601. # SeminarVanishing of Tor, and why we care about it Updated on Sep 05, 2012 06:14 AM PDT 602. # SeminarLaurent phenomenon algebras I Updated on Sep 04, 2012 06:38 AM PDT 603. # SeminarHilbert coefficients : classical results and open problems Updated on Jul 09, 2014 08:47 AM PDT 604. # SeminarQUASI PERIODIC ORBITS: THE CASE OF THE NON LINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION Updated on Aug 24, 2012 05:52 AM PDT 605. # WorkshopJoint Introductory Workshop: Cluster Algebras and Commutative Algebra Organizers: David Eisenbud* (University of California, Berkeley), Bernhard Keller (Universit´e Paris VII, France), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), and Alexander Vainshtein* (University of Haifa, Israel) This workshop will take place at the opening of the MSRI special programs on Commutative Algebra and on Cluster Algebras. It will feature lecture series at different levels, to appeal to a wide variety of participants. There will be minicourses on the basics of cluster algebras, and others developing particular aspects of cluster algebras and commutative algebra. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 01:20 PM PDT 606. # WorkshopConnections For Women: Joint Workshop on Commutative Algebra and Cluster Algebras Organizers: Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame), Idun Reiten (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), and Lauren Williams* (University of California, Berkeley) This workshop will present basic notions from Commutative Algebra and Cluster Algebras, with a particular focus on providing background material. Additionally, the workshop aims to encourage and facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers in Commutative Algebra and researchers in Cluster Algebras. Updated on Jul 29, 2014 09:34 AM PDT 607. # ProgramCluster Algebras Organizers: Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan), Bernhard Keller (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France), Bernard Leclerc (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France), Alexander Vainshtein* (University of Haifa, Israel), Lauren Williams (University of California, Berkeley) Cluster algebras were conceived in the Spring of 2000 as a tool for studying dual canonical bases and total positivity in semisimple Lie groups. They are constructively defined commutative algebras with a distinguished set of generators (cluster variables) grouped into overlapping subsets (clusters) of fixed cardinality. Both the generators and the relations among them are not given from the outset, but are produced by an iterative process of successive mutations. Although this procedure appears counter-intuitive at first, it turns out to encode a surprisingly widespread range of phenomena, which might explain the explosive development of the subject in recent years. Cluster algebras provide a unifying algebraic/combinatorial framework for a wide variety of phenomena in settings as diverse as quiver representations, Teichmueller theory, invariant theory, tropical calculus, Poisson geometry, Lie theory, and polyhedral combinatorics. Updated on May 06, 2013 04:25 PM PDT 608. # ProgramCommutative Algebra Organizers: David Eisenbud* (University of California, Berkeley), Srikanth Iyengar (University of Nebraska), Ezra Miller (Duke University), Anurag Singh (University of Utah), and Karen Smith (University of Michigan) Commutative algebra was born in the 19th century from algebraic geometry, invariant theory, and number theory. Today it is a mature field with activity on many fronts. The year-long program will highlight exciting recent developments in core areas such as free resolutions, homological and representation theoretic aspects, Rees algebras and integral closure, tight closure and singularities, and birational geometry. In addition, it will feature the important links to other areas such as algebraic topology, combinatorics, mathematical physics, noncommutative geometry, representation theory, singularity theory, and statistics. The program will reflect the wealth of interconnections suggested by these fields, and will introduce young researchers to these diverse areas. New connections will be fostered through collaboration with the concurrent MSRI programs in Cluster Algebras (Fall 2012) and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory (Spring 2013). For more detailed information about the program please see, http://www.math.utah.edu/ca/. Updated on Aug 18, 2013 04:09 PM PDT 609. # ProgramComplementary Program 2012-13 Updated on May 21, 2013 12:44 PM PDT 610. # Summer Graduate SchoolModel Theory Organizers: David Marker* (University of Illinois, Chicago), Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley), Carol Wood (Wesleyan University). The workshop will consist of two minicourses, together with a selection of topical lectures. In the model theory course, o-minimality, and specifically the concrete example of the semi-algebraic sets of real numbers will provide the setting in which we introduce various fundamental results from model theory. The algebraic dynamics course will allow the introduction of concepts and proof techniques from number theory and algebraic geometry in the context of applications involving model theory. Toward the end of the workshop, the two minicourses will converge on the Pila-Wilkie theorem concerning points on analytic varieties, a result crucial in recent applications of o-minimality to diophantine geometry. Updated on Jul 21, 2014 11:56 AM PDT 611. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical General Relativity Organizers: Justin Corvino* (Lafayette College) and Pengzi Miao (University of Miami) Mathematical general relativity is the study of mathematical problems related to Einstein's theory of gravitation. There are interesting connections between the physical theory and problems in differential geometry and partial differential equations. The purpose of the workshop is to introduce graduate students to some fundamental aspects of mathematical general relativity, with particular emphasis on the geometry of the Einstein constraint equations and the Positive Mass Theorem. These topics will comprise a component of the upcoming semester program at MSRI in Fall 2013. There will be mini-courses, as well as several research lectures. Students are expected to have had courses in graduate real analysis and Riemannian geometry, while a course in graduate-level partial differential equations is recommended. Updated on May 20, 2014 04:35 PM PDT 612. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer 2012: Geometric Group Theory Organizers: Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah), Michah Sageev (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), and Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University) This Summer Graduate Workshop will be held in Park City, Utah. Some mobility between the Research in Mathematics and Graduate Summer School programs is expected and encouraged, but interested candidates should read the guidelines carefully and apply to the one program best suited to their field of study and experience. Postdoctoral scholars who are working in the field of Geometric Group Theory should apply to the Research Program in Mathematics, not to the Graduate Summer School. Graduate students who are beyond their basic courses and recent PhDs in all fields of mathematics are encouraged to apply to the Graduate Summer School. Funding will go primarily to graduate students. Postdoctoral scholars not working in the field of Geometric Group Theory should also apply, but should be within four years of receipt of their PhD. Deadline for submission of applications is January 31, 2012. Supplemental materials (such as Reference Letters) must be received in the PCMI office by February 4, 2012. Please plan accordingly. (Late applications may be accepted at the discretion of the organizers.) Response may be expected in early April. Financial support is available. Applicants are invited to request financial support by checking the appropriate boxes on the application form. Updated on Mar 20, 2012 11:44 AM PDT 613. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2012: Probabilistic Combinatorics Organizers: Louigi Addario-Berry* (McGill University), Luc Devroye (McGill University), Bruce Reed (McGill University) This Summer Graduate Workshop will be held in Montreal, Canada. One of the cornerstones of the probabilistic approach to solving combinatorial problems is the following guiding principle: information about global structure can be obtained through local analysis. This principle is ubiquitous in probabilistic combinatorics. It arises in problems ranging from graph colouring, to Markov chain mixing times, to Szemerédi's regularity lemma and its applications, to the theory of influences. The 2012 Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures brings together experts in probabilistic combinatorics from around the world, to explain cutting edge research which in one way or another exhibits this principle. Updated on May 07, 2013 11:14 PM PDT 614. # Summer Graduate SchoolNoncommutative Algebraic Geometry Organizers: Dan Rogalski* (University of California, San Diego), Travis Schedler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michael Wemyss (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) This workshop will introduce some of the major themes of the MSRI program "Interactions between Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry" to be held in the spring of 2013. There will be four mini-courses on the topics of noncommutative projective geometry, deformation theory, noncommutative resolutions of singularities, and symplectic reflection algebras. As well as providing theoretical background, the workshop will aim to equip participants with some intuition for the many open problems in this area through worked examples and experimental computer calculations. Updated on Aug 21, 2014 08:36 AM PDT 615. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:40 AM PST 616. # SeminarSOME REMARKS ON UNIFORM SPANNING TREES Updated on Aug 19, 2014 02:43 PM PDT 617. # SeminarMultispecies TASEP on a Ring and the Random Shape of an n-core partition Updated on May 14, 2012 05:35 AM PDT 618. # SeminarRandom geometric constructions and analytic capacity: the problems of Painlev\'e, Ahlfors, Denjoy, Vitushkin. Updated on May 09, 2012 02:06 AM PDT 619. # SeminarCompatibility of random sequences Updated on Aug 19, 2014 10:40 AM PDT 620. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:39 AM PST 621. # SeminarLipschitz embeddings of random sequences Updated on May 10, 2012 06:05 AM PDT 622. # SeminarRegularity of Schramm-Loewner Evolutions and Integration Updated on Aug 19, 2014 02:47 PM PDT 623. # SeminarNetwork Discovery in Large and/or Adversarial Real World Networks Updated on May 04, 2012 08:44 AM PDT 624. # SeminarStochastically induced bistability in Interacting Population Processes Updated on May 04, 2012 08:29 AM PDT 625. # SeminarEdge reinforced random walks, Vertex reinforced jump process, and the SuSy hyperbolic sigma model Updated on May 04, 2012 08:46 AM PDT 626. # SeminarScale-invariant random spatial networks Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:41 PM PDT 627. # WorkshopRandom Walks and Random Media Organizers: Noam Berger (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Nina Gantert (Technical University, Munich), Andrea Montanari (Stanford University), Alain-Sol Sznitman (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich), and Ofer Zeitouni* (University of Minnesota/Weizmann Institute) The field of random media has been the object of intensive mathematical research over the last thirty years. It covers a variety of models, mainly from condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, and geology, where one is interested in materials which have defects or inhomogeneities. These features are taken into account by letting the medium be random. It has been found that this randomness can cause very unexpected effects in the large scale behavior of these models; on occasion these run contrary to the prevailing intuition. A feature of this area, which it has in common with other areas of statistical physics, is that what was initially thought to be just a simple toy model has turned out to be a major mathematical challenge. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:09 PM PDT 628. # SeminarChip-firing games, potential theory on graphs, and spanning trees Updated on Apr 18, 2012 11:58 AM PDT 629. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:39 AM PST 630. # SeminarMixing times are hitting times of large setes Updated on Apr 20, 2012 07:29 AM PDT 631. # SeminarOn a sum of random projections Updated on Aug 14, 2014 02:44 PM PDT 632. # SeminarTen ways in which the 2d self-avoiding walk should converge to SLE Updated on Apr 18, 2012 11:06 AM PDT 633. # SeminarSelf-Avoiding Walk Updated on Aug 19, 2014 02:43 PM PDT 634. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:38 AM PST 635. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Feb 01, 2012 07:47 AM PST 636. # SeminarElection manipulation: the average-case Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:41 PM PDT 637. # SeminarRandom lozenge tilings of polygons and their asymptotic behavior Updated on Apr 11, 2012 11:52 AM PDT 638. # SeminarStability of functionals of Markov chains and of stochastic recursions Updated on Apr 11, 2012 11:54 AM PDT 639. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:38 AM PST 640. # SeminarRobust, dimension-free isoperimetry in Gaussian space Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:41 PM PDT 641. # SeminarLarge systems of diffusions interacting through their ranks Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:41 PM PDT 642. # SeminarA combinatorial point of view about M. Baker and S. Norine. Riemann Roch Theory for Finite Graphs Updated on Apr 03, 2012 09:46 AM PDT 643. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:37 AM PST 644. # SeminarCombinatorics of Determinantal facet ideals Updated on Jul 14, 2014 09:55 AM PDT 645. # SeminarStochastic Geometric Representations of the Quantum Ising Model in Transverse Field Updated on Mar 30, 2012 01:43 AM PDT 646. # SeminarThe parafermionic observable in the continuum Updated on Aug 19, 2014 02:47 PM PDT 647. # SeminarThe non-existence of symmetric measures on the plane and random geometric constructions Updated on Mar 29, 2012 10:01 AM PDT 648. # SeminarSampling Paths, Permutations and Lattice Structures Updated on Sep 11, 2013 02:04 PM PDT 649. # WorkshopStatistical Mechanics and Conformal Invariance Organizers: Philippe Di Francesco* (Commissariat à l' Énergie Atomique, CEA), Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University), Steffen Rohde (University of Washington ), and Scott Sheffield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) Our understanding of the scaling limits of discrete statistical systems has shifted in recent years from the physicists' field-theoretical approaches to the more rigorous realm of probability theory and complex analysis. The aim of this workshop is to combine both discrete and continuous approaches, as well as the statistical physics/combinatorial and the probabilistic points of view. Topics include quantum gravity, planar maps, discrete conformal analysis, SLE, and other statistical models such as loop gases. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:08 PM PDT 650. # SeminarChern-Simons Research Lecture Series: Stochastic Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE) from Statistical Conformal Field Theory (CFT): An Introduction for (and by) Amateurs. Updated on Mar 15, 2012 09:59 AM PDT 651. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:37 AM PST 652. # SeminarChern-Simons Research Lecture Series: Stochastic Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE) from Statistical Conformal Field Theory (CFT): An Introduction for (and by) Amateurs. Updated on Mar 15, 2012 09:58 AM PDT 653. # SeminarAdvanced Matrix Inversion Updated on May 29, 2013 09:25 AM PDT 654. # SeminarDyck tilings, linear extensions, inversions and descents Updated on Mar 14, 2012 07:24 AM PDT 655. # SeminarStability of functionals of Markov chains and of stochastic recursions Updated on Mar 16, 2012 03:04 AM PDT 656. # SeminarNew Extremes for Random Walk on a Graph Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:50 AM PDT 657. # SeminarChern-Simons Research Lecture Series: Stochastic Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE) from Statistical Conformal Field Theory (CFT): An Introduction for (and by) Amateurs. Updated on Mar 15, 2012 09:57 AM PDT 658. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:36 AM PST 659. # SeminarMiscellany on branching random walks Updated on Mar 12, 2012 02:26 AM PDT 660. # SeminarWeyl metrisability for projective surfaces Updated on Jul 02, 2014 11:04 AM PDT 661. # SeminarStatistical Mechanics of the Two-Dimensional Coulomb Gas Updated on Aug 19, 2014 02:13 PM PDT 662. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:36 AM PST 663. # SeminarScaling window for mean-field percolation of averages Updated on Mar 01, 2012 03:27 AM PST 664. # SeminarBiased domino tilings of the Aztec Diamond Updated on Mar 01, 2012 04:09 AM PST 665. # SeminarEstimating the probability of the needle to land near a Cantor set Updated on Feb 29, 2012 02:47 AM PST 666. # SeminarNoise and Exclusion Sensitivity Updated on Sep 13, 2013 09:10 AM PDT 667. # SeminarMulti-scale tools and dependent percolation Updated on Feb 22, 2012 12:09 PM PST 668. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:35 AM PST 669. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Feb 01, 2012 07:41 AM PST 670. # SeminarBowen Lecture: Many Particle Systems and Plasma Physics Updated on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 AM PST 671. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Feb 01, 2012 07:40 AM PST 672. # SeminarExtensions of the Duminil-Copin/Smirnov identity for SAWs Updated on Sep 06, 2013 03:34 PM PDT 673. # SeminarMixing time of the card-cyclic to random shuffle Updated on Feb 23, 2012 06:44 AM PST 674. # SeminarBowen Lecture: Many Particle Systems and Plasma Physics Updated on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 AM PST 675. # SeminarBowen Lecture: Many Particle Systems and Plasma Physics Updated on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 AM PST 676. # WorkshopPercolation and Interacting Systems Organizers: Geoffrey R. Grimmett (University of Cambridge), Eyal Lubetzky* (Microsoft Research), Jeffrey Steif (Chalmers University of Technology), and Maria E. Vares (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) Over the last ten years there has been spectacular progress in the understanding of geometrical properties of random processes. Of particular importance in the study of these complex random systems is the aspect of their phase transition (in the wide sense of an abrupt change in macroscopic behavior caused by a small variation in some parameter) and critical phenomena, whose applications range from physics, to the performance of algorithms on networks, to the survival of a biological species. Recent advances in the scope of rigorous scaling limits for discrete random systems, most notably for 2D systems such as percolation and the Ising model via SLE, have greatly contributed to the understanding of both the critical geometry of these systems and the behavior of dynamical stochastic processes modeling their evolution. While some of the techniques used in the analysis of these systems are model-specific, there is a remarkable interplay between them. The deep connection between percolation and interacting particle systems such as the Ising and Potts models has allowed one model to successfully draw tools and rigorous theory from the other. The aim of this workshop is to share and attempt to push forward the state-of-the-art understanding of the geometry and dynamic evolution of these models, with a main focus on percolation, the random cluster model, Ising and other interacting particle systems on lattices. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:08 PM PDT 677. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:35 AM PST 678. # SeminarInfinitely many non-intersecting random walks Updated on Feb 08, 2012 01:42 AM PST 679. # SeminarChallenges in first-passage percolation Updated on Feb 09, 2012 10:10 AM PST 680. # SeminarFirst passage percolation and escape strategies Updated on Feb 09, 2012 05:43 AM PST 681. # SeminarCounting tricks with symmetric functions Updated on Feb 06, 2012 03:42 AM PST 682. # SeminarSLE and conformal welding Updated on Sep 11, 2013 03:36 PM PDT 683. # WorkshopHot Topics: Thin Groups and Super-strong Approximation Organizers: Emmanuel Breuillard* (Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay), Alexander Gamburd (CUNY Graduate Center), Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Emmanuel Kowalski (ETH Zurich), Hee Oh (Brown University) The workshop will focus on recent developments concerning various quantitative aspects of "thin groups". These are discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups which are both « big » (i.e. Zariski dense) and « small » (i.e. of infinite co-volume). This dual nature leads to many intricate questions. Over the past few years, many new ideas and techniques, arising in particular from arithmetic combinatorics, have been involved in the study of such groups, leading for instance to far-reaching generalizations of the strong approximation theorem in which congruence quotients are shown to exhibit a spectral gap (super-strong approximation). Simultaneously and sometimes surprisingly, the study of thin groups turns out to be of fundamental importance in a variety of subjects, including equidistribution of homogeneous flows and lattice points counting problems, dynamics on Teichmuller space, the Bourgain-Gamburd-Sarnak sieve in orbit, and arithmetic or geometric properties of certain types of monodromy groups and coverings. The workshop will gather a variety of experts from group theory, number theory, ergodic theory and harmonic analysis to present the accomplishments to date to a broad audience and discuss directions for further study. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:00 PM PDT 684. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2012 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Robert Bryant (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), David Hoffman* (Stanford University), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz) The Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar meets 3 times each year and is a 1-day seminar on recent developments in differential geometry and geometric analysis, broadly interpreted. Typically, it runs from mid-morning until late afternoon, with 3-4 speakers. Lunch will be available and the final talk will be followed by dinner. Location: Stanford University Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:32 PM PDT 685. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:34 AM PST 686. # SeminarThe entropy of Schur-Weyl measures Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:09 PM PDT 687. # SeminarScaling limit of arbitrary genus random maps Updated on Jan 25, 2012 08:26 AM PST 688. # SeminarAbelian networks Updated on Jan 26, 2012 04:20 AM PST 689. # SeminarFrom random interlacements to coordinate percolation Updated on Aug 19, 2014 10:40 AM PDT 690. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 17, 2012 02:18 AM PST 691. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Jan 19, 2012 01:30 AM PST 692. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Created on Jan 19, 2012 01:28 AM PST 693. # SeminarPostdoc 5-Minute Talks Updated on Jan 24, 2012 04:13 AM PST 694. # SeminarRotor-routing, smoothing kernels, and reduction of variance: breaking the O(1/n) barrier Updated on Aug 19, 2014 02:46 PM PDT 695. # SeminarCombinatorics of Donaldson–Thomas and Pandharipande–Thomas invariants Updated on May 29, 2013 09:25 AM PDT 696. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Lattice Models and Combinatorics Organizers: Cédric Boutillier (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Tony Guttmann* (University of Melbourne), Christian Krattenthaler (University of Vienna), Nicolai Reshetikhin (University of California, Berkeley), and David Wilson (Microsoft Research) Research at the interface of lattice statistical mechanics and combinatorial problems of large sets" has been and exciting and fruitful field in the last decade or so. In this workshop we plan to develop a broad spectrum of methods and applications, spanning the spectrum from theoretical developments to the numerical end. This will cover the behaviour of lattice models at a macroscopic level (scaling limits at criticality and their connection with SLE) and also at a microscopic level (combinatorial and algebraic structures), as well as efficient enumeration techniques and Monte Carlo algorithms to generate these objects. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:00 PM PDT 697. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Discrete Lattice Models in Mathematics, Physics, and Computing Organizers: Beatrice de Tiliere (University Pierre et Marie Curie), Dana Randall* (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Chris Soteros (University of Saskatchewan) This 2-day workshop will bring together researchers from discrete mathematics, probability theory, theoretical computer science and statistical physics to explore topics at their interface. The focus will be on combinatorial structures, probabilistic algorithms and models that arise in the study of physical systems. This will include the study of phase transitions, probabilistic combinatorics, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, and random structures and randomized algorithms. Since discrete lattice models stand at the interface of these fields, the workshop will start with background talks in each of the following three areas: Statistical and mathematical physics; Combinatorics of lattice models; Sampling and computational issues. These talks will describe the general framework and recent developments in the field and will be followed with shorter talks highlighting recent research in the area. The workshop will celebrate academic and gender diversity, bringing together women and men at junior and senior levels of their careers from mathematics, physics and computer science. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:00 PM PDT 698. # ProgramRandom Spatial Processes Organizers: Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (Université de Bordeaux I, France), Richard Kenyon* (Brown University), Greg Lawler (University of Chicago), Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University), and Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research Laboratories) In recent years probability theory (and here we mean probability theory in the largest sense, comprising combinatorics, statistical mechanics, algorithms, simulation) has made immense progress in understanding the basic two-dimensional models of statistical mechanics and random surfaces. Prior to the 1990s the major interests and achievements of probability theory were (with some exceptions for dimensions 4 or more) with respect to one-dimensional objects: Brownian motion and stochastic processes, random trees, and the like. Inspired by work of physicists in the ’70s and ’80s on conformal invariance and field theories in two dimensions, a number of leading probabilists and combinatorialists began thinking about spatial process in two dimensions: percolation, polymers, dimer models, Ising models. Major breakthroughs by Kenyon, Schramm, Lawler, Werner, Smirnov, Sheffield, and others led to a rigorous underpinning of conformal invariance in two-dimensional systems and paved the way for a new era of “two-dimensional” probability theory. Updated on Aug 28, 2014 02:56 AM PDT 699. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Aug 31, 2011 10:13 AM PDT 700. # SeminarDefinitions of Quasiregularity in Metric Spaces Updated on Dec 09, 2011 05:16 AM PST 701. # WorkshopQuantitative Geometry in Computer Science Organizers: Irit Dinur (Weizmann Institute), Subhash Khot (Courant Institute), Manor Mendel* (Open University of Israel and Microsoft Research), Assaf Naor (Courant Institute), and Alistair Sinclair (University of California, Berkeley) Geometric problems which are inherently quantitative occur in various aspects of theoretical computer science, including a) Algorithmic tasks for geometric questions such as clustering and proximity data structures. b) Geometric methods in the design of approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, including the analysis of semidefinite programs and embedding methods. c) Geometric questions arising from computational complexity, particularly in hardness of approximation. These include isoperimetric and Fourier analytic problems. These include isoperimetric and Fourier analytic problems. This workshops aims to present recent progress in these directions. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:00 PM PDT 702. # SeminarAnalysis on the Grushin plane: Lipschitz and quasiconformal maps Updated on Nov 21, 2011 06:32 AM PST 703. # SeminarCompression bounds for wreath products Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:17 AM PDT 704. # SeminarLemma Poincaré for L_infty - forms Updated on Nov 22, 2011 05:43 AM PST 705. # SeminarGeometry of the space of probability measures Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 706. # SeminarThe Second Law of Probability: Entropy Growth in the Central Limit Theorem Updated on Oct 13, 2011 10:58 AM PDT 707. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Created on Nov 10, 2011 05:13 AM PST 708. # SeminarEmbeddings results for geodesic manifolds Updated on Mar 26, 2014 05:28 AM PDT 709. # SeminarGeodesics in the Heisenberg group Updated on Sep 05, 2013 02:38 PM PDT 710. # SeminarSphere packings and the space of high-dimensional lattices Created on Oct 31, 2011 02:54 AM PDT 711. # SeminarA self-dual polar decomposition for vector fields Updated on Oct 14, 2011 03:58 AM PDT 712. # SeminarA Whitney Extension Theorem for Sobolev spaces Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:17 AM PDT 713. # SeminarSome results on Hyperbolic Reflection Groups Updated on Nov 03, 2011 04:43 AM PDT 714. # SeminarMean curvature flow Updated on Sep 18, 2013 03:09 PM PDT 715. # SeminarFiniteness theorems for arithmetic manifolds of bounded volume. Created on Oct 31, 2011 02:55 AM PDT 716. # WorkshopChern Centennial Conference Organizers: Robert Bryant (Co-Chair, Mathematical Science Research Institute - MSRI), Yiming Long (Co-Chair, Chern Institute of Mathematics - CIM), Hélène Barcelo (Mathematical Science Research Institute - MSRI), May Chu (S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematical Research), and Lei Fu (Chern Institute of Mathematics - CIM). The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), in conjunction with the Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM) in Tianjin, China, celebrates the centennial of the birth of Shiing-Shen Chern, one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century and MSRI's co-founder. In commemoration of Chern's work, MSRI and CIM will hold a two-week international mathematics conference. During the first week, October 24 to 28, 2011, the conference will take place at CIM in Tianjin, China. During the second week, October 30 to November 5, 2011, the conference will be held at MSRI in Berkeley, California. The auditorium at MSRI can seat about 140 participants. We advise early registration. Updated on Mar 17, 2014 03:01 PM PDT 717. # SeminarA subelliptic divergence-curl inequality Updated on Nov 07, 2013 11:16 PM PST 718. # SeminarAssouad-Nagata dimension of connected Lie groups Updated on Oct 20, 2011 02:40 PM PDT 719. # Seminar"Tensor products" between metric spaces and Banach spaces Created on Oct 20, 2011 03:35 AM PDT 720. # SeminarDifferentiation at large scales Updated on Oct 13, 2011 10:54 AM PDT 721. # SeminarAn elementary introduction to monotone transportation Updated on Sep 04, 2013 12:05 PM PDT 722. # WorkshopEmbedding Problems in Banach Spaces and Group Theory Organizers: William Johnson* (Texas A&M University), Bruce Kleiner (Yale University and Courant Institute), Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute), Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (University of Alberta), and Alain Valette (Université de Neuchâtel) This workshop is devoted to various kinds of embeddings of metric spaces into Banach spaces, including biLipschitz embeddings, uniform embeddings, and coarse embeddings, as well as linear embeddings of finite dimensional spaces into low dimensional$\ell_p^n$spaces. There will be an emphasis on the relevance to geometric group theory, and an exploration into the use of metric differentiation theory to effect embeddings. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:06 PM PDT 723. # SeminarUniqueness of Self-similar Shrinkers under Mean Curvature Flow Updated on Oct 06, 2011 01:56 AM PDT 724. # SeminarDynamical Studies of Euclidean Minima Updated on Apr 01, 2014 02:19 PM PDT 725. # SeminarSoficity and Cremona groups Updated on Oct 06, 2011 01:53 AM PDT 726. # SeminarRandom walk on the torus Updated on Aug 03, 2014 05:39 AM PDT 727. # SeminarThe Dehn function of SL(n;Z) Updated on Aug 19, 2014 11:15 AM PDT 728. # SeminarDimension reduction in discrete metric geometry Updated on Oct 03, 2011 11:11 AM PDT 729. # SeminarFocal hyperbolic groups, contracting automorphisms and amenability (1) Updated on Oct 03, 2011 09:47 AM PDT 730. # SeminarFocal hyperbolic groups, contracting automorphisms and amenability (2) Updated on Oct 03, 2011 09:48 AM PDT 731. # SeminarRigidity of quasiisometries and quasisymmetric maps Updated on Oct 03, 2011 09:50 AM PDT 732. # SeminarNorms on homology and stable length of commutators Updated on Oct 04, 2011 10:36 AM PDT 733. # SeminarMirror symmetry for open Riemann surfaces Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:27 AM PDT 734. # SeminarRandom permutations and convex chains Updated on Aug 19, 2014 10:52 AM PDT 735. # SeminarThe rate of escape for random walks on some polycyclic and abelian-by-cyclic groups Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:17 AM PDT 736. # SeminarGeometric Derandomization Updated on Jul 07, 2014 08:16 AM PDT 737. # SeminarRD in higher rank Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:22 AM PDT 738. # SeminarPoincare inequalities, rigid groups and applications Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:20 AM PDT 739. # SeminarLattes maps and combinatorial expansion Updated on Jul 02, 2014 11:43 AM PDT 740. # SeminarRecent work on the Propeller Conjecture Updated on Jul 01, 2014 10:17 AM PDT 741. # SeminarTardos and Moser meet Lovasz Updated on Sep 23, 2011 01:48 AM PDT 742. # SeminarAn introduction to the Hanna Neumann Conjecture Updated on Feb 19, 2014 09:16 AM PST 743. # SeminarSimple connectivity is complicated: an introduction to the Dehn function Updated on Aug 19, 2014 11:15 AM PDT 744. # WorkshopProbabilistic Reasoning in Quantitative Geometry Organizers: Anna Erschler* (Université Paris-Sud), Assaf Naor (Courant Institute), and Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research) "Probabilistic Reasoning in Quantitative Geometry" refers to the use of probabilistic techniques to prove geometric theorems that do not have any a priori probabilistic content. A classical instance of this approach is the probabilistic method to prove existence of geometric objects (examples include Dvoretzky's theorem, the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma, and the use of expanders and random graphs for geometric constructions). Other examples are the use of probabilistic geometric invariants in the local theory of Banach spaces (sums of independent random variables in the context of type and cotype, and martingale-based invariants), the more recent use of such invariants in metric geometry (e.g., Markov type in the context of embedding and extension problems), probabilistic tools in group theory, the use of probabilistic methods to prove geometric inequalities (e.g., maximal inequalities, singular integrals, Grothendieck inequalities), the use of probabilistic reasoning to prove metric embedding results such as Bourgain's embedding theorem (where the embedding is deterministic, but its analysis benefits from a probabilistic interpretation), probabilistic interpretations of curvature and their applications, and the use of probabilistic arguments in the context of isoperimetric problems (e.g., Gaussian, rearrangement, and transportation cost methods). Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:06 PM PDT 745. # SeminarInvariant random subgroups and Benjamini-Schramm convergence Updated on Sep 14, 2011 04:18 AM PDT 746. # SeminarQuantitative Implicit Function and Extension Theorems for Lipschitz Maps. Updated on Aug 14, 2014 02:58 PM PDT 747. # SeminarControlled coarse homology and isoperimetric inequalities Updated on Sep 09, 2011 06:34 AM PDT 748. # SeminarDvoretsky\\'s Theorem Updated on Sep 12, 2013 10:45 AM PDT 749. # SeminarContracting the boundary of a Riemannian 2-disc Updated on Sep 08, 2011 09:08 AM PDT 750. # SeminarShort geodesic segments on closed Riemannian manifolds Updated on Sep 08, 2011 09:06 AM PDT 751. # SeminarGraph Sparsification Updated on Aug 19, 2014 11:22 AM PDT 752. # SeminarCounting paths in nilpotent and solvable groups Updated on May 01, 2014 04:19 PM PDT 753. # SeminarSmall-Set Expansion from Local Testability: derandomizing the noisy hypercube Updated on Sep 01, 2011 04:53 AM PDT 754. # SeminarSparser Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transforms Updated on Aug 31, 2011 10:09 AM PDT 755. # SeminarCovariance Estimation for Distributions with 2+ε Moments Updated on Aug 19, 2014 11:22 AM PDT 756. # SeminarRandom walks in Euclidean space Updated on Sep 01, 2011 10:22 AM PDT 757. # SeminarQuantitative Geometry Program: 5-Minute Introductions Updated on Aug 29, 2011 07:24 AM PDT 758. # SeminarQuantitative Geometry Program: 5-Minute Introductions Updated on Aug 29, 2011 07:24 AM PDT 759. # SeminarQuantitative Geometry Program: 5-Minute Introductions Updated on Aug 26, 2011 07:17 AM PDT 760. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Differentiability of Lipschitz functions and tangents of sets Updated on Sep 18, 2013 03:19 PM PDT 761. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Quantitative Geometry Organizers: Keith Ball (University College London), Eva Kopecka* (Mathematical Institute, Prague), Assaf Naor (Courant Institute), and Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research) Quantitative Geometry deals with geometric questions in which quantitative or asymptotic considerations occur. The workshop will provide a mathematical introduction, a foretaste, of the many themes this exciting topic comprises: geometric group theory, theory of Lipschitz functions, large scale and coarse geometry, embeddings of metric spaces, quantitative aspects of Banach space theory, geometric measure theory and of isoperimetry, and more. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 02:32 PM PDT 762. # WorkshopConnections for Women in Quantitative Geometry Organizers: Keith Ball* (University College London), Eva Kopecka (Mathematical Institute, Prague), Assaf Naor (Courant Institute), and Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research) This workshop will provide an introduction to the program on Quantitative Geometry. There will be several short lecture series, given by speakers chosen for the accessibility of their lectures, designed to introduce non-specialists or students to some of the major themes of the program. Updated on Aug 01, 2014 01:04 PM PDT 763. # ProgramQuantitative Geometry Organizers: Keith Ball (University College London, United Kingdom), Emmanuel Breuillard (Université Paris-Sud 11, France) , Jeff Cheeger (New York University, Courant Institute), Marianna Csornyei (University College London, United Kingdom), Mikhail Gromov (Courant Institute and Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France), Bruce Kleiner (New York University, Courant Institute), Vincent Lafforgue (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), Manor Mendel (The Open University of Israel), Assaf Naor* (New York University, Courant Institute), Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research Laboratories), and Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) The fall 2011 program "Quantitative Geometry" is devoted to the investigation of geometric questions in which quantitative/asymptotic considerations are inherent and necessary for the formulation of the problems being studied. Such topics arise naturally in a wide range of mathematical disciplines, with significant relevance both to the internal development of the respective fields, as well as to applications in areas such as theoretical computer science. Examples of areas that will be covered by the program are: geometric group theory, the theory of Lipschitz functions (e.g., Lipschitz extension problems and structural aspects such as quantitative differentiation), large scale and coarse geometry, embeddings of metric spaces and their applications to algorithm design, geometric aspects of harmonic analysis and probability, quantitative aspects of linear and non-linear Banach space theory, quantitative aspects of geometric measure theory and isoperimetry, and metric invariants arising from embedding theory and Riemannian geometry. The MSRI program aims to crystallize the interactions between researchers in various relevant fields who might have a lack of common language, even though they are working on related questions. Updated on Aug 28, 2014 02:30 PM PDT 764. # Summer Graduate SchoolCluster Algebras and Cluster Combinatorics Organizers: Gregg Musiker (University of Minnesota), Lauren Williams* (University of California, Berkeley) Cluster algebras are a class of combinatorially defined rings that provide a unifying structure for phenomena in a variety of algebraic and geometric contexts. A partial list of related areas includes quiver representations, statistical physics, and Teichmuller theory. This summer workshop for graduate students will focus on the combinatorial aspects of cluster algebras, thereby providing a concrete introduction to this rapidly-growing field. Besides providing background on the fundamentals of cluster theory, the summer school will cover complementary topics such as total positivity, the polyhedral geometry of cluster complexes, cluster algebras from surfaces, and connections to statistical physics. No prior knowledge of cluster algebras will be assumed. The workshop will consist of four mini-courses with accompanying tutorials. Students will also have opportunities for further exploration using computer packages in Java and Sage. Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 765. # Mathematics Professional Development InstituteSummer Institute for the Professional Development of Middle School Teachers 2011 (Wu Summer Institute) Organizers: Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley) Updated on May 02, 2013 10:33 PM PDT 766. # Summer Graduate SchoolToric Varieties in Cortona, Italy Organizers: Scientific Committee: David Cox* (Amherst College) and Hal Schenck (University of Illinois) Organizing Committee: Giorgio Patrizio (Università di Firenze, Italy) and Sandro Verra (Università di Roma Tre, Italy) In cooperation with INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica) and the SMI (Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria), MSRI will sponsor a summer graduate workshop (SGW) on toric varieties in Cortona during summer of 2011; the workshop will reprise the very successful SGW on toric varieties held at MSRI in 2009. Toric varieties are algebraic varieties defined by combinatorial data, and there is a wonderful interplay between algebra, combinatorics and geometry involved in their study. Many of the key concepts of abstract algebraic geometry (for example, constructing a variety by glueing affine pieces) have very concrete interpretations in the toric case, making toric varieties an ideal tool for introducing students to abstruse concepts. Special restrictions apply, please see the workshop homepage. Updated on May 07, 2013 11:14 PM PDT 767. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometric Measure Theory and Applications Organizers: Camillo De Lellis (Universität Zürich), Tatiana Toro* (University of Washington) Geometric Measure Theory (GMT) is a field of Mathematics that has contributed greatly to the development of the calculus of variations and geometric analysis. In recent years it has experienced a new boom with the development of GMT in the metric space setting which has lead to unexpected applications (for examples to questions arising from theoretical computer sciences). The goal of this summer graduate workshop is to introduce students to different aspects of this field. There will be 5 mini-courses and a couple of research lectures. We expect students to have a solid background in measure theory. Updated on Aug 19, 2014 10:21 AM PDT 768. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS-PCMI Summer School on Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces Organizers: Benson Farb (University of Chicago), Richard Hain (Duke University), and Eduard Looijenga (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) The study of moduli spaces of Riemann surface is a rich mixture of geometric topology, algebraic topology, complex analysis and algebraic geometry. Each community of researchers that studies these moduli spaces generates its own problems and its own techniques for solving them. However, it is not uncommon for researchers in one community to solve problems generated by another once they become aware of them. The goal of this summer school is to give graduate students a broad background in the various approaches to the study of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces so that they will be aware of the problems and techniques of many of the communities that study these fascinating objects. Graduate student participants from the various communities will be encouraged to interact with their colleagues from the other communities of students in order to maximize cross fertilization. Special restrictions apply, please see the workshop homepage. Updated on Apr 27, 2011 06:34 AM PDT 769. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2011. Metric Measure Spaces: Geometric and Analytic Aspects. Organizers: Galia Dafni* (Concordia University, Montreal), Robert McCann (University of Toronto), and Alina Stancu (Concordia University, Montreal) In cooperation with the CRM (Centre de Recherches Mathematiques), the Fields Institute, and the PIMS (Pacific Insitute for Mathematical Sciences), MSRI will sponsor a summer graduate workshop on Metric measure spaces: geometric and analytic aspects in Montreal, Canada. In recent decades, metric-measure spaces have emerged as a fruitful source of mathematical questions in their own right, and as indispensable tools for addressing classical problems in geometry, topology, dynamical systems and partial differential equations. The purpose of the 2011 summer school is to lead young scientists to the research frontier concerning the analysis and geometry of metric-measure spaces, by exposing them to a series of mini-courses featuring leading researchers who will present both the state-of-the-art and the exciting challenges which remain. Special restrictions apply, please see the workshop homepage. Updated on May 07, 2013 11:14 PM PDT 770. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2011: Mathematical Finance Organizers: Dr. Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Dr. Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Dr. Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), Dr. Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), and Dr. Suzanne Weekes*(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. Due to funding restrictions, only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply and the program cannot accept foreign students regardless of funding. Updated on Mar 07, 2012 08:55 AM PST 771. # Summer Graduate SchoolThe Dirichlet Space: Connections between Operator Theory, Function Theory, and Complex Analysis Organizers: Nicola Arcozzi (Universita' di Bologna), Richard Rochberg (Washington University), Eric T Sawyer (McMaster University), Brett D Wick* (Georgia Institute of Technology) This workshop will focus on the classical Dirichlet space of holomorphic functions on the unit disk. This space is at the center of several active, interrelated areas of research that, viewed more broadly, focus on the interaction between function theoretic operator theory and potential theory. There are several goals of this Summer Graduate Workshop. First, mathematically, the workshop will demonstrate the basic properties of the Dirichlet space, then introduce the technique of Trees in Function Spaces. The workshop will show the interconnections between the areas of Complex Analysis, Function Theory, and Operator Theory and will also illustrate the real-variable analogues of the analytic result discussed. Updated on Sep 12, 2013 10:19 AM PDT 772. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2011 Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus), Suzanne Weekes* (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS IS NOW CLOSED. The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support. Updated on May 01, 2013 11:54 PM PDT 773. # Summer Graduate SchoolCommutative Algebra Organizers: Daniel Erman (Stanford University), Irena Swanson* (Reed College), and Amelia Taylor (Colorado College) This workshop will involve a combination of theory and symbolic computation in commutative algebra. The lectures are intended to introduce three active areas of research: Boij-Söderberg theory, algebraic statistics, and integral closure. The lectures will be accompanied with tutorials on the computer algebra system Macaulay 2. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 01:20 PM PDT 774. # SeminarAS Informal Seminar Updated on Sep 12, 2013 08:53 AM PDT 775. # SeminarAS Informal Seminar Updated on Jul 03, 2014 08:45 AM PDT 776. # SeminarA two-phase problem with lower dimensional free boundary Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:28 PM PDT 777. # SeminarReflections on the semester and open discussion on future projects in arithmetic statistics Updated on Jul 03, 2014 08:45 AM PDT 778. # SeminarSelection and existence of solutions for several free boundary problems Created on May 06, 2011 05:53 AM PDT 779. # SeminarMoments of Rankin-Selberg Convolutions and Subconvexity Updated on May 09, 2011 09:20 AM PDT 780. # SeminarRegular Problems with Large Interactions and Free Boundary Problems Updated on Apr 27, 2011 09:12 AM PDT 781. # SeminarLagrangian solutions of semigeostrophic system Updated on Sep 06, 2013 10:17 AM PDT 782. # SeminarLower order terms of moments of L(1/2,chi_d) Created on May 06, 2011 06:10 AM PDT 783. # SeminarTowards a p-adic Cohen-Lenstra conjecture Updated on Dec 18, 2013 05:11 PM PST 784. # SeminarLinearization methods and viscosity solutions Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:42 PM PDT 785. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 30, 2011 05:52 AM PDT 786. # SeminarNumerics for surfaces and interfaces Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:26 AM PDT 787. # SeminarAS PD seminar Created on Apr 29, 2011 07:52 AM PDT 788. # SeminarPeriod functions of Eisenstein series and cotangent sums. Created on Apr 29, 2011 07:50 AM PDT 789. # SeminarPeriod functions of Eisenstein series and cotangent sums Created on Apr 28, 2011 06:00 AM PDT 790. # Seminar2011 Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture : "Patterns in the primes" Updated on Apr 15, 2011 08:58 AM PDT 791. # SeminarJumping Champions for Prime Gaps Updated on Apr 22, 2011 09:02 AM PDT 792. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 30, 2011 05:52 AM PDT 793. # SeminarWell-posedness of the two and three dimensional full water wave problem Updated on Apr 21, 2011 09:36 AM PDT 794. # SeminarUndercompressible shock waves and moving phase boundaries Updated on Jul 02, 2014 08:50 AM PDT 795. # SeminarWaves with prescribed distribution of vorticity Updated on Apr 18, 2011 02:20 AM PDT 796. # SeminarExplicit Formula Informal Study Group Updated on Jul 03, 2014 08:45 AM PDT 797. # SeminarHigher Mahler measure and Lehmer's question Created on Apr 21, 2011 09:15 AM PDT 798. # SeminarSingular Jacobi Forms of Number Fields Updated on Apr 21, 2011 09:40 AM PDT 799. # SeminarBoundary singular solutions associated with connecting thin tubes Refreshments after lecture at La Val's Pizza. Updated on Apr 19, 2011 04:28 AM PDT 800. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 30, 2011 05:50 AM PDT 801. # SeminarCounting Points on Curves over Finite Fields Refreshments after lecture at La Val's Pizza Updated on Apr 05, 2011 09:14 AM PDT 802. # SeminarNew computations of the Riemann zeta function Updated on Feb 19, 2014 08:53 AM PST 803. # SeminarComputing critical values of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions, with an eye toward their moments. Created on Apr 15, 2011 09:13 AM PDT 804. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 05, 2011 05:14 AM PDT 805. # SeminarGeometry of non local and non local phase transitions in some geometrical frameworks Created on Apr 08, 2011 03:18 AM PDT 806. # SeminarStokes waves among global free-boundary problems Updated on Apr 11, 2011 09:06 AM PDT 807. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 05, 2011 05:13 AM PDT 808. # SeminarPorous Medium Flows: from local to nonlocal models III Updated on Apr 08, 2011 03:21 AM PDT 809. # SeminarReview and recent works on the large time asymptotics for Hamilton-Jacobi equations Created on Apr 08, 2011 06:19 AM PDT 810. # WorkshopArithmetic Statistics Organizers: Brian Conrey (American Institute of Mathematics), Barry Mazur (Harvard University), and Michael Rubinstein* (University of Waterloo) Our workshop will highlight some work relevant to or carried out during our program at the MSRI, including statistical results about ranks for elliptic curves, zeros of L-functions, curves over finite fields, as well as algorithms for L-functions, point counting, and automorphic forms. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:06 PM PDT 811. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 05, 2011 05:12 AM PDT 812. # SeminarAS-Informal Study Group Updated on Jul 03, 2014 08:45 AM PDT 813. # SeminarFloating Drops: a survey of problems and results, with a focus on symmetry Updated on Dec 04, 2013 01:29 PM PST 814. # SeminarCentral values of the symmetric square L-functions Created on Apr 07, 2011 09:31 AM PDT 815. # SeminarExplicit Formula Seminar: "Bounds on gaps between zeros of L-functions" Updated on Feb 19, 2014 08:53 AM PST 816. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 04, 2011 03:13 AM PDT 817. # SeminarPorous Medium Flows: from local to nonlocal models II Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:38 AM PDT 818. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group: Square-free values of discriminant polynomials. Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:39 AM PDT 819. # SeminarNon-Degeneracy of an Elliptic-Free Boundary Problem Updated on Jul 07, 2014 08:16 AM PDT 820. # SeminarMoment Polynomials for the Riemann Zeta Function Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:37 AM PDT 821. # SeminarAverages of central L-values Updated on Apr 01, 2011 08:17 AM PDT 822. # SeminarFBP-Informal Seminar Updated on Apr 01, 2011 03:03 AM PDT 823. # SeminarBay Area Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Day II Updated on Mar 25, 2011 04:26 AM PDT 824. # SeminarPorous Medium Flows: from local to nonlocal models Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:45 AM PDT 825. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group: Square-free values of discriminant polynomials. Updated on Mar 25, 2011 06:19 AM PDT 826. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar FBP-TBA Created on Mar 25, 2011 06:05 AM PDT 827. # Seminar"Computing L-functions in SAGE" Created on Mar 23, 2011 08:26 AM PDT 828. # SeminarAsymptotics for the coefficients of Kac-Wakimoto characters Updated on Mar 25, 2011 06:40 AM PDT 829. # SeminarLinearization Techniques in Free Boundary Problems Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\\\\\'s Pizza. Updated on Mar 17, 2011 04:25 AM PDT 830. # SeminarA Short Introduction to Free-boundary Problems for Incompressible and Compressible Fluid Dynamics Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:43 AM PDT 831. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros: Alternatives to Dirichlet Series Amplifiers Updated on Mar 18, 2011 09:19 AM PDT 832. # SeminarA Short Introduction to Free-boundary Problems for Incompressible and Compressible Fluid Dynamics Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:43 AM PDT 833. # SeminarHolder extensions and a non-local and non-linear operator. Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:50 AM PDT 834. # SeminarCurious q-series and Jacobi Theta functions Updated on Mar 18, 2011 09:27 AM PDT 835. # SeminarCohomology of Bianchi Groups and Arithmetic Updated on Mar 07, 2011 03:28 AM PST 836. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 14, 2011 09:03 AM PDT 837. # SeminarFree boundary problem posed by Guy David and Calder'on--Zygmund capacities Updated on Mar 14, 2011 09:02 AM PDT 838. # SeminarQuadratic Twists reading group Created on Mar 10, 2011 06:52 AM PST 839. # SeminarNon-linear problems involving integro-differential equations Updated on Mar 14, 2011 09:01 AM PDT 840. # SeminarSSL group, course "Space Weather" Group will visit the first floor terrace to catch a view of the satellite dish. Created on Mar 10, 2011 01:27 AM PST 841. # SeminarElliptic curves of arbitrarily large rank (Over Function Fields) Updated on Mar 14, 2011 08:03 AM PDT 842. # SeminarElliptic curves, their companions, and their statistics Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\'s Pizza. Updated on May 22, 2014 12:16 PM PDT 843. # SeminarFun talk on high precision computation of number theoretical constants Updated on Mar 08, 2011 07:03 AM PST 844. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros: Analytic rank of$J_0(N)$Updated on Mar 08, 2011 07:02 AM PST 845. # SeminarEmpirical Evidence for an Arithmetic Analogue of Nevanlinna's Five Value Theorem Updated on Feb 28, 2011 07:57 AM PST 846. # WorkshopFree Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications Organizers: John King (University of Nottingham), Arshak Petrosyan* (Purdue University), Henrik Shahgholian (Royal Institute of Technology), and Georg Weiss (University of Dusseldorf) Many problems in physics, industry, finance, biology, and other areas can be described by partial differential equations that exhibit apriori unknown sets, such as interfaces, moving boundaries, shocks, etc. The study of such sets, also known as free boundaries, often occupies a central position in such problems. The main objective of the workshop is to bring together experts in various theoretical an applied aspects of free boundary problems. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:05 PM PDT 847. # SeminarNewforms and multiplicities on$\Gamma_0(9)$Updated on Mar 07, 2011 12:04 AM PST 848. # SeminarNonlinear diffusion and free boundaries. From porous media to fractional diffusion Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\\\\\\\\\'s Pizza. Updated on Feb 18, 2011 03:47 AM PST 849. # SeminarThe field of Fourier coefficients of a modular form Updated on Feb 28, 2011 08:12 AM PST 850. # SeminarNon-linear problems involving integro-differential equations Updated on Feb 18, 2011 04:20 AM PST 851. # SeminarLow lying zeros: Lower order terms for the one-level density of elliptic curve L-functions Updated on Feb 22, 2011 05:02 AM PST 852. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group Updated on Feb 15, 2011 07:12 AM PST 853. # SeminarNon-linear problems involving integro-differential equations Updated on Feb 18, 2011 04:19 AM PST 854. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar AS-TBA Updated on Mar 25, 2011 06:03 AM PDT 855. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminars FBP Created on Feb 18, 2011 04:31 AM PST 856. # SeminarLow Lying zeros seminar: Petersson's formula and related topics Updated on Feb 18, 2011 04:11 AM PST 857. # SeminarFree boundary problems with surface tension. Updated on Feb 18, 2011 03:58 AM PST 858. # SeminarFree boundary problems with surface tension Updated on Feb 18, 2011 03:57 AM PST 859. # SeminarAS-FRG Project Updated on Sep 12, 2013 08:53 AM PDT 860. # SeminarObstacle type problems and its ramifications Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:47 AM PST 861. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Jul 03, 2014 08:45 AM PDT 862. # SeminarInformal study group for 2-Selmer Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:45 AM PST 863. # Seminar"Shape optimization: an introduction" Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:33 AM PST 864. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:43 AM PST 865. # SeminarA problem related to the ABC conjecture Updated on Feb 13, 2011 03:01 AM PST 866. # SeminarBrandt module of ternary quadratic forms Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:59 AM PST 867. # WorkshopWorkshop on Mathematics Journals Organizers: James M Crowley (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Susan Hezlet* (London Mathematical Society), Robion C Kirby (University of California, Berkeley), and Donald E McClure (American Mathematical Society) Mathematics relies on its journal literature as the main conduit for peer review and dissemination of research, and it does so more heavily and differently to other scientific fields. The conflict between universal access and the traditional subscription model that funds the journals has been debated for the past decade, while hard data on financial sustainability and usage under the different models has been slow to appear. However the last ten years have seen the move from print to the electronic version of journals becoming the version of record and the workshop plans to take an evidence-based approach to discussing dissemination, access and usage of mathematics journals. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:00 PM PDT 868. # SeminarNonlocal equations and new notions of curvature Updated on Feb 13, 2011 03:00 AM PST 869. # SeminarThe Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\\\\\'s Pizza. Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:31 AM PST 870. # SeminarAS-FRG Project Updated on Jan 28, 2011 05:27 AM PST 871. # SeminarOrder and Chaos Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:54 PM PDT 872. # SeminarElastic Free Energies and many body Hamiltonians, covering possible phase change too. Updated on Feb 07, 2011 04:38 AM PST 873. # SeminarA free boundary problem related to complex dynamics Updated on Feb 07, 2011 04:32 AM PST 874. # SeminarLow-Lying Zeros" Created on Feb 07, 2011 04:39 AM PST 875. # SeminarInformal reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:59 PM PDT 876. # Seminar"Shape optimization: an introduction" Updated on Feb 04, 2011 05:29 AM PST 877. # SeminarAS-Informal Study Group Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:36 AM PST 878. # Seminar"Low-lying zeros of Dedekind zeta functions" Pizza Lunch Updated on Feb 04, 2011 05:52 AM PST 879. # SeminarMSRI-Evans Lecture- Henryk Iwaniec Refreshments after lecture at La Val's Pizza. Updated on Jan 15, 2011 08:15 AM PST 880. # SeminarRegularity for Elliptic Equations with Discontinous BMO Coefficients in Reifenberg Flat Domains Pizza Lunch Updated on Feb 04, 2011 05:25 AM PST 881. # SeminarA factorization method for non-symmetric linear operator: enlargement of the functional space while preserving hypo-coercivity. Updated on Feb 01, 2011 03:49 AM PST 882. # SeminarWell-posedness of the 3-D compressible Euler equations with moving vacuum boundary Updated on Jan 28, 2011 04:54 AM PST 883. # SeminarFBP-Working Seminar-TBA Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:27 AM PST 884. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminars FBP Pizza Lunch Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:17 AM PST 885. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Arithmetic Statistics Organizers: Barry Mazur (Harvard University), Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College), and Michael Rubinstein* (University of Waterloo) Our Introductory Workshop will focus largely on the background, recent work, and current problems regarding: Selmer groups and Mordell-Weil groups, and the distribution of their ranks (and "sizes") over families of elliptic curves, including recent work of Manjul Bhargava and Arul Shankar where they have shown that the average size of the 2-Selmer group of an elliptic curve over Q is 3, and thereby obtains information about the average rank of Mordell-Weil groups; related work on the asymptotics of number fields; certain natural families of L-functions, and the statistical distribution of their zeros and values; complementary algorithmic methods and experimental results regarding L-functions, automorphic forms, elliptic curves and number fields; the statistical behavior of eigenvalues of Frobenius elements in Galois representations. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:00 PM PDT 886. # Seminar"A variational approach to isoperimetric inequalities" Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:44 AM PST 887. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Arithmetic Statistics Organizers: Chantal David (Concordia University) and Nina Snaith* (University of Bristol) The format of this 2-day workshop will be colloquium-style presentations that will introduce some of the major topics touched on by the "Arithmetic Statistics" program. They will be pitched so as to be understandable to researchers with a variety of mathematical backgrounds. The talks are designed broadly as a lead-in to the program's initial workshop (taking place the following week) and will include topics such as the Sato-Tate conjecture, random matrix theory, and enumeration of number fields. The purpose will be to provide background but also to present the exciting areas where progress is happening fast, where major problems have been solved, or where there are significant open questions that need to be tackled. With this we aim to provide motivation for the Connections participants to involve themselves with the remainder of the program. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:27 PM PDT 888. # Seminar"Mathematical modelling of tissue growth" Created on Jan 24, 2011 08:50 AM PST 889. # Seminar"Mathematical modelling of tissue growth" Created on Jan 24, 2011 08:45 AM PST 890. # Seminar"5-Minute Presentations" Pizza Lunch 12pm-1:30pm Created on Jan 24, 2011 01:22 AM PST 891. # Seminar"Cohen-Lenstra heuristics" (Informal Reading Group) Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:59 PM PDT 892. # SeminarArithmetic Statistics- Informal Study Group Updated on Jan 24, 2011 01:18 AM PST 893. # SeminarFree Boundary Problems Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\'s Pizza. Updated on Jul 07, 2014 08:16 AM PDT 894. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications Organizers: Tatiana Toro* (University of Washington) Many problems in physics, industry, finance, biology, and other areas can be described by partial differential equations that exhibit a priori unknown sets, such as interfaces, moving boundaries or shocks for example. The study of such sets, also known as free boundaries, often plays a central role in the understanding of such problems. The aim of this workshop is to introduce several free boundary problems arising in completely different areas. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:00 PM PDT 895. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications Organizers: Catherine Bandle (University of Basel), Claudia Lederman (University of Buenos Aires), Noemi Wolanski (University of Buenos Aires) Contributions of women working in areas related to free boundary problems will be presented. It will include survey lectures on current problems and on standard techniques used in this field, as well as more specific new results of individual researchers. One of the major goals besides the scientific aspect, is to encourage women mathematicians to interact and to build networks. It addresses also to graduate students who are very welcome. A discussion on women’s experiences in the mathematical community should help them to find their way in their mathematical career. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:59 PM PDT 896. # ProgramArithmetic Statistics Organizers: Brian Conrey (American Institute of Mathematics), John Cremona (University of Warwick, United Kingdom), Barry Mazur (Harvard University), Michael Rubinstein* (University of Waterloo, Canada ), Peter Sarnak (Princeton University), Nina Snaith (University of Bristol, United Kingdom), and William Stein (University of Washington) L -functions attached to modular forms and/or to algebraic varieties and algebraic number fields are prominent in quite a wide range of number theoretic issues, and our recent growth of understanding of the analytic properties of L-functions has already lead to profound applications regarding among other things the statistics related to arithmetic problems. This program will emphasize statistical aspects of L-functions, modular forms, and associated arithmetic and algebraic objects from several different perspectives — theoretical, algorithmic, and experimental. Updated on Aug 28, 2014 12:23 PM PDT 897. # ProgramFree Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications Organizers: Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas, Austin), Henri Berestycki (Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales, France), Laurence C. Evans (University of California, Berkeley), Mikhail Feldman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), John Ockendon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Arshak Petrosyan (Purdue University), Henrik Shahgholian* (The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Tatiana Toro (University of Washington), and Nina Uraltseva (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia) This program aims at the study of various topics within the area of Free Boundaries Problems, from the viewpoints of theory and applications. Many problems in physics, industry, finance, biology, and other areas can be described by partial differential equations that exhibit apriori unknown sets, such as interfaces, moving boundaries, shocks, etc. The study of such sets, also known as free boundaries, often occupies a central position in such problems. The aim of this program is to gather experts in the field with knowledge of various applied and theoretical aspects of free boundary problems. Updated on Aug 28, 2014 12:01 PM PDT 898. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 899. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 900. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 901. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 902. # SeminarPostdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar TBA Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 903. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 904. # SeminarThe d-bar approach to inverse scattering and solution of the Davey-Stewartson Equations Updated on Dec 05, 2010 06:26 AM PST 905. # SeminarEstimates for a family of multi-linear forms and the continuity of a scattering map in two dimensions. Updated on Dec 05, 2010 06:25 AM PST 906. # SeminarGluing semiclassical resolvent estimates via propagation of singularities. Pizza Lunch Updated on Aug 14, 2014 02:45 PM PDT 907. # SeminarNew non-elliptic methods in the analysis of conformally compact (asymptotically hyperbolic) spaces Updated on Dec 05, 2010 06:22 AM PST 908. # WorkshopRandom Matrix Theory and its Applications II Organizers: Alexei Borodin* (California Institute of Technology), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alice Guionnet (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Pierre van Moerbeke (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Brandeis University), and Craig A.Tracy (University of California, Davis) Random matrix theory (RMT) was introduced into the theoretical physics community by Eugene Wignerinthe 1950s as a model for the scattering resonances of neutrons off large nuclei. In multivariate statistics, random matrix models were introduced in the late 1920s by John Wishart and subsequently developed by Anderson, James and others. Since these early beginnings RMT has found an extraordinary variety of mathematical, physical and engineering applications that, to name some, include number theory, stochastic growth models, tiling problems and wireless communications. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:00 PM PDT 909. # SeminarApproximation of inverse boundary value problems by phase-field methods Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:35 AM PST 910. # SeminarRandom sorting networks Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:33 AM PST 911. # SeminarGaussian fluctuations for Plancherel partitions Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:34 AM PST 912. # SeminarWhite noise approximation for propagation and imaging in random media Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:27 AM PST 913. # SeminarLimits of spiked random matrices Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:31 AM PST 914. # SeminarHermitian matrix models with spiked external source Updated on Sep 04, 2013 11:36 AM PDT 915. # SeminarNon-intersecting Brownian Motions at a Tacnode: Soft and Hard Edge Case. Pizza Lunch Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:22 AM PST 916. # SeminarLower bounds for the volume of the nodal sets Pizza Lunch Updated on Dec 19, 2013 01:12 PM PST 917. # SeminarUnique continuation problems for pde's with rough coefficients Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:21 AM PST 918. # SeminarA tale of two tiling problems Updated on May 29, 2013 09:25 AM PDT 919. # SeminarTau functions and convolution symmetries: applications to random matrices Updated on Nov 19, 2010 08:28 AM PST 920. # SeminarGibbs resampling properties: droplet boundaries, and non-intersecting diffusions Updated on Jul 03, 2014 09:15 AM PDT 921. # SeminarHarmonic maps into conic surfaces with cone angles less than$2\pi$Updated on Nov 22, 2010 03:33 AM PST 922. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 923. # WorkshopSIAM/MSRI workshop on Hybrid Methodologies for Symbolic-Numeric Computation Organizers: Mark Giesbrecht (University of Waterloo), Erich Kaltofen* (North Carolina State University), Daniel Lichtblau (Wolfram Research), Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University), and Lihong Zhi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) This workshop will provide a forum for researchers on both sides (and the middle!) of hybrid symbolic-numeric computation. We anticipate inviting as primary speakers some of the original contributors in the field, as well as younger researchers making strong contributions on different aspects of the field. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 924. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 925. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 926. # SeminarPostdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar TBA Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 927. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 928. # SeminarExploring the Free World Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 929. # SeminarModelling the Free World Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 930. # SeminarDiscovering the Free World Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 931. # SeminarElliptic distributions on stepped surfaces and an elliptic biorthogonal ensemble Updated on Nov 05, 2010 04:14 AM PDT 932. # SeminarDihedral symmetry and the Razumov-Stroganov Ex-Conjecture Pizza Lunch Updated on Nov 05, 2010 07:12 AM PDT 933. # WorkshopInverse Problems: Theory and Applications Organizers: Liliana Borcea (Rice University), Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago), Maarten de Hoop (Purdue University), Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University), Lassi Paivarinta (University of Helsinki), and Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington) Inverse Problems are problems where causes for a desired or an observed effect are to be determined. They lie at the heart of scientific inquiry and technological development. Applications include a number of medical as well as other imaging techniques, location of oil and mineral deposits in the earth's substructure, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes, and modelling in the life sciences. The speakers in the workshop will cover a broad range of the most recent developments in the theory and applications of inverse problems. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:59 PM PDT 934. # SeminarTunnel effect and symmetries for Kramers-Fokker-Planck type operators Updated on Oct 29, 2010 05:43 AM PDT 935. # SeminarInverse Problems for Classical and Quantum Random Walks Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:29 AM PDT 936. # SeminarTwo groups of non-colliding Brownian motions Updated on Oct 29, 2010 05:54 AM PDT 937. # Seminar"Random matrix perturbations and quantization of tori" Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:41 PM PDT 938. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 939. # SeminarInversion of the Born Series in Optical Tomography Updated on Oct 29, 2010 05:26 AM PDT 940. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 941. # SeminarGeometric structures in the study of the geodesic ray transform Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 29, 2010 06:27 AM PDT 942. # Seminar"Edge scaling limits for non-Hermitian random matrices" Updated on Oct 29, 2010 07:57 AM PDT 943. # Seminar"The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: The free energy of the continuum random polymer." Updated on Oct 17, 2013 06:10 PM PDT 944. # SeminarPostdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar TBA Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 945. # SeminarNew reconstruction formulas and algorithms for problems of thermoacoustic tomography Updated on Oct 29, 2010 04:25 AM PDT 946. # SeminarLocal and Global Injectivity for Weighted Radon Transforms" Updated on Jul 09, 2014 09:21 AM PDT 947. # Seminar"Support Convergence in the Single Ring Theorem" Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:18 AM PDT 948. # SeminarDiscussion on RMT Community Server Created on Oct 23, 2010 05:30 AM PDT 949. # Seminar"From Random Tilings to Representation Theory" Updated on Oct 23, 2010 05:18 AM PDT 950. # Seminar"Seismic Inverse Scattering by Reverse Time Migration" Updated on Oct 23, 2010 04:04 AM PDT 951. # SeminarSupport Convergence in the Single Ring Theorem Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:18 AM PDT 952. # SeminarShear Wave Speed Recovery in Crawling Wave Sonoelastography Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 23, 2010 05:12 AM PDT 953. # SeminarFrom Oscillatory Integrals to a Cubic Random Matrix Model" Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 23, 2010 05:07 AM PDT 954. # SeminarThe Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: Deriving the Exact One-point Function Formula. Updated on Oct 17, 2013 06:10 PM PDT 955. # WorkshopHot Topics: Kervaire invariant Organizers: Mike Hill (University of Virginia), Michael Hopkins (Harvard University), and Douglas C. Ravanel* (University of Rochester) This workshop will focus on the ideas surrounding the recent solution to the Arf-Kervaire invariant problem in stable homotopy theory by Mike Hill, Mike Hopkins and Doug Ravenel. There will be talks on relevant aspects of equivariant stable homotopy theory, including the norm functor and the slice tower. The pertinent parts of chromatic homotopy theory will be covered including formal groups and formal$A$-modules, the Hopkins-Miller theorem, finite subgroups of Morava stabilizer groups and Ravenel's 1978 solution to the analogous problem at primes bigger than 3. There will also be several talks by the organizers giving a detailed account of the proof of the main theorem. Finally there will be a discussion of the questions raised by the unexpected statement of the theorem. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:59 PM PDT 956. # SeminarFast Multiscale Gaussian Wavepacket Transforms and Multiscale Gaussian Beams for the Wave Equation Updated on Oct 23, 2010 04:01 AM PDT 957. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry (BADG) Seminar Fall 2010 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Robert Bryant (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), David Hoffman* (Stanford University), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz) The Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar meets 3 times each year and is a 1-day seminar on recent developments in differential geometry and geometric analysis, broadly interpreted. Typically, it runs from mid-morning until late afternoon, with 3-4 speakers. Lunch will be available at MSRI (participants will be asked to make a donation to help defray their lunch expenses) and the final talk will be followed by dinner. The schedule (with speakers) will be posted as soon as it becomes available.The October 23rd meeting takes place on the 60th birthday of Rick Schoen, and the dinner will recognize this happy coincidence. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:59 PM PDT 958. # SeminarPartial Data for General Second Order Elliptic Operators in Two Dimensions Updated on Oct 16, 2010 06:14 AM PDT 959. # SeminarReverse-Time Migration and Inverse Scattering, and Applications in Global Seismology Updated on Sep 05, 2013 12:06 PM PDT 960. # SeminarCycle Structure of Random Permutations with Cycle Weights Updated on Oct 18, 2010 03:00 AM PDT 961. # SeminarPDE's for Gap Probabilities and Applications Updated on Oct 16, 2010 06:08 AM PDT 962. # SeminarApplication of Riemann-Hilbert Problems in Modelling of Cavitating Flow Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 18, 2010 02:57 AM PDT 963. # SeminarThe Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: A Weakly Asymmetric Exclusion Process Approximation. Updated on Oct 17, 2013 06:10 PM PDT 964. # SeminarBerkeley-Stanford Algebraic Geometry Colloquium Updated on Oct 11, 2010 04:14 AM PDT 965. # SeminarNovel Techniques for Acoustic and Electromagnetic Field Manipulations and their Applications Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 18, 2010 02:59 AM PDT 966. # SeminarInverse Problems for Differential Forms on Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary Updated on Oct 16, 2010 05:32 AM PDT 967. # Workshop21st Bay Area Discrete Math Day (BADMath Day) Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Ruchira Datta (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Hsu (San Jose State University), Fu Liu (University of California, Davis), Carol Meyers (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Raman Sanyal* (University of California, Berkeley), Rick Scott (Santa Clara University), and Ellen Veomett (California State University, East Bay) BADMath Days are one-day meetings aimed at facilitating communication between researchers and graduate students of discrete mathematics around the San Francisco Bay Area. These days happen twice a year and strive to create an informal atmosphere to talk about discrete mathematics. The term "discrete mathematics" is chosen to include at least the following topics: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, Graph Theory, Coding and Design Theory, Combinatorial Aspects of Computational Algebra and Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, Probabilistic Combinatorics, Combinatorial Aspects of Statistics, and Combinatorics in Mathematical Physics. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:26 PM PDT 968. # SeminarInverse Problems for Classical and Quantum Random Walks Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:58 AM PDT 969. # SeminarThe Beta-Hermite and Beta-Laguerre Processes Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:25 AM PDT 970. # SeminarThe Gaussian Free Field in an Interlacing Particle System with Two Different Jump Rates Updated on Dec 13, 2013 03:34 PM PST 971. # SeminarDesigning Coupled Free-Form Surfaces Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:15 AM PDT 972. # SeminarAlbrecht Durer, Magic Squares, and Unitary Matrix Integrals Pizza Lunch Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 973. # Seminar"Closed Circles and Rigidity of Magnetic Flow" Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:10 AM PDT 974. # SeminarOn the Linearized Calderon Problem with Partial Data - A Watermelon Approach Updated on Oct 08, 2010 07:39 AM PDT 975. # SeminarScattering by (Some) Rotating Black Holes Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 976. # SeminarRepresentation Theory of the Infinite Symmetric Group and Point Processes of Random Matrix Type Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 977. # SeminarRadon Phenomenon in PDE and Complex Analysis Problems Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 978. # SeminarLow Temperature Expansion for Matrix Models Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 979. # SeminarImaging Edges in Random Media Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 980. # SeminarIntegrable Equations for Random Matrix Spectral Gap Probabilities Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 981. # SeminarRegularized Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Nonlinear Fourier Transform Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 982. # SeminarTwo Charge Ensembles on the Line. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 983. # SeminarPoint Processes in the Complex Plane Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 984. # SeminarGradient Estimate of Solutions of Parabolic Operator with Discontinuous Coefficients. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 985. # SeminarE. Nordenstam's Talk Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 986. # SeminarThe Inverse Calderon Problem for Schrödinger Operator on Riemann Surfaces Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 987. # SeminarSeismic Imaging with Multiply Scattered Waves Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 988. # SeminarCloaking: Where Science Fiction Meets Science Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 989. # SeminarWhen is a Non-self Adjoint Hill Operator of Spectral Type? Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 990. # SeminarCollapse to the Orbifolds and Stability of Inverse Problems. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 991. # SeminarHeight Distributions of 1D KPZ Equation with Sharp Wedge Initial Conditions. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 992. # SeminarThe Two-point Distribution of the One-dimensional Kadar-Parisi-Zhang Equation with Sharp Wedge Initial Data. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 993. # SeminarResistor Networks and Optimal Grids for Electrical Impedance Tomography with Partial Boundary Measurements Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 994. # SeminarSmall Volume Asymptotics and Detection of Defects in Composite Media. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 995. # WorkshopConnections for Women: An Introduction to Random Matrices Organizers: Estelle Basor (American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto), Alice Guionnet* (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), and Irina Nenciu (University of Illinois at Chicago) Topics covered in this workshop will include fundamental problems in random matrices, including universality questions and connections to physics, free probability, Riemann Hilbert problems and applications to other areas of mathematics such as number theory and numerical analysis. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:39 PM PDT 996. # SeminarExplicit Approximate Green's Function for Parabolic Equations. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 997. # SeminarEIT in 2D: The Issue of Stability. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 998. # SeminarBeyond the Gaussian Universality Class Refreshments following the lecture at La Val's Pizza, 1834 Euclid Ave. sponsored by MSRI Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 999. # SeminarThe Interior Transmission Eigenvalue Problem for Maxwell's Equations Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1000. # WorkshopRandom Matrix Theory and Its Applications I Organizers: Jinho Baik (University of Michigan), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alexander Its* (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), Kenneth McLaughlin (University of Arizona), and Craig A. Tracy (University of California, Davis) In the spring of 1999, MSRI hosted a very successful and influential one-semester program on RMT and its applications. At the workshops during the semester, there was a sense of excitement as brand new and very recent results were reported. The goal of the 2010 Program is to showcase the many remarkable developments that have taken place since 1999 and to spur further developments in RMT and Related areas of interacting particle systems (IPS) and integrable systems (IS) as well as to highlight various applications of RMT. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:58 PM PDT 1001. # SeminarIncoming and Disappearing Solutions for Maxwell's equations Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1002. # SeminarExact Solution of the Antiferroelectric Six-vertex Model. Riemann-Hilbert Approach. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1003. # SeminarRandom Matrices Beyond the Usual Universality Classes Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1004. # SeminarReconstruction of Small Elastic Inclusions from Boundary Measurements Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1005. # SeminarRandom Matrix Theory-Informal Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1006. # SeminarFall 2010- 5-minute Presentations PIZZA LUNCH Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1007. # SeminarPhotoacoustic Tomography: Breaking through the Optical Diffusion Limit There will be refreshments following the lecture at La Val's Pizza, 1834 Euclid Avenue, sponsored by MSRI. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1008. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications Organizers: Margaret Cheney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington), Michael Vogelius( Rutgers), and Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley) Inverse Problems are problems where causes for a desired or an observed effect are to be determined. They lie at the heart of scientific inquiry and technological development. Applications include a number of medical as well as other imaging techniques, location of oil and mineral deposits in the earth’s substructure, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes and, more recently, modelling in the life sciences. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:58 PM PDT 1009. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Inverse Problems and Applications Organizers: Tanya Christiansen (University of Missouri, Columbia), Alison Malcolm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Shari Moskow (Drexel University), Chrysoula Tsogka (University of Crete), and Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington) Inverse Problems are problems where causes for a desired or an observed effect are to be determined. They lie at the heart of scientific inquiry and technological development. Applications include a number of medical as well as other imaging techniques, location of oil and mineral deposits in the earth’s substructure, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes and, more recently, modelling in the life sciences. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:05 PM PDT 1010. # ProgramRandom Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems Organizers: Jinho Baik (University of Michigan), Alexei Borodin (California Institute of Technology), Percy A. Deift* (New York University, Courant Institute), Alice Guionnet (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France), Craig A. Tracy (University of California, Davis), and Pierre van Moerbeke, (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) The goal of this program is to showcase the many remarkable developments that have taken place in the past decade in Random Matrix Theory (RMT) and to spur on further developments on RMT and the related areas Interacting Particle Systems (IPS) and Integrable Systems (IS): IPS provides an arena in which RMT behavior is frequently observed, and IS provides tools which are often useful in analyzing RMT and IPS/RMT behavior. Updated on Aug 14, 2014 02:44 PM PDT 1011. # ProgramInverse Problems and Applications Organizers: Liliana Borcea (Rice University), Maarten V. de Hoop (Purdue University), Carlos E. Kenig (University of Chicago), Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University), Lassi Päivärinta (University of Helsinki, Finland), Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington), and Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley) Inverse Problems are problems where causes for a desired or an observed effect are to be determined. They lie at the heart of scientific inquiry and technological development. Applications include a number of medical as well as other imaging techniques, location of oil and mineral deposits in the earth's substructure, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes and, more recently, modelling in the life sciences. During the last 10 years or so there has been significant developments both in the mathematical theory and applications of inverse problems. The purpose of the program would be to bring together people working on different aspects of the field, to appraise the current status of development and to encourage interaction between mathematicians and scientists and engineers working directly with the applications. Updated on Aug 19, 2014 04:08 PM PDT 1012. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgebraic, Geometric, and Combinatorial Methods for Optimization Organizers: Matthias Köppe (University of California, Davis) and Jiawang Nie (University of California, San Diego) This workshop is intended to introduce to graduate students the main ideas of algebraic, geometric and combinatorial methods in global optimization. We emphasize the major developments in the past few years from two viewpoints. The first one is that of the interaction of semidefinite programming and real algebraic geometry and includes topics such as linear matrix inequalities, positive polynomials, and sums of squares. The second viewpoint is that of primal methods and generating function methods in integer linear and nonlinear optimization. Updated on Jul 03, 2014 04:09 PM PDT 1013. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematics of Climate Change Organizers: Chris Jones (University of North Carolina and University of Warwick), Doug Nychka (National Center for Atmospheric Research), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College) NCAR supports scientific research on nearly every aspect of the atmosphere and related components of the Earth’s physical and biological systems. This includes developing state-of-the- art climate models, high performance computing and also innovative ways of observing the atmosphere and oceans. The Center has approximately 1000 staff and is supported primarily by the National Science Foundation. Part of the NCAR mission is to engage students in the problems of understanding climate and weather and so provides an ideal context for this summer graduate workshop. The workshop is also part a larger program at NCAR through the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences: Mathematicians and Climate. For more information, please see NCAR summer school page Updated on Jun 25, 2014 11:37 AM PDT 1014. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Research Summer School 2010: Image Processing Organizers: Tony Chan (University of California, Los Angeles), Ron Devore (Unversity of South Carolina, Columbia), Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles), and Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine) Both an MSRI nomination and PCMI application are required to attend the Image Processing summer school. The application form can be found by going to the PCMI page IAS/PCMI application homepage and clicking on the sentence "You're ready to apply." Once the PCMI application is complete IAS/PCMI application homepage please return a letter of nomination from the Director of Graduate Studies to MSRI. Updated on Dec 04, 2013 01:28 PM PST 1015. # Summer Graduate SchoolSage Days 22: Computing with Elliptic Curves Organizers: William Stein (University of Washington) This workshop will introduce graduate students to several central ideas in the arithmetic of elliptic curves. Participants will join a project group that will focus mainly on one topic, possibly involving elliptic curves over number fields, complex or p-adic L-functions, Heegner points and Kolyvagin classes, Iwasawa theory, and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. The workshop will emphasize the essential interplay of abstract mathematics with explicit computation, which has played a central role in number theory ever since Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer made their famous conjecture in the 1960s. Participants will use, and improve, the free open-source Python-based mathematical software system Sage (http://www.sagemath.org) for computational projects. Updated on Aug 28, 2014 10:38 AM PDT 1016. # Summer Graduate SchoolProbability workshop: 2010 PIMS Summer School in Probability. Organizers: Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington), Zhenqing Chen (University of Washington), Christopher Hoffman (University of Washington), Soumik Pal (University of Washington), Yuval Peres ( University of California, Berkeley) The 2010 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Summer School in Probability will be held at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research. The workshop will have two main courses, and three short ones. For further information please visit the following link pims homepage Updated on Aug 19, 2014 10:57 AM PDT 1017. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer School on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry Organizers: Heath Emerson, (University of Victoria) Thierry Giordano, (University of Ottawa) Marcelo Laca*, (University of Victoria) Ian Putnam, (University of Victoria) The summer school aims to expose participants to the classi cation of noncommutative spaces, to the study of their homological and cohomological invariants, and to explore fascinating new connections between their symmetries and long standing problems in number theory. Additional information can be found on the PIMS page Updated on Aug 08, 2014 03:33 PM PDT 1018. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2010: Elliptic Curves and Applications Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Insitute), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), and Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University) The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. The academic portion of the program will be led by Dr. Edray Goins. Updated on May 02, 2013 06:33 PM PDT 1019. # SeminarLegendrian tangles and box-dot diagrams for "regular" rational tangles Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1020. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1021. # WorkshopSymplectic Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry and Physics Organizers: Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam), Tohru Eguchi (Kyoto), Yakov Eliashberg* (Stanford), Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto), Yoshiaki Maeda* (Yokohama), Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook), Paul Seidel (Cambridge, MA), Alan Weinstein* (Berkeley). Sponsor: Hayashibara Foundation Symplectic geometry originated as a mathematical language for Hamiltonian mechanics, but during the last 3 decades it witnessed both, spectacuar development of the mathematical theory and discovery of new connections and applications to physics. Meanwhile, non-commutative geometry naturally entered into this picture. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:53 PM PDT 1022. # WorkshopSymplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topology Organizers: Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Alvaro Pelayo* (University of California, Berkeley), Steve Zelditch (Northwestern University), Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley) The first week of May 2010 coincides with the first year anniversary of Alan Weinstein's retirement from UC Berkeley; Weinstein has been one of the most influential figures in symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry and analysis in the past forty years. Weinstein's fundamental work inspired many others and led to the development of central concepts in symplectic and Poisson geometry, as well as to the establishment of symplectic geometry as an independent discipline within mathematics. This conference will be a forum to celebrate Weinstein's fundamental contributions to geometry and mathematics at large. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:53 PM PDT 1023. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1024. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Constructing braid group actions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1025. # SeminarQuantitative symplectic geometry seminar: "The virtual moduli cycle revisited" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1026. # SeminarLearning seminar: "Coisotropic intersections" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1027. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Hyperkaehler Floer theory as an infinite dimensional Hamiltonian system on the loop space" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1028. # SeminarIndefinite Morse 2-functions Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1029. # SeminarMorse theory on manifolds with boundary Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1030. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1031. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1032. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: Symplectic embeddings and continued fractions Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1033. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Transverse knot invariants via contact surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1034. # SeminarQuantitative symplectic geometry seminar: "Maslov class rigidity for coisotropic manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1035. # SeminarDepartment of Mathematics, University of California 2010 Chern Lectures: "Lecture 4: Heegaard Floer homology and surgery formulas" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1036. # SeminarLearning seminar: "Rational and Ruled symplectic 4-manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1037. # SeminarDepartment of Mathematics, University of California 2010 Chern Lectures: "Lecture 3: Bordered Floer homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1038. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Quantum classes, Mumford conjecture and Hofer geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1039. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group: Group discussion. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1040. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1041. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "J-holomorphic curves for the ECH = Heegard/Floer correspondence" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1042. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: " Uniqueness of generating Hamiltonians for continuous Hamiltonian flows" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1043. # SeminarDepartment of Mathematics, University of California 2010 Chern Lectures: "Lecture 2: Knot Floer homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1044. # SeminarLearning Seminar: " An introduction to contact homology for Legendrian knots" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1045. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Indefinite Morse 2-functions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1046. # SeminarDepartment of Mathematics, University of California 2010 Chern Lectures: "Lecture 1: Introduction to Heegaard Floer homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1047. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1048. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Exotic smooth 4-manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1049. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1050. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Twisted Alexander polynomials and the Thurston norm" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1051. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: " Invariants of smooth embeddings via contact geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1052. # SeminarLearning seminar: "The moment map and equivariant cohomology theories" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1053. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Wild symplectic structures, mean curvature flow and holomorphic discs" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1054. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1055. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1056. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Heegaard Floer homology and integer surgeries on links" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1057. # SeminarSutured Contact Homology Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1058. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: "Cyclic symmetry, enumerative invariants and mirror symmetry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1059. # SeminarLearning seminar: "Introduction to contact invariants in Heegaard-Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1060. # SeminarResearch Seminar: The growth rate of symplectic homology and applications Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1061. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1062. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1063. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Slicing and surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1064. # WorkshopSymplectic and Contact Topology and Dynamics: Puzzles and Horizons Organizers: Paul Biran (Tel Aviv University), John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Helmut Hofer (Courant Institute), Dusa McDuff *(Barnard College), Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University), This workshop will focus on recent progress in central problems in symplectic and contact topology and Hamiltonian dynamics such as rigidity of Lagrangian submanifolds, algebra/topology/geometry of symplectomorphism and contactomorphism groups, exotic symplectic and contact structures, and existence of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and Reeb flows. It will explain applications of the "large machines" such as Floer Theory, Symplectic Field Theory and Fukaya categories, showing where these machines do not yet provide satisfactory answers. Special attention will also be paid to articulating new problems and directions, as well as to explaining interactions between symplectic and contact topology and other fields. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:13 AM PDT 1065. # WorkshopResearch Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links Organizers: Peter S. Ozsváth* (Columbia University), Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University), Peter Teichner (UC Berkeley). Link homology is a young and rapidly-developing area drawing on many branches of mathematics. The subject has its roots in representation theory, and it has benefitted from its interactions with low-dimensional, classical, and quantum topology and symplectic geometry. Indeed, several recent developments have underscored the close parallels between link homology and Floer homological invariants for low-dimensional manifolds. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:53 PM PDT 1066. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Grid Diagrams and Schubert varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1067. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory" Symplectic embedding obstructions from ECH Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1068. # SeminarLearning seminar: "An introduction to Lefschetz fibrations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1069. # Seminar Research Seminar: " Lagrangian caps for Legendrian knots via Generating families" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1070. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "What we know and don't know about 4-dimensions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1071. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1072. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1073. # SeminarOn Knot Homology Theories Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1074. # SeminarTransverse knots and Heegaard Floer homology Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1075. # Seminar"K12 Math Teacher Preparation: What Math Departments Can Do" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1076. # SeminarFrom Whitney disks to the Jacobi identity Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1077. # SeminarSymplectic Topology today Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1078. # SeminarBordered Floer: from 2 to 4 Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1079. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1080. # SeminarHTKL Graduate Student Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1081. # SeminarLearning seminar: "An introduction to quasi-states and quasi-morphisms" (and recent work of Entov-Polterovich) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1082. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Quadrics, instantons, and representation varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1083. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1084. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1085. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1086. # SeminarWorking Group "Symplectic geometry and representation theory" Topic: Mirror symmetry for the cotangent bundle of the$2$-sphere Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1087. # SeminarLearning seminar: "A basic introduction to open book decompositions and invariants of contact structures" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1088. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Link invariants and the structure of Fukaya categories" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1089. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1090. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "How to detect unknottedness using instantons and Khovanov homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1091. # SeminarKhovanov homology is an unknot detector II Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1092. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory": Symplectic rigidity of Lagrangian cylinders Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1093. # SeminarWorking Group "Symplectic geometry and representation theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1094. # SeminarLearning seminar: "An introduction to symplectic Khovanov homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1095. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Flexibility versus rigidity for tight confoliations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1096. # SeminarKhovanov homology is an unknot detector I Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1097. # SeminarKnot homologies and slice genus bounds Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1098. # SeminarWorking Group: "Quantitative Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1099. # SeminarWorking Group "Symplectic geometry and representation theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1100. # SeminarLearning seminar: "An introduction to embedded contact homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1101. # SeminarResearch Seminar "The chord conjecture in three dimensions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1102. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Constructing open symplectic manifolds via Lefschetz fibration" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1103. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1104. # SeminarZero-crossing and one-crossing knots in thickened surfaces Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1105. # SeminarWorking Group "Symplectic geometry and representation theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1106. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: "Some Measurements in Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1107. # SeminarInformal organizational meeting for a graduate student learning seminar in symplectic and contact geometry. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1108. # SeminarBott periodicity and linear symplectic reduction Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1109. # SeminarThe Homology theory for Knots and Links program organizational meeting Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1110. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links Organizers: Aaron Lauda (Columbia University), Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University), Dylan Thurston* (Columbia University). This workshop will introduce the main branches in the study of knot homology theories. It will consist of three mini-courses, one on knot Floer homology and related topics; one on the various approaches to Khovanov and Khovanov-Rozansky homology; and one on categorification on quantum groups. (There will also be several stand-alone lectures.) The techniques involved in the three branches are quite different; in particular, Heegaard Floer theory is analytic in nature, with its origin in gauge theory and symplectic geometry, while both Khovanov homology and categorification are more algebraic in nature, with origins in representation theory and algebraic geometry. The workshop will provide an opportunity for graduate students and researchers outside the field to gain entry, as well as for researchers working in one part of the field to learn about techniques and developments in other parts. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 01:47 PM PDT 1111. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Contact Structures, Open Books and Contact Invariants in Floer Homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1112. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Homology Theories of Knots and Links Organizers: Elisenda Grigsby* (Columbia), Olga Plamenevskaya (SUNY/Stonybrook), and Katrin Wehrheim (MIT) This 2-day workshop will serve as a prelude to the introductory workshop for the semester-long program on homology theories of knots and links. Survey talks in the mornings will position the work in Khovanov and Heegaard Floer homology in a broader context, focusing on: 1) applications to classical questions in low-dimensional topology, and 2) connections to contact and symplectic topology. Research talks in the afternoons will highlight the range of current activity in the field. We plan a format of no more than four talks each day to allow ample time for presentation opportunities for younger researchers and formal and informal discussions. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:05 AM PDT 1113. # SeminarPostdoc seminar kickoff event! Five minute Presentations. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1114. # SeminarEmbedding obstructions and Applications. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1115. # SeminarThe Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology meeting. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1116. # ProgramHomology Theories of Knots and Links Organizers: Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College), Peter Ozsváth* (Columbia University), Lev Rozansky (University of North Carolina), Peter Teichner (University of California, Berkeley), Dylan Thurston (Barnard College), and Zoltan Szabó (Princeton University) The aims of this program will be to achieve the following goals: 1. Promote communication with related disciplines, including the symplectic geometry program in 2009-2010. 2. Lead to new breakthroughs in the subject and find new applications to low dimensional topology (knot theory, three-manifold topology, and smooth four manifold topology). 3. Educate a new generation of graduate students and PhD students in this exciting and rapidly-changing subject. The program will focus on algebraic link homology and Heegaard Floer homology. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 02:43 PM PDT 1117. # WorkshopMacaulay2 Workgroup Organizers: David Eisenbud* (University of California, Berkeley), Amelia Taylor (Colorado College), Hirotachi Abo (University of Idaho), Mike Stillman (Cornell University) and Dan Grayson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) /Macaulay2/ is a software system devoted to supporting research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. Its creation and development have been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1992. /Macaulay2/ includes core algorithms for computing Gröbner bases and graded or multi-graded free resolutions of modules over quotient rings of graded or multi-graded polynomial rings with a monomial ordering. The core algorithms are accessible through a versatile high level interpreted user language with a powerful debugger supporting the creation of new classes of mathematical objects and the installation of methods for computing specifically with them. /Macaulay2/ can compute Betti numbers, Ext, cohomology of coherent sheaves on projective varieties, primary decomposition of ideals, integral closure of rings, and more. The goal of the workshop was to work at improving and augmenting the functionality of some of the existing packages. Likely projects included computing sheaf cohomology, intersection theory, and enumerative geometry. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:52 AM PDT 1118. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical Intersection Theory on Compact Toric Varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1119. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "The 4x4 minors of a 5xn matrix are a tropical basis" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1120. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Tropical computation of characteristic numbers of the projective plane" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1121. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1122. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: "A User's Guide to Polyfolds", presented by Fabert/Fish/Golovko Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1123. # SeminarWorking Group on Giroux Correspondence in higher dimensions: "The transversality theorem in Ibort-Martinez-Presas's paper" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1124. # SeminarBroken Dreams Seminar: " All that you ever wanted to know about Lagrangians submanifolds and still don't, and why" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1125. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Seiberg-Witten equations and the Weinstein conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1126. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures, Looking forward, discussion moderated by Yasha Eliashberg Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1127. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Symplectic aspects of Stein manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1128. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Coamoebas with multiplicity " Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1129. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Lifting tropical intersections" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1130. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Knot homologies" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1131. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "String/dilaton/divisor equations and topological recursion in SFT" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1132. # WorkshopTropical Structures in Geometry and Physics Organizers: Mark Gross ( University of California San Diego), Kentaro Hori (University of Toronto), Viatcheslav Kharlamov (Université de Strasbourg (Louis Pasteur), Richard Kenyon* (Brown University) One of the successes of tropical geometry is its applications to a number of different areas of recently developing mathematics. Among these are enumerative geometry, symplectic field theory, mirror symmetry, dimer models/random surfaces, amoebas and algas, instantons, cluster varieties, and tropical compactifications. While these fields appear quite diverse, we believe the common meeting ground of tropical geometry will provide a basis for fruitful interactions between participants. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:26 PM PDT 1133. # SeminarWhat is? Seminar: "Conservation Laws, Symmetries, and other Physical Intuitions ctd" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1134. # SeminarGraduate students Seminar: "Heegaard Floer homology and the Milnor conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1135. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Dequantization of addition" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1136. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "A glimpse into the heart of mirror symmetry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1137. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Three notions of tropical rank for symmetric matrices" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1138. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar Organizers: Robert Bryant (MSRI), Joel Hass (UC Davis), David Hoffman* (Stanford University), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (UC Santa Cruz). The Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar meets around 3 times each year and is a 1-day seminar on recent developments in differential geometry and global analysis, broadly interpreted. Typically, it runs from mid-morning until late afternoon, with 3-4 speakers. Box lunches will be available for purchase and the final talk will be followed by dinner. The schedule (with speakers) will be posted as soon as it becomes available. Please register and also indicate whether you will be attending the dinner afterwards. If you have questions, please feel free to contact the organizers. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:05 AM PDT 1139. # WorkshopAlgebraic Structures in the Theory of Holomorphic Curves Organizers: Mohammed Abouzaid* ( Clay Mathematics Institute), Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University), Eleny Ionel (Stanford University), Lenny Ng (Duke University), Paul Seidel (MIT). The theory of holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds leads to rich algebraic structures. The study of these structures is increasingly important both for understanding the theory itself, and for actual computations and applications. The aim of the workshop is to survey ongoing developments in the area. Some of the topics of interest are: cohomological field theories; relative and tropical Gromov-Witten invariants; Symplectic Field Theory (SFT) and connections with string topology; theories of holomorphic curves with Lagrangian boundary conditions, such as relative SFT, open Gromov-Witten theory, and Fukaya categories. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:53 PM PDT 1140. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Elliptic curves and chip-firing games on wheel graphs" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1141. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1142. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: "Main theorems: Fredholm property, germ implicit function theorem and abstract perturbations, part II" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1143. # SeminarWorking Group on Giroux Correspondence in higher dimensions: "Ibort-Martinez-Presas's paper on contact submanifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1144. # SeminarWhat is? Seminar: "Conservation Laws, Symmetries, and other Physical Intuitions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1145. # Seminar<b>Math Circle Orientation </b><br> Bay Area Math Circle Directors Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1146. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Open problems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1147. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Bounding Belyi Polynomials and their relation to Dessins d'Enfants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1148. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Tropical geometry and Mirror Symmetry for the projective plane" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1149. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Nonarchimedean algebraic geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1150. # SeminarTropical Colloquim: "Tropical Brill-Noether theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1151. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1152. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "Dictionary between Legendrian homology and Fukaya-Seidel categories formalisms" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1153. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1154. # SeminarBroken Dreams Seminar: "Poincare's other conjecture. Celestial Mechanics" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1155. # Seminar<b>CANCELED!!! </b> <br>Working Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "Ibort-Martinez-Presas's paper on contact submanifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1156. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "The C0 rigidity of the Poisson bracket" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1157. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "From u3/6 to the KdV hierarchy" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1158. # SeminarGraduate student seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1159. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Computing Node Polynomials for Plane Curves" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1160. # SeminarTropical Colloquim: "Tropical Pryms" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1161. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1162. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Constructing Calabi-Yau mirrors via tropical geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1163. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "Construction of 3-dimensional open books and Lefshetz fibrations using PALFs" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1164. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "Examples and Computations of Symplectic Homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1165. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: "Main definitions: From scale-smooth splicings to (M-)polyfolds and (strong) polybundles, part III" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1166. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Floer homology on hyperkahler manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1167. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Examples and computations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1168. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "(Plane) triangles - some examples in moduli problems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1169. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Buildings and Berkovich spaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1170. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical intersection theory, part two" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1171. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Analytic geometry over the field of one element" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1172. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1173. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Kneser's theorem and inequalities in Ehrhart theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1174. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "A sketch of proof for 3-dimensional Giroux correspondence, continued" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1175. # SeminarBroken Dreams Seminar: " A cancellation lemma and other dreams about almost symplectic forms" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1176. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Frobenius manifolds, bi-hamiltonian systems and Witten's conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1177. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: " Effect of Legendrian surgery part III" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1178. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Introduction to polyfolds, with an emphasis on examples" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1179. # SeminarJoint Symplectic-Tropical Seminar: "Log Gromov Witten invariants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1180. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Symplectic field theory of a Reeb orbit" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1181. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical Oriented Matroids and Triangulations of Products of Simplices" " Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1182. # SeminarTropical Colloquim: "Tropical Enumerative Geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1183. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "A sketch of proof for 3-dimensional Giroux correspondence" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1184. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: " Main definitions: From scale-smooth splicings to (M-)polyfolds and (strong) polybundles, part II" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1185. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "Effect of Legendrian surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1186. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: " Frobenius manifolds and bihamiltonian systems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1187. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Lagrangian Correspondences and the Symplectic Category" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1188. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Symplectic field theory and commuting (quantum) Hamiltonian systems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1189. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Relating GW invariants of curves and surfaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1190. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Tropical vs. Real Geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1191. # WorkshopTropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra Organizers: Federico Ardila* (San Francisco State University), David Speyer (MIT), Jenia Tevelev (U Mass Amherst), Lauren Williams (Harvard) This workshop will concentrate on tropical methods in Combinatorics and Algebra. Some of the topics we expect to explore are tropical ideas and methods in combinatorial linear algebra and in combinatorial representation theory, as well as computational issues and applications of tropical methods in algebraic statistics. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:52 PM PDT 1192. # SeminarRigid analytic methods in tropical geometry (and vice-versa) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1193. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1194. # SeminarApplications of tropical geometry to complex hyperplane arrangements Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1195. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: "Main definitions: From scale-smooth splicings to (M-)polyfolds and (strong) polybundles, part I" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1196. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "The effect of Legendrian surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1197. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "Donaldson's paper on symplectic submanifolds, continued" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1198. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Integrable Systems and Frobenius Manifolds, III" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1199. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Gromov width of Lagrangian submanifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1200. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Symplectic and contact homology of symplectic fillings" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1201. # SeminarGraduate Stunet Activity: "Introduction to tropical intersection theory I" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1202. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Geometry of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1203. # SeminarTropical modifications against superabundant curves Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1204. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1205. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves Sheel Ganatra: "Symplectic Homology as Hochschild Cohomology, II" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1206. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: "Transversality problem for J-holomorphic curves and a new Fredholm theory, II" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1207. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence in higher dimensions: "Donaldson's paper on symplectic submanifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1208. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Obstructions to symplectic filling from SFT" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1209. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Computations in GW and SFT using Integrable Systems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1210. # SeminarBroken Dreams Seminar: "Transversality in SFT" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1211. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Contact homology of Legendrian knots in S3 and other manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1212. # SeminarWhat-Is-Seminar series: "What is a Tropical Compactification ? " Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1213. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Parahoric subgroups in the tropics" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1214. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Phylogenetic trees and the tropical Grassmannian" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1215. # Seminar"Topology of Particle Collisions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1216. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1217. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "Floer theory on Lefschetz fibrations and the A_m singularity" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1218. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: "Introduction: Transversality problem for J-holomorphic curves and a new Fredholm theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1219. # SeminarTropical mirror symmetry, stringy E-functions and all that. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1220. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Kp, KdV, n-KdV hierachies from infinite-dimensional Grassmanians" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1221. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Tamed versus compatible almost complex structures on b2+=1 manifolds in dimension 4" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1222. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "The tropical inverse problem" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1223. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical isotropic linear spaces and Delta-matroid subdivisions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1224. # SeminarTropical Homology Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1225. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Tropicalised Reparameterisations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1226. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1227. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "Floer theory on Lefschetz fibrations and the A_m singularity" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1228. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Integrable Systems and Frobenius Manifolds (after B. Dubrovin)" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1229. # WorkshopHot Topics: Black Holes in Relativity Organizers: Mihalis Dafermos (University of Cambridge) and Igor Rodnianski* (Princeton) The mathematical study of the dynamics of the Einstein equations forms a central part of both partial differential equations and geometry, and is intimately related to our current physical understanding of gravitational collapse. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:51 PM PDT 1230. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Purely real algebraic and tropical Welschinger invariants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1231. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Degenerations of projective space induced by an affine building" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1232. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: “Applications of Symplectic Geometry: Rigid Bodies, Fluids, Liquid Crystals, KDV, Teichmüller Geodesics” Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1233. # SeminarTropical Homology Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1234. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1235. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Counting Tropical Curves on Abelian Surfaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1236. # SeminarWorking group: Algebraic structures in the theory of holomorphic curves <br> "Basics about Hochschild and Cyclic Homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1237. # SeminarInformal discussion with G. Mikhalkin: What is a tropical manifold? Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1238. # SeminarSymplectic geometry seminar: "Matching Lagrangian invariants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1239. # SeminarWorking group: "Integrable systems and SFT" <br> Kp, KdV, n-KdV hierachies from infinite-dimensional Grassmanians Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1240. # SeminarPostdoc seminar kickoff event! Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1241. # SeminarSymplectic Seminar: "Exploded Manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1242. # SeminarTropical Colloquiium: Supertropical Algebra (Joint work with Z. Izhakian) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1243. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Talk: "Hamiltonian group actions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1244. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Tropical Geometry Organizers: Eva Maria Feichtner (U Bremen), Ilia Itenberg* (U Strasbourg), Grigory Mikhalkin (U Genève), Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley) This workshop is to lay the foundations for the upcoming program. Mini-courses comprising lectures and exercise/discussion sessions will cover the foundational aspects of tropical geometry as well as its connections with adjacent areas: symplectic geometry, several complex variables, algebraic geometry (in particular enumerative and computational aspects) and geometric combinatorics. The mini-courses will be augmented by research talks on current tropical develpoments to open the scene and set up new goals in the beginning semester. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:56 PM PDT 1245. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Tropical Geometry Organizers: Alicia Dickenstein* (U Buenos Aires), Eva Maria Feichtner* (U Bremen) The aim of this workshop is to introduce advanced graduate students and postdocs to tropical geometry. Various aspects of this multi-faceted field will be highlighted in two short-courses comprising lectures and exercise/discussion sessions as well as in research talks. The workshop will thus provide the participants with an excellent introduction to the forthcoming events of the program. The scientific part will be complemented by a round table discussion on career issues of female mathematicians. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:51 PM PDT 1246. # ProgramSymplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology Organizers: Yakov Eliashberg *(Stanford University), John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel (Stanford University), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College), and Paul Seidel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) In the slightly more than two decades that have elapsed since the fields of Symplectic and Contact Topology were created, the field has grown enormously and unforeseen new connections within Mathematics and Physics have been found. The goals of the 2009-10 program at MSRI are to: I. Promote the cross-pollination of ideas between different areas of symplectic and contact geometry; II. Help assess and formulate the main outstanding fundamental problems and directions in the field; III. Lead to new breakthroughs and solutions of some of the main problems in the area; IV. Discover new applications of symplectic and contact geometry in mathematics and physics; V. Educate a new generation of young mathematicians, giving them a broader view of the subject and the capability to employ techniques from different areas in their research. Updated on Apr 19, 2014 09:30 PM PDT 1247. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology Organizers: John Etnyre* (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University), and Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr). This workshop aims both to introduce people to a broad swath of the field and to frame its most important problems. Each day will be organized around a basic topic, such as how to count holomorphic curves with boundary on a Lagrangian submanifold (which leads to various versions of Floer theory) or how to understand the general structure of symplectic and contact manifolds. There will also be an introduction to the analytic and algebraic aspects of symplectic field theory, and a discussion of some applications. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:51 PM PDT 1248. # ProgramTropical Geometry Organizers: Eva-Maria Feichtner *(University of Bremen), Ilia Itenberg (Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée de Strasbourg), Grigory Mikhalkin (Université de Genève), and Bernd Sturmfels (UCB - University of California, Berkeley) Tropical Geometry is the algebraic geometry over the min-plus algebra. It is a young subject that in recent years has both established itself as an area of its own right and unveiled its deep connections to numerous branches of pure and applied mathematics. From an algebraic geometric point of view, algebraic varieties over a field with non-archimedean valuation are replaced by polyhedral complexes, thereby retaining much of the information about the original varieties. From the point of view of complex geometry, the geometric combinatorial structure of tropical varieties is a maximal degeneration of a complex structure on a manifold. The tropical transition from objects of algebraic geometry to the polyhedral realm is an extension of the classical theory of toric varieties. It opens problems on algebraic varieties to a completely new set of techniques, and has already led to remarkable results in Enumerative Algebraic Geometry, Dynamical Systems and Computational Algebra, among other fields, and to applications in Algebraic Statistics and Statistical Physics. Updated on Aug 14, 2014 02:19 PM PDT 1249. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology Organizers: Eleny Ionel (Stanford University), Dusa McDuff* (Barnard College, Columbia University). This will form a bridge between the graduate student workshop which will just be ending and the Introductory workshop. After some elementary talks describing some of the main questions in the field, there will be an extended discussion session intended to explain basic concepts to those unfamiliar with the area. There will also be an opportunity for young researchers in the field to present their work, and an evening social event. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:05 AM PDT 1250. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer Graduate Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology Organizers: John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dusa McDuff* (Barnard College, Columbia University) and Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr College). Symplectic and Contact Topology has undergone rapid and exciting growth in the past few decades and is currently a rich subject, employing a variety of diverse techniques and touching on many areas of mathematics, such as algebraic and differential geometry, dynamical systems and low dimensional topology. This workshop is intended both for graduate students new to the area and for those working in the field. Lectures in the first week will introduce participants to basic topological, geometric and analytic techniques, including J-holomorphic curves. The second week will discuss applications to symplectic geometry and to 3-dimensional topology and knot theory. A variety of discussion sessions in the afternoon will cater to the differing interests of the students. Participants may consider staying for the Connections for Women and/or the Introductory workshop to the year long Symplectic Geometry program that starts just after this workshop. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 02:43 PM PDT 1251. # Summer Graduate SchoolInverse Problems Organizers: Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington). Inverse Problems are problems where causes for a desired or an observed effect are to be determined. They lie at the heart of scientific inquiry and technological development. Applications include a number of medical as well as other imaging techniques, location of oil and mineral deposits in the earth's substructure, creation of astrophysical images from telescope data, finding cracks and interfaces within materials, shape optimization, model identification in growth processes and, more recently, modelling in the life sciences. The workshop will consist of several minicourses addressing several of the theoretical and practical issues arising in inverse problems including boundary rigidity and travel time tomography, cloaking and invisibility, electrical impedance imaging, statistical methods and biological applications, thermoacoustic and x-ray tomography, and resonances. Updated on Aug 14, 2014 02:45 PM PDT 1252. # Summer Graduate SchoolComputational Theory of Real Reductive Groups (Salt lake City) Organizers: Jeffrey Adams (University of Maryland) , Peter Trapa* (University of Utah), Susana Salamanca (New Mexico State University), John Stembridge (University of Michigan), and David Vogan (MIT). The structure of real reductive algebraic groups is controlled by a remarkably simple combinatorial framework, generalizing the presentation of Coxeter groups by generators and relations. This framework in turn makes much of the infinite-dimensional representation theory of such groups amenable to computation. The Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations project is devoted to looking at representation theory from this computationally informed perspective. The group (particularly Fokko du Cloux and Marc van Leeuwen) has written computer software aimed at supporting research in the field, and at helping those who want to learn the subject. The workshop will explore this point of view in lecture series aimed especially at graduate students and postdocs with only a modest background (such as the representation theory of compact Lie groups). Deadline for funding applications: 1 March, 2009. The official workshop website is at: http://www.liegroups.org/workshop/ Updated on Nov 26, 2008 06:58 AM PST 1253. # Summer Graduate SchoolRandom Matrix theory Organizers: Jinho Baik ( University of Michigan), Percy Deift* (New York University),Toufic Suidan (University of Arizona), Brian Rider (University of Colorado) The goal of this workshop is two-fold: (1) to describe many of the recent advances that have been made in the application of random matrix theory to problems in mathematics and physics (2) to develop some of the mathematical tools that are needed to enter the field. Applications of random matrix theory are now being made to number theory, combinatorics, statistical physics and statistics amongst other fields. The techniques employed in the field include methods from integrable systems, combinatorics, complex analysis, orthogonal polynomials and of course random matrix theory per se. Updated on Aug 01, 2014 05:17 PM PDT 1254. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer Program: The Arithmetic of L-functions Organizers: Cristian Popescu (UCSD), Karl Rubin ( UC Irvine) , Alice Silverberg (UC Irvine). For application forms and information please visit the following link IAS/PCMI application homepage Updated on Nov 26, 2008 06:58 AM PST 1255. # Summer Graduate SchoolToric Varieties Organizers: David Cox ( Amherst College) and Hal Schenck (University of Illinois) Toric varieties are algebraic varieties defined by combinatorial data, and there is a wonderful interplay between algebra, combinatorics and geometry involved in their study. Many of the key concepts of abstract algebraic geometry (for example, constructing a variety by gluing affine pieces) have very concrete interpretations in the toric case, making toric varieties an ideal tool for introducing students to abstruse concepts. Updated on Aug 25, 2014 01:20 PM PDT 1256. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2009: Coding Theory Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Insitute), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras) and Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University). The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support. Updated on May 02, 2013 05:33 PM PDT 1257. # SeminarOld and new perspectives on higher dimensional classification. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1258. # SeminarRecent progress on Frobenius splittings. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1259. # SeminarTowards abundance and the existence of log terminal models. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1260. # SeminarHypergeometric families. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1261. # SeminarStacks and their applications: some recent history and open questions. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1262. # SeminarOpen problems in the moduli theory of varieties of general type. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1263. # SeminarIdeal Singularities. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1264. # Seminar Varieties with a twist. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1265. # SeminarRational points of varieties over function fields. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1266. # SeminarDifferential Forms on Singular Spaces, Extension Theorems and Applications. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1267. # SeminarOld and new information on the fibers of generic linear projections. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1268. # WorkshopAlgebraic Geometry: Last Week of Program Organizers: William Fulton (University of Michigan), Joe Harris (Harvard University), Brendan Hassett (Rice University), János Kollár (Princeton University), Sándor Kovács* (University of Washington), Robert Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan), and Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) Updated on Aug 26, 2014 08:36 PM PDT 1269. # WorkshopModern Perspectives in Applied Mathematics Organizers: Andrea L. Bertozzi (University of CaliforniaLosAngeles), Panagiotis Souganidis (The University of Chicago), and Eric Vanden-Eijnden (NewYorkUniversity) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York Stochastic and multi-scale modeling is becoming a main driving force in many scientific and engineering disciplines, and is a mong the most exciting areas of scientific research. Indeed, many problems in sciences involve quantifying the behavior of complex systems with a very large number of degrees of freedom. The systems interact on al arge span of scales and require to incorporate stochastic effects to account for model errors and/or disturbances from under-resolvedscales. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:50 PM PDT 1270. # SeminarFano varieties and asymptotics of cohomology. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1271. # SeminarRationality of Gromov-Witten varieties. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1272. # SeminarOn universal covers and fundamental groups. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1273. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "Smooth and Irreducible Multigraded Hilbert Schemes" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1274. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "Valuations and Riemann-Zariski spaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1275. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "Vector bundles with sections" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1276. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "The moduli space of cubic fourfolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1277. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Shafarevich conjecture and its higher dimensional generalizations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1278. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2009: Teaching Undergraduates Mathematics Organizers: William McCallum (The University of Arizona), Deborah Loewenberg Ball (University of Michigan), Rikki Blair (Lakeland Comminity College, Ohio), David Bressoud (Macalester College), Amy Cohen-Corwin (Rutgers University), Don Goldberg (El Camino College), Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska), Robert Megginson (University of Michigan), Bob Moses (The Algebra Project), James Donaldson (Howard University), Teaching Undergraduates Mathematics will be the sixth in a series of Critical Issues in Education workshops hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA. Whereas previous workshops focused on K-12 education and teacher education, this workshop will focus on undergraduate education. Updated on Sep 11, 2013 05:31 PM PDT 1279. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "The defect of Fano 3-folds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1280. # SeminarLog Geometry Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1281. # SeminarStacks working group: "Geometry of Artin Stacks" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1282. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "Positivity of toric vector bundles" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1283. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: The Slope "Conjecture'' Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1284. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "Some problems on 3-folds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1285. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "De Rham cohomology, crystals, and the infinitesimal site" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1286. # WorkshopEconomic Games and Mechanisms to Address Climate Change Organizers: Rene Carmona (Princeton), Prajit Dutta (Columbia), Chris Jones (University of North Carolina), Roy Radner (NYU), and David Zetland (UC Berkeley). Themes: Carbon cap-and-trade and economic consequences; Game theory and self-enforcing treaties; Economic mechanisms and incentive for greenhouse gas emission reductions. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:18 AM PDT 1287. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "Torus actions on normal, affine varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1288. # SeminarLog Geometry working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1289. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "Extending differential forms over log-canonical singularities" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1290. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Why are homogeneous spaces projective varieties?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1291. # SeminarEmphasis Seminar: "Strong rational connectedness and its applications" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1292. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: " Pairs$(X,\Delta)\$ as geometric objects"

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1293. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: " Non-abelian theta functions and the theta map"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1294. # SeminarStacks Working Group: "The Hilbert scheme for stacks"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1295. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series: "Boundedness of varieties of general type "

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1296. # SeminarPostdoctoral seminar: "Why should algebraic geometers cut and paste graphs?"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1297. # SeminarStacks working group: "Stacks and their moduli"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1298. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "Logarithmic sheaves"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1299. # SeminarLog Geometry Working Group

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1300. # SeminarUC Berkeley Colloquium: "Riemannian holonomy and algebraic geometry"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1301. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "The rank of a hypergeometric system"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1302. # SeminarCombinatorial/Enumerative/Toric Geometry Seminar: "Eigenvalues of products of unitary matrices and orbifold cohomology"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1303. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: " On the Kummer Construction"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1304. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: "Multilinear systems of higher rank"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1305. # SeminarSpecial Seminar:" Exterior differential systems and variation of Hodge structures"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1306. # WorkshopGreat Circles 2009

Organizers: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University), Amanda Serenevy (Executive Director of the Riverbed Community Math Center), Sam Vandervelde (St. Lawrence University), and Kathy O'Hara (MSRI)

This conference will bring together experienced math circle directors and professional mathematicians along with secondary school teachers and students, with the three- fold goal of inspiring and equipping individuals to begin math circles in their communities, passing along successful math circle presentations and best practices in math circle administration, and renewing and strengthening ties among members of the existing math circle network.

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1307. # SeminarLog Geometry Working Group

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1308. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Bounding the Number of Log Canonical Centers"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1309. # SeminarCombinatorial/Enumerative/Toric Geometry Seminar: "How can nefness determine the shape of a polytope?"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1310. # WorkshopMathematical Genomics

Organizers: David Galas (Institute for Systems Biology), Richard Olshen (Co-chair) (Stanford University), Rick Woychik (The Jackson Laboratory), Nancy Zhang (Co-chair) (Stanford University)

The goal of the conference is to bring individuals from genetics and the mathematical sciences into closer contact so that they might share objectives and skills needed to advance both areas, and especially their intersection.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:16 AM PDT
1311. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1312. # SeminarStacks Working Group: "Moduli of curves"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1313. # SeminarMSRI Colloquiu:"Can Bridgeland stability tell us something new about Kodaira vanishing?"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1314. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar

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1315. # SeminarLog Geometry working group

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1316. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: " Log canonical thresholds and statistical models"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1317. # SeminarCombinatorial/Enumerative/Toric Geometry Seminar: "Bernstein-Gel'fand-Gel'fand correspondence and the cohomology of compact Kaehler manifolds"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1318. # SeminarMain Seminar: "Categorical crepant resolutions of simple singularities"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1319. # SeminarBasic Notion:" Du Val singularities and other stories"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1320. # SeminarStacks Working Group

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1321. # SeminarStacks Working Group

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1322. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "Cox rings of cubic surfaces"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1323. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "(Unexpected) applications of characteristic classes for singular varieties"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1324. # SeminarLog geometry seminar: "Coherent and incoherent log structures"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1325. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar:" Perspectives on duality for abelian varieties"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1326. # SeminarCombinatorial, Enumerative and Toric Geometry Seminar: "A Giambelli formula for isotropic grassmannians"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1327. # SeminarInformal Seminar:" Positivity of the relative canonical bundle and applications"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1328. # SeminarMain Seminar: "An elementary proof for Shokurov's ACC conjecture forog canonical thresholds on smooth varieties"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1329. # SeminarBasic Notions: Noncommutative geometry and algebraic geometry over the "field with one element"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1330. # SeminarStacks Working Group: Title: TBA

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1331. # SeminarStacks Working Group: Title: TBA

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1332. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series: "Algebraic stacks without schemes"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1333. # WorkshopCombinatorial, Enumerative and Toric Geometry

Organizers: Michel Brion (U. de Genoble), Anders Buch (Rutgers U.), Linda Chen (Ohio State U.), William Fulton (U. Michigan), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Frank Sottile (Texas A&M), Harry Tamvakis (U. Maryland), and Burt Totaro (Cambridge U.)

This workshop will present the state of the art in combinatorial, enumerative, and toric algebraic geometry. It
will highlight this part of modern algebraic geometry within the context of the broader parent program at MSRI, and convey its scope to young researchers.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:50 PM PDT
1334. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: Algebraic geometry minus fields

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1335. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: TBA

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1336. # SeminarLog geometry seminar: "Logaritmic Hodge Structures (Report on the work of Kato-Usui)"

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT
1337. # SeminarInformal Seminar: On hypersurfaces containing too many lines

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT