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1. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

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

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

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

Created on Dec 02, 2013 02:40 PM PST
5. # 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
6. # SeminarPD Seminar: The spherically symmetric SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills equations

Updated on Nov 15, 2013 09:41 AM PST
7. # SeminarPD Seminar: Regularity of shadows and the singular set associated to a Monge-Ampere equation

Updated on Nov 15, 2013 09:42 AM PST
8. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Some mathematical aspects of the Hawking effect for rotating black holes

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

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

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:37 AM PDT
11. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Optimal transportation in sub-Riemannian geometry

Updated on Nov 27, 2013 02:27 PM PST
12. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: On kinetic models for the collective self-organization of agents.

Updated on Nov 27, 2013 11:31 AM PST
13. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Numerically evolving the Ricci Flow on S^3

Updated on Nov 12, 2013 11:45 AM PST
14. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Could the Universe have an Exotic Topology?

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

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:56 PM PDT
16. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:35 PM PDT
17. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: BKL singularity, spikes and inhomogeneous cosmology

Updated on Nov 08, 2013 09:46 AM PST
18. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Ricci curvature type lower bounds for sub-Riemannian structures on Sasakian manifolds

Updated on Nov 13, 2013 02:49 PM PST
19. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Inverse mean curvature flow, black holes and quasi-local mass

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

Updated on Nov 27, 2013 02:29 PM PST
21. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Exploring the corner: linearised gravitational waves near space-like and null-infinity

Updated on Oct 30, 2013 09:03 AM PDT
22. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Stability of CD/RCD spaces

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

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

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

Created on Nov 04, 2013 04:04 PM PST
26. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar

Updated on Oct 10, 2013 04:41 PM PDT
27. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar

Created on Oct 11, 2013 09:57 AM PDT
28. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:28 PM PDT
29. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: On an information-theoretical interpolation inequality

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 02:38 PM PDT
30. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Properties of weak CD(K,N) spaces

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:41 PM PST
31. # 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
32. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: CD and CD*(K,N) spaces (including characterization)

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

Updated on Nov 07, 2013 10:24 AM PST
34. # SeminarPD Seminar: The geodesic hypothesis in general relativity

Updated on Nov 08, 2013 12:39 PM PST
35. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:25 PM PDT
36. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Non-zero rest-mass fields in cyclic cosmologies.

Updated on Nov 05, 2013 10:11 AM PST
37. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:55 PM PDT
38. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Bochner formula

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:39 PM PST
39. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:36 AM PDT
40. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:24 PM PDT
41. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Arnold diffusion in nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems

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

Updated on Nov 05, 2013 10:27 AM PST
43. # SeminarConstraint FRG

Created on Nov 06, 2013 01:31 PM PST
44. # 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
45. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Comparison Theorems (Bishop-Gromov, Levy-Gromov, Caffarelli)

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:39 PM PST
46. # SeminarPD Seminar: Adding a vanishing Dirichlet energy to the Monge cost: some surprising effects

Updated on Oct 30, 2013 03:07 PM PDT
47. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: The Cartan-Hadamard conjecture via optimal transport

Updated on Oct 31, 2013 09:49 AM PDT
48. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Geometric Boundary Data for the Gravitational Field

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 03:06 PM PDT
49. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

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

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

Updated on Oct 18, 2013 10:43 AM PDT
52. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Ricci curvature and displacement convexity; Brunn-Minkowski

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:38 PM PST
53. # SeminarChern Lecture: Self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 08:50 AM PDT
54. # SeminarChern Lecture: CFT and SLE and 2D statistical physics

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

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 02:59 PM PDT
56. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:22 PM PDT
57. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: A Compactness Theorem for Sequences of Rectifiable Metric Spaces

Updated on Oct 31, 2013 12:01 PM PDT
58. # SeminarChern Lectures

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

Updated on Nov 04, 2013 09:11 AM PST
60. # SeminarChern Lecture: The Ising model of a ferromagnet from 1920 till 2020

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 08:48 AM PDT
61. # SeminarPD Seminar: Convergence of harmonic maps.

Updated on Oct 23, 2013 04:36 PM PDT
62. # SeminarMonge and Kantorovich Meet Einstein

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

Updated on Oct 23, 2013 04:35 PM PDT
64. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On construction of time functions.

Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:33 AM PDT
65. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:12 PM PDT
66. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

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

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:35 AM PDT
68. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Future stability of cosmological models without cosmological constant

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

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:11 PM PDT
70. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: On Gluing Techniques in Calibrated Geometry

Updated on Oct 24, 2013 09:35 AM PDT
71. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Optimal Transport Problem For Contact Structures

Updated on Oct 24, 2013 09:33 AM PDT
72. # SeminarPD Seminar: Interior curvature estimates and the asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 11:26 AM PDT
73. # SeminarPD Seminar: Linear waves on Kerr--de Sitter cosmologies

Updated on Oct 17, 2013 11:27 AM PDT
74. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On local wellposedness of ideal relativistic, and more general, fluids.

Updated on Oct 10, 2013 11:55 AM PDT
75. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:10 PM PDT
76. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

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

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

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:36 AM PDT
79. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Stable stationary states for repulsive-attractive potentials

Updated on Oct 15, 2013 10:51 AM PDT
80. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:09 PM PDT
81. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Resonances in general relativity

Updated on Sep 19, 2013 01:14 PM PDT
82. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Sub-level Set Convex Analysis

Updated on Oct 15, 2013 10:52 AM PDT
83. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Polyconvex integrands in the calculus of variations.

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

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

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), LEAD 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.

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

Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:31 AM PDT
87. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

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

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:53 PM PDT
89. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: The angular momentum-mass inequality for general axisymmetric initial data

Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:31 AM PDT
90. # 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
91. # 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
92. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Gradient Flows

Updated on Oct 09, 2013 10:21 AM PDT
93. # SeminarPD Seminar: Strict convexity properties of solutions to Monge-Ampere type equations

Updated on Oct 10, 2013 12:57 PM PDT
94. # 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
95. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

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

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

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:53 PM PDT
98. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 03:02 PM PDT
99. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Symmetric Monge-Kantorovich problems and polar decompositions of vector fields

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:01 AM PDT
100. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Symmetres and conserved quantities

Updated on Sep 09, 2013 09:48 AM PDT
101. # SeminarPD Seminar: Noncollision singularities in the Newtonian N-body problem

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

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 02:39 PM PDT
103. # 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
104. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:59 PM PDT
105. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

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

Updated on Sep 12, 2013 09:32 AM PDT
107. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: PDEs of Monge-Ampere type.

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:00 AM PDT
108. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

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

Updated on Aug 29, 2013 12:00 PM PDT
110. # SeminarPD Seminar: Bochner inequality and the entropic curvature dimension condition for metric measure spaces.

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:02 AM PDT
111. # SeminarPD Seminar: Microlocal analysis of radial points.

Updated on Sep 26, 2013 09:02 AM PDT
112. # 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
113. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: On optimal transport and rotation numbers

Updated on Sep 19, 2013 10:34 AM PDT
114. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:45 PM PDT
115. # SeminarGeroch Lunch Seminar

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

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

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
118. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: On the mass-aspect tensor of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds

Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:37 AM PDT
119. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Multimarginal optimal transport with Coulomb cost

Updated on Sep 19, 2013 10:33 AM PDT
120. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: On the topology and future stability of the universe

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

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

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

Created on Aug 26, 2013 02:25 PM PDT
124. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Type II ancient solutions to the Yamabe flow

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:11 AM PDT
125. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: The Newtonian Limit of Cosmological Spacetimes

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 01:21 PM PDT
126. # SeminarConverging Spaces Reading Seminar

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

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 02:51 PM PDT
128. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Solution of the Monge problem

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:34 AM PDT
129. # 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
130. # SeminarMGR Programmatic Seminar: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes

Updated on Aug 28, 2013 09:33 AM PDT
131. # SeminarChancellor's Lecture - Topics in Analysis: Hidden convexity in nonlinear PDES

Updated on Aug 26, 2013 02:24 PM PDT
132. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Displacement Interpolation

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:32 AM PDT
133. # Seminar5 Minute Talks

Created on Sep 06, 2013 09:50 AM PDT
134. # SeminarVillani Postdoc/Graduate Student Optimal Transport Seminar: Kantorovich duality

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:31 AM PDT
135. # 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
136. # 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
137. # 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
138. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: On the topology of black holes and beyond.

Updated on Aug 19, 2013 10:38 AM PDT
139. # SeminarOT Programmatic Seminar: Geometric analysis on the space of metric measure space

Created on Aug 28, 2013 03:37 PM PDT
140. # 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
141. # 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
142. # 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
143. # 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
144. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture: Swarming by Nature and by Design

Updated on Aug 12, 2013 02:46 PM PDT
145. # 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
146. # 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
147. # 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
148. # Summer Graduate SchoolNew Geometric Techniques in Number Theory

Organizers: Toby Gee (Imperial College, London), LEAD Ariane Mezard (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
149. # 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.

We strongly recommend that graduate students have already had the equivalent of rigorous first year graduate-level courses in topology, algebra and analysis.

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
150. # 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 151. # 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 152. # 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 153. # 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 154. # SeminarVanishing and Lifting Reading Seminar Updated on May 15, 2013 01:28 PM PDT 155. # SeminarNoncommutative Clusters (NAGRT) Updated on May 17, 2013 09:57 AM PDT 156. # SeminarOn a conjecture of Derksen about syzygies Updated on May 17, 2013 01:31 PM PDT 157. # SeminarUntwisting a twisted Calabi-Yau algebra (NAGRT) Updated on May 17, 2013 09:59 AM PDT 158. # SeminarFrobenius Singularity Day Updated on May 17, 2013 05:04 PM PDT 159. # SeminarThe category of F-module has finite global dimension (COMMA) Updated on May 15, 2013 04:45 PM PDT 160. # 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), 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: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:09 PM PDT 161. # SeminarConnectedness Theorems (COMMA) Updated on May 13, 2013 10:53 AM PDT 162. # SeminarGrowth of groups using Euler characteristics Updated on May 10, 2013 10:59 AM PDT 163. # SeminarTotally nonnegative matrices: efficient cell recognition (NAGRT) Updated on May 10, 2013 11:31 AM PDT 164. # SeminarGorenstein liaison of algebraic varieties (COMMA) Updated on Apr 22, 2013 08:20 AM PDT 165. # SeminarInvariant Theory of AS Regular Algebras: AS Gorenstein fixed subrings (NAGRT) Updated on May 10, 2013 11:30 AM PDT 166. # SeminarDeformation of F-Injective Singularities (COMMA) Updated on May 09, 2013 10:05 AM PDT 167. # SeminarMSRI/NRing Women in Math Lunch Updated on May 03, 2013 01:38 PM PDT 168. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Feb 05, 2013 02:24 AM PST 169. # SeminarOrders in the elliptic Weyl algebra Updated on May 02, 2013 12:06 PM PDT 170. # 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 171. # SeminarLyubeznik-like invariants of local rings of mixed characteristic (COMMA) Updated on Apr 29, 2013 01:56 PM PDT 172. # SeminarAlgebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (COMMA) Updated on May 02, 2013 12:29 AM PDT 173. # SeminarOn Fourier-Mukai type functors (NAGRT) Updated on May 01, 2013 12:20 PM PDT 174. # SeminarHamiltonian flow on complete intersections (NAGRT) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:49 AM PDT 175. # SeminarHow the P versus NP problem manifests itself in invariant theory (COMMA) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:48 AM PDT 176. # SeminarHochschild-Witt homology (NAGRT) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:47 AM PDT 177. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:48 AM PDT 178. # SeminarOn generalized Hilbert-Kunz function and multiplicity (COMMA) Updated on May 01, 2013 11:46 AM PDT 179. # SeminarA motivic approach to Potts models Updated on Apr 15, 2013 06:42 AM PDT 180. # SeminarRepresentation theory of Hecke algebras and connections with Cherednik algebras (NAGRT) Updated on Jul 17, 2013 10:48 AM PDT 181. # SeminarAn introduction to certain Frobenius invariants (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 12:41 PM PDT 182. # SeminarOverview of Combinatorial Game Theory Updated on Apr 19, 2013 08:04 AM PDT 183. # SeminarDefining a Notion of Noncommutative Complete Intersection via Point Modules (NAGRT) Updated on Apr 30, 2013 04:45 PM PDT 184. # SeminarVarious uniform bounds for very ample line bundles on toric varieties (COMMA) Updated on Apr 18, 2013 10:15 AM PDT 185. # SeminarF-singularities reading seminar: Vanishing theorems and lifting Updated on May 24, 2013 10:36 AM PDT 186. # SeminarNoncommutative deformations of curves and spherical twists (NAGRT) Updated on Sep 11, 2013 10:23 AM PDT 187. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Apr 19, 2013 02:45 AM PDT 188. # SeminarOpening of Frobenius Topics Updated on Apr 18, 2013 04:10 AM PDT 189. # SeminarSome results on local cohomology in positive characteristic (COMMA) Updated on Sep 09, 2013 09:47 AM PDT 190. # SeminarAutoequivalences arising from variation of GIT (NAGRT) Updated on May 17, 2013 04:45 PM PDT 191. # SeminarCOMMA Local Cohomology Day Updated on Apr 11, 2013 08:44 AM PDT 192. # Seminar2013 Chern Lectures: Correspondences. Updated on Apr 10, 2013 07:12 AM PDT 193. # SeminarAdjoint associativity: an invitation to higher algebra (COMMA) Updated on May 06, 2013 01:09 PM PDT 194. # SeminarGeigle-Lenzing spaces, d-canonical algebras and d-representation infinite algebras (NAGRT) Updated on Apr 11, 2013 03:05 AM PDT 195. # 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 196. # SeminarF-singularities organizational meeting Updated on Apr 12, 2013 08:51 AM PDT 197. # Seminar2013 Chern Lectures: Twistors and holomorphic geometry. Updated on Apr 10, 2013 07:12 AM PDT 198. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Apr 16, 2013 03:02 AM PDT 199. # SeminarLocal cohomology with support in ideals of maximal minors and sub-maximal Pfaffians (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 200. # SeminarMSRI/NRing Women in Math Lunch Updated on Mar 07, 2013 02:02 AM PST 201. # SeminarThe 2013 Chern Lectures: Moduli spaces Updated on Apr 05, 2013 06:14 AM PDT 202. # SeminarGorenstein in codimension 4, applications and the general theory (COMMA) Updated on Apr 03, 2013 06:28 AM PDT 203. # SeminarThe 2013 Chern Lectures: Quaternionic manifolds Updated on Apr 05, 2013 06:04 AM PDT 204. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 15, 2013 12:56 AM PDT 205. # SeminarSome examples, theorems, and problems on asymptotic regularity (COMMA) Updated on May 13, 2013 04:20 PM PDT 206. # 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 207. # SeminarNew examples of hereditary categories with Serre duality (NAGRT) Updated on May 23, 2013 11:01 AM PDT 208. # SeminarCategory O over symplectic reflection algebras: a diagrammatic approach (NAGRT) Updated on Apr 01, 2013 06:10 AM PDT 209. # SeminarDQ-modules on bionic symplectic manifolds Updated on Mar 28, 2013 09:36 AM PDT 210. # 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 211. # SeminarSuperduality Updated on May 23, 2013 12:44 PM PDT 212. # SeminarHochster's Theta Pairing for Matrix Factorizations Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:29 PM PDT 213. # SeminarIrreducible components of varieties of representations (NAGRT) Updated on Mar 28, 2013 04:56 AM PDT 214. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Mar 28, 2013 06:41 AM PDT 215. # SeminarIntroduction to Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity (COMMA) Updated on May 02, 2013 01:42 PM PDT 216. # SeminarFrom Linear Algebra to Noncommutative Resolutions of Singularities (No April Fools\\' Joke!) Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:29 PM PDT 217. # SeminarCherednik algebras and affine Lie algebras at negative level (NAGRT) Updated on Mar 22, 2013 05:29 AM PDT 218. # SeminarCartier Crystals (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 02:07 PM PDT 219. # SeminarConstructing modules with prescribed cohomology (COMMA) Updated on Mar 22, 2013 07:58 AM PDT 220. # SeminarA-infinity structures associated with curves (NAGRT) Updated on May 01, 2013 02:56 PM PDT 221. # SeminarTest Ideals of Non-principal Ideals (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 11:35 AM PDT 222. # SeminarCategorification (NAGRT) Updated on Nov 26, 2013 03:46 PM PST 223. # SeminarSemisimple Hopf actions on commutative domains (NAGRT) Updated on May 24, 2013 11:22 AM PDT 224. # SeminarMatrix Factorizations in Knot Theory (Matrix Factorization Day) Created on Mar 15, 2013 05:13 AM PDT 225. # SeminarOrbifold completion of defect bicategories (Matrix Factorization Day) Created on Mar 15, 2013 05:12 AM PDT 226. # SeminarLandau-Ginzburg/CFT correspondence via Temperley-Lieb categories (Matrix Factorization Day) Updated on Mar 15, 2013 06:09 AM PDT 227. # SeminarOrlov spectra: bounds and gaps (Matrix Factorization Day) Created on Mar 15, 2013 05:10 AM PDT 228. # SeminarMorita theory of the affine Hecke category Updated on Nov 25, 2013 04:51 PM PST 229. # SeminarCategorification (NAGRT) Updated on Nov 26, 2013 03:46 PM PST 230. # SeminarHochschild homology, Grothendieck duality, and Brown representability (COMMA) Updated on May 17, 2013 04:46 PM PDT 231. # SeminarLocal cohomology of modules of covariants Updated on May 23, 2013 02:59 PM PDT 232. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Mar 18, 2013 03:40 AM PDT 233. # SeminarGeometry of Hurwitz Spaces Updated on Mar 18, 2013 05:18 AM PDT 234. # 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 235. # 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 236. # SeminarModules over deformation quantization (NAGRT) Updated on May 16, 2013 03:34 PM PDT 237. # SeminarFree divisors: examples and conjectures (COMMA) Updated on Jul 28, 2013 05:54 AM PDT 238. # SeminarConformal field theory in a nutshell (COMMA) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 01:59 AM PST 239. # SeminarExistence of good ideals in 2-dimensional normal Gorenstein rings (COMMA) Updated on May 10, 2013 12:33 PM PDT 240. # SeminarThe Poincare series of modules over generic Gorenstein Artinian algebras (COMMA) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 02:02 AM PST 241. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory (COMMA) Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 242. # SeminarMatrix factorizations of higher codimension (COMMA) Updated on Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 243. # SeminarCoxeter groups, path algebras and preprojective algebras (NAGRT) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 02:01 AM PST 244. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Mar 08, 2013 01:42 AM PST 245. # SeminarCOMMA Focus Area Seminar Updated on Dec 19, 2012 02:50 AM PST 246. # SeminarModules for elementary abelian groups and vector bundles on projective space Updated on May 24, 2013 10:08 AM PDT 247. # SeminarCategorification Updated on Nov 26, 2013 03:46 PM PST 248. # SeminarNoncommutative ruled surfaces Updated on May 24, 2013 12:22 PM PDT 249. # SeminarSeparating invariants and finite reflection groups Updated on May 24, 2013 12:12 PM PDT 250. # Seminarlimits of graded families of ideals Updated on May 13, 2013 04:20 PM PDT 251. # SeminarBernstein-Sato polynomials, Jacobian ideals, and logarithmic vector fields Updated on May 28, 2013 08:06 AM PDT 252. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory: Resolution of length three, part 2 Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 253. # SeminarSkew Calabi-Yau algebras and homological identities Updated on Sep 11, 2013 03:32 PM PDT 254. # SeminarTensor Ideals and Varieties for Modules Updated on May 24, 2013 09:50 AM PDT 255. # SeminarKn{\o}rrer periodicity and finite MF representation type Updated on Aug 12, 2013 08:15 AM PDT 256. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 01, 2013 05:05 PM PDT 257. # SeminarMatrix factorizations and topological field theory Updated on May 24, 2013 11:13 AM PDT 258. # SeminarCategorification - Commons Room Updated on May 06, 2013 11:58 AM PDT 259. # SeminarInformal seminar on matrix factorizations Updated on May 28, 2013 10:20 AM PDT 260. # SeminarSplittings for Rings of Modular Invariants Updated on May 17, 2013 10:31 AM PDT 261. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory: Resolution of length three, part 1 Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 262. # SeminarOn the rank and decompositions of symmetric tensors Updated on May 01, 2013 05:05 PM PDT 263. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 24, 2013 11:03 AM PDT 264. # SeminarNoncommutative Unique Factorization in Quantum Algebras Updated on Sep 06, 2013 02:17 PM PDT 265. # SeminarAn Introduction to Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry Updated on May 24, 2013 11:18 AM PDT 266. # SeminarInvariants and separating morphisms Updated on May 24, 2013 12:12 PM PDT 267. # SeminarSingularity categories of small categories Updated on May 23, 2013 12:37 PM PDT 268. # SeminarSimilarities between algebra and topology across characteristics. Updated on May 23, 2013 09:23 AM PDT 269. # SeminarStudying local cohomology modules using invariant theory Updated on May 24, 2013 11:07 AM PDT 270. # SeminarModules of constant radical type and associated bundles Updated on Feb 12, 2013 01:44 AM PST 271. # SeminarA vanishing theorem for D-modules, and applications to t-structures for quantized symplectic varieties Updated on Feb 14, 2013 06:09 AM PST 272. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory Seminar: Introduction to Vinberg representations Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 273. # SeminarInformal seminar on matrix factorizations Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:29 PM PDT 274. # SeminarDerived representation schemes and non-commutative geometry Updated on Feb 19, 2013 01:26 AM PST 275. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 23, 2013 12:44 PM PDT 276. # SeminarMultiplicities of graded families of ideals Updated on May 13, 2013 04:20 PM PDT 277. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 278. # SeminarBeyond pure resolutions and vector bundles with supernatural cohomology: Complexes associated to triplets Updated on Jan 29, 2013 04:11 AM PST 279. # SeminarCounting Moduli of Quiver Representations with Relations Updated on Jan 29, 2013 05:26 AM PST 280. # SeminarSecant and tangential varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties Updated on May 24, 2013 09:51 AM PDT 281. # SeminarBehrend's function is constant on Hilb^n(C^3) Updated on May 24, 2013 12:11 PM PDT 282. # SeminarSyzygies and Representation Theory Seminar: Introduction to Vinberg representations Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 283. # SeminarPeriodicity of Betti numbers of some semigroup rings Updated on May 13, 2013 02:32 PM PDT 284. # SeminarResidues and Duality for Schemes and Stacks Updated on Jan 31, 2013 01:16 AM PST 285. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Feb 01, 2013 08:26 AM PST 286. # SeminarKoszul homology of ideals generated by invariants and analogues of determinantal varieties Updated on May 24, 2013 12:38 PM PDT 287. # Seminar(Quantum) fusion versus (quantum) intersection Updated on Nov 26, 2013 03:46 PM PST 288. # 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 Dec 08, 2013 08:08 PM PST 289. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 12:17 PM PST 290. # SeminarBuilding Cohen-Macaulay modules from a single module Updated on Jan 11, 2013 12:47 AM PST 291. # Seminar5-minute talks Updated on Jan 18, 2013 05:59 AM PST 292. # SeminarGalois groups of Schubert problems Updated on May 24, 2013 11:03 AM PDT 293. # 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 294. # SeminarEkedahl invariants for Finite Groups Created on Dec 17, 2012 06:06 AM PST 295. # SeminarHereditary Chip-Firing Ideals Updated on Dec 04, 2012 01:18 AM PST 296. # SeminarFock-Goncharov Reading Seminar Updated on Oct 19, 2012 03:09 AM PDT 297. # SeminarGraded quiver varieties and quantum cluster algebras Updated on Dec 07, 2012 03:33 AM PST 298. # SeminarThe generic initial ideal of a matroid. Updated on Dec 07, 2012 03:34 AM PST 299. # SeminarResolutions of monomial ideals using simplicial complexes Updated on Nov 30, 2012 01:44 AM PST 300. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Problem Session, Atrium Updated on Dec 07, 2012 12:44 AM PST 301. # SeminarHall algebra and Counting Updated on Dec 07, 2012 12:45 AM PST 302. # SeminarToric varieties, higher duals and polytopes Updated on Sep 05, 2013 02:03 PM PDT 303. # SeminarThe combinatorics of toric ideals of hypergraphs Updated on Dec 07, 2012 06:35 AM PST 304. # SeminarWhen do monomial ideals have linear resolutions? Updated on Dec 07, 2012 06:33 AM PST 305. # SeminarLogarithmic vector fields and curve configurations Updated on May 01, 2013 04:48 PM PDT 306. # SeminarJoint MSRI/NRing: Women in Mathematics Lunch Updated on Nov 28, 2012 06:48 AM PST 307. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Problem Session Updated on Nov 27, 2012 01:10 AM PST 308. # SeminarConstruction of quantum clusters via noncommutative UFDs Updated on May 02, 2013 11:37 AM PDT 309. # SeminarWonder of sine-Gordon Y-systems Updated on Nov 27, 2012 01:23 AM PST 310. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 311. # SeminarExamples of Frobenius splitting in combinatorial commutative algebra Updated on Nov 21, 2012 06:59 AM PST 312. # SeminarMonoidal Categorification of cluster algebras. Updated on Nov 28, 2012 02:46 AM PST 313. # SeminarThe Positive Part of a Tropical Variety Updated on Nov 21, 2012 04:49 AM PST 314. # SeminarBox splines, polynomial interpolation, and zonotopal algebra Updated on Nov 29, 2012 04:56 AM PST 315. # SeminarRigidity of quantum tori and description of automorphism groups Updated on May 02, 2013 11:37 AM PDT 316. # SeminarIdeals generated by 2-minors Updated on May 01, 2013 05:02 PM PDT 317. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Problem Session, Atrium Updated on Nov 20, 2012 01:23 AM PST 318. # SeminarRees Algebras of Some Classes of Simplicial Complexes Updated on Nov 21, 2012 05:26 AM PST 319. # SeminarTropical Moduli Spaces Updated on Oct 18, 2012 11:07 AM PDT 320. # SeminarThe Robbins phenomenon: cluster algebras and numerical p-adic arithmetic Updated on Nov 20, 2012 01:19 AM PST 321. # SeminarGreen's Hyperplane Restriction Theorem Updated on Nov 21, 2012 05:26 AM PST 322. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Nov 21, 2012 05:13 AM PST 323. # SeminarQuiver mutation and quantum dilogarithm identities Updated on Nov 16, 2012 02:29 AM PST 324. # SeminarCohen-Macaulayness of large ordinary and symbolic powers of Stanley-Reisner ideals Updated on May 09, 2013 10:26 AM PDT 325. # SeminarPolytropes and Tropical Eigenspaces Updated on Nov 21, 2012 05:01 AM PST 326. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Topics Updated on Nov 15, 2012 06:56 AM PST 327. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Sep 13, 2013 10:26 AM PDT 328. # Seminarj-multiplicity: A survey Updated on Nov 16, 2012 06:49 AM PST 329. # SeminarSplittings for Rings of Modular Invariants Updated on May 17, 2013 10:31 AM PDT 330. # SeminarTriangular and tropical properties of dual canonical bases of quantum cluster algebras Updated on Nov 15, 2012 06:57 AM PST 331. # SeminarSecant Varieties, Symbolic Powers, Statistical Models Updated on Oct 19, 2012 02:31 AM PDT 332. # SeminarOn the computation of generalized Ehrhart series Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:22 PM PDT 333. # SeminarThe UC Berkeley Combinatorics Seminar Updated on Sep 10, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 334. # SeminarFock-Goncharov Reading Seminar: Surfaces and Wall-Crossing Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:08 AM PST 335. # SeminarMatroids over rings Updated on Nov 07, 2012 11:39 AM PST 336. # Seminarc-vectors as dimension vectors Updated on Nov 12, 2012 12:34 AM PST 337. # SeminarVector bundles on P^n and representations of GL_n Updated on Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 338. # SeminarGlicci ideals Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:11 AM PST 339. # SeminarCluster Algebras Open Topics Updated on Nov 08, 2012 04:55 AM PST 340. # SeminarRegularity of associated graded modules in dimension one Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:04 AM PST 341. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Sep 10, 2013 12:31 PM PDT 342. # SeminarAsymptotic triangulations Updated on Nov 08, 2012 04:53 AM PST 343. # SeminarChip-Firing and Binomial Ideals Updated on Nov 09, 2012 02:02 AM PST 344. # SeminarHyperdeterminants of polynomials Updated on Nov 15, 2012 06:31 AM PST 345. # SeminarHigher Laminations and the Fock-Goncharov Duality Conjectures Updated on Oct 30, 2012 06:40 AM PDT 346. # SeminarTwo short talks on some geometry Updated on Nov 01, 2012 06:04 AM PDT 347. # SeminarTensor complexes Updated on Sep 16, 2013 10:17 AM PDT 348. # SeminarRelations of minors Updated on Sep 18, 2013 02:22 PM PDT 349. # SeminarThe Arithmetical Rank of the Edge Ideals of Whisker Graphs Updated on Nov 01, 2012 09:26 AM PDT 350. # SeminarThe Geometry of Generic Lagrangian Ffibres: An Illustrating Example Updated on Oct 31, 2012 09:46 AM PDT 351. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Oct 31, 2012 06:23 AM PDT 352. # SeminarIntegrability of higher pentagram maps Updated on Oct 31, 2012 05:54 AM PDT 353. # SeminarFrom Briancon-Skoda to Scherk-Varchenko: the story of the monodromy theorem Updated on May 01, 2013 04:41 PM PDT 354. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 24, 2013 11:03 AM PDT 355. # 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 Nov 09, 2013 10:51 AM PST 356. # SeminarCones of Hilbert Functions Updated on Oct 25, 2012 03:02 AM PDT 357. # SeminarThree facets of the Lefschetz properties Updated on Oct 18, 2012 04:30 AM PDT 358. # SeminarThe pentagram map Updated on Oct 19, 2012 04:42 AM PDT 359. # SeminarHigher analogues of Teichmuller spaces Updated on Oct 18, 2012 09:46 AM PDT 360. # SeminarThe moduli space of points on the projective line and its ring of invariants. Updated on Oct 18, 2012 05:07 AM PDT 361. # SeminarBertini Theorems over a finite field Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:44 AM PDT 362. # SeminarThe geometry of cluster algebras and locally acyclic cluster algebras Updated on Oct 17, 2012 04:42 AM PDT 363. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Sep 11, 2013 10:37 AM PDT 364. # SeminarCombinatorics of the abelian-nonabelian correspondence Updated on Oct 18, 2012 09:22 AM PDT 365. # SeminarRecurrence relations and cluster algebras Updated on Oct 11, 2012 07:05 AM PDT 366. # SeminarEquivariant aspects of Boij-Soederberg theory Updated on May 23, 2013 12:44 PM PDT 367. # SeminarLower Bounds for the Arithmetical Rank of a Homogeneous Ideal in a Polynomial Ring Updated on Oct 12, 2012 02:40 AM PDT 368. # SeminarQuantum dilogarithms and a$q$-deformation of the X-space Updated on Oct 12, 2012 02:44 AM PDT 369. # SeminarThe Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon Updated on Oct 12, 2012 02:42 AM PDT 370. # SeminarDuality in Boij--Soederberg Theory (detailed) Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:44 AM PDT 371. # SeminarBounds on the number of generators of ideals Updated on Oct 11, 2012 02:40 AM PDT 372. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on May 23, 2013 01:31 PM PDT 373. # SeminarBrane Tilings and Cluster Algebras Updated on Sep 10, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 374. # SeminarCategorification of quiver mutation Updated on Oct 05, 2012 01:41 AM PDT 375. # SeminarDuality in Boij--Soederberg Theory (overview) Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:44 AM PDT 376. # SeminarInverse problem in cylindrical electrical networks Updated on Sep 21, 2012 04:01 AM PDT 377. # SeminarCategorification to Rank 2 Quantum Cluster Algebras Updated on Oct 05, 2012 07:13 AM PDT 378. # SeminarMinimal elements of linkage classes. Updated on Oct 05, 2012 02:02 AM PDT 379. # SeminarDilogarithms Updated on Oct 05, 2012 05:36 AM PDT 380. # SeminarOn the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves: Arithmetic invariant theory (Bowen Lecture) Updated on Oct 03, 2012 04:10 AM PDT 381. # SeminarSuperflatness Updated on Oct 03, 2012 02:18 AM PDT 382. # SeminarOn the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves: Hyperelliptic curves with a rational Weierstrass point (Bowen Lecture) Updated on Oct 03, 2012 04:08 AM PDT 383. # SeminarCones of Betti numbers and Hilbert functions Updated on Oct 03, 2012 02:15 AM PDT 384. # SeminarOn the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves: The rank of elliptic curves (Bowen Lecture) Updated on Oct 03, 2012 04:06 AM PDT 385. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Sep 11, 2013 10:37 AM PDT 386. # SeminarCluster structures in rings of SL_3 invariants Updated on Nov 09, 2013 10:51 AM PST 387. # SeminarOn singularity confinement for the pentagram map Updated on Sep 28, 2012 03:41 AM PDT 388. # SeminarThe poset of Hilbert functions in graded algebras. Updated on Sep 27, 2012 08:06 AM PDT 389. # SeminarA Gentle Introduction to Quantum Cohomology Updated on Sep 26, 2012 06:37 AM PDT 390. # SeminarLaminations and the Fock-Goncharov Conjectures for Surfaces and SL_2 Updated on Sep 10, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 391. # SeminarIntegral closures of ideals and modules Updated on May 28, 2013 10:20 AM PDT 392. # SeminarContinuous Cluster Categories Updated on Apr 30, 2013 04:44 PM PDT 393. # SeminarLinkage of ideals. Updated on Sep 25, 2012 03:09 AM PDT 394. # SeminarTropicalization method in cluster algebras Updated on Sep 21, 2012 03:54 AM PDT 395. # SeminarIntroduction to cluster algebras Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:10 AM PDT 396. # SeminarThe Fock-Goncharov Conjectures in type A_n Updated on Sep 21, 2012 08:39 AM PDT 397. # SeminarCanonical bases of cluster algebras via tropical geometry. Updated on Sep 21, 2012 02:12 AM PDT 398. # SeminarSyzygies, singularities and implicitization for tensor product surfaces Updated on Sep 20, 2012 02:52 AM PDT 399. # Seminar(Multigraded) Hilbert functions Updated on Sep 10, 2013 10:21 AM PDT 400. # SeminarBounds on the Projective Dimension of Ideals Updated on Sep 14, 2012 06:56 AM PDT 401. # SeminarParametrization of generic bases for cluster algebras Updated on Sep 20, 2012 02:43 AM PDT 402. # SeminarCommutative Algebra Open Problems Session Updated on Nov 21, 2013 09:29 AM PST 403. # SeminarTropical Geometry Seminar Updated on Sep 13, 2012 09:25 AM PDT 404. # SeminarMustafin Varieties Updated on Sep 11, 2013 10:37 AM PDT 405. # SeminarPositivity and greedy bases in rank 2 cluster algebras Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:10 AM PDT 406. # SeminarCommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Eisenbud Seminar) Updated on Sep 14, 2012 02:26 AM PDT 407. # SeminarUlrich ideals and modules. Updated on Sep 12, 2012 09:40 AM PDT 408. # Seminar5-minute talks Updated on Aug 30, 2012 04:57 AM PDT 409. # Seminar5-minute talks Updated on Aug 30, 2012 04:56 AM PDT 410. # SeminarLaurent phenomenon algebras II Updated on Sep 04, 2012 06:39 AM PDT 411. # SeminarVanishing of Tor, and why we care about it Updated on Sep 05, 2012 06:14 AM PDT 412. # SeminarLaurent phenomenon algebras I Updated on Sep 04, 2012 06:38 AM PDT 413. # SeminarQUASI PERIODIC ORBITS: THE CASE OF THE NON LINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION Updated on Aug 24, 2012 05:52 AM PDT 414. # SeminarHilbert coefficients : classical results and open problems Updated on Sep 05, 2012 03:38 AM PDT 415. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 416. # 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 Sep 13, 2013 10:37 AM PDT 417. # ProgramComplementary Program 2012-13 Updated on May 21, 2013 12:44 PM PDT 418. # 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 419. # 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 420. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 01:14 PM PST 421. # 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 Nov 25, 2013 02:55 PM PST 422. # 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 423. # 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 424. # 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 Sep 12, 2013 10:50 AM PDT 425. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:40 AM PST 426. # SeminarMultispecies TASEP on a Ring and the Random Shape of an n-core partition Updated on May 14, 2012 05:35 AM PDT 427. # SeminarSOME REMARKS ON UNIFORM SPANNING TREES Updated on Sep 10, 2013 08:43 AM PDT 428. # SeminarRandom geometric constructions and analytic capacity: the problems of Painlev\'e, Ahlfors, Denjoy, Vitushkin. Updated on May 09, 2012 02:06 AM PDT 429. # SeminarLipschitz embeddings of random sequences Updated on May 10, 2012 06:05 AM PDT 430. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:39 AM PST 431. # SeminarCompatibility of random sequences Updated on May 09, 2012 01:56 AM PDT 432. # SeminarNetwork Discovery in Large and/or Adversarial Real World Networks Updated on May 04, 2012 08:44 AM PDT 433. # SeminarRegularity of Schramm-Loewner Evolutions and Integration Updated on May 04, 2012 08:35 AM PDT 434. # SeminarEdge reinforced random walks, Vertex reinforced jump process, and the SuSy hyperbolic sigma model Updated on May 04, 2012 08:46 AM PDT 435. # SeminarStochastically induced bistability in Interacting Population Processes Updated on May 04, 2012 08:29 AM PDT 436. # SeminarScale-invariant random spatial networks Updated on Sep 04, 2013 09:54 AM PDT 437. # 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 438. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:39 AM PST 439. # SeminarChip-firing games, potential theory on graphs, and spanning trees Updated on Apr 18, 2012 11:58 AM PDT 440. # SeminarMixing times are hitting times of large setes Updated on Apr 20, 2012 07:29 AM PDT 441. # SeminarOn a sum of random projections Updated on Apr 20, 2012 07:29 AM PDT 442. # SeminarTen ways in which the 2d self-avoiding walk should converge to SLE Updated on Apr 18, 2012 11:06 AM PDT 443. # SeminarSelf-Avoiding Walk Updated on Sep 10, 2013 08:43 AM PDT 444. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:38 AM PST 445. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Feb 01, 2012 07:47 AM PST 446. # SeminarElection manipulation: the average-case Updated on Apr 11, 2012 02:21 AM PDT 447. # SeminarRandom lozenge tilings of polygons and their asymptotic behavior Updated on Apr 11, 2012 11:52 AM PDT 448. # SeminarStability of functionals of Markov chains and of stochastic recursions Updated on Apr 11, 2012 11:54 AM PDT 449. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:38 AM PST 450. # SeminarRobust, dimension-free isoperimetry in Gaussian space Updated on Apr 06, 2012 04:10 AM PDT 451. # SeminarLarge systems of diffusions interacting through their ranks Updated on Apr 06, 2012 06:08 AM PDT 452. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:37 AM PST 453. # 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 454. # SeminarStochastic Geometric Representations of the Quantum Ising Model in Transverse Field Updated on Mar 30, 2012 01:43 AM PDT 455. # SeminarCombinatorics of Determinantal facet ideals Updated on Mar 30, 2012 01:42 AM PDT 456. # SeminarThe parafermionic observable in the continuum Updated on Mar 28, 2012 04:09 AM PDT 457. # SeminarSampling Paths, Permutations and Lattice Structures Updated on Sep 11, 2013 02:04 PM PDT 458. # SeminarThe non-existence of symmetric measures on the plane and random geometric constructions Updated on Mar 29, 2012 10:01 AM PDT 459. # 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 460. # 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 461. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:37 AM PST 462. # SeminarAdvanced Matrix Inversion Updated on May 29, 2013 09:25 AM PDT 463. # SeminarDyck tilings, linear extensions, inversions and descents Updated on Mar 14, 2012 07:24 AM PDT 464. # 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 465. # SeminarStability of functionals of Markov chains and of stochastic recursions Updated on Mar 16, 2012 03:04 AM PDT 466. # SeminarNew Extremes for Random Walk on a Graph Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:50 AM PDT 467. # 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 468. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:36 AM PST 469. # SeminarMiscellany on branching random walks Updated on Mar 12, 2012 02:26 AM PDT 470. # SeminarWeyl metrisability for projective surfaces Updated on Mar 09, 2012 03:33 AM PST 471. # SeminarStatistical Mechanics of the Two-Dimensional Coulomb Gas Updated on Mar 09, 2012 01:37 AM PST 472. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:36 AM PST 473. # SeminarBiased domino tilings of the Aztec Diamond Updated on Mar 01, 2012 04:09 AM PST 474. # SeminarScaling window for mean-field percolation of averages Updated on Mar 01, 2012 03:27 AM PST 475. # SeminarEstimating the probability of the needle to land near a Cantor set Updated on Feb 29, 2012 02:47 AM PST 476. # SeminarNoise and Exclusion Sensitivity Updated on Sep 13, 2013 09:10 AM PDT 477. # SeminarMulti-scale tools and dependent percolation Updated on Feb 22, 2012 12:09 PM PST 478. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:35 AM PST 479. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Feb 01, 2012 07:41 AM PST 480. # SeminarBowen Lecture: Many Particle Systems and Plasma Physics Updated on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 AM PST 481. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Feb 01, 2012 07:40 AM PST 482. # SeminarMixing time of the card-cyclic to random shuffle Updated on Feb 23, 2012 06:44 AM PST 483. # SeminarExtensions of the Duminil-Copin/Smirnov identity for SAWs Updated on Sep 06, 2013 03:34 PM PDT 484. # SeminarBowen Lecture: Many Particle Systems and Plasma Physics Updated on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 AM PST 485. # SeminarBowen Lecture: Many Particle Systems and Plasma Physics Updated on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 AM PST 486. # 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 487. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:35 AM PST 488. # SeminarInfinitely many non-intersecting random walks Updated on Feb 08, 2012 01:42 AM PST 489. # SeminarChallenges in first-passage percolation Updated on Feb 09, 2012 10:10 AM PST 490. # SeminarFirst passage percolation and escape strategies Updated on Feb 09, 2012 05:43 AM PST 491. # SeminarCounting tricks with symmetric functions Updated on Feb 06, 2012 03:42 AM PST 492. # SeminarSLE and conformal welding Updated on Sep 11, 2013 03:36 PM PDT 493. # 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 494. # 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 495. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 27, 2012 02:34 AM PST 496. # SeminarScaling limit of arbitrary genus random maps Updated on Jan 25, 2012 08:26 AM PST 497. # SeminarThe entropy of Schur-Weyl measures Updated on Jan 27, 2012 12:47 AM PST 498. # SeminarAbelian networks Updated on Jan 26, 2012 04:20 AM PST 499. # SeminarFrom random interlacements to coordinate percolation Updated on Jan 26, 2012 04:24 AM PST 500. # SeminarOpen Problems Seminar Updated on Jan 17, 2012 02:18 AM PST 501. # SeminarPostdoc 5-Minute Talks Updated on Jan 24, 2012 04:13 AM PST 502. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Created on Jan 19, 2012 01:28 AM PST 503. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Jan 19, 2012 01:30 AM PST 504. # SeminarRotor-routing, smoothing kernels, and reduction of variance: breaking the O(1/n) barrier Updated on Jan 27, 2012 08:21 AM PST 505. # SeminarCombinatorics of Donaldson–Thomas and Pandharipande–Thomas invariants Updated on May 29, 2013 09:25 AM PDT 506. # 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 507. # 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 508. # 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 Nov 06, 2013 03:34 PM PST 509. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on Aug 31, 2011 10:13 AM PDT 510. # SeminarDefinitions of Quasiregularity in Metric Spaces Updated on Dec 09, 2011 05:16 AM PST 511. # 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 512. # SeminarCompression bounds for wreath products Updated on Nov 21, 2011 06:29 AM PST 513. # SeminarAnalysis on the Grushin plane: Lipschitz and quasiconformal maps Updated on Nov 21, 2011 06:32 AM PST 514. # SeminarLemma Poincaré for L_infty - forms Updated on Nov 22, 2011 05:43 AM PST 515. # SeminarThe Second Law of Probability: Entropy Growth in the Central Limit Theorem Updated on Oct 13, 2011 10:58 AM PDT 516. # SeminarGeometry of the space of probability measures Updated on Dec 10, 2013 02:55 PM PST 517. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Created on Nov 10, 2011 05:13 AM PST 518. # SeminarEmbeddings results for geodesic manifolds Updated on Nov 10, 2011 05:12 AM PST 519. # SeminarGeodesics in the Heisenberg group Updated on Sep 05, 2013 02:38 PM PDT 520. # SeminarSphere packings and the space of high-dimensional lattices Created on Oct 31, 2011 02:54 AM PDT 521. # SeminarA self-dual polar decomposition for vector fields Updated on Oct 14, 2011 03:58 AM PDT 522. # SeminarSome results on Hyperbolic Reflection Groups Updated on Nov 03, 2011 04:43 AM PDT 523. # SeminarA Whitney Extension Theorem for Sobolev spaces Updated on Nov 03, 2011 04:44 AM PDT 524. # SeminarMean curvature flow Updated on Sep 18, 2013 03:09 PM PDT 525. # SeminarFiniteness theorems for arithmetic manifolds of bounded volume. Created on Oct 31, 2011 02:55 AM PDT 526. # 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 Jun 07, 2013 03:07 PM PDT 527. # SeminarAssouad-Nagata dimension of connected Lie groups Updated on Oct 20, 2011 02:40 PM PDT 528. # SeminarA subelliptic divergence-curl inequality Updated on Nov 07, 2013 11:16 PM PST 529. # Seminar"Tensor products" between metric spaces and Banach spaces Created on Oct 20, 2011 03:35 AM PDT 530. # SeminarDifferentiation at large scales Updated on Oct 13, 2011 10:54 AM PDT 531. # SeminarAn elementary introduction to monotone transportation Updated on Sep 04, 2013 12:05 PM PDT 532. # 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 533. # SeminarDynamical Studies of Euclidean Minima Updated on Oct 06, 2011 01:56 AM PDT 534. # SeminarUniqueness of Self-similar Shrinkers under Mean Curvature Flow Updated on Oct 06, 2011 01:56 AM PDT 535. # SeminarRandom walk on the torus Updated on Dec 10, 2013 03:04 PM PST 536. # SeminarSoficity and Cremona groups Updated on Oct 06, 2011 01:53 AM PDT 537. # SeminarDimension reduction in discrete metric geometry Updated on Oct 03, 2011 11:11 AM PDT 538. # SeminarThe Dehn function of SL(n;Z) Updated on Oct 06, 2011 01:52 AM PDT 539. # SeminarRigidity of quasiisometries and quasisymmetric maps Updated on Oct 03, 2011 09:50 AM PDT 540. # SeminarFocal hyperbolic groups, contracting automorphisms and amenability (2) Updated on Oct 03, 2011 09:48 AM PDT 541. # SeminarFocal hyperbolic groups, contracting automorphisms and amenability (1) Updated on Oct 03, 2011 09:47 AM PDT 542. # SeminarNorms on homology and stable length of commutators Updated on Oct 04, 2011 10:36 AM PDT 543. # SeminarMirror symmetry for open Riemann surfaces Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:27 AM PDT 544. # SeminarThe rate of escape for random walks on some polycyclic and abelian-by-cyclic groups Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:17 AM PDT 545. # SeminarRandom permutations and convex chains Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:18 AM PDT 546. # SeminarRD in higher rank Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:22 AM PDT 547. # SeminarGeometric Derandomization Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:19 AM PDT 548. # SeminarPoincare inequalities, rigid groups and applications Updated on Sep 30, 2011 04:20 AM PDT 549. # SeminarLattes maps and combinatorial expansion Updated on Sep 23, 2011 01:56 AM PDT 550. # SeminarRecent work on the Propeller Conjecture Updated on Sep 23, 2011 01:45 AM PDT 551. # SeminarTardos and Moser meet Lovasz Updated on Sep 23, 2011 01:48 AM PDT 552. # SeminarSimple connectivity is complicated: an introduction to the Dehn function Updated on Sep 16, 2011 03:44 AM PDT 553. # SeminarAn introduction to the Hanna Neumann Conjecture Updated on Sep 23, 2011 01:47 AM PDT 554. # 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 555. # SeminarInvariant random subgroups and Benjamini-Schramm convergence Updated on Sep 14, 2011 04:18 AM PDT 556. # SeminarQuantitative Implicit Function and Extension Theorems for Lipschitz Maps. Updated on Sep 08, 2011 09:13 AM PDT 557. # SeminarControlled coarse homology and isoperimetric inequalities Updated on Sep 09, 2011 06:34 AM PDT 558. # SeminarDvoretsky\\'s Theorem Updated on Sep 12, 2013 10:45 AM PDT 559. # SeminarContracting the boundary of a Riemannian 2-disc Updated on Sep 08, 2011 09:08 AM PDT 560. # SeminarGraph Sparsification Updated on Sep 02, 2011 02:45 AM PDT 561. # SeminarShort geodesic segments on closed Riemannian manifolds Updated on Sep 08, 2011 09:06 AM PDT 562. # SeminarCounting paths in nilpotent and solvable groups Updated on Sep 05, 2011 02:07 PM PDT 563. # SeminarSmall-Set Expansion from Local Testability: derandomizing the noisy hypercube Updated on Sep 01, 2011 04:53 AM PDT 564. # SeminarSparser Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transforms Updated on Aug 31, 2011 10:09 AM PDT 565. # SeminarCovariance Estimation for Distributions with 2+ε Moments Updated on Sep 01, 2011 04:57 AM PDT 566. # SeminarRandom walks in Euclidean space Updated on Sep 01, 2011 10:22 AM PDT 567. # SeminarQuantitative Geometry Program: 5-Minute Introductions Updated on Aug 29, 2011 07:24 AM PDT 568. # SeminarQuantitative Geometry Program: 5-Minute Introductions Updated on Aug 29, 2011 07:24 AM PDT 569. # SeminarQuantitative Geometry Program: 5-Minute Introductions Updated on Aug 26, 2011 07:17 AM PDT 570. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Differentiability of Lipschitz functions and tangents of sets Updated on Sep 18, 2013 03:19 PM PDT 571. # 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 Dec 11, 2013 11:56 AM PST 572. # 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 Dec 11, 2013 11:56 AM PST 573. # 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 Dec 11, 2013 09:29 PM PST 574. # 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 Sep 11, 2013 09:58 AM PDT 575. # 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 576. # 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 577. # 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 Nov 06, 2013 03:43 AM PST 578. # 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 579. # 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 580. # 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 581. # 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 582. # 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 583. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 584. # SeminarAS Informal Seminar Updated on Sep 12, 2013 08:53 AM PDT 585. # SeminarReflections on the semester and open discussion on future projects in arithmetic statistics Created on May 12, 2011 09:03 AM PDT 586. # SeminarA two-phase problem with lower dimensional free boundary Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:28 PM PDT 587. # SeminarAS Informal Seminar Updated on May 18, 2011 02:02 AM PDT 588. # SeminarSelection and existence of solutions for several free boundary problems Created on May 06, 2011 05:53 AM PDT 589. # SeminarMoments of Rankin-Selberg Convolutions and Subconvexity Updated on May 09, 2011 09:20 AM PDT 590. # SeminarRegular Problems with Large Interactions and Free Boundary Problems Updated on Apr 27, 2011 09:12 AM PDT 591. # SeminarLagrangian solutions of semigeostrophic system Updated on Sep 06, 2013 10:17 AM PDT 592. # SeminarLower order terms of moments of L(1/2,chi_d) Created on May 06, 2011 06:10 AM PDT 593. # SeminarTowards a p-adic Cohen-Lenstra conjecture Updated on Oct 25, 2013 11:07 AM PDT 594. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 30, 2011 05:52 AM PDT 595. # SeminarLinearization methods and viscosity solutions Updated on Aug 20, 2013 02:27 PM PDT 596. # SeminarNumerics for surfaces and interfaces Updated on Sep 06, 2013 09:26 AM PDT 597. # SeminarAS PD seminar Created on Apr 29, 2011 07:52 AM PDT 598. # SeminarPeriod functions of Eisenstein series and cotangent sums. Created on Apr 29, 2011 07:50 AM PDT 599. # SeminarPeriod functions of Eisenstein series and cotangent sums Created on Apr 28, 2011 06:00 AM PDT 600. # SeminarJumping Champions for Prime Gaps Updated on Apr 22, 2011 09:02 AM PDT 601. # Seminar2011 Serge Lang Undergraduate Lecture : "Patterns in the primes" Updated on Apr 15, 2011 08:58 AM PDT 602. # SeminarWell-posedness of the two and three dimensional full water wave problem Updated on Apr 21, 2011 09:36 AM PDT 603. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 30, 2011 05:52 AM PDT 604. # SeminarUndercompressible shock waves and moving phase boundaries Updated on Dec 10, 2013 10:56 AM PST 605. # SeminarExplicit Formula Informal Study Group Created on Apr 25, 2011 03:13 AM PDT 606. # SeminarWaves with prescribed distribution of vorticity Updated on Apr 18, 2011 02:20 AM PDT 607. # SeminarHigher Mahler measure and Lehmer's question Created on Apr 21, 2011 09:15 AM PDT 608. # SeminarSingular Jacobi Forms of Number Fields Updated on Apr 21, 2011 09:40 AM PDT 609. # 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 610. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 30, 2011 05:50 AM PDT 611. # SeminarNew computations of the Riemann zeta function Created on Apr 15, 2011 09:11 AM PDT 612. # SeminarComputing critical values of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions, with an eye toward their moments. Created on Apr 15, 2011 09:13 AM PDT 613. # SeminarCounting Points on Curves over Finite Fields Refreshments after lecture at La Val's Pizza Updated on Apr 05, 2011 09:14 AM PDT 614. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 05, 2011 05:14 AM PDT 615. # SeminarStokes waves among global free-boundary problems Updated on Apr 11, 2011 09:06 AM PDT 616. # SeminarGeometry of non local and non local phase transitions in some geometrical frameworks Created on Apr 08, 2011 03:18 AM PDT 617. # SeminarPorous Medium Flows: from local to nonlocal models III Updated on Apr 08, 2011 03:21 AM PDT 618. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 05, 2011 05:13 AM PDT 619. # 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 620. # SeminarReview and recent works on the large time asymptotics for Hamilton-Jacobi equations Created on Apr 08, 2011 06:19 AM PDT 621. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 05, 2011 05:12 AM PDT 622. # SeminarAS-Informal Study Group Created on Apr 05, 2011 05:19 AM PDT 623. # SeminarFloating Drops: a survey of problems and results, with a focus on symmetry Updated on Dec 04, 2013 01:29 PM PST 624. # SeminarExplicit Formula Seminar: "Bounds on gaps between zeros of L-functions" Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:42 AM PDT 625. # SeminarCentral values of the symmetric square L-functions Created on Apr 07, 2011 09:31 AM PDT 626. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group: Square-free values of discriminant polynomials. Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:39 AM PDT 627. # Seminar2011 Chern Lectures Updated on Apr 04, 2011 03:13 AM PDT 628. # SeminarPorous Medium Flows: from local to nonlocal models II Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:38 AM PDT 629. # SeminarMoment Polynomials for the Riemann Zeta Function Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:37 AM PDT 630. # SeminarAverages of central L-values Updated on Apr 01, 2011 08:17 AM PDT 631. # SeminarNon-Degeneracy of an Elliptic-Free Boundary Problem Updated on Mar 31, 2011 04:36 AM PDT 632. # SeminarFBP-Informal Seminar Updated on Apr 01, 2011 03:03 AM PDT 633. # SeminarBay Area Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Day II Updated on Mar 25, 2011 04:26 AM PDT 634. # SeminarPorous Medium Flows: from local to nonlocal models Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:45 AM PDT 635. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group: Square-free values of discriminant polynomials. Updated on Mar 25, 2011 06:19 AM PDT 636. # Seminar"Computing L-functions in SAGE" Created on Mar 23, 2011 08:26 AM PDT 637. # SeminarAsymptotics for the coefficients of Kac-Wakimoto characters Updated on Mar 25, 2011 06:40 AM PDT 638. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar FBP-TBA Created on Mar 25, 2011 06:05 AM PDT 639. # SeminarLinearization Techniques in Free Boundary Problems Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\\\\\'s Pizza. Updated on Mar 17, 2011 04:25 AM PDT 640. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros: Alternatives to Dirichlet Series Amplifiers Updated on Mar 18, 2011 09:19 AM PDT 641. # SeminarA Short Introduction to Free-boundary Problems for Incompressible and Compressible Fluid Dynamics Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:43 AM PDT 642. # SeminarA Short Introduction to Free-boundary Problems for Incompressible and Compressible Fluid Dynamics Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:43 AM PDT 643. # SeminarCurious q-series and Jacobi Theta functions Updated on Mar 18, 2011 09:27 AM PDT 644. # SeminarHolder extensions and a non-local and non-linear operator. Updated on Mar 18, 2011 02:50 AM PDT 645. # SeminarCohomology of Bianchi Groups and Arithmetic Updated on Mar 07, 2011 03:28 AM PST 646. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Mar 14, 2011 09:03 AM PDT 647. # SeminarFree boundary problem posed by Guy David and Calder'on--Zygmund capacities Updated on Mar 14, 2011 09:02 AM PDT 648. # SeminarQuadratic Twists reading group Created on Mar 10, 2011 06:52 AM PST 649. # SeminarNon-linear problems involving integro-differential equations Updated on Mar 14, 2011 09:01 AM PDT 650. # SeminarElliptic curves, their companions, and their statistics Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\'s Pizza. Updated on Dec 09, 2013 10:54 AM PST 651. # 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 652. # SeminarElliptic curves of arbitrarily large rank (Over Function Fields) Updated on Mar 14, 2011 08:03 AM PDT 653. # SeminarFun talk on high precision computation of number theoretical constants Updated on Mar 08, 2011 07:03 AM PST 654. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros: Analytic rank of$J_0(N)$Updated on Mar 08, 2011 07:02 AM PST 655. # SeminarNonlinear diffusion and free boundaries. From porous media to fractional diffusion Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\\\\\\\\\'s Pizza. Updated on Feb 18, 2011 03:47 AM PST 656. # SeminarEmpirical Evidence for an Arithmetic Analogue of Nevanlinna's Five Value Theorem Updated on Feb 28, 2011 07:57 AM PST 657. # WorkshopFree Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications Organizers: John King (University of Nottingham), Arshak Petrosyan* (Purdue University), Henrik Shahgholian (Royal Institute of Technology), and Georg Weiss (University of Dusseldorf) Many problems in physics, industry, finance, biology, and other areas can be described by partial differential equations that exhibit apriori unknown sets, such as interfaces, moving boundaries, shocks, etc. The study of such sets, also known as free boundaries, often occupies a central position in such problems. The main objective of the workshop is to bring together experts in various theoretical an applied aspects of free boundary problems. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:05 PM PDT 658. # SeminarNewforms and multiplicities on$\Gamma_0(9)$Updated on Mar 07, 2011 12:04 AM PST 659. # SeminarThe field of Fourier coefficients of a modular form Updated on Feb 28, 2011 08:12 AM PST 660. # 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 661. # SeminarNon-linear problems involving integro-differential equations Updated on Feb 18, 2011 04:20 AM PST 662. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group Updated on Feb 15, 2011 07:12 AM PST 663. # SeminarNon-linear problems involving integro-differential equations Updated on Feb 18, 2011 04:19 AM PST 664. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminars FBP Created on Feb 18, 2011 04:31 AM PST 665. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar AS-TBA Updated on Mar 25, 2011 06:03 AM PDT 666. # SeminarLow Lying zeros seminar: Petersson's formula and related topics Updated on Feb 18, 2011 04:11 AM PST 667. # SeminarFree boundary problems with surface tension. Updated on Feb 18, 2011 03:58 AM PST 668. # SeminarFree boundary problems with surface tension Updated on Feb 18, 2011 03:57 AM PST 669. # SeminarAS-FRG Project Updated on Sep 12, 2013 08:53 AM PDT 670. # SeminarInformal study group on Low lying zeros Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:49 AM PST 671. # SeminarObstacle type problems and its ramifications Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:47 AM PST 672. # SeminarInformal study group for 2-Selmer Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:45 AM PST 673. # SeminarBhargava-Shankar informal study group Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:43 AM PST 674. # Seminar"Shape optimization: an introduction" Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:33 AM PST 675. # 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 676. # SeminarA problem related to the ABC conjecture Updated on Feb 13, 2011 03:01 AM PST 677. # SeminarNonlocal equations and new notions of curvature Updated on Feb 13, 2011 03:00 AM PST 678. # SeminarBrandt module of ternary quadratic forms Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:59 AM PST 679. # SeminarThe Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\\\\\'s Pizza. Updated on Feb 13, 2011 02:31 AM PST 680. # SeminarAS-FRG Project Updated on Jan 28, 2011 05:27 AM PST 681. # SeminarOrder and Chaos Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:54 PM PDT 682. # SeminarA free boundary problem related to complex dynamics Updated on Feb 07, 2011 04:32 AM PST 683. # SeminarLow-Lying Zeros" Created on Feb 07, 2011 04:39 AM PST 684. # SeminarElastic Free Energies and many body Hamiltonians, covering possible phase change too. Updated on Feb 07, 2011 04:38 AM PST 685. # SeminarAS-Informal Study Group Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:36 AM PST 686. # Seminar"Shape optimization: an introduction" Updated on Feb 04, 2011 05:29 AM PST 687. # SeminarInformal reading group on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:59 PM PDT 688. # SeminarMSRI-Evans Lecture- Henryk Iwaniec Refreshments after lecture at La Val's Pizza. Updated on Jan 15, 2011 08:15 AM PST 689. # Seminar"Low-lying zeros of Dedekind zeta functions" Pizza Lunch Updated on Feb 04, 2011 05:52 AM PST 690. # SeminarRegularity for Elliptic Equations with Discontinous BMO Coefficients in Reifenberg Flat Domains Pizza Lunch Updated on Feb 04, 2011 05:25 AM PST 691. # SeminarWell-posedness of the 3-D compressible Euler equations with moving vacuum boundary Updated on Jan 28, 2011 04:54 AM PST 692. # 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 693. # SeminarFBP-Working Seminar-TBA Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:27 AM PST 694. # 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 695. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminars FBP Pizza Lunch Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:17 AM PST 696. # Seminar"Mathematical modelling of tissue growth" Created on Jan 24, 2011 08:50 AM PST 697. # 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 698. # Seminar"A variational approach to isoperimetric inequalities" Updated on Jan 24, 2011 08:44 AM PST 699. # Seminar"Mathematical modelling of tissue growth" Created on Jan 24, 2011 08:45 AM PST 700. # Seminar"5-Minute Presentations" Pizza Lunch 12pm-1:30pm Created on Jan 24, 2011 01:22 AM PST 701. # SeminarArithmetic Statistics- Informal Study Group Updated on Jan 24, 2011 01:18 AM PST 702. # Seminar"Cohen-Lenstra heuristics" (Informal Reading Group) Updated on Sep 11, 2013 12:59 PM PDT 703. # SeminarFree Boundary Problems Refreshments after lecture at La Val\\'s Pizza. Updated on May 15, 2013 04:46 PM PDT 704. # 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 705. # 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 706. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 10:54 AM PST 707. # 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 Dec 10, 2013 10:56 AM PST 708. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 709. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 710. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 711. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 712. # SeminarPostdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar TBA Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 713. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 714. # SeminarThe d-bar approach to inverse scattering and solution of the Davey-Stewartson Equations Updated on Dec 05, 2010 06:26 AM PST 715. # 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 716. # SeminarGluing semiclassical resolvent estimates via propagation of singularities. Pizza Lunch Updated on Dec 05, 2010 06:23 AM PST 717. # SeminarNew non-elliptic methods in the analysis of conformally compact (asymptotically hyperbolic) spaces Updated on Dec 05, 2010 06:22 AM PST 718. # 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 719. # SeminarApproximation of inverse boundary value problems by phase-field methods Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:35 AM PST 720. # SeminarRandom sorting networks Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:33 AM PST 721. # SeminarGaussian fluctuations for Plancherel partitions Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:34 AM PST 722. # SeminarLimits of spiked random matrices Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:31 AM PST 723. # SeminarWhite noise approximation for propagation and imaging in random media Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:27 AM PST 724. # SeminarHermitian matrix models with spiked external source Updated on Sep 04, 2013 11:36 AM PDT 725. # SeminarLower bounds for the volume of the nodal sets Pizza Lunch Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:26 AM PST 726. # SeminarNon-intersecting Brownian Motions at a Tacnode: Soft and Hard Edge Case. Pizza Lunch Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:22 AM PST 727. # SeminarUnique continuation problems for pde's with rough coefficients Updated on Nov 29, 2010 03:21 AM PST 728. # SeminarGibbs resampling properties: droplet boundaries, and non-intersecting diffusions Created on Nov 19, 2010 08:30 AM PST 729. # SeminarA tale of two tiling problems Updated on May 29, 2013 09:25 AM PDT 730. # SeminarTau functions and convolution symmetries: applications to random matrices Updated on Nov 19, 2010 08:28 AM PST 731. # SeminarHarmonic maps into conic surfaces with cone angles less than$2\pi$Updated on Nov 22, 2010 03:33 AM PST 732. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 733. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 734. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 735. # 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 736. # SeminarPostdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar TBA Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 737. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 738. # SeminarModelling the Free World Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 739. # SeminarExploring the Free World Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 740. # SeminarElliptic distributions on stepped surfaces and an elliptic biorthogonal ensemble Updated on Nov 05, 2010 04:14 AM PDT 741. # SeminarDiscovering the Free World Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 742. # SeminarDihedral symmetry and the Razumov-Stroganov Ex-Conjecture Pizza Lunch Updated on Nov 05, 2010 07:12 AM PDT 743. # 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 744. # SeminarTunnel effect and symmetries for Kramers-Fokker-Planck type operators Updated on Oct 29, 2010 05:43 AM PDT 745. # SeminarInversion of the Born Series in Optical Tomography Updated on Oct 29, 2010 05:26 AM PDT 746. # SeminarTwo groups of non-colliding Brownian motions Updated on Oct 29, 2010 05:54 AM PDT 747. # Seminar"Random matrix perturbations and quantization of tori" Updated on Sep 10, 2013 04:01 PM PDT 748. # SeminarRandom Matrix Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 749. # SeminarInverse Problems and Applications Seminar TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 750. # SeminarInverse Problems for Classical and Quantum Random Walks Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:29 AM PDT 751. # Seminar"The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: The free energy of the continuum random polymer." Updated on Oct 17, 2013 06:10 PM PDT 752. # SeminarGeometric structures in the study of the geodesic ray transform Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 29, 2010 06:27 AM PDT 753. # SeminarPostdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar TBA Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 754. # Seminar"Edge scaling limits for non-Hermitian random matrices" Updated on Oct 29, 2010 07:57 AM PDT 755. # SeminarNew reconstruction formulas and algorithms for problems of thermoacoustic tomography Updated on Oct 29, 2010 04:25 AM PDT 756. # SeminarLocal and Global Injectivity for Weighted Radon Transforms" Updated on Oct 23, 2010 04:06 AM PDT 757. # SeminarSupport Convergence in the Single Ring Theorem Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:18 AM PDT 758. # Seminar"From Random Tilings to Representation Theory" Updated on Oct 23, 2010 05:18 AM PDT 759. # Seminar"Support Convergence in the Single Ring Theorem" Updated on Sep 11, 2013 09:18 AM PDT 760. # SeminarDiscussion on RMT Community Server Created on Oct 23, 2010 05:30 AM PDT 761. # Seminar"Seismic Inverse Scattering by Reverse Time Migration" Updated on Oct 23, 2010 04:04 AM PDT 762. # SeminarThe Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: Deriving the Exact One-point Function Formula. Updated on Oct 17, 2013 06:10 PM PDT 763. # SeminarFrom Oscillatory Integrals to a Cubic Random Matrix Model" Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 23, 2010 05:07 AM PDT 764. # SeminarShear Wave Speed Recovery in Crawling Wave Sonoelastography Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 23, 2010 05:12 AM PDT 765. # SeminarFast Multiscale Gaussian Wavepacket Transforms and Multiscale Gaussian Beams for the Wave Equation Updated on Oct 23, 2010 04:01 AM PDT 766. # 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 767. # 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 768. # SeminarPartial Data for General Second Order Elliptic Operators in Two Dimensions Updated on Oct 16, 2010 06:14 AM PDT 769. # SeminarCycle Structure of Random Permutations with Cycle Weights Updated on Oct 18, 2010 03:00 AM PDT 770. # SeminarReverse-Time Migration and Inverse Scattering, and Applications in Global Seismology Updated on Sep 05, 2013 12:06 PM PDT 771. # SeminarPDE's for Gap Probabilities and Applications Updated on Oct 16, 2010 06:08 AM PDT 772. # SeminarThe Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: A Weakly Asymmetric Exclusion Process Approximation. Updated on Oct 17, 2013 06:10 PM PDT 773. # SeminarBerkeley-Stanford Algebraic Geometry Colloquium Updated on Oct 11, 2010 04:14 AM PDT 774. # SeminarApplication of Riemann-Hilbert Problems in Modelling of Cavitating Flow Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 18, 2010 02:57 AM PDT 775. # SeminarNovel Techniques for Acoustic and Electromagnetic Field Manipulations and their Applications Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 18, 2010 02:59 AM PDT 776. # SeminarInverse Problems for Differential Forms on Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary Updated on Oct 16, 2010 05:32 AM PDT 777. # 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 778. # SeminarInverse Problems for Classical and Quantum Random Walks Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:58 AM PDT 779. # SeminarDesigning Coupled Free-Form Surfaces Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:15 AM PDT 780. # SeminarThe Gaussian Free Field in an Interlacing Particle System with Two Different Jump Rates Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:27 AM PDT 781. # SeminarThe Beta-Hermite and Beta-Laguerre Processes Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:25 AM PDT 782. # SeminarAlbrecht Durer, Magic Squares, and Unitary Matrix Integrals Pizza Lunch Updated on Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 783. # Seminar"Closed Circles and Rigidity of Magnetic Flow" Pizza Lunch Updated on Oct 11, 2010 03:10 AM PDT 784. # SeminarOn the Linearized Calderon Problem with Partial Data - A Watermelon Approach Updated on Oct 08, 2010 07:39 AM PDT 785. # SeminarScattering by (Some) Rotating Black Holes Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 786. # SeminarLow Temperature Expansion for Matrix Models Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 787. # SeminarRadon Phenomenon in PDE and Complex Analysis Problems Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 788. # SeminarRepresentation Theory of the Infinite Symmetric Group and Point Processes of Random Matrix Type Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 789. # SeminarImaging Edges in Random Media Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 790. # SeminarIntegrable Equations for Random Matrix Spectral Gap Probabilities Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 791. # SeminarRegularized Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Nonlinear Fourier Transform Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 792. # SeminarTwo Charge Ensembles on the Line. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 793. # SeminarPoint Processes in the Complex Plane Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 794. # SeminarGradient Estimate of Solutions of Parabolic Operator with Discontinuous Coefficients. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 795. # SeminarE. Nordenstam's Talk Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 796. # SeminarThe Inverse Calderon Problem for Schrödinger Operator on Riemann Surfaces Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 797. # SeminarCloaking: Where Science Fiction Meets Science Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 798. # SeminarSeismic Imaging with Multiply Scattered Waves Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 799. # SeminarWhen is a Non-self Adjoint Hill Operator of Spectral Type? Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 800. # 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 801. # SeminarHeight Distributions of 1D KPZ Equation with Sharp Wedge Initial Conditions. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 802. # SeminarCollapse to the Orbifolds and Stability of Inverse Problems. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 803. # SeminarResistor Networks and Optimal Grids for Electrical Impedance Tomography with Partial Boundary Measurements Pizza Lunch Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 804. # 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 805. # SeminarSmall Volume Asymptotics and Detection of Defects in Composite Media. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 806. # SeminarExplicit Approximate Green's Function for Parabolic Equations. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 807. # SeminarEIT in 2D: The Issue of Stability. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 808. # 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 809. # SeminarThe Interior Transmission Eigenvalue Problem for Maxwell's Equations Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 810. # 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 811. # SeminarIncoming and Disappearing Solutions for Maxwell's equations Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 812. # SeminarRandom Matrices Beyond the Usual Universality Classes Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 813. # SeminarExact Solution of the Antiferroelectric Six-vertex Model. Riemann-Hilbert Approach. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 814. # SeminarReconstruction of Small Elastic Inclusions from Boundary Measurements Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 815. # SeminarRandom Matrix Theory-Informal Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 816. # SeminarFall 2010- 5-minute Presentations PIZZA LUNCH Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 817. # 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 818. # 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 819. # 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 820. # 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 Dec 04, 2013 12:45 PM PST 821. # 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 Oct 18, 2013 01:38 PM PDT 822. # 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 Dec 04, 2013 01:04 PM PST 823. # 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 Nov 14, 2013 11:09 AM PST 824. # 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 825. # 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 Dec 04, 2013 01:30 PM PST 826. # 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 Dec 05, 2013 07:48 AM PST 827. # 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 Sep 09, 2013 04:18 PM PDT 828. # 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 829. # SeminarLegendrian tangles and box-dot diagrams for "regular" rational tangles Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 830. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 831. # 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 832. # 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 833. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 834. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Constructing braid group actions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 835. # SeminarQuantitative symplectic geometry seminar: "The virtual moduli cycle revisited" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 836. # SeminarLearning seminar: "Coisotropic intersections" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 837. # SeminarIndefinite Morse 2-functions Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 838. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Hyperkaehler Floer theory as an infinite dimensional Hamiltonian system on the loop space" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 839. # SeminarMorse theory on manifolds with boundary Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 840. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 841. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 842. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: Symplectic embeddings and continued fractions Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 843. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Transverse knot invariants via contact surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 844. # 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 845. # SeminarQuantitative symplectic geometry seminar: "Maslov class rigidity for coisotropic manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 846. # SeminarLearning seminar: "Rational and Ruled symplectic 4-manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 847. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Quantum classes, Mumford conjecture and Hofer geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 848. # SeminarDepartment of Mathematics, University of California 2010 Chern Lectures: "Lecture 3: Bordered Floer homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 849. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 850. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group: Group discussion. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 851. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "J-holomorphic curves for the ECH = Heegard/Floer correspondence" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 852. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: " Uniqueness of generating Hamiltonians for continuous Hamiltonian flows" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 853. # SeminarDepartment of Mathematics, University of California 2010 Chern Lectures: "Lecture 2: Knot Floer homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 854. # SeminarLearning Seminar: " An introduction to contact homology for Legendrian knots" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 855. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Indefinite Morse 2-functions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 856. # 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 857. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 858. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 859. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Exotic smooth 4-manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 860. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Twisted Alexander polynomials and the Thurston norm" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 861. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: " Invariants of smooth embeddings via contact geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 862. # SeminarLearning seminar: "The moment map and equivariant cohomology theories" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 863. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Wild symplectic structures, mean curvature flow and holomorphic discs" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 864. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 865. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 866. # SeminarSutured Contact Homology Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 867. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Heegaard Floer homology and integer surgeries on links" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 868. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: "Cyclic symmetry, enumerative invariants and mirror symmetry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 869. # SeminarLearning seminar: "Introduction to contact invariants in Heegaard-Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 870. # SeminarResearch Seminar: The growth rate of symplectic homology and applications Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 871. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Slicing and surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 872. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 873. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 874. # 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 875. # 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 876. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Grid Diagrams and Schubert varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 877. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory" Symplectic embedding obstructions from ECH Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 878. # SeminarLearning seminar: "An introduction to Lefschetz fibrations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 879. # Seminar Research Seminar: " Lagrangian caps for Legendrian knots via Generating families" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 880. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 881. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "What we know and don't know about 4-dimensions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 882. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 883. # SeminarOn Knot Homology Theories Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 884. # Seminar"K12 Math Teacher Preparation: What Math Departments Can Do" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 885. # SeminarTransverse knots and Heegaard Floer homology Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 886. # SeminarSymplectic Topology today Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 887. # SeminarFrom Whitney disks to the Jacobi identity Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 888. # SeminarBordered Floer: from 2 to 4 Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 889. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 890. # SeminarHTKL Graduate Student Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 891. # 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 892. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Quadrics, instantons, and representation varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 893. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 894. # SeminarBordered Floer homology working group. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 895. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 896. # 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 897. # SeminarLearning seminar: "A basic introduction to open book decompositions and invariants of contact structures" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 898. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Link invariants and the structure of Fukaya categories" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 899. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "How to detect unknottedness using instantons and Khovanov homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 900. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 901. # SeminarKhovanov homology is an unknot detector II Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 902. # SeminarWorking Group "Quantitative Floer theory": Symplectic rigidity of Lagrangian cylinders Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 903. # SeminarWorking Group "Symplectic geometry and representation theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 904. # SeminarLearning seminar: "An introduction to symplectic Khovanov homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 905. # SeminarResearch Seminar: "Flexibility versus rigidity for tight confoliations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 906. # SeminarKhovanov homology is an unknot detector I Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 907. # SeminarKnot homologies and slice genus bounds Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 908. # SeminarWorking Group "Symplectic geometry and representation theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 909. # SeminarWorking Group: "Quantitative Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 910. # SeminarLearning seminar: "An introduction to embedded contact homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 911. # SeminarResearch Seminar "The chord conjecture in three dimensions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 912. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Constructing open symplectic manifolds via Lefschetz fibration" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 913. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 914. # SeminarZero-crossing and one-crossing knots in thickened surfaces Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 915. # SeminarWorking Group "Symplectic geometry and representation theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 916. # SeminarQuantitative Floer theory working group: "Some Measurements in Floer theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 917. # SeminarInformal organizational meeting for a graduate student learning seminar in symplectic and contact geometry. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 918. # SeminarBott periodicity and linear symplectic reduction Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 919. # SeminarThe Homology theory for Knots and Links program organizational meeting Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 920. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 01:28 PM PST 921. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Contact Structures, Open Books and Contact Invariants in Floer Homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 922. # 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 923. # SeminarPostdoc seminar kickoff event! Five minute Presentations. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 924. # SeminarEmbedding obstructions and Applications. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 925. # SeminarThe Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology meeting. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 926. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 12:21 PM PST 927. # 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 928. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical Intersection Theory on Compact Toric Varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 929. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "The 4x4 minors of a 5xn matrix are a tropical basis" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 930. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 931. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Tropical computation of characteristic numbers of the projective plane" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 932. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds: "A User's Guide to Polyfolds", presented by Fabert/Fish/Golovko Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 933. # 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 934. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Seiberg-Witten equations and the Weinstein conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 935. # 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 936. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures, Looking forward, discussion moderated by Yasha Eliashberg Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 937. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Lifting tropical intersections" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 938. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Coamoebas with multiplicity " Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 939. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Symplectic aspects of Stein manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 940. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Knot homologies" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 941. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "String/dilaton/divisor equations and topological recursion in SFT" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 942. # 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 943. # SeminarGraduate students Seminar: "Heegaard Floer homology and the Milnor conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 944. # SeminarWhat is? Seminar: "Conservation Laws, Symmetries, and other Physical Intuitions ctd" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 945. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "A glimpse into the heart of mirror symmetry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 946. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Three notions of tropical rank for symmetric matrices" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 947. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Dequantization of addition" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 948. # 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 949. # 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 950. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 951. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Elliptic curves and chip-firing games on wheel graphs" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 952. # SeminarWhat is? Seminar: "Conservation Laws, Symmetries, and other Physical Intuitions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 953. # 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 954. # 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 955. # Seminar<b>Math Circle Orientation </b><br> Bay Area Math Circle Directors Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 956. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Open problems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 957. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Nonarchimedean algebraic geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 958. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Tropical geometry and Mirror Symmetry for the projective plane" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 959. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Bounding Belyi Polynomials and their relation to Dessins d'Enfants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 960. # SeminarTropical Colloquim: "Tropical Brill-Noether theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 961. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 962. # SeminarWorking Group on Polyfolds Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 963. # 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 964. # SeminarBroken Dreams Seminar: "Poincare's other conjecture. Celestial Mechanics" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 965. # 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 966. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "The C0 rigidity of the Poisson bracket" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 967. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "From u3/6 to the KdV hierarchy" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 968. # SeminarGraduate student seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 969. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Computing Node Polynomials for Plane Curves" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 970. # SeminarTropical Colloquim: "Tropical Pryms" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 971. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Constructing Calabi-Yau mirrors via tropical geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 972. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 973. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "Examples and Computations of Symplectic Homology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 974. # 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 975. # 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 976. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "(Plane) triangles - some examples in moduli problems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 977. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Floer homology on hyperkahler manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 978. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Examples and computations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 979. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Buildings and Berkovich spaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 980. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Analytic geometry over the field of one element" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 981. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical intersection theory, part two" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 982. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Kneser's theorem and inequalities in Ehrhart theory" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 983. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 984. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: " Effect of Legendrian surgery part III" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 985. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "A sketch of proof for 3-dimensional Giroux correspondence, continued" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 986. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Frobenius manifolds, bi-hamiltonian systems and Witten's conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 987. # SeminarBroken Dreams Seminar: " A cancellation lemma and other dreams about almost symplectic forms" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 988. # SeminarJoint Symplectic-Tropical Seminar: "Log Gromov Witten invariants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 989. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Symplectic field theory of a Reeb orbit" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 990. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Introduction to polyfolds, with an emphasis on examples" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 991. # SeminarTropical Colloquim: "Tropical Enumerative Geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 992. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical Oriented Matroids and Triangulations of Products of Simplices" " Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 993. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "Effect of Legendrian surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 994. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: " Frobenius manifolds and bihamiltonian systems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 995. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "A sketch of proof for 3-dimensional Giroux correspondence" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 996. # 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 997. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Symplectic field theory and commuting (quantum) Hamiltonian systems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 998. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Lagrangian Correspondences and the Symplectic Category" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 999. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Relating GW invariants of curves and surfaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1000. # SeminarMSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Tropical vs. Real Geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1001. # 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 1002. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1003. # SeminarApplications of tropical geometry to complex hyperplane arrangements Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1004. # SeminarRigid analytic methods in tropical geometry (and vice-versa) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1005. # SeminarWorking Group on Algebraic Structures of Holomorphic Curves: "The effect of Legendrian surgery" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1006. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence: "Donaldson's paper on symplectic submanifolds, continued" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1007. # 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 1008. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Integrable Systems and Frobenius Manifolds, III" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1009. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Symplectic and contact homology of symplectic fillings" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1010. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Gromov width of Lagrangian submanifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1011. # SeminarGraduate Stunet Activity: "Introduction to tropical intersection theory I" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1012. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Geometry of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1013. # SeminarTropical modifications against superabundant curves Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1014. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1015. # 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 1016. # SeminarWorking Groups on Giroux Correspondence in higher dimensions: "Donaldson's paper on symplectic submanifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1017. # 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 1018. # SeminarBroken Dreams Seminar: "Transversality in SFT" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1019. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Contact homology of Legendrian knots in S3 and other manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1020. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Computations in GW and SFT using Integrable Systems" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1021. # SeminarSymplectic and Contact Topology Seminar: "Obstructions to symplectic filling from SFT" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1022. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Phylogenetic trees and the tropical Grassmannian" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1023. # SeminarWhat-Is-Seminar series: "What is a Tropical Compactification ? " Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1024. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Parahoric subgroups in the tropics" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1025. # Seminar"Topology of Particle Collisions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1026. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1027. # 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 1028. # 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 1029. # SeminarTropical mirror symmetry, stringy E-functions and all that. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1030. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Kp, KdV, n-KdV hierachies from infinite-dimensional Grassmanians" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1031. # 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 1032. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "The tropical inverse problem" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1033. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Tropical isotropic linear spaces and Delta-matroid subdivisions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1034. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Tropicalised Reparameterisations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1035. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1036. # SeminarTropical Homology Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1037. # 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 1038. # SeminarWorking Group on Integrable Systems: "Integrable Systems and Frobenius Manifolds (after B. Dubrovin)" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1039. # 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 1040. # 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 1041. # SeminarTropical Colloquium: "Purely real algebraic and tropical Welschinger invariants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1042. # SeminarGraduate student seminar: "Degenerations of projective space induced by an affine building" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1043. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1044. # SeminarTropical Homology Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1045. # SeminarTropical Seminar: "Counting Tropical Curves on Abelian Surfaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1046. # 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 1047. # 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 1048. # SeminarSymplectic geometry seminar: "Matching Lagrangian invariants" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1049. # SeminarInformal discussion with G. Mikhalkin: What is a tropical manifold? Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1050. # SeminarPostdoc seminar kickoff event! Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1051. # SeminarSymplectic Seminar: "Exploded Manifolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1052. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Talk: "Hamiltonian group actions" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1053. # SeminarTropical Colloquiium: Supertropical Algebra (Joint work with Z. Izhakian) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1054. # 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 1055. # 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 1056. # 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 1057. # 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 Dec 06, 2013 03:47 PM PST 1058. # 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 Nov 09, 2013 10:51 AM PST 1059. # 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 1060. # 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 Oct 25, 2013 10:40 AM PDT 1061. # 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 1062. # 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 Sep 11, 2013 10:55 AM PDT 1063. # 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 Oct 17, 2013 06:10 PM PDT 1064. # 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 1065. # 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 1066. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 1067. # SeminarRecent progress on Frobenius splittings. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1068. # SeminarOld and new perspectives on higher dimensional classification. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1069. # SeminarHypergeometric families. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1070. # SeminarStacks and their applications: some recent history and open questions. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1071. # SeminarTowards abundance and the existence of log terminal models. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1072. # SeminarIdeal Singularities. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1073. # SeminarOpen problems in the moduli theory of varieties of general type. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1074. # Seminar Varieties with a twist. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1075. # SeminarRational points of varieties over function fields. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1076. # SeminarOld and new information on the fibers of generic linear projections. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1077. # SeminarDifferential Forms on Singular Spaces, Extension Theorems and Applications. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1078. # SeminarOn universal covers and fundamental groups. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1079. # 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 Dec 09, 2013 09:16 AM PST 1080. # SeminarRationality of Gromov-Witten varieties. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1081. # SeminarFano varieties and asymptotics of cohomology. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1082. # 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 1083. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "Valuations and Riemann-Zariski spaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1084. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "Smooth and Irreducible Multigraded Hilbert Schemes" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1085. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "Vector bundles with sections" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1086. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "The moduli space of cubic fourfolds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1087. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Shafarevich conjecture and its higher dimensional generalizations" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1088. # 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 1089. # SeminarLog Geometry Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1090. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "The defect of Fano 3-folds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1091. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "Positivity of toric vector bundles" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1092. # SeminarStacks working group: "Geometry of Artin Stacks" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1093. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: "Some problems on 3-folds" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1094. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: The Slope "Conjecture'' Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1095. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "De Rham cohomology, crystals, and the infinitesimal site" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1096. # 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 1097. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "Extending differential forms over log-canonical singularities" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1098. # SeminarLog Geometry working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1099. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "Torus actions on normal, affine varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1100. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Why are homogeneous spaces projective varieties?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1101. # SeminarEmphasis Seminar: "Strong rational connectedness and its applications" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1102. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: " Pairs$(X,\Delta)$as geometric objects" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1103. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: " Non-abelian theta functions and the theta map" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1104. # SeminarStacks Working Group: "The Hilbert scheme for stacks" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1105. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series: "Boundedness of varieties of general type " Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1106. # SeminarStacks working group: "Stacks and their moduli" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1107. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "Logarithmic sheaves" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1108. # SeminarPostdoctoral seminar: "Why should algebraic geometers cut and paste graphs?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1109. # SeminarLog Geometry Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1110. # SeminarUC Berkeley Colloquium: "Riemannian holonomy and algebraic geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1111. # SeminarCombinatorial/Enumerative/Toric Geometry Seminar: "Eigenvalues of products of unitary matrices and orbifold cohomology" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1112. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "The rank of a hypergeometric system" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1113. # SeminarMSRI Seminar: " On the Kummer Construction" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1114. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: "Multilinear systems of higher rank" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1115. # SeminarSpecial Seminar:" Exterior differential systems and variation of Hodge structures" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1116. # 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. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 1117. # SeminarLog Geometry Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1118. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Bounding the Number of Log Canonical Centers" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1119. # SeminarCombinatorial/Enumerative/Toric Geometry Seminar: "How can nefness determine the shape of a polytope?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1120. # 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 1121. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1122. # SeminarStacks Working Group: "Moduli of curves" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1123. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1124. # SeminarMSRI Colloquiu:"Can Bridgeland stability tell us something new about Kodaira vanishing?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1125. # SeminarLog Geometry working group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1126. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: " Log canonical thresholds and statistical models" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1127. # 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 1128. # SeminarBasic Notion:" Du Val singularities and other stories" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1129. # SeminarMain Seminar: "Categorical crepant resolutions of simple singularities" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1130. # SeminarStacks Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1131. # SeminarStacks Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1132. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "(Unexpected) applications of characteristic classes for singular varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1133. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "Cox rings of cubic surfaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1134. # SeminarLog geometry seminar: "Coherent and incoherent log structures" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1135. # SeminarInformal Seminar:" Positivity of the relative canonical bundle and applications" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1136. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar:" Perspectives on duality for abelian varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1137. # SeminarCombinatorial, Enumerative and Toric Geometry Seminar: "A Giambelli formula for isotropic grassmannians" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1138. # 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 1139. # SeminarBasic Notions: Noncommutative geometry and algebraic geometry over the "field with one element" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1140. # SeminarStacks Working Group: Title: TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1141. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series: "Algebraic stacks without schemes" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1142. # SeminarStacks Working Group: Title: TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1143. # 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 1144. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: TBA Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1145. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: Algebraic geometry minus fields Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1146. # SeminarLog geometry seminar: "Logaritmic Hodge Structures (Report on the work of Kato-Usui)" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1147. # SeminarInformal Seminar: On hypersurfaces containing too many lines Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1148. # SeminarEmphasis Period Seminar: Donaldson-Thomas invariants are weighted Euler Characteristics Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1149. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: Compactified Picard stacks over the moduli space of marked curves Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1150. # SeminarFinite morphisms: deformations, positivity and applications Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1151. # SeminarBasic Notions: Rational curves on algebraic varieties Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1152. # SeminarStacks Working Group: More toric stacks Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1153. # SeminarStacks Working Group Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1154. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1155. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "How may Givental's Lagrangian cone help you compute Gromov-Witten invariants?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1156. # SeminarOpen Problems Session, <br>David Eisenbud and Daniel Erman <br> (Intended mainly for postdocs and graduate students) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1157. # SeminarMSRI Colloquium: "The orbifold vertex: computing the Donaldson-Thomas invariants of toric orbifolds by counting colored boxes" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1158. # SeminarStacks Working Group: More toric stacks. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1159. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Pandharipande-Thomas theory of stable pairs in the derived category" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1160. # WorkshopSage Days: Algebraic Geometry Organizers: David Eisenbud (UC Berkeley), Daniel Erman (UC Berkeley), Dan Grayson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mike Hansen (University of Washington), William Stein (University of Washington), Mike Stillman (Cornell University). This workshop features numerous hands on introductory tutorials about Sage, and the interface between Sage and Macaulay2. There were discussions and talks about doing algebraic geometry with both Sage and Macaulay2, and the unique advantages of both systems. There were also talks about working with lattice polytopes and doing Lie theory in Sage. In addition to the talks and tutorials, we had numerous coding sprints. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:50 PM PDT 1161. # SeminarMain Seminar: "From jet schemes to the base scheme" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1162. # SeminarStacks Working Group: Picard groups of moduli problems, Part I. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1163. # SeminarInformal Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1164. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: "Homogenous domains and moduli spaces in algebraic geometry" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1165. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar: " Rationally Connected Varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1166. # SeminarLog Geometry Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1167. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: " Hilbert schemes with multiple components" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1168. # SeminarEmphasis Period Seminar: "Decompositions of Effective Cones of Moduli Spaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1169. # SeminarMain Seminar: "The explicit geometry of the spin moduli space" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1170. # SeminarBasic Notions: "Interplay of real and complex geometry and the Nash conjectures" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1171. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series: "Hall algebras and wall-crossing" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1172. # SeminarStacks Working Group: " Introduction to Toric Stacks" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1173. # SeminarStacks Working Group: "Title: Stacks for everybody, Part II Why stacks?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1174. # WorkshopThe Mathematical Association of America Sectional Meeting Organizers: Organized by: Dean Gooch (Santa Rosa Junior College), Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University), Robert L. Bryant (MSRI), Steve Chiappari and Frank Farris (Santa Clara University) and Ed Keppelmann (University of Nevada Reno) As one of the MAAs most entertaining sections this meeting will be no exception. All the presentations will have plenty of rich mathematics accessible to students but equally engaging for seasoned veterans. The featured speakers are Robert Bryant (The idea of Holonomy), David Bressoud - MAA President Elect (The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture), Frank Farris - Editor Mathematics Magazine (A window to the 5th dimension), Kevin McCurley - Google Research (Information Modeling with Graphs), and Helene Barcelo - MSRI (Subspace Arrangements from a Combinatorial point of view). There will also be a student poster session, a luncheon, and plenty of time for catching up with old friends and colleagues. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:50 AM PDT 1175. # WorkshopModern Moduli Theory Organizers: I. Coskun (U. Illinois - Chicago), S. Katz (U. Illinois), A. Marian (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Pandharipande (Princeton U.), R. Thomas (Imperial College), H.H. Tseng (U. Wisconsin), R. Vakil (Stanford U.) This workshop will convene experts specializing on the minimal model program, derived categories and moduli spaces in an informal environment to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas across these different fields of algebraic geometry. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:50 PM PDT 1176. # SeminarColloquium: " Unirationality of the moduli spaces of polarized K3 surfaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1177. # SeminarPostdoctoral Seminar: " Mori's program for moduli spaces" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1178. # SeminarWorking Group: " Log Geometry and Moduli" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1179. # SeminarEmphasis Period Seminar: "Counting Curves with Tangency Conditions: A comparison of approaches" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1180. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: "Evolutions and the Eisenbud-Mazur Conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1181. # SeminarMain Seminar: "Algebraic Cycles on Singular Varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1182. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: "Higher Secant Varieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1183. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar: "Bridgeland Stability Conditions II" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1184. # SeminarColloquium: "Classification and Arithmetic" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1185. # SeminarWorking Group: " Log Geometry and Moduli" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1186. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar: " Kodaira-Iitaka dimension on subvarieties" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1187. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: "Log canonical thresholds and the ACC Conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1188. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: "Hodge theory and algebraic cycles" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1189. # SeminarMain Seminar: "IVHS and Cycles modulo algebraic equivalence on generic Jacobians" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1190. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series: "Which powers of holomorphic functions are integrable?" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1191. # SeminarWorking Group: " Introduction to Stacks" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1192. # SeminarPostdoc Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1193. # Seminar Algebraic Geometry Colloquium: The ring of invariants of n points on the projective line Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1194. # SeminarIntroduction to Stacks Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1195. # SeminarOrganizational meeting for the seminar on: "Logarithmic geometry with a view toward moduli". Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT 1196. # SeminarEmphasis Period Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1197. # SeminarGraduate Student Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1198. # WorkshopMacaulay2 day Organizers: Ravi Vakil (Stanford University), Gregory G. Smith (Queen's University) , Mike Stillman (Cornell University) Using Macaulay 2 in your research. The goal of the workshop is to help the participants use the Macaulay 2 software in their research. The first presentation will focus on installation, set-up, and basic functions. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops to this session to get assistance with the software installation. The other independent talks will focus on different problems in algebraic geometry; likely topics include computing sheaf cohomology, intersection theory, and enumerative geometry. Each of these talks will also demonstrate the use of Macaulay 2. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:31 PM PDT 1199. # SeminarBasic Notions Seminar: "The geometric Mordell conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1200. # SeminarMain Seminar: "Higher dimensional generalizations of Shafarevich's conjecture" Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1201. # SeminarAG Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT 1202. # WorkshopClassical Algebraic Geometry Today Organizers: Lucia Caporaso (U. Rome III), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), James McKernan (MIT), Mircea Mustata (U. Michigan), Mihnea Popa (U. Illinois - Chicago) The main theme of the workshop will be to explore modern approaches to problems originating in Classical Algebraic Geometry, and at the same time offer an introduction to various subfields to the younger participants in the semester-long program. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:49 PM PDT 1203. # SeminarMSRI/Evans Lecture Series - Positivity Properties of Divisors and Higher Codimension Cycle Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT 1204. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields Organizers: Angela Gibney (U. Pennsylvania), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Diane Maclagan (Warwick U.) Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke), and Ravi Vakil (Stanford U.) This workshop is part of the semester program on Algebraic Geometry, and additional funding will be available for participants to attend the associated "Introductory workshop: Classical algebraic geometry," January 26-30, 2009. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:49 PM PDT 1205. # SeminarIntroduction to Hodge Theory II. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT 1206. # SeminarIntroduction to Hodge Theory I. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT 1207. # SeminarClassical problems in toric geometry. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT 1208. # SeminarAn invitation to toric geometry. Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT 1209. # SeminarJanuary 14-16, 2009: Kickoff Presentations http://kickoff.msri2009.org Updated on Apr 01, 2011 05:06 AM PDT 1210. # ProgramAlgebraic Geometry 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 Dec 09, 2013 01:02 PM PST 1211. # SeminarBasic Notions (often related to the main seminar or the colloquium) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1212. # SeminarMain Seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1213. # SeminarEmphasis period seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1214. # SeminarPostdoc seminar Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1215. # SeminarGraduate student seminar (followed by socializing) Updated on May 13, 2013 11:01 PM PDT 1216. # WorkshopAlgebraic Statistics Organizers: Serkan Hosten (SFSU), Lior Pachter (UCB), Bernd Sturmfels (UCB) Algebraic statistics is a maturing discipline focused on the applications of algebraic geometry and its computational tools in the study of statistical models. Initial results in the area were related to specific problems in categorial data analysis and experimental design, however a flurry of activity during the past several years has greatly increased the scope of the subject. Areas of interest now include graphical models, maximum likelihood estimation and Bayesian methods. Moreover, a strong connection has developed to applications in the physical and biological sciences. The field draws its tools not only from computational algebraic geometry but also from tropical, convex, and information geometry. Moreover, research in algebraic statistics has led to new directions in those fields. The workshop will be a meeting point for students and leaders in the field. It will present a focused activity parallel to the 2008-2009 program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics being hosted by the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:49 PM PDT 1217. # WorkshopUsing Partnerships to Strengthen Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education Organizers: Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), James Lewis (University of Nebraska), and William McCallum (University of Arizona) A core problem – perhaps the central problem – for improving elementary school mathematics is the mathematical education of elementary teachers. The historic isolation of elementary teachers’ study of mathematics from their pedagogical preparation is increasingly seen to be both unnatural and ineffective. Indeed, the mathematical education of elementary teachers is inherently interdisciplinary as future teachers seek to gain the mathematical knowledge, the pedagogical knowledge and the knowledge of young students that is needed to become a successful mathematics teacher. Thus, it seems reasonable that an integrative learning approach to mathematical education of elementary teachers could yield substantial benefits. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:57 PM PDT 1218. # WorkshopInternational Conference on Cluster Algebras and Related Topics Organizers: Christof Geiss (UNAM Ciudad Universitaria), Bernhard Keller (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7), Idun Reiten (Nettstedskart Tilgjengelighet Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universite), Andrei Zelevinsky (Nostheastern University). Location: Morelia/Mexico City This is a combination of a conference and workshop on cluster algebras and their relations to geometry, representation theory and combinatorics. The workshop will take place in Morelia (a colonial town about 250km west of Mexico-City), December 8-13, 2008 followed by the conference in Mexico-City, December 15-20. The Research in this area developed with amazing speed after the introduction of cluster algebras around 2001 by Sergey Fomin and Andrei Zelevinsky and has attracted a variety of first rate mathematicians throughout the world, for instance Alexander Goncharov, Bernhard Keller, Maxim Kontsevich, Bernard Leclerc, Idun Reiten and Claus Michael Ringel, most of them being ICM speakers. A good way to get an overview of the intense activities related to cluster algebras is Sergey Fomin's cluster algebras portal: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~fomin/cluster.html see also section below for some discussion of the impact of cluster algebras. This workshop website is at: http://www.matem.unam.mx/iconcart/ Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:15 AM PDT 1219. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:47 PM PDT 1220. # WorkshopDiscrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics Organizers: Ben Green (University of Cambridge), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Emmanuel Lesigne (University of Tours), Anthony Quas (University of Victoria), Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis) Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:47 PM PDT 1221. # WorkshopElliptic and Hyperbolic Equations on Singular Spaces Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:37 PM PDT 1222. # WorkshopPromoting Diversity at the Graduate Level in Mathematics: a National Forum Organizers: Sylvia Bozeman (Spelman College), Rhonda Hughes (Bryn Mawr College), Abbe Herzig (SUNY, University at Albany), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ellen Kirkman(Wake Forest University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), and Olivia Scriven (Spelman College). Honorary organizers include: Dusa McDuff ( SUNY Stonybrook and Barnard College), Fern Hunt (NIST), and Karen Uhlenbeck (U of Texas at Austin). Cultivating diversity and broadening participation of historically underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences are national goals that are identified by the National Science Foundation as "essential components of the innovation engine that drives the Nation's economy." The goal of this three-day conference is to stimulate, identify, and disseminate successful models that imporve retention of underrepresented groups in graduate programs in mathematics. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:37 PM PDT 1223. # WorkshopStatistical and Computational Challenges in Next-Generation Sequencing Organizers: Sandrine Dudoit, Terry Speed, Margaret Taub For the past decade, microarrays have been the assays of choice for high-throughput studies of gene expression. Recent improvements in the efficiency, quality, and cost of genome-wide sequencing are prompting biologists to rapidly abandon microarrays in favor of so-called next-generation sequencers, e.g., Applied Biosystems' SOLiD, Helicos BioSciences' HeliScope, Illumina's Solexa, and Roche's 454 Life Sciences sequencing systems. These high-throughput sequencing technologies have already been applied for studying genome-wide transcription levels (mRNA-Seq), transcription factor binding sites (ChIP-Seq), chromatin structure, and DNA methylation status. While sequencing-based gene expression studies have been touted as overcoming longstanding limitations of microarray-based studies, these new biotechnologies raise similar as well as novel statistical and computational challenges. This workshop website is at: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~seqmtg/ Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:14 AM PDT 1224. # WorkshopMath Institutes Modern Mathematics Workshop Organizers: Ive Rubio, Herbert Medina, Kathy O'Hara, and Robert Megginson Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:36 PM PDT 1225. # WorkshopTopology of Stratified Spaces Organizers: Greg Friedman, Eugénie Hunsicker, Anatoly Libgober, and Laurentiu Maxim This workshop will bring together researchers interested in the topology of stratified spaces. It will focus roughly on four topics: topology of complex varieties, signature theory on singular spaces, L2 and intersection cohomology, and mixed Hodge theory and singularities. Aside from talks on current research, there will be a series of introductory lectures on these themes. These talks will be aimed at strengthening the connections among the various topology research groups and the connections between topology researchers and researchers at the program on Analysis of Singular Spaces, running concurrently. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:47 PM PDT 1226. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Analysis on Singular Spaces Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch This four-day program will be an introduction to the main themes of the Analysis on Singular Spaces program, geared toward graduate students and postdocs. It will consist of several minicourses, covering topics in spectral and scattering theory, index theory, and$L²\$-cohomology, as well as developing the technical tools needed as background.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:03 AM PDT
1227. # WorkshopBroader Connections: Analysis on Singular Spaces

Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy, and Jared Wunsch

This two-day program will consist of a "crash course" in topics in PDE relevant to the Analysis on Singular Spaces main program, and in particular will attempt to get graduate students, postdocs, and even advanced
undergraduates ready for the Introductory Workshop the following week. The focus will be topics in analysis on smooth manifolds whose generalizations to singular spaces will be the focus of the main program.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:03 AM PDT
1228. # WorkshopIntroduction to Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics

Organizers: Ben Green (University of Cambridge), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Emmanuel Lesigne (University of Tours), Anthony Quas (University of Victoria), and Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
1229. # WorkshopBroader Connections: Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics

Organizers: Ben Green (University of Cambridge), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Emmanuel Lesigne (University of Tours), Anthony Quas (University of Victoria), Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:35 PM PDT
1230. # ProgramAnalysis on Singular Spaces

Organizers: Gilles Carron (University of Nantes), Eugenie Hunsicker (Loughborough University), Richard Melrose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michael Taylor (Andras VasyUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Jared Wunsch (Northwestern University)

Updated on Dec 01, 2013 03:14 PM PST
1231. # ProgramErgodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics

Organizers: Ben Green (University of Cambridge), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Emmanuel Lesigne (University of Tours), Anthony Quas (University of Victoria), Mate Wierdl (University of Memphis)

Updated on Nov 26, 2013 03:29 PM PST
1232. # WorkshopLow Dimensional Topology

Organizers: Elisenda Grigsby, Rob Schneiderman, Peter Teichner and Kevin Walker

In recent years, there has been lots of exciting progress in many branches of low-dimensional topology, including Heegard Floer and Khovanov Homology, small 4-Manifolds, TQFT, knot concordance and Lefschetz fibrations. These are the main themes of this workshop whose format will be three one-hour lectures every day, two in the morning and one survey lecture in the afternoon (except for Friday). This survey lecture will be followed by a panel for experts, lead by the afternoon speaker and some other leaders of the field. The panel will discuss current developments and open problems and it can be extended into the late afternoon if so desired by the panelists.

Updated on Dec 09, 2013 12:21 PM PST
1233. # Summer Graduate SchoolClimate Change - Summer Graduate Workshop

Organizers: Christopher Jones (UNC Chapel Hill and U Warwick, UK), Inez Fung (U.C. Berkeley), Eric Kostelich (Arizona State University), K.K. Tung (U. Washington), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College), Charles D. Camp (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), Rachel Kuske (Univ British Columbia)

The goal of the workshop will be to discern ways in which mathematics can contribute and to expose new researchers to some of the key areas that we believe will form the basis of serious mathematical considerations of climate change issues.

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 10:22 AM PDT
1234. # WorkshopClimate Change Summer School

Organizers: Chris Jones (UNC Chapel Hill and U Warwick, UK), Inez Fung (U.C. Berkeley), Eric Kostelich (Arizona State University), K.K. Tung (U. Washington), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College), Charles D. Camp (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), Rachel Kuske (Univ British Columbia)

Supported by the Sea Change Foundation, this three-week summer school will incorporate a workshop for graduate students as well as an advanced research workshop. The mini-program is designed to introduce students and postdocs to a set of mathematical ideas and techniques that are highly relevant to climate change research.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:57 PM PDT
1235. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometry and Representation Theory of Tensors for Computer Science, Statistics, and other areas

Organizers: J.M. Landsberg (Texas A&M), Lek-Heng Lim (UC Berkeley) and Jason Morton (UC Berkeley)

Recently the common geometry of tensors arising in questions in computational complexity, statistical learning theory, signal processing, scientific data analysis have been looked at from a unified perspective. The underlying geometry and representation theory will be covered in this workshop with and eye towards problems such as the complexity of matrix multiplication, Valiant's approach to P=NP, measures of entanglement in quantum information theory, graphicalmodels in statistical learning theory, independent component analysis and other multilinear data analytic techniques.

Updated on Sep 10, 2013 01:33 PM PDT
1236. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer Program: Analytic and Algebraic Geometry: Common Problems - Different Methods

Organizers: Mircea Mustaţă (University of Michigan), Jeff McNeal (Ohio State University)

NOTE: This workshop requires a special application with a January 20, 2008 deadline. For application forms, please visit http://www.admin.ias.edu/ma/current/program_gradsummer.php

Updated on May 07, 2013 11:14 PM PDT
1237. # WorkshopCMI/MSRI Workshop: Modular Forms and Arithmetic

Organizers: Frank Calegari, Samit Dasgupta, David Ellwood, Bjorn Poonen, and Richard Taylor

This conference, jointly funded by MSRI and the Clay Mathematics Institute, will bring together researchers on many aspects of the arithmetic applications of modular (and automorphic) forms. This is currently a very broad and very active subject. Our intention is to encourage interaction between those working in different sub-disciplines. To this end it is hoped to limit lectures to 4 hours a
day, allowing plenty of time for informal interactions. On Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 7pm there will be a dinner to honor Ken Ribet on his 60th birthday.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:35 PM PDT
1238. # Summer Graduate SchoolA Window into Zeta and Modular Physics

Organizers: Floyd Williams (University of Massachusetts) and Klaus Kirsten (Baylor University)

In recent years,a noteworthy and very fruitful interlacing of number theory and physics has emerged.As indicated in the September 2007 issue of the AMS Notices,for example,a new journal "Communications in Number Theory and Physics " has just been launched to follow significant interactions and dynamics between these two fields.Several books are now available,in addition to an array of conference and workshop activity,that accent this fortunate merger of "pure"mathematics and physical theory-with applications that range from field theory (conformal and topological),extended objects (strings and branes)cosmology and black hole physics, to Bose-Einstein condensation and the theory of relativistic gases.

Updated on Nov 27, 2013 02:43 PM PST
1239. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2008: Experimental Mathematics

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

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 01, 2013 11:55 PM PDT
1240. # WorkshopHot Topics: Contact structures, dynamics and the Seiberg-Witten equations in dimension 3

Organizers: Helmut Hofer, Michael Hutchings, Peter Kronheimer, Tom Mrowka and Cliff Taubes

This workshop will concentrate on recently discovered relationships between Seiberg-Witten theory and contact geometry on 3 dimensional manifolds. One consequence of these relationships is a proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension 3. Another is an isomorphism between the Seiberg-Witten Floer (co)homology and embedded contact homology, the latter a form of Floer homology that was defined by Michael Hutchings. The over arching plan is to introduce the salient features of both the contact geometry side of the story and the Seiberg-Witten side, and then discuss how they are related.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:35 PM PDT
1241. # WorkshopExterior Differential Systems and the Method of Equivalence

Organizers: Jeanne Clelland, William F. Shadwick (Chair) and George Wilkens

Exterior Differential Systems and the Method of Equivalence surveys state of the art applications of these techniques and celebrates the contributions of Robby Gardner to our current understanding of Cartan’s powerful machinery.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:35 PM PDT
1242. # WorkshopHomological Methods in Representation Theory

Organizers: David Benson, Daniel Nakano(chair), Raphael Rouquier

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:35 PM PDT
1243. # WorkshopTopics in Combinatorial Representation Theory

Organizers: Sergey Fomin, Bernard Leclerc, Vic Reiner (Chair), Monica Vazirani

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:34 PM PDT
1244. # WorkshopLie Theory

Organizers: Alexander Kleshchev, Arun Ram, Richard Stanley (chair), Bhama Srinivasan

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:34 PM PDT
1245. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on the Representation Theory of Finite Groups

Organizers: Jonathan Alperin(chair), Robert Boltje, Markus Linckelmann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:34 PM PDT
1246. # WorkshopMSRI's 25th Anniversary Celebration

Organizers: Alejandro Adem, Isadore Singer, and Robert Bryant.

We hope that you will join us for the Anniversary celebration at the end of January 2008. As befitting the broad mission of the Institute these will include not only mathematical exposition by some of the leaders who have been and are about to be involved with MSRI programs, but also an opening program of mathematics and music and some panels to reflect on the most important directions for future development.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:33 PM PDT
1247. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Combinatorial Representation Theory

Organizers: Persi Diaconis, Arun Ram, Anne Schilling (Chair)

The goal of the Introductory Workshop is to survey current and recent developments in the field. The talks will focus on tableaux, reflection groups, finite groups, geometry and mathematical physics in the realm of Combinatorial Representation Theory.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:33 PM PDT
1248. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Introduction to the Spring, 2008 programs

Organizers: Bhama Srinivasan and Monica Vazirani

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:42 PM PDT
1249. # ProgramCombinatorial Representation Theory

Organizers: P. Diaconis, A. Kleshchev, B. Leclerc, P. Littelmann, A. Ram, A. Schilling, R. Stanley

Recent catalysts stimulating growth of this field in the last few decades have been the discovery of "crystals" and the development of the combinatorics of affine Lie groups.. Today the subject intersects several fields: combinatorics, representation theory, analysis, algebraic geometry, Lie theory, and mathematical physics. The goal of this program is to bring together experts in these areas together in one interdisciplinary setting.

Updated on Dec 11, 2013 06:31 PM PST
1250. # ProgramRepresentation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics

Organizers: J. L. Alperin, M. Broue, J. F. Carlson, A. Kleshchev, J. Rickard, B. Srinivasan

Current research centers on many open questions, i.e., representations over the integers or rings of positive characteristic, correspondence of characters and derived equivalences of blocks. Recently we have seen active interactions in group cohomology involving many areas of topology and algebra. The focus of this program will be on these areas with the goal of fostering emerging interdisciplinary connections among them.

Updated on Dec 06, 2013 03:49 PM PST
1251. # WorkshopTopics in Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:03 AM PDT
1252. # WorkshopMathematical Systems Biology of Cancer II

Organizers: Joe Gray, Elizabeth Purdom, Terry Speed and Paul Spellman.

This workshop is designed to encourage and support the mathematical community's involvement in the effort to study cancer using system approaches. Conference presenters will include mathematicians and computer scientists presently involved in systems approaches to cancer and more general fields of biology. These presenters will cover general approaches to systems biology including analysis of genome scale data as well as statistical, continuous, and hybrid methods for pathway modeling. The workshop will also provide tutorials covering the use of tools and methods in systems biology as well as on the fundamental biological processes involved in cancer. In addition, the workshop will provide travel support for students and postdocs from the mathematical sciences to foster interest in this field.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:51 AM PDT
1253. # WorkshopComputation and Complex Systems

Organizers: Robert Bryant (MSRI) and Masoud Nikravesh (UC Berkeley)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:33 PM PDT
1254. # WorkshopModern Mathematics: An Introduction to MSRI's 2008-09 Programs

Organizers: Ricardo Cortez, Kathleen O'Hara, Ivelisse Rubio

This workshop is to be held at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown located at 200 West 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, directly preceding the Annual Meeting of SACNAS. The focus is on the Analysis of Singular Spaces, Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics, and Algebraic Geometry

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:33 PM PDT
1255. # WorkshopIntroduction to Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Mladen Bestvina, Jon McCammond, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:42 PM PDT
1256. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Ruth Charney, Indira Chatterji, and Karen Vogtmann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:45 PM PDT
1257. # WorkshopIntroduction to Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups

Organizers: Jeff Brock, Richard Canary, Howard Masur, Alan Reid, and Maryam Mirzakhani

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:32 PM PDT
1258. # ProgramGeometric Group Theory

Organizers: Mladen Bestvina, Jon McCammond, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann

In the 1980’s, attention to the geometric structures which cell complexes can carry shed light on earlier combinatorial and topological investigations into group theory, stimulating other provacative and innovative ideas over the past 20 years. As a consequence, geometric group theory has developed many different facets, including geometry, topology, analysis, logic.

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 03:30 PM PDT
1259. # ProgramTeichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups

Organizers: Jeffrey Brock, Richard Canary, Howard Masur, Maryam Mirzakhani, Alan Reid

These fields have each seen recent dramatic changes: new techniques developed, major conjectures solved, and new directions and connections forged. Yet progress has been made in parallel without the level of communication across these two fields that is warranted. This program will address the need to strengthen connections between these two fields, and reassess new directions for each.

Updated on Dec 11, 2013 11:56 AM PST
1260. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups

Organizers: Moon Duchin, Caroline Series

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
1261. # WorkshopMSRI Summer Microprogram on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: L. C. Evans (UC Berkeley, Chair), C. Gutierrez (Temple), C. Sogge (Johns Hopkins), D. Tataru (UC Berkeley)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:46 PM PDT
1262. # Summer Graduate SchoolDeformation Theory and Moduli in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Max Lieblich (Princeton), Martin Olsson (Berkeley), Brian Osserman (Berkeley), Ravi Vakil (Stanford)

This workshop is intended to introduce to graduate students the main ideas of deformation theory and moduli spaces in algebraic geometry. We hope to illuminate the general theory through extensive discussions of concrete examples and applications.

Updated on Dec 09, 2013 10:32 AM PST
1263. # Summer Graduate SchoolContinuous Optimization and Applications

Organizers: Henry Wolkowicz. (University of Waterloo)

Updated on Dec 04, 2013 01:27 PM PST
1264. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer Graduate Workshop on Data Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 02:26 AM PST
1265. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI summer conference: Statistical Mechanics

Organizers: Scott Sheffield, Thomas Spencer

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 02:24 AM PST
1266. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2007: Undergraduate Program

Organizers: Dr. Ricardo Cortez, Dr Ivelisse Rubio, Dr. Herbert Medina, Dr. Suzanne Weekes, Dr. Duane Cooper.

Updated on May 01, 2013 11:55 PM PDT
1267. # Summer Graduate SchoolDerived Categories in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Aaron Bertram (University of Utah), Y.P. Lee (university of Utah), Eric Sharpe (University of Utah and Virginia Tech)

Updated on Dec 09, 2013 01:13 PM PST
1268. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2007: Teaching Teachers Mathematics

Organizers: Deborah Ball (Center for Proficiency in Education and the University of Michigan), Sybilla Beckmann (University of Georgia), Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska) Chair, Ruth Heaton (University of Nebraska), James Hiebert (University of Delaware), William McCallum (University of Arizona) and William Yslas Velez (University of Arizona).

Building on the issues investigated in these previous workshops, this workshop will focus concretely on courses, programs and materials that aim to increase teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching. Both courses and programs that lead to initial certification and professional development of current teachers will be examined at the workshop. In addition, the workshop will examine efforts by colleges, universities, school districts, professional organizations and funding agencies to support people who teach these courses or lead these workshops.

Updated on Sep 11, 2013 05:33 PM PDT
1269. # WorkshopMathematical Issues in Stochastic Approaches for Multiscale Modeling

Organizers: Roberto Camassa (UNC - Chapel Hill), Jinqiao Duan (Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago), Peter E. Kloeden (U of Frankfurt, Germany), Jonathan Mattingly (Duke U), Richard McLaughlin (UNC - Chapel Hill)

Complex physical, biological, geophysical and environmental systems display variability over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. To make progress in understanding and modelling such systems, a combination of computational, analytical, and experimental techniques is required. There are issues that emerge prominently in each of these categories and in all these stochastic methods are playing a fundamental role.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
1270. # WorkshopGulliver Multiscale Bioimaging Workshop

Organizers: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Contact: Damir Sudar

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:50 AM PDT
1271. # WorkshopComputing in Statistics

Organizers: Organized By: Mark Hansen (UCLA), Deborah Nolan (UCB), Duncan Temple Lang (UCD)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:00 AM PDT
1272. # WorkshopAdvances in Algebra and Geometry

Organizers: David Ellwood, Joe Harris, Craig Huneke, Hugo Rossi, Frank-Olaf Schreyer, Bernd Sturmfels, Julius Zelmanowitz

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:31 PM PDT
1273. # WorkshopHot Topics: Minimal and Canonical Models in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Alessio Corti, Jean-Pierre Demailly, János Kollár, Shigefumi Mori

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:31 PM PDT
1274. # WorkshopMSRI Symposium on Climate Change: From Global Models to Local Action

Organizers: David Eisenbud, Inez Fung, Chris Jones and Doug Nychka

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:31 PM PDT
1275. # WorkshopAn Introduction to Multiscale Methods

Organizers: Greg Pavliotis and Andrew Stuart

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
1276. # WorkshopWorld Congress on Computational Finance: The First Decade

Organizers: Jesper Andraesen, Myron Scholes, Domingo Tavella

The objective of this event is to mark the first decade of Computational Finance as a discipline in its own right. The event will take place in London, England, which offers the advantage of a central location and a substantial local audience.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:31 PM PDT
1277. # WorkshopStochastic Dynamical Systems and Control

Organizers: Jonathan Mattingly (Duke), Igor Mezic (UCSB-Chair), Andrew Stuart (Warwick)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:45 PM PDT
1278. # WorkshopRecent Developments in Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Geometric Evolution Equations

Organizers: Charles Elliott, Xiaobing Feng, Michael Holst, Hongkai Zhao

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:30 PM PDT
1279. # WorkshopGeometric Evolution Equations

Organizers: Bennett Chow, Gerhard Huisken, Chuu-Lian Terng, and Gang Tian

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:05 PM PDT
1280. # WorkshopInteractive Parallel Computation in Support of Research in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory

Organizers: Ifti Burhanuddin (USC, Computer Science), James Demmel (Berkeley, Math & CS), Edray Goins (Purdue, Math), Erich Kaltofen (North Carolina SU, Math), Fernando Perez (U Colorado, Applied Math), William Stein (Chair; Washington, Math), Helena Verrill (LSU, Math), Joe Weening (CCR, Research)

The goal of this workshop is to study and formulate practical parallel algorithms that support interactive mathematical research in algebra, geometry, and number theory, and to formulate strategies to encourage implementation and testing of these ideas.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:46 PM PDT
1281. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Dynamical Systems with Emphasis on Extended Systems

Organizers: Chris Jones (U North Carolina), Edgar Knobloch (UC-Berkeley-Physics), Nancy Kopell (Boston U), Lai-Sang Young (chair, Courant)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:46 PM PDT
1282. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Dynamical Systems

Organizers: Debra Lewis (UC Santa Cruz), Mary Pugh (U Toronto), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:59 AM PDT
1283. # ProgramDynamical Systems

Organizers: Christopher Jones, Jonathan Mattingly, Igor Mezic, Andrew Stuart, Lai-Sang Young

This program will take place at the interface of the theory and applications of dynamical systems. The goal will be to assess the current state-of-the-art and define directions for future research. Mathematicians who are developing a new generation of ideas in dynamical systems will be brought together with researchers who are using the techniques of dynamical systems in applied areas. A wide range of applications will be considered through four contextual settings around which the program will be organized. Some of the areas of concentration have greater emphasis on extending existing ideas in dynamical systems theory, rendering them more suitable for applications. Others are more directed toward seeking out potential areas of applications in which dynamical systems is likely to have a bigger role to play.
The four themes that will mold the semester are: (1) Extended dynamical systems, (2) Stochastic dynamical systems, (3) Control theory, and (4) Computation and modeling. The introductory workshop, which will be held in mid-January, will emphasize extended dynamical systems that occur as high-dimensional systems, such as on lattices or as partial differential equations. There will be a workshop on stochastic systems and control theory in March. The last theme will pervade the semester through seminar and working group activities.

Updated on Dec 05, 2013 04:31 PM PST
1284. # WorkshopCMI/MSRI Hot Topics Workshop: Modularity for GL(2) and Beyond

Organizers: Michael Harris, Mark Kisin, Kenneth Ribet, Richard Taylor, David Ellwood

This workshop is jointly funded by MSRI and the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:45 PM PDT
1285. # WorkshopModern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2007-08 Programs at MSRI

Organizers: Ricardo Cortez, Hugo Rossi, Ivelisse Rubio

This workshop will be held at the Marriott-Waterside in Tampa, Florida, directly preceding the Annual Meeting of SACNAS. The focus is on geometric group theory and representations of finite groups from both the analytic and combinatorial points of view. There will also be a session for undergraduates on topics of mathematical biology.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:45 PM PDT
1286. # WorkshopAnalytic and Computational Aspects of Elliptic and Parabolic Equations

Organizers: Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Peter Li and Lei Ni

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:05 PM PDT
1287. # WorkshopMathematics of Visual Analysis

Organizers: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University; William Cleveland, Purdue University; Sanda Harabagiu, University Texas-Dallas; Peter Jones, Yale; Leland Wilkinson, Northwestern and SPSS

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:00 AM PDT
1288. # WorkshopLectures on String(y) Topology

Organizers: Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Hugo Rossi (MSRI), Jose Seade (UNAM, Cuernavaca)

This conference will be held at UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico It is a follow-up to the training program held at UNAM, Morelia in January, 2006 and the MSRI program in New Topological Structures in Physics, held at MSRI during the Spring, 2006 semester.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:44 PM PDT
1289. # WorkshopWorkshop on Topological Methods in Combinatorics, Computational Geometry, and the Study of Algorithms

Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, R. Jardine, and G. M. Ziegler

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:44 PM PDT
1290. # WorkshopWorkshop on Application of Topology in Science and Engineering

Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, and S. Holmes

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:44 PM PDT
1291. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Geometric Flows and Function Theory in Real and Complex Geometry

Organizers: Bennett Chow, Peter Li and Gang Tian

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:44 PM PDT
1292. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: Christine Guenther and Panagiota Daskalopoulos

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:05 PM PDT
1293. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Computational Application of Algebraic Topology

Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, G. M. Ziegler

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:43 PM PDT
1294. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology

Organizers: Susan Holmes

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:58 AM PDT
1295. # ProgramComputational Applications of Algebraic Topology

Organizers: Gunnar Carlsson, Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes, Rick Jardine, Günter M. Ziegler

Updated on Dec 06, 2013 02:43 PM PST
1296. # WorkshopThe Teachers Circle

Organizers: Tom Davis, Mary Fay-Zenk, Tatiana Shubin, Sam Vandervelde, Paul Zeitz, Joshua Zucker

This is a workshop on solving mathematical problems for middle school teachers sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the American Institute of Mathematics. The workshop will take place at AIM headquarters in Palo Alto, Califronia

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:59 AM PDT
1297. # ProgramGeometric Evolution Equations and Related Topics

Organizers: Bennett Chow, Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Gerhardt Huisken, Peter Li, Lei Ni, Gang Tian

The focus will be on geometric evolution equations, function theory and related elliptic and parabolic equations. Geometric flows have been applied to a variety of geometric, topological, analytical and physical problems. Linear and nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations have been studied by continuous, discrete and computational methods. There are deep connections between the geometry and analysis of Riemannian and Kähler manifolds.

Updated on Dec 11, 2013 03:51 PM PST
1298. # WorkshopRecent Developments in Arrangements and Configuration Spaces

Organizers: Michael Falk (Northern Arizona University), Eva-Maria Feichtner (University of Stuttgart), Hiroaki Terao (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

The purpose of this workshop is to assess and build upon progress in the theory of hyperplane arrangements and configuration spaces since the 2004 MSRI program Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:43 PM PDT
1299. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer Graduate Workshop in Computational Number Theory

Organizers: William Stein (University of Washington)

This workshop will concentrate on computing with modular forms, providing students with the necessary background in both the theoretical and computational aspects of the subject.

Updated on Dec 04, 2013 01:19 PM PST
1300. # Summer Graduate SchoolData Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle

Organizers: Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)

Projections of future climate require projections of the abundance of carbon dioxide and other trace constituents in the atmosphere. This in turns requires understanding the sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2 and how they interact with the climate. Participants will work on projects using atmospheric data provided by NCAR.

Updated on Sep 06, 2013 11:59 AM PDT
1301. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer Program: Low Dimensional Topology

Organizers: Peter Oszvath (Columbia University) and Tom Mrowka (MIT).

This will be a minicourse for graduate students on recent techniques and advances in three and four dimensional topology.

Updated on May 07, 2013 11:14 PM PDT
1302. # WorkshopTeaching a Course in Combinatorial Mathematical Games

Organizers: Morton Brown, University of Michigan

An NSF Chautauqua Short Course, sponsored by the California Field Center at the California State University, Dominguez Hills. An overview of Brown’s University of Michigan course on a variety of two-person combinatorial games, for academics interested in incorporating such a course in their curricula.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:59 AM PDT
1303. # Summer Graduate SchoolMSRI Summer Graduate Workshop: Mathematical aspects of computational biology

Organizers: Reinhard Laubenbacher (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech) and Lior Pachter (Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley)

The novel features of biological systems pose new challenges that require new mathematics. In many cases even the fundamental mathematical language is lacking in order to treat certain biological phenomena quantitatively. Here, traditionally non-applied areas of mathematics can make an important contribution, and at the same time take advantage of unique new problems to open up mathematically interesting avenues of research.

Updated on Dec 04, 2013 01:05 PM PST
1304. # WorkshopMathematics of Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Organizers: David A. Levin, Yuval Peres, Elizabeth Wilmer

In the past two decades, a wide range of techniques have been developed for obtaining rigorous bounds on mixing times. Many of these ideas, as well as concrete examples from combinatorics and statistical physics can be included in undergraduate courses. The workshop is aimed at instructors interested in expanding the undergraduate probability curriculum to include developments on mixing times, or who wish to learn about this still growing field.

This is a Professional Enhancement Program of the Mathematical Association of America, held at MSRI.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:43 PM PDT
1305. # WorkshopNew Developments in the Geometry and Physics of Gromov-Witten Theory

Organizers: Mina Aganagic, A. Klemm (Wisconsin), Jun Li (Stanford), R. Pandharipande (Princeton), Yongbin Ruan (Wisconsin)

Mirror duality has demonstrated the striking effectiveness of concepts of modern physics in enuerative geometry. It is of the same type as the simple radius inversion duality seen in string compactifications on S1. This type was discovered early because it shows up in every term in the string genus expansion and can be studied in 2d conformal field theory.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:43 PM PDT
1306. # Summer Graduate SchoolSL(2,R), a Minicourse at the University of Utah

Organizers: Bill Casselman (University of British Columbia), Dragan Milicic (University of Utah), Peter Trapa (University of Utah)

This minicourse will be aimed at beginning graduate students, and is devoted to all aspects of the theory of SL(2,R) including: discrete and principal series, intertwining operators, unitary representations, character theory, etc.

Updated on May 07, 2013 11:14 PM PDT
1307. # WorkshopWomen in Mathematics: The Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik

Organizers: Susan Friedlander, Barbara Keyfitz, Irene Gamba and Krystyna Kuperberg

This workshop,jointly sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and MSRI, is a celebration of careers of women in mathematics, on this occasion those of Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Olga Oleinik.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:42 PM PDT
1308. # WorkshopAnalytic Methods for Diophantine Equations

Organizers: Michael Bennett, Chantal David, William Duke, Andrew Granville (co-chair),Yuri Tschinkel (co-chair)

This workshop is jointly sponsored by MSRI and CRM and will be held at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Canada.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:43 AM PDT
1309. # WorkshopRaising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all

Organizers: Deborah Ball, Herb Clemens, Carlos Cabana, Ruth Cossey, Bob Megginson, Bob Moses

This conference will be held at MSRI in Berkeley, CA.

Knowledge of mathematics in the technology and information age has been likened to reading literacy in the industrial age. In each case knowledge is the enabler, the ticket to full participation in society and to some measure of economic well-being. This conference will explore the historical and current challenges to quality and equity in the teaching and learning of mathematics, both in the U.S. and internationally. The exploration will feature case studies of successful and not-so-successful efforts, with the goal of learning together how to improve and refine that which works and correct that which doesn't.

Updated on Dec 08, 2013 05:28 AM PST
1310. # WorkshopMathematical Systems Biology of Cancer

Organizers: Dick Karp, Bahram Parvin, Terry Speed, Paul Spellman, Carolyn Talcott, Wing Wong

This workshop is designed to encourage and support the mathematical community's involvement in the study of cancer using system approaches. Presenters will include mathematicians and computer scientists involved in systems approaches to cancer and more general fields of biology. The presentations will cover general approaches to systems biology, analysis of genome scale data and statistical, continuous, and hybrid methods for pathway modeling. The workshop will also provide tutorials covering the use of tools and methods in systems biology as well as on the fundamental biological processes involved in cancer.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:30 PM PDT
1311. # WorkshopMathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks

Organizers: Michael Gastpar, Gerhard Kramer, J. Nicholas Laneman

Designing resource-efficient wireless networks requires a fundamental understanding of the mathematics underlying multi-terminal communication systems. One of the simplest such systems is a "three-body problem'', with a source, a destination, and a relay whose purpose is to assist the communication from the source to the
destination. This seemingly simple communication problem has long resisted solution, but new insight has been gained recently.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:45 AM PDT
1312. # WorkshopCohomological Approaches to Rational Points

Organizers: Fedor Bogomolov, Antoine Chambert-Loir, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (chair), A. Johan de Jong, Raman Parimala

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:42 PM PDT
1313. # WorkshopGeneralized McKay Correspondences and Representation Theory

Organizers: Yongbin Ruan, H. Nakajima, G. Mason

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:02 PM PDT
1314. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Rational and Integral Points on Higher-Dimensional Varieties

Organizers: Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Roger Heath-Brown, János Kollár, Bjorn Poonen (chair), Alice Silverberg, Yuri Tschinkel

NOTE: This workshop is to be held at the International House Berkeley on the UC Berkeley campus, at 2299 Piedmont Avenue.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:56 PM PDT
1315. # ProgramRational and Integral Points on Higher-Dimensional Varieties

Organizers: Fedor Bogomolov, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Bjorn Poonen, Alice Silverberg, Yuri Tschinkel

Our focus will be rational and integral points on varieties of dimension > 1. Recently it has become clear that many branches of mathematics can be brought to bear on problems in the area: complex algebraic geometry, Galois and 4etale cohomology, transcendence theory and diophantine approximation, harmonic analysis, automorphic forms, and analytic number theory. Sometimes it is only by combining techniques that progress is made. We will bring together researchers from these various fields who have an interest in arithmetic applications, as well as specialists in arithmetic geometry itself.

Updated on Dec 11, 2013 07:58 AM PST
1316. # ProgramNew Topological Structures in Physics

Organizers: M. Aganagic, R. Cohen, P. Horava, A. Klemm, J. Morava, H. Nakajima, Y. Ruan

The interplay between quantum field theory and mathematics during the past several decades has led to new concepts of mathematics, which will be explored and developed in this program. This includes: Stringy topology, branes and orbifolds, Generalized McKay correspondences and representation theory and Gromov-Witten theory.

Updated on Dec 09, 2013 12:57 PM PST
1317. # WorkshopStringy Topology in Morelia

Organizers: R. Cohen (Stanford), J. Morava (Johns Hopkins), A. Adem (UBC/UW--Madison), Y. Ruan (UW-Madison); Local Organizers: M. Aguilar (UNAM-Mexico City), D. Juan-Pineda (UNAM-Morelia), J.Seade (UNAM-Cuernavaca)

The purpose of this program is to introduce new topological concepts in physics to young research mathematicians from both South and North America. The lectures given during the first week will provide the necessary background; these will be supplemented, primarily during the second week, with lectures by leading researchers on recent progress. That week serves as the Opening Workshop for the MSRI program, Spring, 2006, in New Topological Structures in Physics.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:42 PM PDT
1318. # WorkshopProbability, Geometry and Integrable Systems

Organizers: Bjorn Birnir, Darryl Holm, Charles Newman, Mark Pinsky, Kirill Vaninsky, Lai-Sang Young

NOTE: This workshop is to be held at the International House on the UC Berkeley campus, at 2299 Piedmont Avenue. On site registration for the workshop will be at the International House.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:42 PM PDT
1319. # WorkshopGeometric and Analytical Aspects of Nonlinear Dispersive Equations

Organizers: Nicolas Burq, Hans Lindblad, Igor Rodnianski, Christopher Sogge, Sijue Wu

NOTE: This workshop is to be held at the International House on the UC Berkeley campus, at 2299 Piedmont Avenue. On site registration for the workshop will be at the International House, starting at 8:30 AM Monday and ending at 3:30 PM Monday.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:41 PM PDT
1320. # WorkshopFlavors of Groups

Organizers: Mladen Bestvina, Jeff Brock, Jon Carlson, Persi Diaconis, Hugo Rossi

(at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada). A workshop to bring together mathematicians working on algebraic, analytic, combinatoric, geometric and topological aspects of group theory in order to strengthen each of these approaches through an exchange of techniques and ideas.

Updated on Dec 11, 2013 06:31 PM PST
1321. # WorkshopOptimal Mass Transport and its Applications

Organizers: L. Craig Evans (U.C. Berkeley), Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Tech), Cristian Gutierrez (Temple University)

NOTE: This workshop is to be held at the International House on the UC Berkeley campus, at 2299 Piedmont Avenue, except for the Tuesday session, which will be held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. On site registration for the workshop will start at 8:30 AM Monday and end at 3:30 PM Monday.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:40 PM PDT
1322. # WorkshopMorehouse College/Spelman College/MSRI Workshop on Modern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2006-07 Programs at MSRI

Organizers: Sylvia Bozeman (Spelman College),Masilamani Sambandham(Morehouse College), Hugo Rossi (MSRI)

Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta, together with the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, will conduct a weekend workshop on the Morehouse and Spelman College campuses on modern developments in mathematics that will be the focus of upcoming research programs and summer graduate programs at MSRI, supplemented by additional special invited talks.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:30 PM PDT
1323. # WorkshopRecent Results in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and their Interactions with Geometry

Organizers: Frank Pacard, Neil Trudinger and Paul Yang

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:40 PM PDT
1324. # WorkshopAnalytical and Stochastic Fluid Dynamics

Organizers: Craig Evans, Susan Friedlander, Boris Rozovsky, Daniel Tataru and David A. Ellwood

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:40 PM PDT
1325. # WorkshopMinicourse on Stochastic ODE and connections with nonlinear PDEs

Organizers: L. C. Evans

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:04 PM PDT
1326. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Nonlinear Dispersive Equations

Organizers: James Colliander (Toronto), Patrick Gerard (Orsay), Herbert Koch (Dortmund), Natasha Pavlovic (Princeton), Daniel Tataru (Berkeley)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:40 PM PDT
1327. # ProgramNonlinear Elliptic Equations and Its Applications

Organizers: Xavier Cabré, Luis Caffarelli, Lawrence C. Evans, Cristian Gutiérrez, Lihe Wang, Paul Yang

The research in nonlinear elliptic equations is one of the most developed in Mathematics, and of great importance because of its interaction with other areas within Mathematics and for its applications in broader scientific disciplines such as fluid dynamics, phase transitions, mathematical finance and image processing in computer science.

Updated on Dec 11, 2013 03:51 PM PST
1328. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Its Applications

Organizers: Luis Caffarelli, L. Craig Evans, Matt Gursky, Cristian Gutierrez, Paul Yang

There will be two series of five lectures each by L. Caffarelli and M. Gursky. In addition, each day there will be two more lectures by other speakers.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:39 PM PDT
1329. # ProgramNonlinear Dispersive Equations

Organizers: Carlos Kenig, Sergiu Klainerman, Christophe Sogge, Gigliola Staffilani, Daniel Tataru

The field of nonlinear dispersive equations has experienced a striking evolution over the last fifteen years. During that time many new ideas and techniques emerged, enabling one to work on problems which until quite recently seemed untouchable. The evolution process for this field has itsorigin in two ways of quantitatively measuring dispersion. One comes from harmonic analysis, which is used to establish certain dispersive (Lp) estimates for solutions to linear equations. The second has geometrical roots, namely in the analysis of vector fields generating the Lorentz groupassociated to the linear wave equation. Our semester program in nonlinear dispersive equations will bring together leading experts in both of these directions.

Updated on Dec 11, 2013 03:49 PM PST
1330. # WorkshopMSRI Workshop for Women in Mathematics: An Introduction to Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: Alice Chang (Princeton) and Lawrence C Evans (UC Berkeley)

This workshop will be an intensive two-day introductory minicourse on elliptic PDE. L C Evans will present a series of lectures on the basic theory and estimates for linear and nonlinear elliptic equations, with applications to variational problems and to nonlinear systems. A Chang will lecture on applications of elliptic PDE to conformal geometry and other geometric problems.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:04 PM PDT
1331. # Summer Graduate SchoolComputing the Continuous Discretely: Integer Point Enumeration in Polyhedra (Summer Graduate Workshop)

Organizers: Mathias Beck and Sinai Robins

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:39 AM PST
1332. # ProgramComputing the Continuous Discretely: Integer Point Enumeration in Polyhedra (Summer Graduate Program)

Organizers: Mathias Beck and Sinai Robins

Updated on Sep 18, 2013 11:52 AM PDT
1333. # Summer Graduate SchoolCR Geometry: Complex Analysis Meets Real Geometry and Number Theory

Organizers: John D’Angelo

Updated on Sep 10, 2013 11:49 AM PDT
1334. # ProgramCR Geometry: Complex Analysis Meets Real Geometry and Number Theory

Organizers: John D’Angelo

Updated on Dec 04, 2013 01:28 PM PST
1335. # Summer Graduate SchoolAMS-IMS-SIAM Summer School in Commutative Algebra: Local Cohomology and Its Applications

Organizers: Anurag Singh and Uli Walther

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 06:01 AM PST
1336. # Summer Graduate SchoolClay Mathematics Institute 2005 Summer School Ricci Flow, 3 Manifolds And Geometry

Organizers: Gang Tian, John Lott, John Morgan, Bennett Chow, Tobias Colding, Jim Carlson, David Ellwood, Hugo Rossi

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Sep 18, 2013 03:09 PM PDT
1337. # ProgramAMS-IMS-SIAM Summer School in Commutative Algebra: Local Cohomology and Its Applications

Organizers: Anurag Singh and Uli Walther

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Sep 16, 2013 10:17 AM PDT
1338. # ProgramClay Mathematics Institute 2005 Summer School Ricci Flow, 3 Manifolds And Geometry

Organizers: Gang Tian, John Lott, John Morgan, Bennett Chow, Tobias Colding, Jim Carlson, David Ellwood, Hugo Rossi

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Dec 10, 2013 02:55 PM PST
1339. # ProgramMathematical Graphics (Summer Graduate Program)

Organizers: David Austin, Bill Casselman and Jim Fix

Updated on Sep 06, 2013 10:32 AM PDT
1340. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical Graphics

Organizers: David Austin, Bill Casselman and Jim Fix

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 06:02 AM PST
1341. # Summer Graduate SchoolGraduate Student Warm-Up Workshop in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Sándor Kovács, Tony Pantev, and Ravi Vakil

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 06:03 AM PST
1342. # ProgramGraduate Student Warm-Up Workshop in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Sándor Kovács, Tony Pantev, and Ravi Vakil

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Dec 09, 2013 01:02 PM PST