All MSRI workshops.
Workshops related to Programs.
MSRI provides a yearly workshop called Hot Topics, to showcase what's new, innovative and interesting to the mathematical sciences community at the present time.
Our Summer Grad Workshops.
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.
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Upcoming Workshops
June 16, 2012
to July 29, 2012
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July 9, 2012
to July 27, 2012
This is a three-week institute on the mathematics of grades 6-8 in direct response to the recent adoption of the Common Core Mathematics Standards (CCMS) by California.
August 22, 2012
to August 24, 2012
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.
August 27, 2012
to September 7, 2012
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.
October 29, 2012
to November 2, 2012
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.
December 3, 2012
to December 7, 2012
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.
January 24, 2013
to January 25, 2013
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.
January 28, 2013
to February 1, 2013
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.
February 11, 2013
to February 15, 2013
Organizers: Luchezar Avramov (University of Nebraska), David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley), and Irena Peeva* (Cornell University)
April 8, 2013
to April 12, 2013
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
May 6, 2013
to May 10, 2013
Organizers: Craig Huneke* (Kansas University), 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.
June 24, 2013
to June 28, 2013
Organizers: Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University, USA)
Marston Conder (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
David Eisenbud (UC Berkeley, USA)
Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford University, USA)
Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Tony Guttmann (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Le Minh Ha (Vietnam National University, Vietnam)
Shi Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, China/USA)
Alejandro Jofre (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo, Japan)
JongHae Keum (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea)
Doug Lind (University of Washington, USA)
Kyewon Koh Park (Ajou University, Korea)
Shige Peng (Shandong University, China)
Jose Seade (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
Gang Tian (Princeton University and Peking University, USA/China)
Tatiana Toro (University of Washington, USA)
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.
August 22, 2013
to August 23, 2013
Organizers: Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University), Panagiota Daskalopolous (Columbia University), Robert McCann* (University of Toronto) and Maria Westdickenberg (Georgia Institute of Technology & 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.
August 26, 2013
to August 30, 2013
Organizers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Lawrence C Evans (University of California at Berkeley), and Alessio Figalli* (University of Texas at Austin)
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.
September 3, 2013
to September 4, 2013
Organizers: Beverly Berger, Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan), and Iva Stavrov (Lewis & 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.
September 9, 2013
to September 13, 2013
Organizers: Justin Corvino (Lafayette College), and Greg Galloway (University of Miami)
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, with a special focus on those areas which are related to the geometry and physics of the initial data of general relativity, and those which primarily involve Riemannian geometry and elliptic PDE.
October 14, 2013
to October 18, 2013
Organizers: Yann Brenier (CNRS, Universit\'e de Nice), Michael Cullen (Met Office at Exeter UK), Wilfrid Gangbo* (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Allen Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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.
November 18, 2013
to November 22, 2013
Organizers: Igor Rodnianski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Hans Ringstrom (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
With cosmic censorship, the formation of black holes, and the stability of Kerr black holes as focus problems, the study of the evolution of solutions of Einstein's equations has made dramatic progress in recent years. In this workshop, we highlight some of this recent development, and examine the major areas in which future progress is likely.
January 23, 2014
to January 24, 2014
Organizers: Teena Gerhardt* (Michigan State University), Brooke Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago), Julie Bergner (University of California, Riverside)
This two-day workshop will consist of short courses given by prominent female mathematicians in the field. These introductory courses will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in related areas. The workshop will also include a panel discussion featuring successful women at various stages in their mathematical careers.
January 27, 2014
to January 31, 2014
Organizers: Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), Jesper Grodal (University of Copenhagen), Kathryn Hess (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Michael A. Hill* (University of Virginia)
Algebraic topology is a rich, vibrant field with close connections to many branches of mathematics. This workshop will describe the state of the field, focusing on major programs, open problems, exciting new tools, and cutting edge techniques.
February 10, 2014
to February 11, 2014
Organizers: Kirsten Eisentraeger (The Pennsylvania State University), Julia Gordon (University of British Columbia), and Deirdre Haskell (McMaster University)*
The development of model theory has always been influenced by its potential applications.
Recent years have seen a remarkable flowering of that development, with many exciting applications of model theory in number theory and algebraic geometry. The introductory workshop will aim to increase these interactions by exposing the techniques of model theory to the number theorists and algebraic geometers, and the problems of number theory and algebraic geometry to the model theorists. The Connections for Women workshop will focus on presenting current research on the borders of these subjects, with particular emphasis on the contributions of women. In addition, there will be some social occasions to allow young women and men to make connections with established researchers, and a panel discussion addressing the challenges faced by all young researchers, but especially by women, in establishing a career in mathematics.
April 7, 2014
to April 11, 2014
Organizers: Vigleik Angeltveit (Australian National University), Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Julie Bergner (University of California, Riverside), Andrew J. Blumberg* (University of Texas-Austin)
Recent innovations in higher category theory have unlocked the potential to reimagine the basic tools and constructions in algebraic topology. This workshop will explore the interplay between these higher and $\infty$-categorical techniques with classical algebraic topology, playing each off of the other and returning the field to conceptual, geometrical intuition.
May 12, 2014
to May 16, 2014
Organizers: Jonathan Pila* (Oxford), Thomas Scanlon (Berkeley), Raf Cluckers (CNRS/Lille/Leuven)
The workshop will feature talks in a range of topics where model theory interacts with other parts of mathematics, especially number theory and arithmetic geometry, including: motivic integration, algebraic dynamics, diophantine geometry, and valued fields.
