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1. # Infinite-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
2. # Initial 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
3. # Bay 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
4. # Fluid 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
5. # Introductory 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
6. # Connections 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
7. # Introductory 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
8. # Connections 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
9. # Pacific 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 10. # Bay Area Circle for Teachers (BACT) Summer Workshop 2013 Organizers: LEAD Sage (Ann) Moore Updated on May 06, 2013 09:17 AM PDT 11. # Bay 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 12. # The 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 13. # Interactions 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 14. # Critical 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 15. # Hot 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 16. # AWM 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 17. # Circle on the Road Spring 2013 Organizers: Amanda Serenevy (Riverbend Community Math Center), Dave Auckly (Kansas State University), Jonathan Farley (Research Institute for Mathematics), Hector Rosario (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez), Mark Saul (John Templeton Foundation), Diana White (University of Colorado Denver) This workshop will bring together new and experienced leaders of math circles for students and teachers. We welcome anyone who is interested in learning more about math circles, especially teachers. Workshop activities will include discussions, presentations, and a mathematics festival. Participants will begin collaborating before the workshop to develop sample math circle sessions that they will present during the festival. These activities will be collaboratively evaluated and refined during the workshop. Updated on Jun 06, 2013 05:54 PM PDT 18. # Representation 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 08, 2013 12:45 PM PST 19. # Introductory 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 20. # UC Berkeley Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:09 PM PDT 21. # Bay Area Circle for Teachers (BACT) Winter Workshop 2013 Organizers: Sage Moore, BACT Director Updated on Jun 07, 2013 03:09 PM PDT 22. # Connections 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 Nov 26, 2013 03:46 PM PST 23. # Combinatorial 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 08, 2013 12:45 PM PST 24. # Cluster 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 25. # Joint 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 08, 2013 12:45 PM PST 26. # Connections 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 27. # Random 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 28. # Circle on the Road Spring 2012 Organizers: Dave Auckly, Robert Sachs, Amanda Serenevy, Dan Ullman This workshop will bring together new and experienced leaders of math circles for students and teachers. Workshop activities will include discussions, presentations, and a mathematics festival to be held outside of the MathAlive! exhibit that will be in the Smithsonian Institution. Participants will begin collaborating before the workshop to develop sample math circle sessions that they will present during the festival. These activities will be collaboratively evaluated and refined during the workshop. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:01 PM PDT 29. # Statistical 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 30. # Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2012: Teacher education in view of the Common Core Organizers: Dave Auckly, Hyman Bass, Amy Cohen-Corwin, and William McCallum The wide adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) offers a helpful curricular coherence to the environment of teacher education. And so the CCSSM present both an opportunity and a challenge to teacher education. An opportunity because of the greater focus made possible. A challenge because not only of the ambitious level of the CCSSM, but also of the prominent role in them of Mathematical Practices. While most mathematicians will find these congenial, much needs to be done to make them meaningfully understood by teachers and teacher educators, and, still more, how to enact them as an organic aspect of instruction. The CIME workshop aims to gather and stimulate ideas for how to meet this opportunity and challenge. Updated on Sep 09, 2013 09:32 PM PDT 31. # Spring Opportunities Organizers: David Auckly, Philip Kutzko, Trachette Jackson, and Robert Megginson This first workshop in a series addresses the professional advancement of underrepresented minorities in the mathematical sciences. It will include an introduction to mathematics represented in the MSRI research programs aimed at faculty in minority serving and primarily undergraduate institutions. Anyone who will be seeking employment in mathematics within the next couple of years would benefit from attending this workshop. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:01 PM PDT 32. # Percolation 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 33. # Hot 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 34. # Bay 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 35. # Introductory 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 36. # Connections 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 37. # Quantitative 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 38. # Chern 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 39. # Embedding 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 40. # Probabilistic 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 41. # Introductory 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 Nov 26, 2013 03:04 PM PST 42. # Connections 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 Nov 26, 2013 02:11 PM PST 43. # Bay Area Circle for Teachers Summer Workshop Organizers: David Auckly* The BACT Summer Workshop supports teachers in their development of problem solving skills as well as supporting the incorporation of problem solving into their teaching curriculum. During the earlier part of the week teachers will gain experience with a variety of problem solving techniques such as symmetry, mathematical patterns, and parity. Subsequent sessions will focus on particular topics such as geometry, sequences, counting, and number theory. Note: for 2011 Workshop there will be two parallel sessions: one for elementary teachers and one for secondary teachers. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:28 PM PDT 44. # Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2011: Mathematical Education of Teachers Organizers: Dave Auckly, Sybilla Beckmann (chair), Jim Lewis and William McCallum This workshop will showcase materials and successful teacher education programs, examine the Common Core State Standards and its implications, and explore how mathematics education research can improve practice. Updated on Sep 09, 2013 09:32 PM PDT 45. # Arithmetic 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 46. # Circle on the Road Spring 2011 Organizers: Dave Auckly, Matthias Kawski, Jeff Morgan, Mark Saul, and Sam Vandervelde This workshop will bring together people who have experience running math circles and teams of people who wish to start a math circle. The workshop will begin on Friday, with discussions and presentations related to math circles. On Saturday several sample math circle sessions will be offered, and the workshop will conclude on Sunday with more discussions and presentations. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:28 PM PDT 47. # Free 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 48. # Workshop 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 49. # Introductory 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 50. # Connections 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 51. # Introductory 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 52. # Connections 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 53. # Random 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 54. # SIAM/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 55. # Inverse 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 56. # Hot 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 57. # Bay 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 58. # 21st 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 59. # Connections 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 60. # Random 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 61. # Introductory 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 62. # Connections 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 63. # Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2010: Reasoning and Sense-Making in the Math Curriculum Organizers: Dave Auckly, Scott Baldridge, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Aaron Bertram, Wade Ellis, Deborah Hughes Hallett, Gary Martin, and William McCallum (Chair) The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has just released a new document, Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense-Making. The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governor’s Association have initiated a state led effort to produce Common Core State Standards, which they hope will move states toward national curricular coherence. The national scene is being transformed through stimulus money aimed at having states adopt common standards. This is a significant time for mathematicians to weigh in for coherence and a focus on thinking, understanding and sense-making. For this reason MSRI will host the seventh Critical Issues in Mathematics Education Workshop on this topic. Themes of the workshop will include international comparisons, the role of a coherent national curriculum in the teaching of mathematics, and the ways in which technology can be used to support reasoning and sense-making. Updated on Sep 11, 2013 05:30 PM PDT 64. # Symplectic 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 65. # Symplectic 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 66. # Symplectic 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 67. # Research 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 68. # Circle on the Road Organizers: Dave Auckly, Matthias Kawski, Omayra Ortega, Hugo Rossi and Mark Saul This conference will bring together people who have experience running math circles with *teams* of people who wish to start a math circle. The workshop will begin on Saturday with a Math Festival for school children in the Phoenix area. The following two days will have panel discussions and presentations on various topics of interest to people who run or wish to run a math circle. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:30 PM PDT 69. # Bay Area Circle for Teachers Winter Workshop Organizers: Brandy Wiegers* The Winter workshop supports teachers in their development of problem solving skills as well as sharing with them information about upcoming mathematical opportunities for students and teachers. This will be a great opportunity for teachers new to the Math Circle program and experienced Math Circle teachers. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:04 AM PDT 70. # Introductory 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 Nov 26, 2013 03:46 PM PST 71. # Connections 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 72. # Macaulay2 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 73. # Tropical 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 74. # Bay 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 75. # Algebraic 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 76. # Tropical 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 77. # Hot 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 78. # Introductory 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 79. # Connections 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 80. # Introductory 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 81. # Connections 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 82. # Bay Area Circle For Teachers 2009-2010 Organizers: Brandy Wiegers The aim of the Circle for Teachers is to equip educators with an effective problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics. Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:50 AM PDT 83. # Modern 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 84. # Algebraic 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 08, 2013 12:45 PM PST 85. # Critical 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 86. # Economic 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 87. # Great 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 88. # Mathematical 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 89. # Combinatorial, 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 90. # Sage 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 91. # The 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 92. # Modern 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 93. # Macaulay2 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 94. # Classical 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 95. # Connections 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 96. # Algebraic 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 97. # Using 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 98. # International 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 99. # Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:47 PM PDT 100. # Discrete 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 101. # Elliptic 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 102. # Promoting 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 103. # Statistical 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 104. # Math Institutes Modern Mathematics Workshop Organizers: Ive Rubio, Herbert Medina, Kathy O'Hara, and Robert Megginson Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:36 PM PDT 105. # Topology 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 106. # Introductory 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
107. # Broader 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
108. # Introduction 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

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
110. # Low 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 04, 2013 01:31 PM PST
111. # Bay Area Circle for Teachers

Organizers: Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University) and Joshua Zucker (Castilleja School)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:04 AM PDT
112. # Climate 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
113. # CMI/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
114. # Hot 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
115. # Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2008: Teaching and Learning Algebra

Organizers: Al Cuoco, chair, (Center for Mathematics Education), Deborah Ball, ex officio (University of Michigan), Hyman Bass (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), James Fey (University of Maryland), Megan Franke (UCLA), Roger Howe (Yale University), Alan Schoenfeld (UC Berkeley), and Ed Silver (University of Michigan).

For over two decades, the teaching and learning of algebra has been a focus of mathematics education at the precollege level. This workshop will examine issues in algebra education at two critical points in the continuum from elementary school to undergraduate studies: at the transitions from arithmetic to algebra and from high school to university. In addition, the workshop will involve participants in discussions about various ways to structure an algebra curriculum across the entire K-12 curriculum.

Updated on Sep 11, 2013 05:32 PM PDT
116. # Exterior 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
117. # Homological Methods in Representation Theory

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

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

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

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:34 PM PDT
119. # Lie Theory

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

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:34 PM PDT
120. # Introductory 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
121. # MSRI's 25th Anniversary Celebration

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
122. # Introductory 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
123. # Connections for Women: Introduction to the Spring, 2008 programs

Organizers: Bhama Srinivasan and Monica Vazirani

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:42 PM PDT
124. # Topics in Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:03 AM PDT
125. # Mathematical 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
126. # Computation and Complex Systems

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

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:33 PM PDT
127. # Modern 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
128. # Introduction to Geometric Group Theory

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

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

Organizers: Ruth Charney, Indira Chatterji, and Karen Vogtmann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:45 PM PDT
130. # Introduction 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
131. # Connections for Women: Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups

Organizers: Moon Duchin, Caroline Series

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
132. # MSRI 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
133. # Critical 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
134. # Mathematical 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
135. # Gulliver Multiscale Bioimaging Workshop

Organizers: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Contact: Damir Sudar

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:50 AM PDT
136. # Advances 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
137. # Hot 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
138. # MSRI 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
139. # An Introduction to Multiscale Methods

Organizers: Greg Pavliotis and Andrew Stuart

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:02 AM PDT
140. # Stochastic Dynamical Systems and Control

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

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:45 PM PDT
141. # World 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
142. # Recent 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
143. # Geometric Evolution Equations

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

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:05 PM PDT
144. # Interactive 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
145. # Introductory 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
146. # Connections 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
147. # CMI/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
148. # Modern 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
149. # Analytic 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
150. # Lectures 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
151. # Mathematics 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
152. # Workshop 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
153. # Workshop 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
154. # Introductory 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
155. # Connections for Women: Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: Christine Guenther and Panagiota Daskalopoulos

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

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

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

Organizers: Susan Holmes

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:58 AM PDT
158. # The 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
159. # Recent 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
160. # Teaching 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
161. # Mathematics 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
162. # New 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
163. # Women 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
164. # Analytic 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
165. # Raising 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
166. # Mathematical 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
167. # Mathematics 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
168. # Cohomological 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
169. # Generalized McKay Correspondences and Representation Theory

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

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:02 PM PDT
170. # Introductory 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
171. # Stringy 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
172. # Probability, 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
173. # Geometric 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
174. # Flavors 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 08, 2013 04:53 PM PST
175. # Optimal 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
176. # Morehouse 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
177. # Recent 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
178. # Analytical 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
179. # Minicourse on Stochastic ODE and connections with nonlinear PDEs

Organizers: L. C. Evans

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:04 PM PDT
180. # Introductory 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
181. # Introductory 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
182. # MSRI 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
183. # PREP Workshop: Geometric Combinatorics

Organizers: Francis Su

This workshop is aimed at faculty who wish to learn about this exciting field and would like to enrich a variety of undergraduate courses with new examples and applications, or teach a stand-alone course in geometric combinatorics.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:45 AM PDT
184. # The Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (K-8): Why, What and How?

Organizers: Deborah Ball, Chair, (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska)

Updated on Dec 08, 2013 12:45 PM PST
185. # Models of Real-World Random Networks

Organizers: David Aldous, Claire Kenyon, Jon Kleinberg, Michael Mitzenmacher, Christos Papadimitriou, Prabhakar Raghavan

This workshop seeks to bring together (a) mathematicians studying the math
properties of particular models, and (b) experts in various network
fields who can survey the successes and challenges of modeling within
their field.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:29 PM PDT
186. # Emphasis Week on Perceptual Organization

Organizers: Jitendra Malik, Jean-Michel Morel, Song Chun Zhu

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:44 AM PDT
187. # World Digital Mathmatical Library

Organizers: David Eisenbud

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:39 PM PDT
188. # Visual Recognition

Organizers: Don Geman, Jitendra Malik, Pietro Perona, Cordelia Schmid

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:24 PM PDT
189. # PREP Workshop: The Mathematics of Images

Organizers: Kathryn Leonard , David Mumford

This workshop is aimed at faculty who wish to learn about this exciting field and would like to enrich a variety of undergraduate courses with new examples and applications. The workshop is being held in collaboration with the Mathematical Association of America as part of the MAA's Professional Enhancement Program (PREP). See the PREP website for information about registration and participant support.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:44 AM PDT
190. # Phase Transitions in Computation and Reconstruction

Organizers: Dimitris Achlioptas, Elchanan Mossel, Yuval Peres

The topics of this workshop include phase transitions in connection to
random graphs, boolean functions, satisfiability problems, coding,
reconstruction on trees and spinglasses.

Special focus will be given to the study of the interplay
between the replica method, local weak convergence and algorithmic aspects of
reconstruction.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:39 PM PDT
191. # Emphasis Week on Learning and Inference in Low and Mid Level Vision

Organizers: Andrew Blake and Yair Weiss

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:43 AM PDT
192. # Emphasis Week on Neurobiological Vision

Organizers: David Donoho and Bruno Olshausen

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:43 AM PDT
193. # Markov Chains in Algorithms and Statistical Physics

Organizers: Fabio Martinelli, Alistair Sinclair, Eric Vigoda

Recent years have seen the rapid development of techniques for the analysis of MCMC algorithms, with applications in all the above areas. These techniques draw from a wide range of mathematical disciplines, including combinatorics, discrete probability, functional analysis, geometry and statistical physics, and there has been significant cross-fertilization between them. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from all these domains with the aim of furthering this interplay of ideas.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:24 PM PDT
194. # Introductory Workshop in Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Aspects of Image Analysis

Organizers: David Donoho, Olivier Faugeras, David B Mumford

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:23 PM PDT
195. # MSRI Workshop for Women in Mathematics: Introduction to Image Analysis

Organizers: Ruzena Bajcsy, Jana Kosecka, Kathryn Leonard

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:44 AM PDT
196. # MSRI Program on Probability, Algorithms and Statistical Physics, Spring 2005 --- OPENING DAY, Thursday 13 January, 2005

Organizers: Alistair Sinclair

MSRI Program on Probability, Algorithms and Statistical Physics, Spring 2005 --- OPENING DAY, Thursday 13 January, 2005

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:40 PM PDT
197. # Mathematical Circles and Olympiads

Organizers: Hugo Rossi, Tatiana Shubin, Zvezdelina Stankova, Paul Zeitz

The purpose of this workshop is to start a National Network of Math Circles and a set of resources for new Circles

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:47 PM PDT
198. # HOT TOPICS: Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Visualization and Analysis of High Dimensional Data

Organizers: Gunnar Carlsson, Susan Holmes, Persi Diaconis

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:29 PM PDT
199. # 2004 Blackwell-Tapia Conference

Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State University and Cornell University), Mark Green (IPAM), William Massey (Princeton University), Robert Megginson (MSRI), Richard Tapia (Rice University); Local Organizing Committee: Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University); Stephen Wirkus (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

The third biennial Cornell-MSRI Blackwell-Tapia Conference and the second Blackwell-Tapia Prize Presentation will be held at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in Los Angeles. See the conference website at IPAM for further details.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:42 AM PDT
200. # Combinatorial Aspects of Hyperplane Arrangements

Organizers: Eva Maria Feichtner, Philip Hanlon, Peter Orlik, Alexander Varchenko

This workshop will be part of MSRI's Special Semester in Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:29 PM PDT
201. # Topology of Arrangements and Applications

Organizers: Daniel C. Cohen, Michael Falk (chair), Peter Orlik, Inna Scherbak, Alexandru Suciu, Hiroaki Terao, Sergey Yuzvinsky

This workshop will focus on the following topics: Characteristic varieties and resonance varieties, homotopy types of arrangements, moduli of arrangements, Gauss-Manin connections, KZ and qKZ equations, elliptic hypergeometric functions, and hypergeometric functions associated with curves of arbitrary genus.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:28 PM PDT
202. # Clay Mathematics Institute and MSRI Conference on Recent Progress in Dynamics

Organizers: Michael Brin, Boris Hasselblatt (chair), Gregory Margulis, Yakov Pesin, Peter Sarnak, Klaus Schmidt, Ralf Spatzier, Robert Zimmer

This conference on dynamical systems will have a fairly wide scope, with emphasis on specific problems that have seen much progress but where significant problems vital to the field remain open.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:56 PM PDT
203. # San Francisco State University/MSRI Workshop on Modern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2005-06 Programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Organizers: David Ellis (SFSU), David Meredith (SFSU), Hugo Rossi (MSRI)

A weekend workshop at SFSU on upcoming programs at MSRI

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
204. # Introductory Workshop in Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications

Organizers: Michael Falk, Peter Orlik (Chair), Alexander Suciu, Hiroaki Terao, and SergeyYuzvinsky

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:29 PM PDT
205. # Tenth Annual Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences

Organizers: William A. Massey (Princeton), Bob Megginson (MSRI), Juan Meza (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

This conference, founded at MSRI in 1995, returns to MSRI for its tenth annual offering, and is being co-hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:37 AM PDT
206. # Tenth Seminar on Analysis of Algorithms

Organizers: P. Flajolet, P. Jacquet, H. Prodinger, G. Seroussi, R. Sedgewick, W. Szpankowski, B. Vallée, and M. Weinberger

This workshop will follow MSRI's Summer Graduate Program on Analysis of Algorithms

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:40 AM PDT
207. # Geometric Combinatorics

Organizers: Francis Su

This workshop is aimed at faculty who wish to learn about this exciting field and would like to enrich a variety of undergraduate courses with new examples and applications, or teach a stand-alone course in geometric combinatorics. The workshop is being held in collaboration with the Mathematical Association of America as part of the MAA's Professional Enhancement Program (PREP). See the PREP website for information about registration and participant support.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:29 PM PDT
208. # Workshop for WeBWorK Developers

Organizers: Michael Gage and Arnold Pizer

The purpose of this working seminar is to bring face-to-face programmers who are already involved in implementing, extending and maintaining the WeBWorK homework system on various campuses in order to hammer out standards for future development, prioritize and assign programming development tasks, design protocols for labeling and sharing problem sets, and map out a strategy for producing more comprehensive documentation.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:30 PM PDT
209. # Algorithmic, Combinatorial and Applicable Real Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Lalo Gonzalez-Vega, Victoria Powers, and Frank Sottile

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:27 PM PDT
210. # Geometric modeling and RAG

Organizers: Frank Sottile and Rimas Krasauskas

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:29 PM PDT
211. # Symplectic Geometry and Mathematical Physics

Organizers: Denis Auroux, Dan Freed, Helmut Hofer, Francis Kirwan, and Gang Tian

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:25 PM PDT
212. # Mathematical Neuroscience

Organizers: Paul C. Bressloff, Jack D. Cowan (chair), G. Bard Ermentrout, Mary Pugh, and Terry J. Sejnowski

The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of the current state of research in mathematical and computational neuroscience both to those already working in the field and to those who are considering moving into it. The workshop will focus on neural networks and their properties. Several major themes will be addressed: (1) Oscillations, (2) Waves, (3) Synchrony, (4) Maps, (5) Visual Cortex Dynamics, and (6) Information Processing.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:18 PM PDT
213. # Assessing Students’ Mathematics Learning: Issues, Costs and Benefits

Organizers: Deborah Ball, Hyman Bass, Jim Lewis, Robert Megginson, Alan Schoenfeld

This is the first in a series of workshops on K-12 mathematics education, the goal of which is to engage groups of people with diverse expertise relevant to the framing, investigation, and solution of critical problems in K-12 education. Schedule now available.

Due to the tremendous response to the announcement of this workshop, the workshop is now fully booked, and we have had to close registration. For further information, please contact Bob Megginson at meggin@msri.org.

Updated on Dec 08, 2013 12:45 PM PST
214. # Topology and Geometry of Real Algebraic Varieties

Organizers: Viatcheslav Kharlamov, Boris Shapiro, and Oleg Viro

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:36 AM PDT
215. # Genetics of Complex Disease

Organizers: Jun Liu, Mary Sara McPeek, Richard Olshen (chair), David O. Siegmund, and Wing Wong

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:40 AM PDT
216. # Introductory Workshop in Topological Aspects of Real Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Selman Akbulut, Grisha Mikhalkin, Victoria Powers, Boris Shapiro, Frank Sottile, and Oleg Viro

Updated on Sep 13, 2013 03:11 PM PDT
217. # Ricci Flow and Geometrization of 3-Manifolds

Organizers: Ian Agol, Ben Chow, Tobias Colding, David Gabai, and Bruce Kleiner

This workshop is the second part of a two-week conference sponsored by MSRI, AIM and the NSF, focusing on Perelman's recent work on Thurston's geometrization conjecture using Hamilton's Ricci flow. The talks at MSRI are intended for a general audience and follow a week long workshop at AIM intended for a more specialized audience.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:44 PM PDT
218. # Geometric Analysis

Organizers: Ben Chow, Peter Li, Richard Schoen (chair), and Richard Wentworth

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:04 PM PDT
219. # Combinatorial and Discrete Geometry

Organizers: Jesús A. De Loera, Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach and Günter M. Ziegler

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:55 PM PDT
220. # Floer homology for 3-manifolds

Organizers: Yasha Eliashberg, Robion Kirby and Peter Kronheimer

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:25 PM PDT
221. # Mathematical Foundations of Geometric Algorithms

Organizers: Pankaj Agarwal, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Micha Sharir, and Emo Welzl

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:36 AM PDT
222. # Texas Southern University/MSRI Workshop on Modern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2004-05 Programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Organizers: Nathaniel Dean, Robert Megginson

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:19 PM PDT
223. # Introductory Workshop in Discrete and Computational Geometry

Organizers: Jesús A. De Loera, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, Micha Sharir, Emo Welzl, and Günter M. Ziegler

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:55 PM PDT
224. # Von Neumann Symposium on Complex Geometry, Calibrations, and Special Holonomy

Organizers: Robert Bryant (Co-chair), Simon Donaldson, H. Blaine Lawson, Richard Schoen, and Gang Tian (Co-chair)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:25 PM PDT
225. # Preparatory Workshop for the 2003 AMS/MSRI von Neumann Symposium

Organizers: Robert Bryant

LOCATION: The Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:25 PM PDT
226. # Mathematical Semi-Classical Analysis

Organizers: J. Sjostrand, S. Zelditch, and M. Zworski

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:44 PM PDT
227. # The History of Algebra in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Organizers: Jeremy J. Gray and Karen Hunger Parshall

The past 25 years have seen studies of some of the key figures in the history of algebra -- Hermann Grassmann, James Joseph Sylvester, Leopold Kronecker, Sophus Lie, David Hilbert, Georg Frobenius, Emmy Noether -- and there is work progress on Dedekind, Francis Macaulay, and Oscar Zariski, among many others.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:55 PM PDT
228. # Semi-classical Methods in Physics and Chemistry

Organizers: R. Littlejohn, W.H. Miller, and M. Zworski

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:16 PM PDT
229. # Commutative Algebra and Geometry (Banff Int'l Research Station Workshop)

Organizers: Mark Green, Juergen Herzog, and Bernd Sturmfels (chair)

To be held at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:17 PM PDT
230. # Computational Commutative Algebra

Organizers: Serkan Hosten, Craig Huneke, Bernd Sturmfels (chair), and Irena Swanson

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:25 PM PDT
231. # Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Homological Algebra and Representation Theory

Organizers: Luchezar Avramov (chair), Ragnar Buchweitz, and John Greenlees

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:24 PM PDT
232. # Quantum Information Processing

Organizers: Steering Committee: Dorit Aharonov, Charles Bennett, Harry Buhrman, Isaac Chuang, Mike Mosca, Umesh Vazirani, and John Watrous

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:23 PM PDT
233. # The Feynman Integral Along with Related Topics and Applications

Organizers: Sergio Albeverio, Cecile DeWitt-Morette, Gerald W. Johnson, Louis H. Kauffman, and Michel L. Lapidus (chair)

The goal of this workshop is to encourage interactions between researchers (mathematicians, physicists and other scientists) who have worked on different approaches to the Feynman integral and its related topics and applications.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:09 PM PDT
234. # Commutative Algebra: Local and Birational Theory

Organizers: Craig Huneke (chair), Paul Roberts, Karen Smith, and Bernd Ulrich.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:24 PM PDT
235. # Event Risk

Organizers: Marco Avellaneda (New York University), Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara University), Lisa Goldberg (BARRA), David Hoffman (MSRI), Francis Longstaff (UCLA), Mark Rubinstein (UC Berkeley), Michael Singer (MSRI), and Domingo Tavella (Octanti Associates)

LOCATION: Alliance Capital Conference Center, New York City
Event risk modeling in finance incorporates concepts and techniques from insurance, mathematics, physics, seismology, geography, and computer science, amongst other disciplines. This conference on event risk will comprise top-quality, state-of-the-art papers, both theoretical and empirical.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:23 PM PDT
236. # Quantum Information and Cryptography

Organizers: Richard Jozsa and Mary Beth Ruskai

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:22 PM PDT
237. # Conference and Prize in Honor of David Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia

Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, David Eisenbud, Fern Y. Hunt, William A. Massey (co-chair), Robert Megginson, Juan Meza (co-chair), and Michael Singer

MSRI and Cornell University have established a prize in honor of the distinguished mathematical scientists David Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia. The first award will be presented at a conference at MSRI, sponsored by MSRI and Cornell with additional funding from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Arlie O. Petters Receives First Blackwell-Tapia Prize.

Schedule now available.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:23 PM PDT
238. # Models of Quantum Computing

Organizers: David Di Vincenzo (Watson-IBM), and Peter Shor (AT&T), Chair

Presented jointly with IPAM, and held in Los Angeles. See IPAM website for details.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:35 AM PDT
239. # Semidefinite Programming and Applications

Organizers: Dimitris Bertsimas, Stephen Boyd, Laurent El Ghaoui (chair), and Bernd Sturmfels

The semidefinite programming models of computation has enjoyed tremendous interest recently, due to its ubiquity in many areas of science and engineering.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:55 PM PDT
240. # Quantum Algorithms and Complexity

Organizers: Richard Cleve, Peter Shor, and Umesh Vazirani

To be held at the Banff Conference Centre in Banff (Alberta), Canada

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:34 AM PDT
241. # Recent Progress in Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications

Organizers: Estelle Basor (co-chair), Alexander Its, Persi Diaconis, and Craig Tracy (co-chair)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:23 PM PDT
242. # MSRI/Howard Workshop on Geometry: An Introduction to 2003-04 Programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Organizers: Joshua A. Leslie (Howard University) and Robert E. Megginson (MSRI)

A weekend workshop at Howard University on upcoming programs at MSRI.
Schedule now available (updated 9/17/02)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:22 PM PDT
243. # Introductory Workshop in Commutative Algebra

Organizers: Luchezar Avramov, Mark Green, Craig Huneke, Karen E. Smith and Bernd Sturmfels

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:21 PM PDT
244. # Introductory Workshop in Quantum Computation

Organizers: Dorit Aharonov, Leonard Schulman, and Umesh Vazirani

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:33 AM PDT
245. # International School on Biomathematics, Bioengineering and Clinical Aspects of Blood Flow

Organizers: Stanley A. Berger (University of California, Berkeley), Giovanni P. Galdi (University of Pittsburgh; co-chair), Charles S. Peskin (Courant Institute), Alfio Quarteroni (University of Lausanne, Switzerland & Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Anne M. Robertson (University of Pittsburgh; co-chair), Adélia Sequeira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal),and Howard Yonas (University of Pittsburgh).

summer graduate program: see program web page for further info

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:36 AM PDT
246. # Finsler Geometry

Organizers: David Bao, Robert Bryant, S.S. Chern, and Zhongmin Shen

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:21 PM PDT
247. # Statistical Challenges for Meta-Analysis of Medical and Health-Policy Data

Organizers: Organized by: Joseph C. Cappelleri (Associate Director, Global Research & Development, Pfizer Inc.), Joseph Lau (New England Medical Center), Ingram Olkin (Stanford University) (chair), Diana Pettiti (Kaiser Permanente), Drummond Rennie (Deputy Editor of JAMA, and Adj. Professor of Medicine, the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco), and Donna Stroup (Centers for Disease Control)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:33 AM PDT
248. # Conformal Field Theory and Supersymmetry

Organizers: G. Felder, D. Freed, E. Frenkel, V. Kac, T. Miwa, I. Penkov, V. Serganova, I. Singer and G. Zuckerman

The first week will focus on Infinite-dimensional Algebras, Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems, and the second week would be devoted to Supersymmetry in Mathematics and Physics.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:38 PM PDT
249. # Non-Abelian Hodge Theory

Organizers: S. Bradlow, O. Garcia-Prada, M. Kapranov, L. Katzarkov, M. Kontsevich, D. Orlov, T. Pantev, C. Simpson, and B. Toen

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:21 PM PDT
250. # Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Program

Organizers: E. Frenkel, V. Ginzburg, G. Laumon and K. Vilonen

Discussion of the important developments in the geometric Langlands correspondence in the last few years

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:43 PM PDT
251. # Intersection Theory on Stacks

Organizers: K. Behrend, W. Fulton, L. Katzarkov, M. Kontsevich, Y. Manin, R. Pandharipande, T. Pantev, B. Toen, and A. Vistoli

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:17 PM PDT
252. # Information Theory

Organizers: Elwyn Berlekamp, Joe Buhler, Dave Forney, Abraham Lempel, Gadiel Seroussi (co-chair), Sergio Verdu (co-chair), Andy Viterbi, and Marcelo Weinberger

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:38 PM PDT
253. # Introductory Workshop on Algebraic Stacks, Intersection Theory, and Non-Abelian Hodge Theory

Organizers: William Fulton, Ludmil Katzarkov, and Tony Pantev

The field of algebraic stacks has gathered a huge momentum and is bound to become one of the main tools of the working mathematician.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:22 AM PDT
254. # Special values of Rankin L-series

Organizers: Henri Darmon and Shouwu Zhang

The goal of this workshop is to survey recent developments growing out of the landmark work of Gross and Zagier on the
special values of Rankin L-series, and their arithmetic applications.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:45 PM PDT
255. # Automorphic Forms and Representations of <i>p</i>-adic groups

Organizers: W. T. Gan, J. S. Li, D. Ramakrishnan, G. Savin (chair) and J. K. Yu

Note: The location of this workshop has been moved to The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and runs Tuesday through Saturday.

The main topics of this conference arise out of the classical theory of modular forms. The workshop will focus on recent advances
in the classification of square integrable representations of reductive p-adic groups, and on modular forms, and their
Fourier coefficients, on various reductive groups.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:45 PM PDT
256. # Inverse problems and Applications

Organizers: Joyce McLaughlin, Adrian Nachman, William Symes, Gunther Uhlmann (chair) and Michael Vogelius

The purpose of the workshop will be to bring together people working on different aspects of inverse problems, to appraise the current status of development of the field, and to encourage interaction between mathematicians and scientists and engineers working directly with the applications.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:17 PM PDT
257. # Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Inverse Problems

Organizers: Gunther Uhlmann (chair), David Haynor (Department of Radiology, University of Washington), Gary Margrave (Department of Geophysics, University of Calgary) and Ricardo Weder (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:16 PM PDT
258. # Integral Geometry in Representation Theory

Organizers: Leticia Barchini, Oklahoma State University, Roger Zierau, Oklahoma State University.

This workshop will concentrate on several topics in representation theory and geometric analysis of homogeneous spaces for which techniques in integral geometry play a key role.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:19 AM PDT
259. # Introductory Workshop in Inverse Problems and Integral Geometry

Organizers: Liliana Borcea, David Colton, Michael Eastwood, Simon Gindikin, Alexander Goncharov and Gunther Uhlmann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:16 PM PDT
260. # Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School on the Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces

Organizers: Joel Hass, David Hoffman, Arthur Jaffe, Antonio Ros, Harold Rosenberg, Richard Schoen and Michael Wolf

Please note: This program is open by invitation only.
See program webpage at http://zeta.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/12/show_program

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:21 AM PDT
261. # The Continuum Hypothesis

Organizers: Hugh Woodin and John Steel

The workshop will feature a number of lectures surveying the current insights into the continuum problem and its variations.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:20 AM PDT
262. # Geometric Scattering Theory and Elliptic Theory on Noncompact and Singular Spaces

Organizers: Tanya Christiansen, Charles Epstein, Rafe Mazzeo, Richard Melrose

This workshop will focus on problems of a scattering theoretic nature for geometric operators on manifolds with asymptotically regular
geometries, and also on spectral theory and related questions of invertibility of such operators on singular spaces. The emphasis will be on the consideration of new problems and the dissemination of new techniques.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:02 PM PDT
263. # Critical Percolation and Conformally Invariant Processes

Organizers: Oded Schramm and Yuval Peres

MSRI's 2000-01 "Hot Topics" Workshop.
NOTE: The first lecture of the workshop is the MSRI-Evans talk at 4:10 pm on Monday, April 30, in room 60 of Evans Hall on the Berkeley campus. Lectures will be in the Lawrence Hall of Science auditorium on Tuesday, May 1, and at MSRI on Wednesday through Friday.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:15 PM PDT
264. # 29th Canadian Symposium on Operator Algebras

Organizers: Man-Duen Choi, Edward G. Effros, George A. Elliott (co-chairman), Vaughan F. R. Jones, Henri Moscovici, Ian F. Putnam (co-chairman), Marc A. Rieffel and Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

This meeting will be joint for the first two days with the MSRI workshop on Quantization and Non-commutative Geometry, and during the three-day period April 29 - May 1 will function as a closing conference for the 2000-01 MSRI program on Operator Algebras.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:54 PM PDT
265. # Quantization and Non-commutative geometry

Organizers: A. Connes, J. Cuntz, N. Higson, G.G. Kasparov, N.P. Landsman, H. Moscovici (chair, Non-commutative Geometry), M.A. Rieffel (chair, Quantization), G. Skandalis, A. Weinstein, M. Wodzicki, S.L. Woronowicz

These two topics have been scheduled in a joint workshop because the confluence of their research is likely to influence future advances in both fields.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:03 PM PDT
266. # Conference on Randomized Algorithms in Finance

Organizers: Phelim Boyle (University of Waterloo), Mark Broadie (Columbia University), Joe Buhler (MSRI), Russell Caflisch (UCLA), Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara University), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Philippe Jorion (UC Irvine), Mark Rubinstein (UC Berkeley) and Domingo Tavella (Octanti Associates)

Co-sponsored by the Journal of Computational Finance
Randomized algorithms have been used in finance for many years; the most famous example being the Monte Carlo techniques that have been used in many
contexts. This conference will focus on the latest advances, with talks by leading experts in academia and industry.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:19 AM PDT
267. # Nonlinear Estimation and Classification

Organizers: David Denison, Mark Hansen, Chris Holmes, Robert Kohn, Bani Mallick, Martin Tanner and Bin Yu

see workshop program

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:16 AM PDT
268. # Geometric Aspects of Spectral Theory

Organizers: Jean-Michel Bismut, Tom Branson, S.-Y. Alice Chang and Kate Okikiolu

This workshop will study the spectral theory of geometric operators, including: spectral invariants, applications in conformal geometry, classification of 4-manifolds, index theory and scattering theory.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:02 PM PDT
269. # Analysis Models and Methods: A conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Methods in memory of Fred Howes

Organizers: A. Chorin, I. Singer and M. Wright

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:20 AM PDT
270. # The Preparation of Math Majors in the First Two Years: A Curriculum Policy Workshop

Organizers: David Bressoud, Steve Krantz, Jim Lewis, William G. McMallum (chair), William Velez

An important discipline served by the first two years of college mathematics is mathematics itself. MSRI will host this workshop to formulate curriculum policy recommendations for the first two years aimed at students majoring in mathematics.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:21 AM PDT
271. # Free Probability and Non-commutative Banach Spaces

Organizers: P. Biane, D. Shlyakhtenko, R. Speicher, D. Voiculescu, E. Effros, E. Kirchberg, V. Paulsen, G. Pisier, Z-J. Ruan and A. Sinclair

The Free Probability section of the workshop will cover several aspects of the subject: applications to von Neumann algebras and C*-algebras of free product type, connections with random matrix theory, free stochastic processes and free stochastic integration, combinatorial approach via noncrossing partitions, free entropy.

The Non-commutative Banach Space section will cover the central concepts of the recently developed theory of operator spaces such as: exactness, local reflexivity and injectivity with applications to C* tensor products, operator algebras and operator modules. The non-commutative Lp-spaces, which play an important role in this theory, provide many points of contact with free probability.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:01 AM PDT
272. # Arithmetic Geometry

Organizers: Noam Elkies, William McCallum, Jean-François Mestre, Bjorn Poonen (chair) and René Schoof

This workshop will focus on the development of explicit and computational methods in arithmetic
geometry, as well as the complexity analysis of existing algorithms.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:47 PM PDT
273. # Subfactors and Algebraic Aspects of Quantum Field Theory

Organizers: D. Bisch, V.F.R. Jones, Y. Kawahigashi, S. Popa, R. Borcherds, S. Doplicher, R. Lawrence, P. Goddard and A. Wassermann

These two areas have had a strong interaction in the last two decades, leading to exciting and closely related mathematics.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:47 PM PDT
274. # Emerging Applications of Combinatorial Design

Organizers: Esther Lamken (chair), (Caltech Mathematics), Charlie Colbourn (VermontComputer Science), Jeff Dinitz (Vermont Mathematics)

This workshop will emphasize constructions and computational methods for combinatorial designs and the growing number of new and useful applications of designs in biology/biotechnology, computer science, information theory, and numerical finance.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:00 AM PDT
275. # Number-theoretic cryptography workshop

Organizers: Eric Bach, Dan Boneh, Cynthia Dwork (chair), Shafi Goldwasser, Kevin McCurley and Carl Pomerance

This workshop will focus on number-theoretic aspects of cryptography, and will be cross-cultural, where the the cultures in question are "mathematics" and "computer science."

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:49 AM PDT
276. # Simple C*-algebras and Non-commutative Dynamical Systems

Organizers: W. Arveson,B. Blackadar,E. Effros,G. Elliott (chair), D. Handelman, E.Kirchberg, I. Putnam,M. Rordam,E. Stormer,M. Takesaki

As part of the full-year 2000-2001 program on Operator Algebras, MSRI will host a one-week NATO
ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP on Simple C*-algebras and Non-commutative Dynamical
Systems, September 25-29, 2000.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:47 PM PDT
277. # The Panorama Of Mathematics, A conference in honor of S. S. Chern

MSRI will host a conference in honor of its Founding Director, Shing Shen Chern, this fall. The conference will represent Mathematics in a very broad
context.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:14 PM PDT
278. # Clay Mathematics Institute Introductory Workshop in Operator Algebras

Organizers: D. Bisch (chair), E.G. Effros, V.F.R. Jones and D.V. Voiculescu

This workshop introduces graduate students and other scientists to the exciting area of Operator
Algebras.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:43 PM PDT
279. # Clay Mathematics Institute Introductory Workshop in Algorithmic Number Theory

Organizers: David Bailey, Joe Buhler (chair), Cynthia Dwork, Hendrik Lenstra Jr., Andrew Odlyzko, Bjorn Poonen, William Velez and Noriko Yui

This workshop will have lecture series covering the basic areas of algorithmic number theory,
aimed at graduate students and mathematicians without extensive experience in the field.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:00 PM PDT
280. # Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop

Organizers: Elwyn Berlekamp, David Blackwell, John Conway, Aviezri Fraenkel, Richard Guy, Jurg Nievergelt, Richard Nowakowski, Jonathan Schaeffer, Ken Thompson and David Wolfe

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:14 PM PDT
281. # Mathematics and Computational Biology of Genome Analysis

Organizers: Kevin Atteson, Sandrine Dudoit (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Dick Karp (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Terry Speed (University of California, Berkeley; Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne),De Witt Sumners (Florida State University)

http://msri.org/ext/pmmb/

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:20 AM PDT
282. # Geometric and Topological Aspects of Group Theory

Organizers: Roger Alperin, Marc Culler, Benson Farb, and Peter Shalen

http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/9900/Group_Theory/index.html

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:40 PM PDT
283. # Quantum Groups (in Morelia, Mexico)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:17 PM PDT
284. # Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra

Organizers: M. Artin (MIT), K. R. Goodearl (UC Santa Barbara) and M. Van den Bergh (Limburgs)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:14 PM PDT
285. # Mathematics of Quantum Computation

Organizers: M. Freedman, B. Sturmfels, U. Vazirani

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:32 AM PDT
286. # Combinatorial Algebra

Organizers: G. Benkart (Univ.of Wisconsin), A. Shalev (Hebrew Univ.), E. Zelmanov (Yale Univ.)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:54 PM PDT
287. # Computational Algebraic Analysis

Organizers: Bernd Sturmfels, Nobuki Takayama and Uli Walther

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:13 PM PDT
288. # Hot Topics Workshop: The Modularity of Elliptic Curves, and Beyond

Organizers: Brian Conrad, Jean-Marc Fontaine, Barry Mazur, Ken Ribet (chair), Richard Taylor

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:07 PM PDT
289. # The Future of Mathematical Communication 1999

Organizers: Francois Bergeron, Jonathan Borwein (co-chair), Joe Buhler (co-chair), Bradd Hart, Martin Groetschel, Peter Michor, Andrew Odlyzko

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:07 PM PDT
290. # The Mathematics of Imaging

Organizers: F. Alberto Grünbaum and Gunther Uhlmann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:45 PM PDT
291. # Galois Actions and Geometry

Organizers: Pierre Debes, Hiroaki Nakamura, Akio Tamagawa

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:07 PM PDT
292. # Constructive Galois Theory

Organizers: Moshe Jarden (Tel Aviv), Gunter Malle (Kassel), Helmut Voelklein (U. of Florida)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:06 PM PDT
293. # 1999 Von Neumann Conference on Arithmetic Fundamental Groups and Noncommutative Algebra

Organizers: Michael D. Fried, David Harbater and Lance W. Small

http://msri.org/activities/programs/9900/noncomm/vonneumann/

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:20 AM PDT
294. # The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women

Organizers: Bettye Anne Case (Chair), Susan Geller, Carolyn Gordon, Dianne O'Leary, Gail Ratcliff, Jean Taylor, and Sylvia Wiegand.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:13 PM PDT
295. # Quantum Chaos, GUE Conjecture for Zeros of Zeta Functions, Combinatorics, and All That

Organizers: Pavel Bleher, D.A. Hejhal, Andrew Odlyzko, and Peter Sarnak

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:21 AM PDT
296. # Mathematical Foundations of CAD

Organizers: Hyeong In Choi, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Rida Farouki, David Ferguson, David Hoffman, Helmut Pottmann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:21 AM PDT
297. # Self-Assembling Geometric Structures in Material Science: The Geometry of Interfaces in Mesoscopic Materials

Organizers: Andrew Canning (NERSC) , David Hoffman (MSRI) Brigitte Pansu (LPS, Orsay) , Edwin Thomas (Materials Science and Engineering, MIT), Michel A. Van Hove (Materials Sciences Division LBNL)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:12 PM PDT
298. # Random Matrices, Statistical Mechanics, and Integrable Systems

Organizers: B. Dubrovin, A. Its, M. Mehta (Chair), and N. Reshetikhin

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:04 PM PDT
299. # Introductory Workshop: Random Matrix Models and their Applications

Organizers: E. Basor (Chair), P. Bleher, A. Its, and C. Tracy

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:04 PM PDT
300. # Western Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Organizers: Sorin Popescu

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:06 PM PDT
301. # Complexity of Continuous and Algebraic Mathematics

Organizers: Felipe Cucker and Jim Renegar

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:06 PM PDT
302. # Symbolic Computation in Geometry & Analysis

Organizers: Eberhard Becker, Lakshman Yagati, Michael Singer, and Peter Stiller

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:12 PM PDT
303. # Mathematics and Media

Organizers: Lenore Blum, KC Cole, Keith Devlin, John Gage, Ron Graham, Allyn Jackson, Gina Kolata, Robert Osserman, Gary Taubes

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:12 PM PDT
304. # Parallel Symbolic Computing Workshop

Organizers: David H Bailey, Daniel R Grayson, Alyson Reeves and Nobuki Takayama

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:16 PM PDT
305. # Second Conference on Minorities and Applied Mathematics - Connections to Industry and Laboratories

Organizers: David Bailey, Raymond Johnson, James Turner

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:05 PM PDT
306. # Solving Systems of Equations

Organizers: Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Marie-Francoise Roy, Bernd Sturmfels, and Mike Shub

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:54 PM PDT
307. # A conference on algebraic geometry to celebrate Robin Hartshorne's 60th birthday

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:35 AM PDT
308. # Introductory Workshop on Foundations of Computational Mathematics and Symbolic Computation in Geometry and Analysis

Organizers: Arieh Iserles, Marie-Francoise Roy, Teresa Krick, Michael Singer, Andrew Stuart, and Bernd Sturmfels

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:11 PM PDT
309. # Fifth International Symposium on: Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel

Organizers: NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:05 PM PDT
310. # Summer Graduate Workshop, Algorithmic Algebra and Geometry

Organizers: David Bayer, Sorin Popescu

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:01 AM PDT
311. # Conference in Low-Dimensional Topology - The KirbyFest

Organizers: A. Casson, T. Cochran, J. Hass, P. Melvin, M. Scharlemann

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:54 PM PDT
312. # Conference on Advances in Applied and Computational Mathematics in Honor of A.J. Chorin on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

Organizers: M. Ciment, P. Colella, C. Moore, C. Peskin, E.G. Puckett, J. Sethian

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:19 PM PDT
313. # Workshop in Math Circles at Lawrence Hall of Science

This workshop consisted of two sessions, June 6, 1998, and June 25, 1998

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:19 PM PDT
314. # Model Theory, Algebra and Arithmetic

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:11 PM PDT
315. # Understanding the Genome: Technological and Mathematical Challenges

Organizers: Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Richard Karp (University of Washington), Jill Mesirov (Genome Center, Whitehead Institute), and Michael Waterman (USC)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:09 PM PDT
316. # Workshop on Homotopy theory for algebraic varieties with applications to K-theory and quadratic forms

Organizers: Spencer Bloch and Eric M. Friedlander

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:08 PM PDT
317. # Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Mathematical Physics in honor of Joel Smoller

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:28 AM PDT
318. # Model Theory of Fields Seminar

Organizers: Alex Wilkie

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:10 PM PDT
319. # Conversations between Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics Researchers

Organizers: Kieth Devlin and Harriette Stevens

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:16 PM PDT
320. # Symposium in Geometry: a conference in honor of S. S. Chern

Organizers: Raoul Bott , Phillip Griffiths, I. M. Singer, Gang Tian, Alan Weinstein, Hugo Rossi

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:28 AM PDT
321. # NSF Informational Workshop on the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Initiative

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:28 AM PDT
322. # Conversation between Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics Researchers:The Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad and Math Circles.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:26 AM PDT
323. # Three Talks on Physical Oceanography

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 12:09 PM PDT
324. # Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, 1998 Winter Meeting

Organizers: Tom Duchamp, John M. Lee

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:26 AM PDT
325. # Introductory Workshop on Model Theory of Fields

Organizers: A. Pillay (Chair), C. Steinhorn, D. Haskell

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:10 PM PDT
326. # Cryptography and Mathematics

Organizers: Kevin McCurley and Neal Koblitz

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:22 AM PDT
327. # Infinite dimensional stochastic analysis (includes Malliavin Calculus, Dirichlet forms)

Organizers: P. Fitzsimmons, D. Nualart

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:25 AM PDT
328. # Oscillatory Integrals and Their Applications to Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: M. Christ, C. Kenig, and G. Ponce

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:20 PM PDT
329. # Harmonic Analysis, Potential Theory, and Geometric Measure Theory

Organizers: E.B. Fabes, J. Pipher and T. Toro

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 02:04 PM PDT
330. # An Ahlfors Celebration

Organizers: Stanford University

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:20 PM PDT
331. # Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: C. Mueller, E. Pardoux, B. Rozovskii

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:25 AM PDT
332. # Introductory Workshop on Harmonic Analysis

Organizers: M. Christ, D. Jerison, C. Kenig, J. Pipher, and E. Stein

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:20 PM PDT
333. # Harmonic Analysis and PDE

Organizers: C. Kenig, F. Ricci, E. Stein

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:21 PM PDT
334. # Geometry, Topology, and Cosmology

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:22 PM PDT
335. # Representation Theory and Symmetric Functions

Organizers: Curtis Greene (Chair), Sergey Fomin, Phil Hanlon, and Sheila Sundaram

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:22 PM PDT
336. # Geometric stochastic analysis and fine properties of stochastic processes

Organizers: D. Elworthy, J. F. Le Gall, J. Rosen

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:25 AM PDT
337. # Workshop on Computational and Algorithmic Methods in Three Dimensional Topology

Organizers: Joe Christy, Sergei Matveev, and Jeff Weeks

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:31 AM PDT
338. # Geometric Combinatorics

Organizers: Margaret Bayer, Louis Billera (Chair), Paul Edelman and Gunter M. Ziegler

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:31 AM PDT
339. # Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, 1997 Winter Meeting

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:35 AM PDT
340. # Combinatorial Problems Arising in Knots and 3-manifolds

Organizers: Joan Birman (Chair), Xiao-Song Lin, Paul Melvin, and Andrei Zelevinsky

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:40 PM PDT
341. # Four Dimensional Manifolds

Organizers: Robion Kirby (UC Berkeley), Peter Kronheimer (Harvard), Dusa McDuff (SUNY at Stony Brook), Ronald Stern (Chair, UC Irvine), and Gang Tian (MIT)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 01:46 PM PDT
342. # Symposium: The Future of Mathematics Education at Research Universities

Organizers: Hymann Bass, Estela Gavosto, Steven Krantz, William McCallum (Chair), and William Thurston

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:31 AM PDT
343. # Extremal Combinatorics

Organizers: Anders Bjorner (Chair), Zoltan Furedi, and Jeffry Kahn

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:31 AM PDT
344. # Enumeration and Partially Ordered Sets

Organizers: Lynne Butler, Ira Gessel, Rodica Simion (chair), and Michelle Wachs

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:32 AM PDT
345. # Graph Drawing

Organizers: Franz J. Brandenburg, Giuseppe Di Battista, Emden Gansner, Tomihisa Kamada, David Kirkpatrick, Stephen North (Chair), Janos Pach, and Pierre Rosenstiehl

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 11:32 AM PDT
346. # Knots and 3-manifolds

Organizers: Andrew Casson (Chair), Allen Hatcher, John Luecke, Walter Neumann, and Abigail Thompson

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:48 AM PDT
347. # Joint Introductory Workshop on Combinatorics and Low-dimensional Topology

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:48 AM PDT
348. # Julia Robinson Celebration of Women in Mathematics Conference

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:46 AM PDT
349. # Mathematics in Finance

Organizers: Henry Antosiewicz (Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California) and Andrew Rudd (Chairman and CEO, BARRA, Inc., Berkeley)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:46 AM PDT
350. # Sharp Inequalities in Harmonic Analysis and Convex Geometry

Organizers: E. Carlen and E. Lutwak.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:45 AM PDT
351. # Mathematics Awareness Week 1996 at MSRI

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:45 AM PDT
352. # Algebraic and Differential Geometric Methods in Complex Analysis

Organizers: Eric Bedford, Daniel Burns,Janos Kollar, Robert Lazarsfeld, Michael Schneider (Chair), Domingo Toledo, and Scott Wolpert

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:44 AM PDT
353. # Random Methods in Convex Geometry

Organizers: L. Lovasz, N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, and A. Pajor

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:44 AM PDT
354. # Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, 1996 Winter Meeting

Organizers: Jack Lee and Peter Gilkey

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:44 AM PDT
355. # Infinite-dimensional Convex Geometry

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:44 AM PDT
356. # Introductory Workshop in Convex Geometry and Geometric Functional Analysis

Organizers: K.M. Ball.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:43 AM PDT
357. # Nevanlinna Theory and Diophantine Approximation

Organizers: Paul Vojta (Chair), Junjiro Noguchi, and Pit-Mann Wong

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:43 AM PDT
358. # Numbers in Action, a special mathematics event for the general public

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:42 AM PDT
359. # Several Complex Variables (Analytic & PDE Methods)

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:42 AM PDT
360. # Holomorphic Spaces

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:41 AM PDT
361. # African American Researchers in Mathematics

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:41 AM PDT
362. # Low Dimensional Holomorphic Dynamics

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:40 AM PDT
363. # New Vistas in Automorphic Forms

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:40 AM PDT
364. # Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds and Conformal Dynamics

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:40 AM PDT
365. # Period of Concentration in CDHG

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:39 AM PDT
366. # Future of Mathematical Communication

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 09:07 AM PDT
367. # Spectral Theory of Automorphic Forms and Number Theory

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 09:06 AM PDT