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All Upcoming Workshops
January 24, 2013
to January 25, 2013
Organizers: Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin), Ellen Kirkman* (Wake Forest University), and Susan Sierra (Princeton University & University of Edinburgh) The Connections for Women workshop associated to the MSRI program in noncommutative algebraic geometry and representation theory is intended to bring together women who are working in these areas in all stages of their careers.
As the first event in the semester, this workshop will feature a "tapas menu" of current research and open questions: light but intriguing tastes, designed to encourage further exploration and interest. Talks will be aimed at a fairly general audience and will cover diverse topics within the theme of the program. In addition, there will be a poster session for graduate students and recent PhD recipients and a panel discussion on career issues, as well as free time for informal discussion.
January 26, 2013
to January 26, 2013
Organizers: Sage Moore, BACT Director The aim of the Circle for Teachers is to equip educators with an effective problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics. This style of learning is based on the math circle environment that has proven to be successful for students around the world. ...
January 27, 2013
to January 27, 2013
The UC Berkeley Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival will be held in the Chevron Auditorium of the International House from 8:30 - 11:30 am. To learn more about this Festival, including information on how to register, please visit:https://hosted.msri.org/jrmf/2013/berkeley/register.For ...
January 28, 2013
to February 1, 2013
Organizers: Michael Artin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT), Michel Van den Bergh* (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and Toby Stafford (University of Manchester) This workshop will provide several short lecture series consisting two or three lectures each to introduce postdocs, graduate students and non-experts to some of the major themes of the conference. While the precise topics may change to reflect developments in the area, it is likely that we will run mini-series in the following subjects:
Noncommutative algebraic geometry; D-Module Theory; Derived Categories; Noncommutative Resolutions of Singularities; Deformation-Quantization; Symplectic Reflection Algebras; Growth Functions of Infinite Dimensional Algebras.
February 11, 2013
to February 17, 2013
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.
March 8, 2013
to March 10, 2013
Organizers: Amanda Serenevy (Riverbend Community Math Center), Dave Auckly (Kansas State University), Jonathan Farley (University of the West Indies, Jamaica), 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.
March 9, 2013
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: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA
March 16, 2013
to March 17, 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.
March 18, 2013
to March 22, 2013
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.
April 3, 2013
to April 5, 2013
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.
April 8, 2013
to April 12, 2013
Organizers: Victor Ginzburg (University of Chicago), Iain Gordon (University of Edinburgh, UK), Markus Reineke (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany), Catharina Stroppel* (University of Bonn, Germany), and James Zhang (University of Washington) In recent years there have been increasing interactions between noncommutative algebra/representation theory on the one hand and algebraic geometry on the other. This workshop would aim to examine these interactions and, as importantly, to encourage the interactions between the three areas. The precise topics will become more precise nearer the time, but will certainly include:
Noncommutative algebraic geometry; Noncommutative resolutions of singularities and Calabi-Yau algebras; Symplectic reflection and related algebras; D-module theory; Deformation-quantization
May 6, 2013
to May 10, 2013
Organizers: Craig Huneke* (Kansas University), Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo), Mircea Mustata (University of Michigan), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), Kei-ichi Watanabe (Nihon University) The workshop will examine the interplay between measures of singularities coming both from characteristic p methods of commutative algebra, and invariants of singularities coming from birational algebraic geometry. There is a long history of this interaction which arises via the "reduction to characteristic p" procedure. It is only in the last few years, however, that very concrete objects from both areas, namely generalized test ideals from commutative algebra and multiplier ideals from birational geometry, have been shown to be intimately connected. This workshop will explore this connection, as well as other topics used to study singularities such as jets schemes and valuations.
June 15, 2013
to July 28, 2013
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June 17, 2013
to June 21, 2013
Organizers: Sage Moore, BACT Director The aim of the Circle for Teachers is to equip educators with an effective problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics. This style of learning is based on the math circle environment that has proven to be successful for students around the world. ...
June 24, 2013
to June 28, 2013
Organizers: Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia, Canada) Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University, USA) Marston Conder (University of Auckland, New Zealand) David Eisenbud (UC Berkeley, USA) Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford University, USA) Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia, Canada) Tony Guttmann (University of Melbourne, Australia) Le Minh Ha (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Shi Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, China/USA) Alejandro Jofre (Universidad de Chile, Chile) Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo, Japan) JongHae Keum (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea) Doug Lind (University of Washington, USA) Kyewon Koh Park (Ajou University, Korea) Shige Peng (Shandong University, China) Jose Seade (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México) Gang Tian (Princeton University and Peking University, USA/China) Tatiana Toro (University of Washington, USA) The Second Pacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) Congress will be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, on June 24-28, 2013.
PRIMA is an association of mathematical sciences institutes, departments and societies from around the Pacific Rim, established in 2005 with the aim of promoting and facilitating the development of the mathematical sciences throughout the Pacific Rim region. $1000 travel grants are available to representatives from MSRI Academic Sponsoring Institutions. These grants are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
August 22, 2013
to August 23, 2013
Organizers: Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University), Panagiota Daskalopolous (Columbia University), Robert McCann* (University of Toronto) and Maria Westdickenberg (Georgia Institute of Technology & RWTH Aachen). This two-day event aims to connect women graduate students and beginning researchers with more established female researchers who use optimal transportation in their work and can serve as professional contacts and potential role-models. As such, it will showcase a selection of lectures featuring female scientists, both established leaders and emerging researchers.
These lectures will be interspersed with networking and social events such as lunch or tea-time discussions led by successful researchers about (a) the particular opportunities and challenges facing women in science---including practical topics such as work-life balance and choosing a mentor, and (b) promising new directions in optimal transportation and related topics. Junior participants will be paired with more senior researchers in mentoring groups, and all participants will be encouraged to stay for the Introductory Workshop the following week, where they will have the opportunity to propose a short research communication.
August 26, 2013
to August 30, 2013
Organizers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Lawrence C Evans (University of California at Berkeley), and Alessio Figalli* (University of Texas at Austin) The workshop is intended to give an overview of the research landscape surrounding optimal transportation, including its connections to geometry, design applications, and fully nonlinear partial differential equations.
As such, it will feature some survey lectures or minicourses by distinguished visitors and/or a few of the organizers of the theme semester, amounting to a kind of summer school. These will be complemented by a sampling of research lectures and short presentations from a spectrum of invited guests and other participants, including some who attended the previous week's {\em Connections for Women} workshop. 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.
September 3, 2013
to September 4, 2013
Organizers: Beverly Berger, Lydia Bieri* (University of Michigan), and Iva Stavrov (Lewis & Clark College) Ever since the epic work of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat on the well-posedness of Einstein's equations initiated the mathematical study of general relativity, women have played an important role in many areas of mathematical relativity. In this workshop, some of the leading women researchers in mathematical relativity present their work.
September 9, 2013
to September 13, 2013
Organizers: Justin Corvino* (Lafayette College), Greg Galloway (University of Miami) and Hans Ringstrom (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) 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.
October 14, 2013
to October 18, 2013
Organizers: Yann Brenier (CNRS, Universit\'e de Nice), Michael Cullen (Met Office at Exeter UK), Wilfrid Gangbo* (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Allen Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology) The workshop will be devoted to emerging approaches to fluid mechanical, geophysical and kinetic theoretical flows based on optimal transportation. It will also explore numerical approaches to optimal transportation problems.
November 18, 2013
to November 22, 2013
Organizers: Piotr T. Chruściel* (University of Vienna) and 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.
January 23, 2014
to January 24, 2014
Organizers: Teena Gerhardt* (Michigan State University), Brooke Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago), Julie Bergner (University of California, Riverside) This two-day workshop will consist of short courses given by prominent female mathematicians in the field. These introductory courses will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in related areas. The workshop will also include a panel discussion featuring successful women at various stages in their mathematical careers.
January 27, 2014
to January 31, 2014
Organizers: Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), Jesper Grodal (University of Copenhagen), Kathryn Hess (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Michael A. Hill* (University of Virginia) Algebraic topology is a rich, vibrant field with close connections to many branches of mathematics. This workshop will describe the state of the field, focusing on major programs, open problems, exciting new tools, and cutting edge techniques.
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.
February 3, 2014
to February 7, 2014
Organizers: Rahim Moosa* (University of Waterloo), Elisabeth Bouscaren (Université Paris-Sud), Antoine Chambert-Loir (Université de Rennes) Model theory is a branch of mathematical logic whose structural techniques have proven to be remarkably useful in arithmetic geometry and number theory. We will introduce in this workshop some of the main themes of the programme covering such topics as Additive Combinatorics, Algebraic Dynamics, Berkovich Spaces, and the Pink-Zilber Conjectures.
Tutorials will be given by both model theorists and experts in the relevant field of application. The workshop will also include "state of the art" lectures on the programme topics, indicating recent results as well as directions for future work. 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.
February 10, 2014
to February 11, 2014
Organizers: Kirsten Eisentraeger (The Pennsylvania State University), Julia Gordon (University of British Columbia), and Deirdre Haskell (McMaster University)* The development of model theory has always been influenced by its potential applications.
Recent years have seen a remarkable flowering of that development, with many exciting applications of model theory in number theory and algebraic geometry. The introductory workshop will aim to increase these interactions by exposing the techniques of model theory to the number theorists and algebraic geometers, and the problems of number theory and algebraic geometry to the model theorists. The Connections for Women workshop will focus on presenting current research on the borders of these subjects, with particular emphasis on the contributions of women. In addition, there will be some social occasions to allow young women and men to make connections with established researchers, and a panel discussion addressing the challenges faced by all young researchers, but especially by women, in establishing a career in mathematics.
April 7, 2014
to April 11, 2014
Organizers: Vigleik Angeltveit (Australian National University), Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Julie Bergner (University of California, Riverside), Andrew J. Blumberg* (University of Texas-Austin) Recent innovations in higher category theory have unlocked the potential to reimagine the basic tools and constructions in algebraic topology. This workshop will explore the interplay between these higher and $\infty$-categorical techniques with classical algebraic topology, playing each off of the other and returning the field to conceptual, geometrical intuition.
May 12, 2014
to May 16, 2014
Organizers: Jonathan Pila* (Oxford), Thomas Scanlon (Berkeley), Raf Cluckers (CNRS/Lille/Leuven) The workshop will feature talks in a range of topics where model theory interacts with other parts of mathematics, especially number theory and arithmetic geometry, including: motivic integration, algebraic dynamics, diophantine geometry, and valued fields.
August 14, 2014
to August 15, 2014
Organizers: Wen-Ching Winnie Li (Pennsylvania State University), Elena Mantovan* (California Institute of Technology), Sophie Morel (Princeton University) and Sujatha Ramdorai (University of British Columbia) This 2-day workshop will showcase the contributions of female mathematicians to the three main themes of the associated MSRI program: Shimura varieties, p-adic automorphic forms, periods and L-functions. It will bring together women who are working in these areas in all stages of their careers, featuring lectures by both established leaders and emerging researchers. In addition, there will be a poster session open to all participants and an informal panel discussion on career issues.
August 18, 2014
to August 22, 2014
Organizers: Laurent Berger (ENS de Lyon), Ariane Mézard (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Akshay Venkatesh* (Stanford University), and Shou-Wu Zhang (Columbia)
September 2, 2014
to September 5, 2014
Organizers: David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas, Austin) and Kevin McGerty (Oxford University) Geometric Representation Theory is a very active field, at the center of recent advances in Number Theory and Theoretical Physics. The principal goal of the Introductory Workshop will be to provide a gateway for graduate students and new post-docs to the rich and exciting, but potentially daunting, world of geometric representation theory. The aim is to explore some of the fundamental tools and ideas needed to work in the subject, helping build a cohort of young researchers versed in the geometric and physical sides of the Langlands philosophy.
November 17, 2014
to November 21, 2014
Organizers: Thomas Haines (University of Maryland), Florian Herzig (University of Toronto), and David Nadler* (University of California, Berkeley) The workshop will focus on the role of categorical structures in number theory and harmonic analysis, with an emphasis on the setting of the Langlands program. Celebrated examples of this theme range from Lusztig's character sheaves to Ngo's proof of the Fundamental Lemma. The workshop will be a forum for researchers from a diverse collection of fields to compare problems and strategies for solutions.
All Past Workshops
December 3, 2012
to December 7, 2012
Organizers: Winfried Bruns (Universität Osnabrück), Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Takayuki Hibi (Osaka University), Allen Knutson* (Cornell University), and Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley) This workshop on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra aims to bring together researchers studying toric algebra and degenerations, simplicial objects such as monomial ideals and Stanley-Reisner rings, and their connections to tropical geometry, algebraic statistics, Hilbert schemes, D-modules, and hypergeometric functions.
October 29, 2012
to November 2, 2012
Organizers: Claire Amiot (Université de Strasbourg), Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan), Bernard Leclerc (Université de Caen), and Andrei Zelevinsky* (Northeastern University) Cluster algebras provide a unifying algebraic/combinatorial framework for a wide variety of phenomena in settings as diverse as quiver representations, Teichmuller theory, Poisson geometry, Lie theory, discrete integrable systems, and polyhedral combinatorics.
The workshop aims at presenting a broad view of the state-of-the-art understanding of the role of cluster algebras in all these areas, and their interactions with each other.
August 27, 2012
to September 7, 2012
Organizers: David Eisenbud* (University of California, Berkeley), Bernhard Keller (Universit´e Paris VII, France), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), and Alexander Vainshtein* (University of Haifa, Israel) This workshop will take place at the opening of the MSRI special programs on Commutative Algebra and on Cluster Algebras. It will feature lecture series at different levels, to appeal to a wide variety of participants. There will be minicourses on the basics of cluster algebras, and others developing particular aspects of cluster algebras and commutative algebra.
August 22, 2012
to August 24, 2012
Organizers: Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame), Idun Reiten (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), and Lauren Williams* (University of California, Berkeley) This workshop will present basic notions from Commutative Algebra and Cluster Algebras, with a particular focus on providing background material. Additionally, the workshop aims to encourage and facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers in Commutative Algebra and researchers in Cluster Algebras.
July 9, 2012
to July 27, 2012
This is a three-week institute on the mathematics of grades 6-8 in direct response to the recent adoption of the Common Core Mathematics Standards (CCMS) by California.
June 16, 2012
to July 29, 2012
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April 30, 2012
to May 4, 2012
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.
April 13, 2012
to April 15, 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.
March 26, 2012
to March 30, 2012
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.
March 21, 2012
to March 23, 2012
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.
March 12, 2012
to March 14, 2012
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.
February 20, 2012
to February 24, 2012
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.
February 6, 2012
to February 10, 2012
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.
February 4, 2012
to February 5, 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
January 16, 2012
to January 20, 2012
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.
January 12, 2012
to January 13, 2012
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.
December 5, 2011
to December 9, 2011
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.
October 30, 2011
to November 4, 2011
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.
October 17, 2011
to October 21, 2011
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.
September 19, 2011
to September 23, 2011
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).
August 22, 2011
to August 26, 2011
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.
August 18, 2011
to August 19, 2011
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.
July 25, 2011
to August 12, 2011
Organizers: Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley)
June 20, 2011
to June 24, 2011
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.
June 11, 2011
to July 24, 2011
Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus), Suzanne Weekes* (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS IS NOW CLOSED.
The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support.
May 11, 2011
to May 13, 2011
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.
April 11, 2011
to April 15, 2011
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.
March 18, 2011
to March 20, 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.
March 7, 2011
to March 11, 2011
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.
February 14, 2011
to February 16, 2011
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.
January 31, 2011
to February 4, 2011
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.
January 27, 2011
to January 28, 2011
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.
January 18, 2011
to January 21, 2011
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.
January 13, 2011
to January 14, 2011
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.
December 6, 2010
to December 10, 2010
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.
November 17, 2010
to November 19, 2010
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.
November 8, 2010
to November 12, 2010
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.
October 25, 2010
to October 29, 2010
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.
October 23, 2010
to October 23, 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.
October 16, 2010
to October 16, 2010
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.
September 20, 2010
to September 21, 2010
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.
September 13, 2010
to September 17, 2010
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.
August 23, 2010
to August 27, 2010
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.
August 19, 2010
to August 20, 2010
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.
July 6, 2010
to July 23, 2010
Organizers: Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley) This is a fourteen-day institute (July 6 to July 23, 2010) on algebra together with five Saturday sessions spread over the 2010-2011 school year. The main target is middle school teachers; preference will be given to teachers who attended the 2009 Pre-Algebra Institute and teams from the same school or same district. However, high school teachers and upper elementary school teachers will also be considered. There is a limited number of seats, so get your application in as soon as possible.
June 12, 2010
to July 25, 2010
Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Insitute), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), and Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University) The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. The academic portion of the program will be led by Dr. Edray Goins.
June 7, 2010
to June 9, 2010
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.
May 10, 2010
to May 14, 2010
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.
May 4, 2010
to May 7, 2010
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.
March 22, 2010
to March 26, 2010
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.
March 15, 2010
to March 19, 2010
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.
March 13, 2010
to March 15, 2010
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.
January 30, 2010
to January 30, 2010
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.
January 25, 2010
to January 29, 2010
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.
January 21, 2010
to January 22, 2010
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.
January 4, 2010
to January 8, 2010
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.
November 30, 2009
to December 4, 2009
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.
November 21, 2009
to November 21, 2009
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.
November 16, 2009
to November 20, 2009
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.
October 12, 2009
to October 16, 2009
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.
September 14, 2009
to September 18, 2009
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.
August 24, 2009
to August 28, 2009
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.
August 22, 2009
to August 23, 2009
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.
August 17, 2009
to August 21, 2009
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.
August 14, 2009
to August 15, 2009
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.
July 6, 2009
to July 24, 2009
Organizers: Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley), Stefanie Hassan (Little Lake City School District), Winnie Gilbert (Hacienda La Puente Unified School District), and Sunil Koswatta (Harper College). Go to the Summer Institute for the Professional Development of Middle School Teachers on Algebra 2010
June 28, 2009
to July 2, 2009
Organizers: Brandy Wiegers The aim of the Circle for Teachers is to equip educators with an effective problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics.
June 15, 2009
to July 24, 2009
Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Insitute), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras) and Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University). The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support.
May 18, 2009
to May 22, 2009
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.
May 18, 2009
to May 22, 2009
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)
May 11, 2009
to May 13, 2009
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.
May 4, 2009
to May 6, 2009
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.
April 16, 2009
to April 17, 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.
April 13, 2009
to April 15, 2009
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.
March 23, 2009
to March 27, 2009
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.
March 10, 2009
to March 12, 2009
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.
February 28, 2009
to February 28, 2009
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.
February 23, 2009
to February 27, 2009
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.
February 3, 2009
to February 3, 2009
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.
January 26, 2009
to January 30, 2009
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.
January 22, 2009
to January 24, 2009
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.
December 15, 2008
to December 18, 2008
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.
December 11, 2008
to December 12, 2008
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.
December 8, 2008
to December 20, 2008
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/
November 3, 2008
to November 7, 2008
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) We explore environments in which rigid structural information can be deduced from rather soft combinatorial hypotheses. There will be a particular focus on finite and quantitative questions, although an important aspect of the workshop will be to explore connections ...
October 27, 2008
to October 31, 2008
Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch This workshop will focus on the study of PDEs on singular spaces and their connections with the spaces' underlying geometry. Topics will be cohomology theory, index theory, and spectral geometry on the elliptic side; and wave propagation and associated ...
October 14, 2008
to October 17, 2008
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.
October 10, 2008
to October 10, 2008
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/
October 8, 2008
to October 9, 2008
Organizers: Ive Rubio, Herbert Medina, Kathy O\'Hara, and Robert Megginson Location and Topics This workshop is to be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center located at 100 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, directly preceding the Annual Meeting of SACNAS, the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. ...
September 8, 2008
to September 12, 2008
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.
September 2, 2008
to September 5, 2008
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.
August 28, 2008
to August 29, 2008
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.
August 25, 2008
to August 29, 2008
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) The theme of this workshop is the interplay between recurrence in ergodic theory and additive combinatorics. In addition to the now classical results on the existence of arithmetic progressions in large sets, we focus on the parallels among the ergodic theoretical, ...
August 21, 2008
to August 22, 2008
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) This two day workshop will feature expository talks on ergodic theory and additive combinatorics, aimed at advanced graduate students and new postdocs in these fields. An effort will be made to highlight the recent interactions between the fields.Female researchers ...
August 11, 2008
to August 15, 2008
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.
August 4, 2008
to August 8, 2008
Organizers: Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University) and Joshua Zucker (Castilleja School) The aim of Bay Area Circle for Teachers Workshop is to equip educators with an effective problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics. This style of learning is based on the math circle environment that has proven to be successful for students around the ...
July 21, 2008
to August 8, 2008
Organizers: Dr. Hung-Hsi Wu (UC Berkeley), Kay Kirman and Hana Huang (Miraloma Elementary School, SF), and Dr. Sunil Koswatta (Harper College) This three-week course in elementary mathematics directly addresses the mathematics needed for teaching Number Sense in K-7 classrooms. It develops whole numbers and fractions from the beginning, with an excursion into some elementary number theory about divisibility properties of whole numbers and the algorithm that yields the HCF of two numbers. Each day begins with mathematics lectures by a Berkeley mathematician and concludes with small group sessions guided by MPDI graduates.
July 14, 2008
to August 1, 2008
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.
June 28, 2008
to July 2, 2008
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.
June 14, 2008
to July 27, 2008
Organizers: Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Humacao), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), and Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Insitute). The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support.
June 9, 2008
to June 13, 2008
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.
May 14, 2008
to May 16, 2008
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.
May 5, 2008
to May 9, 2008
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.
March 31, 2008
to April 4, 2008
Organizers: David Benson, Daniel Nakano(chair), Raphael Rouquier Over the last century, algebraic invariants like cohomology have been a fundamental tool in studying properties of topological spaces. In the last 40 years, this trend has been reversed, cohomology and other homological methods have been used to study algebraic ...
March 17, 2008
to March 21, 2008
Organizers: Sergey Fomin, Bernard Leclerc, Vic Reiner (Chair), Monica Vazirani Representation theory has often been a key to unlocking problems of enumeration and structure for our favorite combinatorial objects. In the reverse direction, answering many of the central questions of representation theory required development of sophisticated ...
March 10, 2008
to March 14, 2008
Organizers: Alexander Kleshchev, Arun Ram, Richard Stanley (chair), Bhama Srinivasan The emphasis will be on the interplay of combinatorics, Lie theory and finite group theory. Connections between these areas go back at least to Schur and Weyl: representations of the symmetric group, polynomial representations of general linear group, Weyl’s ...
February 4, 2008
to February 8, 2008
Organizers: Jonathan Alperin(chair), Robert Boltje, Markus Linckelmann The workshop will focus on surveying main active areas of representation theory of finite groups, especially highlighting major unsolved problems. It is meant to be accessible for graduate students and non-specialists with some background in representation ...
January 26, 2008
to January 30, 2008
Organizers: Alejandro Adem, Isadore Singer, and Robert Bryant. We hope that you will join us for the Anniversary celebration at the end of January 2008. As befitting the broad mission of the Institute these will include not only mathematical exposition by some of the leaders who have been and are about to be involved with MSRI programs, but also an opening program of mathematics and music and some panels to reflect on the most important directions for future development.
January 22, 2008
to January 25, 2008
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.
January 16, 2008
to January 18, 2008
Organizers: Bhama Srinivasan and Monica Vazirani This intensive three-day workshop for women will introduce advanced graduate students and recent PhDs to current areas of research in Representation Theory.It will consist of introductory mini-courses and talks, as well as a poster session where all participants ...
November 12, 2007
to November 16, 2007
Organizers: Jeff Brock, Ken Bromberg, Richard Canary, Howard Masur, Alan Reid, Maryam Mirzakhani, and John Smillie This five-day conference, which will serve as the main research conference for the MSRI program in Teichmüller theory and Kleinian groups, will attempt to take stock of the work and results of participants of the program, as well as to incorporate outside ...
November 5, 2007
to November 9, 2007
Organizers: Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn This conference will be devoted to cutting-edge developments in geometric group theory. We expect that the talks will cover aspects of the following topics: CAT(0)-spaces and CAT(0)-cubical complexes, hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups, automorphism ...
October 24, 2007
to October 26, 2007
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.
October 12, 2007
to October 12, 2007
Organizers: Robert Bryant (MSRI) and Masoud Nikravesh (UC Berkeley) The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a major new initiative, beginning in 2008, on Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI). This initiative is intended to foster American competitiveness through research contributing to "a new generation of ...
October 10, 2007
to October 11, 2007
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
August 27, 2007
to August 31, 2007
Organizers: Mladen Bestvina, Jon McCammond, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann The workshop will consist of several minicourses, 3 hours each, as well as a program of one-hour lectures. The planned mini-course speakers and their topics are as follows:Jim Cannon: Non-positive and negative curvature in group theoryRuth Charney: Coxeter ...
August 23, 2007
to August 24, 2007
Organizers: Ruth Charney, Indira Chatterji, and Karen Vogtmann This 2-day workshop will consist of four minicourses on classical topics in geometric group theory, each consisting of two hours of lectures plus associated discussion sessions.The lecturers and topics will be:Goulnara Arzhantseva: Gromov's polynomial ...
August 20, 2007
to August 24, 2007
Organizers: Jeff Brock, Richard Canary, Howard Masur, Alan Reid, and Maryam Mirzakhani This five-day workshop will comprise six three-hour minicourses, run by experts in the field, intended to give a summary of recent results in their various areas of expertise and frame new directions for future research. The mini-courses will attempt to bring ...
August 16, 2007
to August 17, 2007
Organizers: Moon Duchin, Caroline Series Each day of this two-day workshop will feature two mainly expository lectures in the morning aimed at the level of advanced graduate students and new postdocs in geometry and topology. These talks on the themes of the Teichmuller theory and Kleinian groups ...
July 23, 2007
to August 10, 2007
Organizers: L. C. Evans (UC Berkeley, Chair), C. Gutierrez (Temple), C. Sogge (Johns Hopkins), D. Tataru (UC Berkeley) This three week program will emphasize the overlapping research areas of nonlinear dispersive equations (NDE) and nonlinear elliptic equations (NEE), and is intended as an extension of the MSRI programs in these fields from Fall, 2005, with a focus on subsequent ...
June 17, 2007
to July 29, 2007
Organizers: Dr. Ricardo Cortez, Dr Ivelisse Rubio, Dr. Herbert Medina, Dr. Suzanne Weekes, Dr. Duane Cooper. The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school ...
May 30, 2007
to June 1, 2007
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.
May 21, 2007
to May 25, 2007
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.
May 17, 2007
to May 18, 2007
Organizers: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Contact: Damir Sudar The Gulliver multiscale bioimaging workshop is organized by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to survey new imaging modalities over relevant spatial and temporal resolution. By combining appropriate methods, it is now possible to obtain highly synergistic ...
May 6, 2007
to May 9, 2007
SpeakersDoug Bates (U Wisconsin)Di Cook (Iowa State)Mark Hansen (UCLA)Jennifer Hoeting (Colorado State)Thomas Lumley (U Washington)Deborah Nolan (UCB)Duncan Temple Lang (UCD)Lee Wilkinson (SPSS)This workshop is intended to bring together educators interested ...
April 28, 2007
to May 4, 2007
Organizers: David Ellwood, Joe Harris, Craig Huneke, Hugo Rossi, Frank-Olaf Schreyer, Bernd Sturmfels, Julius Zelmanowitz This workshop is partially supported by the Clay Mathematics Institute.The goal of the workshop is to focus on some long term developments in Algebra, Geometry and Computation. It will bring together individuals working in these different areas who by-and-large ...
April 16, 2007
to April 20, 2007
Organizers: Alessio Corti, Jean-Pierre Demailly, János Kollár, Shigefumi Mori The workshop will concentrate on the recent advances on canonical and minimal models of algebraic varieties. We plan to study the proofs, survey applications and related results and chart future directions for research.Two algebraic varieties are said to be ...
April 12, 2007
to April 13, 2007
Organizers: David Eisenbud, Inez Fung, Chris Jones and Doug Nychka Made possible by the generous support of Sea Change FoundationGlobal models based on current and past observations document the reality of climate change caused by human activity, although the details of when and what will happen where are far from clear. ...
April 2, 2007
to April 5, 2007
Organizers: Greg Pavliotis and Andrew Stuart The course provides an introduction to the theory of multiscale methods, and the techniques of averaging and homogenization in particular. The theory will be exemplified by application to ordinary and stochastic differential equations, Markov chains and partial ...
March 26, 2007
to March 30, 2007
Organizers: Jonathan Mattingly (Duke), Igor Mezic (UCSB-Chair), Andrew Stuart (Warwick) See schedule below for invited speakers.A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: K80000. The cut-off date for reservations ...
March 26, 2007
to March 26, 2007
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.
March 16, 2007
to March 17, 2007
Organizers: Charles Elliott, Xiaobing Feng, Michael Holst, Hongkai Zhao Besides their rich and intriguing features and dynamics, geometric evolution equations appear in many scientific, engineering and industrial applications. Numerical computation of geometric evolution equations is quite challenging due to dynamic deformation ...
March 12, 2007
to March 16, 2007
Organizers: Bennett Chow, Gerhard Huisken, Chuu-Lian Terng, and Gang Tian Geometric flows have been applied to a variety of geometric, topological, analytical and physical problems. Such flows include the mean, inverse mean, Gauss curvature and Willmore flows of submanifolds, Ricci/Kähler-Ricci and Calabi flows of manifolds, Yang-Mills ...
January 29, 2007
to February 2, 2007
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.
January 22, 2007
to January 26, 2007
Organizers: Chris Jones (U North Carolina), Edgar Knobloch (UC-Berkeley-Physics), Nancy Kopell (Boston U), Lai-Sang Young (chair, Courant) The aim of this workshop is to promote the interaction of researchers working on pure and applied
aspects dynamical systems. It will feature a group of speakers from mathematics who are
responsible for some of the ma advances in the theory of dynamical ...
January 18, 2007
to January 19, 2007
Organizers: Debra Lewis (UC Santa Cruz), Mary Pugh (U Toronto), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College) This intensive two-day workshop will spotlight several innovative applications of dynamical systems theory, offering advanced graduate students and recent PhDs an insider's tour of recent developments in the field and setting the stage for the semester-long ...
October 30, 2006
to November 3, 2006
Organizers: Michael Harris, Mark Kisin, Kenneth Ribet, Richard Taylor, David Ellwood This workshop is jointly funded by MSRI and the Clay Mathematics Institute.
October 25, 2006
to October 26, 2006
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.
October 23, 2006
to October 27, 2006
Organizers: Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Peter Li and Lei Ni Linear and nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations have been deliberated by continuous, discrete, and computational methods. There are deep connections between the geometry and analysis of Riemannian and Kähler manifolds. The topics ...
October 16, 2006
to October 18, 2006
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.
October 16, 2006
to October 17, 2006
Organizers: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University; William Cleveland, Purdue University; Sanda Harabagiu, University Texas-Dallas; Peter Jones, Yale; Leland Wilkinson, Northwestern and SPSS Visual analysis is defined to be the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visualizations. The goal of visual analysis is to enable the understanding of massive datasets. Such datasets arise in science, engineering and commerce, as well ...
October 2, 2006
to October 6, 2006
Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, R. Jardine, and G. M. Ziegler In the twenty-seven years since Lovász solved the Kneser conjecture by an ingenious application of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, the general area of topological methods in combinatorial, discrete-geometric and algorithmic problems has developed into a strikingly ...
September 18, 2006
to September 22, 2006
Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, and S. Holmes It is becoming increasingly clear that algebraic topology can be applied effectively in to a number of applied problems in science and engineering. Some of these problems are:Protein dockingAlgorithmic and geometric problems in roboticsExploratory and qualitative ...
September 11, 2006
to September 15, 2006
Organizers: Bennett Chow, Peter Li and Gang Tian Various geometric evolution equations and function theory have the common goal of understanding the relations between the geometry, analysis, and topology of manifolds, submanifolds, vector bundles, maps, and other geometric structures. The fields of geometry, ...
September 8, 2006
to September 9, 2006
Organizers: Christine Guenther and Panagiota Daskalopoulos This intensive two-day workshop for women will introduce advanced graduate students and recent PhDs to current topics in nonlinear partial differential equations related to geometric analysis. It will consist of introductory mini-courses and talks, as well ...
September 5, 2006
to September 8, 2006
Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, G. M. Ziegler Algebraic Topology is not only a highly-deveolped “abstract” field of “pure” Mathematics – it also offers an effective and versatile toolbox for applications in diverse fields such as Combinatoics, Discrete Geometry, Statistics and Data Analysis.Some of these ...
August 31, 2006
to September 1, 2006
Organizers: Susan Holmes This intensive two-day workshop for women will introduce advanced graduate students and recent PhDs to current areas of research in Statistics and Computational Topology.It will consist of introductory mini-courses and talks, as well as a hands on computer ...
August 14, 2006
to August 18, 2006
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
August 7, 2006
to August 11, 2006
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.
June 19, 2006
to June 21, 2006
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.
June 12, 2006
to June 16, 2006
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.
May 22, 2006
to May 26, 2006
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.
May 18, 2006
to May 20, 2006
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.
May 13, 2006
to May 18, 2006
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.
May 7, 2006
to May 10, 2006
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.
May 3, 2006
to May 5, 2006
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.
April 10, 2006
to April 12, 2006
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.
March 27, 2006
to March 31, 2006
Organizers: Fedor Bogomolov, Antoine Chambert-Loir, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (chair), A. Johan de Jong, Raman Parimala This workshop will explore the various ways in which cohomology gives information on the existence and density of rational points. Here are the main topics to be covered.Étale cohomology of varieties over number fields: the Brauer-Manin obstruction and beyond.Étale ...
March 20, 2006
to March 24, 2006
Organizers: Yongbin Ruan, H. Nakajima, G. Mason http://www.math.wisc.edu/~shi/topological_structures/McKay_correspondences.htmWorkshop Schedule Monday (March 20, 2006) 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-10:15 Paul Aspinwall (Duke University) Title: D-Branes, Mukai and McKay Tea Break 11:00-12:00 ...
January 17, 2006
to January 21, 2006
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.
January 9, 2006
to January 20, 2006
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.
December 5, 2005
to December 9, 2005
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.
November 28, 2005
to December 2, 2005
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.
November 18, 2005
to November 22, 2005
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.
November 14, 2005
to November 18, 2005
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.
November 5, 2005
to November 6, 2005
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.
October 31, 2005
to November 4, 2005
Organizers: Frank Pacard, Neil Trudinger and Paul Yang This workshop will focus on recent developments in nonlinear elliptic equations and their interactions with differential geometry, Riemannian geometry and complex geometry.Topics will include the study of fully nonlinear elliptic problems which arise for example ...
October 10, 2005
to October 14, 2005
Organizers: Craig Evans, Susan Friedlander, Boris Rozovsky, Daniel Tataru and David A. Ellwood The PDEs known as the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations are important for a number of reasons. They describe the motion of fluids under a wide range of conditions. The Euler equations provide a model for inviscid (i.e., zero frictional) fluid behavior and ...
September 26, 2005
to September 28, 2005
Organizers: L. C. Evans ScheduleAll lectures given by Craig Evans (UC Berkeley)Monday, Sept. 269:00-10:30 Review/crash course on probability, Brownian motion , part I10:30-11:00 Tea Break11:00-12:30 Review/crash course on probability, Brownian motion , part IITuesday, Sept 279:00-10:30 ...
August 22, 2005
to August 26, 2005
Organizers: James Colliander (Toronto), Patrick Gerard (Orsay), Herbert Koch (Dortmund), Natasha Pavlovic (Princeton), Daniel Tataru (Berkeley) The field of nonlinear dispersive equations has experienced a dramatic growth in recent years, and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. For the most part the problems which are being considered have their origin in physics in subjects such as general relativity, ...
August 15, 2005
to August 19, 2005
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.
August 11, 2005
to August 12, 2005
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.
June 6, 2005
to June 9, 2005
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.
May 25, 2005
to May 28, 2005
Organizers: Deborah Ball, Chair, (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska) Using Math to Teach Math (PDF 5.5MB)Second conference in the MSRI series "Critical Issues in Mathematics Education"This workshop will be held at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, California.The conference takes as a premise that improving students’ mathematics learning ...
April 18, 2005
to April 22, 2005
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.
April 18, 2005
to April 22, 2005
Organizers: Jitendra Malik, Jean-Michel Morel, Song Chun Zhu This emphasis week is not a workshop, but rather an informal get together of researchers interested in gestalt laws, grouping principles and their quantitative embodiments. There will be no formal schedule of talks: the week will start with discussions of ...
April 15, 2005
to April 17, 2005
Organizers: David Eisenbud Materials from this workshop can be found here:http://www.msri.org/specials/dmlp/
March 21, 2005
to March 25, 2005
Organizers: Don Geman, Jitendra Malik, Pietro Perona, Cordelia Schmid Recognizing materials, objects and scenes is one of the most useful functions of vision. Understanding this ability in humans, and reproducing it in machines is a grand challenges for scientists, mathematicians and engineers.We will focus on the computational ...
March 14, 2005
to March 18, 2005
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.
March 7, 2005
to March 11, 2005
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.
February 21, 2005
to February 25, 2005
Organizers: Andrew Blake and Yair Weiss Note: All lectures are to be held in the MSRI lecture hall 2850 Telegraph Avenue, second floor.Low level vision addresses the issues of labelling and organising image pixels according to scene related properties - known as intrinsic images - such as motion, ...
February 7, 2005
to February 11, 2005
Organizers: David Donoho and Bruno Olshausen Nervous systems have evolved impressive abilities to extract useful information about the environment from images. Jumping spiders use their eight-eyed visual systems to detect prey, discriminate objects, and navigate;most mammals can readily segment moving ...
January 31, 2005
to February 4, 2005
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.
January 24, 2005
to January 28, 2005
Organizers: David Donoho, Olivier Faugeras, David B Mumford The introductory workshop will be a week long and concentrate on problems in what is typically described as ``early vision'' or ``low-level vision''. By this, people mean whatever you can understand about an image as a function or a signal ...
January 21, 2005
to January 22, 2005
Organizers: Ruzena Bajcsy, Jana Kosecka, Kathryn Leonard This workshop will be an intensive two-day workshop concentrating on current approaches to image analysis, including harmonic analysis, statistical modeling,mathematical techniques of perceptual organization, and variational methods. It will bring together ...
January 13, 2005
to January 13, 2005
Organizers: Alistair Sinclair MSRI Program on Probability, Algorithms and Statistical Physics, Spring 2005 --- OPENING DAY, Thursday 13 January, 2005
December 16, 2004
to December 18, 2004
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
December 9, 2004
to December 13, 2004
Organizers: Gunnar Carlsson, Susan Holmes, Persi Diaconis Complex data sets lying in high-dimensional spaces are by now a commonplace occurrence in many parts of science. There are many sources for this kind of data, including biology (genetic networks, phylogenetic trees, food webs, protein folding data, and neural ...
November 5, 2004
to November 6, 2004
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.
November 1, 2004
to November 5, 2004
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.
October 4, 2004
to October 8, 2004
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.
September 27, 2004
to October 1, 2004
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.
September 18, 2004
to September 19, 2004
Organizers: David Ellis (SFSU), David Meredith (SFSU), Hugo Rossi (MSRI) A weekend workshop at SFSU on upcoming programs at MSRI
August 23, 2004
to August 27, 2004
Organizers: Michael Falk, Peter Orlik (Chair), Alexander Suciu, Hiroaki Terao, and SergeyYuzvinsky From its origins in the study of braids, discriminants, and configuration spaces, there has developed a rich and rapidly-growing theory of complex hyperplane arrangements. Among its many attractive features, perhaps the main one is the strong interaction between ...
June 22, 2004
to June 25, 2004
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.
June 14, 2004
to June 18, 2004
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
May 23, 2004
to May 27, 2004
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.
May 20, 2004
to May 24, 2004
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.
April 12, 2004
to April 16, 2004
Organizers: Lalo Gonzalez-Vega, Victoria Powers, and Frank Sottile
April 3, 2004
to April 4, 2004
Organizers: Frank Sottile and Rimas Krasauskas This workshop will feature interactions between geometric modeling and real algebraic geometry at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley the weekend of April 3 and 4,2004. It is embedded within the larger program on Real Algebraic Geometry ...
March 22, 2004
to March 26, 2004
Organizers: Denis Auroux, Dan Freed, Helmut Hofer, Francis Kirwan, and Gang Tian Symplectic geometry has been one of the most rapidly advancing areas of mathematics over the past ten years. Its strong connections to mathematical physics, and in particular the mirror symmetry conjecture, have been the source of many fascinating developments. ...
March 15, 2004
to March 19, 2004
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.
March 7, 2004
to March 10, 2004
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.
February 23, 2004
to February 27, 2004
Organizers: Viatcheslav Kharlamov, Boris Shapiro, and Oleg Viro The topological study of real algebraic varieties originated in work of Harnack, Klein, and Hilbert in the late 19th century on real algebraic plane curves. Current interest involves many different, but interacting topics including real algebraic varieties ...
February 9, 2004
to February 13, 2004
Organizers: Jun Liu, Mary Sara McPeek, Richard Olshen (chair), David O. Siegmund, and Wing Wong This workshop is sponsored by MSRI and in part by Affymetrix, Aventis, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer. Our workshop will be held February 9-13, 2004 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. Its topic is the genetics of complex human disease. ...
January 12, 2004
to January 16, 2004
Organizers: Selman Akbulut, Grisha Mikhalkin, Victoria Powers, Boris Shapiro, Frank Sottile, and Oleg Viro The topological study of real algebraic varieties originated in the 19th century -- it was featured in Hilbert's 16th problem on the classification of real algebraic plane curves. This subject has recently grown in many directions, including higher dimensional ...
December 15, 2003
to December 19, 2003
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.
December 1, 2003
to December 5, 2003
Organizers: Ben Chow, Peter Li, Richard Schoen (chair), and Richard Wentworth This workshop will focus on PDE methods in Differential Geometry and the wide range of applications which these methods are having in the field. Topics will include geometric variational problems, evolution equations, and analysis on Riemannian manifolds. ...
November 17, 2003
to November 21, 2003
Organizers: Jesús A. De Loera, Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach and Günter M. Ziegler The focus of this workshop will be on discrete geometric objects (e.g. polyhedra, geometric graphs, sphere packings, tilings, lattices, etc.) and their combinatorial structure, stressing the connections between discrete geometry and algebra, combinatorics, ...
November 9, 2003
to November 13, 2003
Organizers: Yasha Eliashberg, Robion Kirby and Peter Kronheimer To be held at the Banff International Research Station, CanadaAnnouncement is also available in PDF formThis subject first arose from the study of Yang-Mills gauge theory on Y × R. It assigns to each Y a Floer homology group, in various flavors. More recently, ...
October 13, 2003
to October 17, 2003
Organizers: Pankaj Agarwal, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Micha Sharir, and Emo Welzl The workshop will focus on the design and analysis of geometric algorithms, and on the mathematical and algorithmic techniques needed to make these algorithms efficient. The emphasis will be on research topics that are currently active, and they will be presented ...
September 27, 2003
to September 28, 2003
Organizers: Nathaniel Dean, Robert Megginson LOCATION: Texas Southern University, Houston, TexasTexas Southern University and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute will conduct a weekend workshop at TSU on modern developments in mathematics that will be the focus of upcoming research programs ...
August 20, 2003
to August 29, 2003
Organizers: Jesús A. De Loera, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, Micha Sharir, Emo Welzl, and Günter M. Ziegler This workshop is intended to introduce the area of discrete and computational geometry to mathematicians and computer scientists not (yet) active in the field, or just entering it, and is aimed particularly at graduate students and postdocs and at researchers ...
August 11, 2003
to August 20, 2003
Organizers: Robert Bryant (Co-chair), Simon Donaldson, H. Blaine Lawson, Richard Schoen, and Gang Tian (Co-chair) TO REGISTER PLEASE SEE:http://www.ams.org/meetings/vonneumann03.htmlThe last day the AMS will accept registrations for this workshop is April 1, 2003.The focus of the symposium will be on an introduction to the subjects of the title, i.e., ideas and tools ...
June 22, 2003
to June 26, 2003
Organizers: Robert Bryant LOCATION: The Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada
May 5, 2003
to May 9, 2003
Organizers: J. Sjostrand, S. Zelditch, and M. Zworski This meeting will concentrate on presenting recent advances in mathematical semi-classics, with a special emphasis on phase-space tunneling, resonances, inverse problems, and general aspects of asymptotic analysis in quantum problems. We hope to relate these ...
April 21, 2003
to April 25, 2003
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.
April 7, 2003
to April 11, 2003
Organizers: R. Littlejohn, W.H. Miller, and M. Zworski The goal of the workshop is to bring together experts in applied and mathematical semi-classical methods. We are hoping for a blend of talks on applied mathematics, numerical methods, and concrete physical applications.
March 29, 2003
to April 3, 2003
Organizers: Mark Green, Juergen Herzog, and Bernd Sturmfels (chair) To be held at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
March 13, 2003
to March 15, 2003
Organizers: Serkan Hosten, Craig Huneke, Bernd Sturmfels (chair), and Irena Swanson This workshop is about computational commutative algebra understood in a broad sense, including both theory and its practice in fields related to commutative algebra, such as combinatorics, algebraic geometry, group theory and their applications. It will ...
February 3, 2003
to February 7, 2003
Organizers: Luchezar Avramov (chair), Ragnar Buchweitz, and John Greenlees Recently, commutative algebra has been developing new connections with a variety of fields, and adding new directions to some traditional links. This interdisciplinary workshop proposes to generate an active exchange of information between practitioners and ...
December 13, 2002
to December 17, 2002
Organizers: Steering Committee: Dorit Aharonov, Charles Bennett, Harry Buhrman, Isaac Chuang, Mike Mosca, Umesh Vazirani, and John Watrous MSRI has chartered the UC Berkeley Hill Shuttle bus for Saturday and Sunday. It will run on the regular weekday schedule, but starting a little later (first bus leaves the Mining Circle at 8:15am) and ending earlier (last bus leaves MSRI at 5:30pm).Invited ...
December 9, 2002
to December 12, 2002
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.
December 2, 2002
to December 6, 2002
Organizers: Craig Huneke (chair), Paul Roberts, Karen Smith, and Bernd Ulrich. This workshop will concentrate on several aspects of commutative algebra including birational algebra, tight closure and characteristic p methods, Rees algebra and their applications, intersection theory, multiplicities and mixed characteristic.The following ...
November 6, 2002
to November 8, 2002
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.
November 4, 2002
to November 8, 2002
Organizers: Richard Jozsa and Mary Beth Ruskai This workshop will be dedicated to theoretical aspects of quantum information and cryptography including the following topics: entanglement - manipulation, classification and quantification; compression and coding theorems for quantum information; quantum ...
November 1, 2002
to November 2, 2002
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.
October 21, 2002
to October 25, 2002
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.
October 7, 2002
to October 11, 2002
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.
September 23, 2002
to September 27, 2002
Organizers: Estelle Basor (co-chair), Alexander Its, Persi Diaconis, and Craig Tracy (co-chair) The purpose of this workshop is to build on the successful Spring 1999 MSRI Semester Program: Random Matrix Models and Their Applications. Since the 1999 program many developments continue in random matrix theory and its applications to combinatorics, growth ...
September 23, 2002
to September 27, 2002
Organizers: Richard Cleve, Peter Shor, and Umesh Vazirani To be held at the Banff Conference Centre in Banff (Alberta), Canada
September 21, 2002
to September 22, 2002
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)
September 9, 2002
to September 13, 2002
Organizers: Luchezar Avramov, Mark Green, Craig Huneke, Karen E. Smith and Bernd Sturmfels The introductory workshop in the Comutative Algebra program will feature three lectures each from six speakers: David Benson, David Eisenbud, Mark Haiman, Melvin Hochster, Rob Lazarsfeld, and Bernard Teissier. The talks will cover aspects of the relationship ...
August 26, 2002
to August 30, 2002
Organizers: Dorit Aharonov, Leonard Schulman, and Umesh Vazirani This workshop will provide a mathematical introduction to the fundamental topics of quantum computation. The topics will incude quantum information theory, quantum computational complexity theory, the representation theory of finite groups and properties of ...
July 23, 2002
to August 9, 2002
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
June 3, 2002
to June 7, 2002
Organizers: David Bao, Robert Bryant, S.S. Chern, and Zhongmin Shen Finsler geometry uses families of Minkowski norms, instead of families of inner products, to describe geometry. This situation is entirely analogous to how Banach spaces relate to Hilbert spaces. There has been a steady modernisation of the field during the ...
May 9, 2002
to May 11, 2002
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) This symposium is designed to address current issues in meta-analysis. There will be reports on four topics: meta-analysis for policy decisions, publication bias, heterogeneity models, and equating of medical outcome measures. In addition, there will be other ...
April 15, 2002
to April 26, 2002
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.
March 28, 2002
to April 5, 2002
Organizers: S. Bradlow, O. Garcia-Prada, M. Kapranov, L. Katzarkov, M. Kontsevich, D. Orlov, T. Pantev, C. Simpson, and B. Toen The non-abelian Hodge theory originates in the groundbreaking works of A. Grothendieck, P. Deligne and A. Beilinson. A major development in the field was made by C. Simpson. Together with his students and collaborators, Simpson developed the theory of geometric ...
March 18, 2002
to March 22, 2002
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
March 11, 2002
to March 15, 2002
Organizers: K. Behrend, W. Fulton, L. Katzarkov, M. Kontsevich, Y. Manin, R. Pandharipande, T. Pantev, B. Toen, and A. Vistoli The intersection theory on stacks was pioneered by H. Gillet and A. Vistoli. Later the work of M. Kontsevich and Y. Manin on the algebraic Gromov-Witten invariants required the full intersection theory machinery on Deligne-Mumford stacks. Several foundational ...
February 25, 2002
to March 1, 2002
Organizers: Elwyn Berlekamp, Joe Buhler, Dave Forney, Abraham Lempel, Gadiel Seroussi (co-chair), Sergio Verdu (co-chair), Andy Viterbi, and Marcelo Weinberger This workshop will focus on the exciting current developments in source and channel coding, as well as such new areas in information theory as quantum error correction and bioinformatics. Sergio Verdu will be visiting MSRI for the Spring Semester as Hewlett ...
January 10, 2002
to January 16, 2002
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.
December 10, 2001
to December 14, 2001
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.
November 27, 2001
to December 1, 2001
Organizers: W. T. Gan, J. S. Li, D. Ramakrishnan, G. Savin (chair) and J. K. Yu LOCATION & DATE ALERT !
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.
November 5, 2001
to November 16, 2001
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.
October 29, 2001
to November 2, 2001
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) During the last 20 years or so there has been remarkable developments in the mathematical theory of inverse problems (IP). One of the main objectives of the PASI on IP Workshop will be to bring many of these developments to advanced graduates students, postdocs ...
October 8, 2001
to October 12, 2001
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.
August 13, 2001
to August 24, 2001
Organizers: Liliana Borcea, David Colton, Michael Eastwood, Simon Gindikin, Alexander Goncharov and Gunther Uhlmann The Introductory Workshop on Integral Geometry and Inverse Problems will be held jointly by the Integral Geometry (IG) and the Inverse Problems (IP) program. The main part of the program will be 7 minicourses. Please see the links below for more information.See ...
June 25, 2001
to July 27, 2001
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
June 25, 2001
to July 6, 2001
Organizers: Joel Hass and David Hoffman see program webpage at http://zeta.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/52/show_program
June 4, 2001
to June 15, 2001
Organizers: Dan Rockmore and Dennis Healy see program webpage at http://zeta.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/51/show_program
May 29, 2001
to June 1, 2001
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.
May 7, 2001
to May 11, 2001
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.
April 30, 2001
to May 4, 2001
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.
April 26, 2001
to May 1, 2001
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.
April 23, 2001
to April 27, 2001
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.
March 30, 2001
to April 1, 2001
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.
March 19, 2001
to March 29, 2001
Organizers: David Denison, Mark Hansen, Chris Holmes, Robert Kohn, Bani Mallick, Martin Tanner and Bin Yu see workshop program
March 12, 2001
to March 16, 2001
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.
March 1, 2001
to March 3, 2001
Organizers: A. Chorin, I. Singer and M. Wright As manager of the Applied Mathematics Research Program at the Department of Energy, Fred Howes had a clear vision of the dual roles of applied mathematics and computational simulation---as fundamental research in their own right and as connections to applications ...
February 9, 2001
to February 11, 2001
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.
January 22, 2001
to January 27, 2001
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.
December 11, 2000
to December 15, 2000
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.
December 4, 2000
to December 8, 2000
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.
November 5, 2000
to November 10, 2000
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.
October 16, 2000
to October 20, 2000
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."
September 25, 2000
to September 29, 2000
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.
September 14, 2000
to September 16, 2000
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.
August 24, 2000
to September 2, 2000
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.
August 14, 2000
to August 23, 2000
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.
July 24, 2000
to July 28, 2000
Organizers: Elwyn Berlekamp, David Blackwell, John Conway, Aviezri Fraenkel, Richard Guy, Jurg Nievergelt, Richard Nowakowski, Jonathan Schaeffer, Ken Thompson and David Wolfe Parent Summer Graduate Workshop:Combinatorial Game Theory (Summer Graduate Workshop II)This workshop will cover all aspects of the theory of combinatorial games, including algorithms for such games, complexity of those algorithms, connections with artificial ...
June 24, 2000
to June 26, 2000
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) For more information about this event, please see the original web page at:
http://msri.org/ext/pmmb/
May 8, 2000
to May 12, 2000
Organizers: Roger Alperin, Marc Culler, Benson Farb, and Peter Shalen For more information about this event, please see the original web page at:
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/9900/Group_Theory/index.html
February 14, 2000
to February 25, 2000
Organizers: M. Artin (MIT), K. R. Goodearl (UC Santa Barbara) and M. Van den Bergh (Limburgs) As part of the yearlong program in Noncommutative Algebra, MSRI will host a two-week workshop on Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, February 14-25, 2000. (Due to the Presidents' Day Holiday, Monday, February 21, the workshop ...
February 7, 2000
to February 11, 2000
Organizers: M. Freedman, B. Sturmfels, U. Vazirani
January 10, 2000
to January 14, 2000
Organizers: G. Benkart (Univ.of Wisconsin), A. Shalev (Hebrew Univ.), E. Zelmanov (Yale Univ.) As part of the yearlong program in Noncommutative Algebra, MSRI will host a one-week workshop on Combinatorial Algebra, January 10-14, 2000. The term Combinatorial Algebra comes from Combinatorial Group Theory which traditionally focuses ...
January 5, 2000
to January 7, 2000
Organizers: Bernd Sturmfels, Nobuki Takayama and Uli Walther
December 6, 1999
to December 10, 1999
Organizers: Brian Conrad, Jean-Marc Fontaine, Barry Mazur, Ken Ribet (chair), Richard Taylor
December 1, 1999
to December 5, 1999
Organizers: Francois Bergeron, Jonathan Borwein (co-chair), Joe Buhler (co-chair), Bradd Hart, Martin Groetschel, Peter Michor, Andrew Odlyzko Please see the abstracts for the talks from this event, located athttp://www.msri.org/attachments/workshops/fmc99/fmc_ABS.html
November 1, 1999
to November 5, 1999
Organizers: F. Alberto Grünbaum and Gunther Uhlmann
October 25, 1999
to October 29, 1999
Organizers: Miriam Cohen, Hans-Jurgen Schneider, Susan Montgomery (Chair), Fred Van Oystaeyen For more information about this event, please see the original web page at:
http://www.msri.org/activities/programs/9900/noncomm/hopfalg/index.html
October 11, 1999
to October 15, 1999
Organizers: Pierre Debes, Hiroaki Nakamura, Akio Tamagawa
October 4, 1999
to October 8, 1999
Organizers: Moshe Jarden (Tel Aviv), Gunter Malle (Kassel), Helmut Voelklein (U. of Florida)
August 16, 1999
to August 27, 1999
Organizers: Michael D. Fried, David Harbater and Lance W. Small For more information about this conference, please visit the original web page at
http://msri.org/activities/programs/9900/noncomm/vonneumann/
July 16, 1999
to July 18, 1999
Organizers: Bettye Anne Case (Chair), Susan Geller, Carolyn Gordon, Dianne O\'Leary, Gail Ratcliff, Jean Taylor, and Sylvia Wiegand.
June 7, 1999
to June 11, 1999
Organizers: Pavel Bleher, D.A. Hejhal, Andrew Odlyzko, and Peter Sarnak Please see the workshop web page at http://www.msri.org/activities/programs/9899/random/qc/ for more information.
June 4, 1999
to June 5, 1999
Organizers: Hyeong In Choi, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Rida Farouki, David Ferguson, David Hoffman, Helmut Pottmann Please see the workshop webpage at http://www.msri.org/activities/events/9899/mathcad/ for more information.
April 12, 1999
to April 14, 1999
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) Please see the conference webpage at http://www.msri.org/activities/events/9899/materials/ for more information.
February 22, 1999
to February 26, 1999
Organizers: B. Dubrovin, A. Its, M. Mehta (Chair), and N. Reshetikhin This workshop will focus on the relations of random matrices to integrable systems and to exactly solvable statistical mechanics and topological field models. The following three groups of topics will be of primary interest:Random matrices, orthogonal polynomials, ...
January 19, 1999
to January 23, 1999
Organizers: E. Basor (Chair), P. Bleher, A. Its, and C. Tracy The introductory workshop plays a pivotal role in the program, whose main goal is to create a common understanding of the various problems and new ideas which have recently arisen in the theory of random matrices. This workshop is not intended for the specialist, ...
November 2, 1998
to November 6, 1998
Organizers: Felipe Cucker and Jim Renegar
October 12, 1998
to October 16, 1998
Organizers: Eberhard Becker, Lakshman Yagati, Michael Singer, and Peter Stiller
October 8, 1998
to October 10, 1998
Organizers: Lenore Blum, KC Cole, Keith Devlin, John Gage, Ron Graham, Allyn Jackson, Gina Kolata, Robert Osserman, Gary Taubes
October 1, 1998
to October 3, 1998
Organizers: David H Bailey, Daniel R Grayson, Alyson Reeves and Nobuki Takayama
September 17, 1998
to September 19, 1998
Organizers: David Bailey, Raymond Johnson, James Turner
September 14, 1998
to September 18, 1998
Organizers: Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Marie-Francoise Roy, Bernd Sturmfels, and Mike Shub
August 28, 1998
to August 30, 1998
August 17, 1998
to August 26, 1998
Organizers: Arieh Iserles, Marie-Francoise Roy, Teresa Krick, Michael Singer, Andrew Stuart, and Bernd Sturmfels
August 9, 1998
to August 11, 1998
Organizers: NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
July 6, 1998
to July 17, 1998
Organizers: David Bayer, Sorin Popescu
June 22, 1998
to June 26, 1998
Organizers: A. Casson, T. Cochran, J. Hass, P. Melvin, M. Scharlemann The Scope: Recent years have seen spectacular new developments in the study of three and four dimensional manifolds, and in knot theory. Connections have been established to mathematical physics (gauge theory, statistical mechanics, quantum field theory), ...
June 15, 1998
to June 17, 1998
Organizers: M. Ciment, P. Colella, C. Moore, C. Peskin, E.G. Puckett, J. Sethian
June 6, 1998
to June 6, 1998
This workshop consisted of two sessions, June 6, 1998, and June 25, 1998
May 21, 1998
to May 23, 1998
Organizers: Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Richard Karp (University of Washington), Jill Mesirov (Genome Center, Whitehead Institute), and Michael Waterman (USC)
May 12, 1998
to May 16, 1998
Organizers: Spencer Bloch and Eric M. Friedlander
April 24, 1998
to April 24, 1998
March 30, 1998
to April 20, 1998
Organizers: Kieth Devlin and Harriette Stevens Two talks comprised this seriesHarriette Stevens, March 30, 1998Kieth Devlin, April 20, 1998
March 5, 1998
to March 7, 1998
Organizers: Raoul Bott , Phillip Griffiths, I. M. Singer, Gang Tian, Alan Weinstein, Hugo Rossi
February 27, 1998
to February 27, 1998
February 24, 1998
to February 24, 1998
February 23, 1998
to February 23, 1998
T. M. ChinKalman filter and other data assimilation techniques in physical oceanography todayFrank HenyeyLinear stochastic PDE's for acoustics and internal waves in the oceanPeter MullerStochastic Forcing of Oceanic Motions (or how far you can get with ...
February 7, 1998
to February 7, 1998
Organizers: Tom Duchamp, John M. Lee
January 12, 1998
to January 16, 1998
Organizers: A. Pillay (Chair), C. Steinhorn, D. Haskell
January 11, 1998
to January 12, 1998
Organizers: Kevin McCurley and Neal Koblitz
November 3, 1997
to November 7, 1997
Organizers: P. Fitzsimmons, D. Nualart
October 23, 1997
to October 27, 1997
Organizers: M. Christ, C. Kenig, and G. Ponce
October 20, 1997
to October 21, 1997
Organizers: E.B. Fabes, J. Pipher and T. Toro
September 15, 1997
to September 19, 1997
Organizers: C. Mueller, E. Pardoux, B. Rozovskii
August 18, 1997
to August 22, 1997
Organizers: M. Christ, D. Jerison, C. Kenig, J. Pipher, and E. Stein
April 14, 1997
to April 18, 1997
Organizers: Curtis Greene (Chair), Sergey Fomin, Phil Hanlon, and Sheila Sundaram
March 23, 1997
to March 27, 1997
Organizers: D. Elworthy, J. F. Le Gall, J. Rosen
March 10, 1997
to March 14, 1997
Organizers: Joe Christy, Sergei Matveev, and Jeff Weeks
February 10, 1997
to February 14, 1997
Organizers: Margaret Bayer, Louis Billera (Chair), Paul Edelman and Gunter M. Ziegler
January 21, 1997
to January 24, 1997
Organizers: Joan Birman (Chair), Xiao-Song Lin, Paul Melvin, and Andrei Zelevinsky
January 13, 1997
to January 17, 1997
Organizers: Robion Kirby (UC Berkeley), Peter Kronheimer (Harvard), Dusa McDuff (SUNY at Stony Brook), Ronald Stern (Chair, UC Irvine), and Gang Tian (MIT)
December 5, 1996
to December 6, 1996
Organizers: Hymann Bass, Estela Gavosto, Steven Krantz, William McCallum (Chair), and William Thurston
November 11, 1996
to November 15, 1996
Organizers: Anders Bjorner (Chair), Zoltan Furedi, and Jeffry Kahn
October 14, 1996
to October 18, 1996
Organizers: Lynne Butler, Ira Gessel, Rodica Simion (chair), and Michelle Wachs
September 18, 1996
to September 20, 1996
Organizers: Franz J. Brandenburg, Giuseppe Di Battista, Emden Gansner, Tomihisa Kamada, David Kirkpatrick, Stephen North (Chair), Janos Pach, and Pierre Rosenstiehl
August 26, 1996
to August 30, 1996
Organizers: Andrew Casson (Chair), Allen Hatcher, John Luecke, Walter Neumann, and Abigail Thompson
August 12, 1996
to August 23, 1996
June 26, 1996
to June 28, 1996
Organizers: Henry Antosiewicz (Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California) and Andrew Rudd (Chairman and CEO, BARRA, Inc., Berkeley)
May 8, 1996
to May 15, 1996
Organizers: E. Carlen and E. Lutwak.
March 25, 1996
to March 29, 1996
Organizers: Eric Bedford, Daniel Burns,Janos Kollar, Robert Lazarsfeld, Michael Schneider (Chair), Domingo Toledo, and Scott Wolpert
March 11, 1996
to March 15, 1996
Organizers: L. Lovasz, N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, and A. Pajor
February 24, 1996
to February 24, 1996
Organizers: Jack Lee and Peter Gilkey
January 29, 1996
to February 9, 1996
Organizers: K.M. Ball.
January 22, 1996
to January 26, 1996
Organizers: Paul Vojta (Chair), Junjiro Noguchi, and Pit-Mann Wong
December 4, 1995
to December 6, 1995
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