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Upcoming Programmatic 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 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.
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.
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.
Past Programmatic 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 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 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 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 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 ...
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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, ...
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
April 12, 2004
to April 16, 2004
Organizers: Lalo Gonzalez-Vega, Victoria Powers, and Frank Sottile
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. ...
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 ...
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 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, ...
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 ...
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 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 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 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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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/
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.
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 1, 1998
to October 3, 1998
Organizers: David H Bailey, Daniel R Grayson, Alyson Reeves and Nobuki Takayama
September 14, 1998
to September 18, 1998
Organizers: Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Marie-Francoise Roy, Bernd Sturmfels, and Mike Shub
August 17, 1998
to August 26, 1998
Organizers: Arieh Iserles, Marie-Francoise Roy, Teresa Krick, Michael Singer, Andrew Stuart, and Bernd Sturmfels
January 12, 1998
to January 16, 1998
Organizers: A. Pillay (Chair), C. Steinhorn, D. Haskell
November 3, 1997
to November 7, 1997
Organizers: P. Fitzsimmons, D. Nualart
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
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)
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
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
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
January 29, 1996
to February 9, 1996
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