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MSRI provides a yearly workshop called Hot Topics, to showcase what's new, innovative and interesting to the mathematical sciences community at the present time.
Our Summer Grad Workshops.
The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. Due to funding restrictions, only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply and the program cannot accept foreign students regardless of funding.
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Upcoming Workshops
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.
