# Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

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# Workshop

MSRI's 25th Anniversary Celebration January 26, 2008 - January 30, 2008
 Registration Deadline: January 21, 2008 over 5 years ago December 14, 2007 over 5 years ago
Speaker(s) Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), Lenore Blum, Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University), Tony Chan, Steven Chu, Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Persi Diaconis (Stanford University), David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley), Charles Fefferman (Princeton University), Dan Freed (University of Texas), Inez Fung, Michael Hopkins, Vaughan Jones, Bryna Kra, H. Blaine Lawson, Calvin Moore, Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University), Peter Ozsvath, George Papanicolaou, Kenneth Ribet (University of California, Berkeley), Hugo Rossi, Paul Seidel, Alvin Thaler, Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas), Ravi Vakil (Stanford University), Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley)
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Join us on Tuesday January 29 for a Banquet at Hs Lordship's Restaurant in Berkely at 6pm. Reservations for this banquet are $65 per person. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The following Group Code should be entered in the "Comment" field when booking through our Website. Group Code = MSRI 25th Anniv. The cut-off date for reservations is January 4, 2008. 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: EU0000. The cut-off date for reservations is December 27, 2007. Funding & Logistics ## Show Funding To apply for funding, you must register by the funding application deadline displayed above. Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available. ## Show Lodging A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-238-7268. When making reservations, guests must request the MSRI preferred rate. If you are making your reservations on line, please go to this link and enter the promo/corporate code MSRI123. Our preferred rate is$129 per night for a Deluxe Queen/King, based on availability.

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Schedule
Jan 27, 2008
 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM HARNESSING CHANCE; THE CASE OF RANDOM PACKING Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Counting curves in 3-folds Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University) 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Remarks on Chern-Simons theory Dan Freed (University of Texas)
Jan 28, 2008
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Beyond Fourier Analysis Bryna Kra 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sensor Imaging George Papanicolaou 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Heegaard Floer homology and knots Peter Ozsváth 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM Topology and Data Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University) 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM Education Panel Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Hugo Rossi, Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley)
Jan 29, 2008
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Class groups and Galois representations Kenneth Ribet (University of California, Berkeley) 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Configuration and Moduli Spaces Richard Melrose 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Whitney's extension problem and interpolation of functions Charles Fefferman (Princeton University) 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM Mathematics of Climate Change Inez Fung 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Lenore Blum, Robert Bryant (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Tony Chan, David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley), Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler
Jan 30, 2008
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM MSRI and interactions between operator algebras, physics and low dimensional topology Vaughan Jones 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Dirichlet Duality and the Nonlinear Dirichlet Problem H. Blaine Lawson 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Pair-of-pants decompositions Paul Seidel 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM Topological Field Theories Michael Hopkins