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MSRI's 25th Anniversary Celebration January 26, 2008 - January 30, 2008

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Jan 27, 2008
Sunday

08:30 AM - 09:30 AM		HARNESSING CHANCE; THE CASE OF RANDOM PACKING Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM		Counting curves in 3-folds Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University)
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PM		Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces Ravi Vakil (Stanford University)
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03:30 PM - 04:30 PM		Remarks on Chern-Simons theory Dan Freed (University of Texas, Austin)
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Jan 28, 2008
Monday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Beyond Fourier Analysis
Bryna Kra (Northwestern University)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Sensor Imaging
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

Heegaard Floer homology and knots
Peter Ozsváth (Princeton University)

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), Herbert Clemens (Ohio State University), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Hugo Rossi (University of Utah), Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley)

Jan 29, 2008
Tuesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM		Class groups and Galois representations Kenneth Ribet (University of California, Berkeley)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM		Configuration and Moduli Spaces Richard Melrose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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01:30 PM - 02:30 PM		Whitney's extension problem and interpolation of functions Charles Fefferman (Princeton University)
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02:30 PM - 03:30 PM		Mathematics of Climate Change Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)
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04:00 PM - 06:00 PM		Panel Discussion MSRI: Past, Present, and Future Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon University), Robert Bryant (Duke University), Tony Chan (University of California, Los Angeles), David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Calvin Moore (University of California, Berkeley), Alvin Thaler (Hunter College, CUNY)
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Jan 30, 2008
Wednesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM		MSRI and interactions between operator algebras, physics and low dimensional topology Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM		Dirichlet Duality and the Nonlinear Dirichlet Problem H. Blaine Lawson (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
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01:30 PM - 02:30 PM		Pair-of-pants decompositions Paul Seidel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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02:30 PM - 03:30 PM		Topological Field Theories Michael Hopkins (Harvard University)
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