Home » Workshop » Schedule

Schedule

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

• Agenda View
• Calendar View

Show All Collapse

Jan 27, 2008 Sunday	08:30 AM - 09:30 AM   HARNESSING CHANCE; THE CASE OF RANDOM PACKING Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Counting curves in 3-folds Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM   Murphy's Law in algebraic geometry: Badly-behaved moduli spaces Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM   Remarks on Chern-Simons theory Dan Freed (University of Texas) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
Jan 28, 2008 Monday	09:30 AM - 10:30 AM   Beyond Fourier Analysis Bryna Kra (Northwestern University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Sensor Imaging George Papanicolaou (Stanford University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM   Heegaard Floer homology and knots Peter Ozsváth (Princeton University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM   Topology and Data Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM   Education Panel Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (University of Utah), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Hugo Rossi (University of Utah), Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements clemensMSRI.01_08.ppt 558 KB application/vnd.ms-powerpoint Show Detail
Jan 29, 2008 Tuesday	09:30 AM - 10:30 AM   Class groups and Galois representations Kenneth Ribet (University of California, Berkeley) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Configuration and Moduli Spaces Richard Melrose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM   Whitney's extension problem and interpolation of functions Charles Fefferman (Princeton University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM   Mathematics of Climate Change Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 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) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
Jan 30, 2008 Wednesday	09:30 AM - 10:30 AM   MSRI and interactions between operator algebras, physics and low dimensional topology Vaughan Jones Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Dirichlet Duality and the Nonlinear Dirichlet Problem H. Blaine Lawson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM   Pair-of-pants decompositions Paul Seidel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM   Topological Field Theories Michael Hopkins (Harvard University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail