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1. # Workshop2020 SACNAS – The National Diversity in STEM Conference

The largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country, the SACNAS conference serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM.

Updated on Nov 23, 2020 09:36 AM PST
2. # WorkshopRandom and Arithmetic Structures in Topology: Introductory Workshop

Organizers: Martin Bridgeman (Boston College), Richard Canary (University of Michigan), Michelle Chu (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tommaso Cremaschi (University of Southern California), James Farre (Yale University), David Fisher (Indiana University)

This Introductory workshop will take place virtually, over the course of three weeks.  There will be two mini-courses and two talks by MSRI Postdoctoral Fellows each week.

Created on Aug 14, 2020 01:46 PM PDT
3. # WorkshopMathematical Models for Prediction and Control of Epidemics (Virtual Workshop)

Organizers: Christian Borgs (University of California, Berkeley), Abba Gumel (Arizona State University), Maya Petersen (University of California, Berkeley), Amin Saberi (Stanford University), Katherine Yelick (University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Model of SARS-COV-2 with antibodies [Visual Science]

The workshop will bring together researchers from epidemiology, global health, and mathematics to discuss challenges in developing predictive models for epidemics as well as policies and algorithmic solutions for their control and mitigation. It will thus give the mathematical community access to some of the challenging issues and mathematical problems in the field.

Updated on Aug 13, 2020 07:50 AM PDT
4. # Summer Graduate SchoolIntroduction to water waves [Virtual Summer Graduate School]

Organizers: Mihaela Ifrim (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Daniel Tataru (University of California, Berkeley)
Overturning wave, artistic drawing by E. Ifrim

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this summer school will be held online.

The purpose of this two weeks school is to introduce graduate students to the state of the art methods and results in the study of incompressible Euler’s equations in general, and water waves in particular. This is a research area which is highly relevant to many real life problems, and in which substantial progress has been made in the last decade.

The goal is to present the main current research directions in water waves. We will begin with the physical derivation of the equations, and present some of the analytic tools needed in study. The final goal will be two-fold, namely (i) to understand the local solvability of the Cauchy problem for water waves, as well as (ii) to describe the long time behavior of solutions.

Through the lectures and associated problem sessions, students will learn about a number of new analysis tools which are not routinely taught in a graduate school curriculum. The goal is to help students acquire the knowledge needed in order to start research in water waves and Euler equations.

Updated on Jul 27, 2020 08:40 AM PDT
5. # Summer Graduate SchoolSéminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures 2020: Discrete Probability, Physics and Algorithms (Montréal, Canada) [Virtual Summer Graduate School]

Organizers: Gerard Ben Arous (New York University, Courant Institute), LEAD Alexander Fribergh (University of Montreal), Lea Popovic (Concordia University)

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this summer school will be held online.

Probability theory, statistics as well as mathematical physics have increasingly been used in computer science. The goal of this school is to provide a unique opportunity for graduate students and young researchers to developed multi-disciplinary skills in a rapidly evolving area of mathematics.

The topics would include spin glasses, constraint satisfiability, randomized algorithms, Monte-Carlo Markov chains and high-dimensional statistics, sparse and random graphs, computational complexity, estimation and approximation algorithms. Those topics will fall into two main categories, on the one hand problems related to spin glasses and on the other hand random algorithms.

The part of the summer school dedicated to spin glasses will be split into three parts: an introductory course about traditional spin glasses followed by two more advanced courses where spin glasses meet computer science in addition to a talk on dynamics of spin glasses. The part of the summer school on random algorithms will consist of an introductory course on phase transitions in large random structures, followed by advanced courses on theoretical bounds for computational complexity in reconstruction and inference, and on understanding rare events in random graphs and models of statistical mechanics.

The two introductory courses on spin glasses and on random algorithms will be accompanied by three exercises sessions of one hour. A one hour exercises session will follow each of the three sessions of a course for both the introductory course on spin glasses and the introductory course on random algorithms. Exercises sessions will be led by an assistant, but will primarily focus on participation of the students.

Updated on May 26, 2020 12:21 PM PDT
6. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2020: Branched Covers of Curves

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), LEAD Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Maria Franco (Queensborough Community College (CUNY); MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Rebecca Garcia (Sam Houston State University), Edray Goins (Pomona College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP summer program is designed to serve a diverse group of undergraduate students who would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences.

In 2020, MSRI-Up will focus on Branched Covers of Curves. The research program will be led by Dr. Edray Goins, Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College.

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 03:11 PM PDT
7. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

On May 22 portions of the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools workshop will be streamed online via Zoom.

Friday 5/22: 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00 - 1:00
Rico Gutstein, Preparing Students Today for Whatever Tomorrow Brings

Updated on May 28, 2020 08:56 AM PDT
8. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

On May 15 portions of the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools workshop will be streamed online via Zoom.

Friday 5/15: 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00 - 1:00
Dan Reinholz, Preparing teachers to notice, name, and disrupt racial and gender inequity

Updated on May 28, 2020 08:53 AM PDT
9. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

Friday 5/8: 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00 - 1:00
Nathan Alexander, Mathematical Models in the Sociological Imagination
Lincoln Chandler, Pursuing Racial Equity within Schools

Updated on May 12, 2020 08:42 AM PDT
10. # Workshop[Moved Online] Hot Topics: Optimal transport and applications to machine learning and statistics

Organizers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore), Francis Bach (École Normale Supérieure; Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA)), LEAD Katy Craig (University of California, Santa Barbara), Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge), Stefano Soatto (University of California, Los Angeles)
Image drawn by Dr. Katy Craig

This workshop will be held online.  The link to join is: https://msri.zoom.us/j/92457794010. You must register for the workshop to receive the password.  The workshop is held in Pacific Standard Time.

Workshop Description:
The goal of the workshop is to explore the many emerging connections between the theory of Optimal Transport and models and algorithms currently used in the Machine Learning community. In particular, the use of Wasserstein metrics and the relation between discrete models and their continuous counterparts will be presented and discussed.

Updated on Jul 13, 2020 01:43 AM PDT
11. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

Friday 5/01: 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00 - 1:00 Hyman Bass, 'Mathematics and Social Justice': An undergraduate course. What could this be?

Updated on May 12, 2020 08:41 AM PDT
12. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

Friday 4/24: 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00 - 1:00 Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, K-12 to Post-Secondary Viewpoint Critical Issues in Mathematics Education

Updated on May 12, 2020 08:41 AM PDT
13. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

Friday 4/17: 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00 - 1:00 Some unintended consequences of active learning

Sage Forbes-Gray, Sunset Park High School,  Brooklyn, NY, Mfa Master Teacher
Sharon Collins - New Heights Academy Charter School, NYC, MfA Master Teacher;
Kate Belin - Fannie Lou High School, NYC, MfA Master Teacher;

Moderator: Courtney Ginsberg, MfA
Host: Katherine Stevenson, CSUN

Updated on May 12, 2020 08:41 AM PDT
14. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

Friday 4/10: 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00 - 1:00 Estrella Johnson, Some unintended consequences of active learning

Updated on May 12, 2020 08:40 AM PDT
15. # Workshop{Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

Friday 3/27: Starting at 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00p - 1:00p
Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings Inst., Center for Tech Innov. -  Unconscious Bias
Saber Khan, Processing Foundation, leader of #EthicalCS -  Identity & Ethics

Updated on May 12, 2020 08:40 AM PDT
16. # Workshop[Moved Online] (∞, n)-categories, factorization homology, and algebraic K-theory

Organizers: LEAD Clark Barwick (University of Edinburgh), David Gepner (University of Melbourne), David Nadler (University of California, Berkeley), Marcy Robertson (University of Melbourne)

The link to this online workshop is: https://msri.zoom.us/j/999860976

This workshop will focus on recent developments in factorization homology, parametrized homotopy theory, and algebraic K-theory.  These seemingly disparate topics are unified by a common methodology, which leverages universal properties and unforeseen descent by way of higher category theory. Furthermore, they enjoy powerful and complementary roles in application to the cyclotomic trace.  This workshop will be a venue for experts in these areas to present new results, make substantive connections across fields, and suggest and contextualize outstanding questions and problems.  It will consist of 4 two-part lecture series and 10 one-hour talks. The lecture series will be given by Thomas Nikolaus, Akhil Mathew, David Ben-Zvi and a split Martina Rovelli and Viktoriya Ozornova.

Updated on Apr 27, 2020 09:41 AM PDT
17. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

Friday 3/20: Starting at 12pm PST (3pm eastern time)

12:00p - 12:45p Lisa Goldberg, Hot Hands: What Data Science Can (and Can't) Tell Us About Basketball Trends
12:45p - 1:00p Discussion with Lisa and Kate on:  What Bayes tells us about our ability to reason about randomness

Updated on May 12, 2020 08:37 AM PDT
18. # Workshop[Moved Online] Tensor categories and topological quantum field theories

Organizers: Scott Morrison (Australian National University), Eric Rowell (Texas A & M University), LEAD Claudia Scheimbauer (TU München), Christopher Schommer-Pries (University of Notre Dame)
Topological field theory studies the interplay of algebraic and topological structure (image credit Kevin Walker)

***Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the 2020 Tensor categories and topological quantum field theories workshop will no longer be held onsite at MSRI, rather it will take place online from March 16-20 as scheduled***

The decision to move this workshop online is based on the available scientific data on COVID-19, and the strong advice from experts to avoid gatherings of large groups.

A formal Notice of Change letter is available here, which can be shared with your institution, funding agency, and others.

Updated on Mar 13, 2020 04:52 PM PDT
19. # Workshop[Moved Online] Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools

Organizers: Meredith Broussard (New York Unviersity), Victor Donnay (Bryn Mawr College), Courtney Ginsberg (Math for America), Luis Leyva (Vanderbilt University), Candice Price (Smith College), Chris Rasmussen (San Diego State University), LEAD Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), William Tate (Washington University in St. Louis)

Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020 workshop was held online. The full workshop description and list of talks can be found HERE.

On March 12 and March 13, portions of the Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2020: Today’s Mathematics, Social Justice, and Implications for Schools workshop will be streamed online via Zoom. Only the talks below will are scheduled at this time.  Further talks may be scheduled at a later date, and you will be notified when we know more.

Please see the schedule below, as well as links to the two sessions.

Thursday 3/12: Starting at 9am PST (noon eastern time)
9:00 - 9:10 Welcoming remarks
9:10 - 9:15 Introduction to CIME 2020 plan and speaker David Daley
9:15 - 9:55 David Daley, Why Your Vote Doesn't Count
9:55 - 10:00 Kate Stevenson, introduction of activity
10:00-10:30 Mathical Book Prize Announcement

Friday 3/13: Starting at 9am PST (noon eastern time)
9:00 - 9:05 Introduction of speaker Wesley Pegden
9:05 - 9:45 Wesley Pegden, Bringing Mathematics to the Courtroom
9:45 - 10:00 Q&A

A formal Notice of Change letter is available here, which can be shared with your institution, funding agency, and others.

Updated on May 28, 2020 08:57 AM PDT
20. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Higher Categories and Categorification

Organizers: LEAD David Ayala (Montana State University), Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University), Christopher Schommer-Pries (University of Notre Dame), Peter Teichner (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik)
relations among 2-morphisms in the 2-dimensional unoriented bordism bicategory

This workshop will survey notable developments and applications of higher category theory; it will be a venue for end-users to share their vision of how to apply the theory, as well as developers to share technical advancements.  It will consist of 6 series of 3 lectures, each given by instrumental end-users & developers of higher category theory, together with a few question-answer sessions.  Each lecture series will be tailored to a diverse audience, accessible to graduate students and non-expert researchers with some background in homological also algebra.  The content of these lecture series will concern the following topics.

• K-theory: categorification, non-commutative motives, trace methods;
• TQFT: functorial field theories, factorization homology.
• Parametrized higher category theory: stratifications, equivariant homotopy theory, operads, deformation theory and Koszul duality.
• Synthetic higher category theory: model-independent characterizations, cosmoi.

Updated on Feb 13, 2020 11:18 AM PST
21. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Higher Categories and Categorification

Organizers: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University), LEAD Marcy Robertson (University of Melbourne)
Picture of a Feynman graph.

This two-day workshop will survey notable developments in the foundations and applications of higher category theory. It will consist of two mini-courses given by emerging female leaders in the subject: Claudia Scheimbauer and Nathalie Wahl.  This will be paired with a problem sessions lead by selected "TA's", themselves experts in higher structures.  Each lecture series will be tailored to a diverse audience, accessible to graduate students and non-expert researchers with some background in homological algebra.

The majority of the speakers and panelists for this event will be women and gender minorities, and members of these groups and of other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to attend. This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

Updated on Feb 07, 2020 11:01 AM PST
22. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Quantum Symmetries

Organizers: Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University), Victor Ostrik (University of Oregon), Emily Peters (Loyola University), LEAD Noah Snyder (Indiana University)
Jellyfish floating to the surface, as in the evaluation algorithm for certain planar algebras.

This workshop will consist of introductory minicourses on key topics in Quantum Symmetry: fusion categories, modular tensor categories, Hopf algebras, subfactors and planar algebras, topological field theories, conformal nets, and topological phases of matter.  These minicourses will be introductory and are aimed at giving semester participants exposure to the main ideas of subfields other than their own.

Updated on Jan 30, 2020 10:47 AM PST
23. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Quantum Symmetries

Organizers: Emily Peters (Loyola University), LEAD Chelsea Walton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Photo by drmakete lab on Unsplash

This workshop will feature several talks by experts, along with numerous 5-minute presentations by junior mathematicians, on topics related to Quantum Symmetry. Such topics will include tensor categories, subfactors, Hopf algebras, topological quantum field theory and more. There will also be a panel discussion on professional development. The majority of the speakers and panelists for this event will be women and gender minorities, and members of these groups and of other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to attend. This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

Updated on Jan 30, 2020 10:47 AM PST
24. # WorkshopSymposium in Honor of Julia Robinson’s 100th Birthday

Organizers: Hélène Barcelo (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley), Carol Wood (Wesleyan University)

MSRI will host a Symposium on the occasion of Julia Robinson’s 100th birthday on Monday, December 9, 2019 at MSRI. Julia Robinson (1919-1985) was an internationally renowned logician of the twentieth century. She was a trailblazer in mathematics as well as in many other ways: she was the first woman president of the American Mathematical Society, and the first woman mathematician elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.

Participating speakers in this day-long celebration of her work and of current mathematics insprired by her research include: Martin Davis, Kirsten Eisentrager, Yuri Matiyasevich, and  Lou van den Dries. Following the symposium, Lenore Blum will give a public lecture at UC Berkeley.

Updated on Nov 22, 2019 03:54 PM PST
25. # WorkshopHolomorphic Differentials in Mathematics and Physics

Organizers: LEAD Jayadev Athreya (University of Washington), Steven Bradlow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sergei Gukov (California Institute of Technology), Andrew Neitzke (Yale University), Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago), Gabriela Weitze-Schmithuesen (Universität des Saarlandes), Anton Zorich (Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu)
An example of a spectral network associated to the group SL(4).

Holomorphic differentials on Riemann surfaces have long held a distinguished place in low dimensional geometry, dynamics and representation theory. Recently it has become apparent that they constitute a common feature of several other highly active areas of current research in mathematics and also at the interface with physics. In some cases the areas themselves (such as stability conditions on Fukaya-type categories, links to quantum integrable systems, or the physically derived construction of so-called spectral networks) are new, while in others the novelty lies more in the role of the holomorphic differentials (for example in the study of billiards in polygons, special - Hitchin or higher Teichmuller - components of representation varieties, asymptotic properties of Higgs bundle moduli spaces, or in new interactions with algebraic geometry).

It is remarkable how widely scattered are the motivating questions in these areas, and how diverse are the backgrounds of the researchers pursuing them. Bringing together experts in this wide variety of fields to explore common interests and discover unexpected connections is the main goal of our program. Our workshop will be of interest to those working in many different fields, including low-dimensional dynamical systems (via the connection to billiards); differential geometry (Higgs bundles and related moduli spaces); and different types of theoretical physics (electron transport and supersymmetric quantum field theory).

Updated on Nov 21, 2019 10:44 AM PST
26. # WorkshopModern Math Workshop 2019

Organizers: Sudipta Dasmohapatra (Duke University ), Christian Ratsch (University of California, Los Angeles; Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)), Michael Singer (North Carolina State University), Ulrica Wilson (Morehouse College; Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM))

As part of the Mathematical Sciences Collaborative Diversity Initiatives, six mathematics institutes are pleased to host their annual SACNAS pre-conference event, the 2019 Modern Math Workshop (MMW). The Modern Math Workshop is intended to encourage minority undergraduates to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and to assist undergraduates, graduate students and recent PhDs in building their research networks.

Updated on Dec 18, 2019 02:42 PM PST
27. # WorkshopBerlekamp Memorial Workshop on Combinatorial Games

Organizers: Svenja Huntemann (Carleton University), Richard Nowakowski (Dalhousie University), Aaron Siegel (Airbnb)

Elwyn Berlekamp (1937-2019) was a pioneering contributor to combinatorial game theory, greatly advancing the subject over the course of a more than five-decade career. Along with his coauthors, John Conway and Richard Guy, Berlekamp invented the modern form of the theory, with the publication of Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays in 1982. His later work substantially advanced our understanding of the mathematical structure of well-known games such as Go, Amazons, and Dots-and-Boxes. More information about his life can be found at www.msri.org/elwyn.

This workshop will be an informal two-day mini-conference honoring Berlekamp's work and the subject he helped create. The event will consist of talks, afternoon workshops, and a combinatorial games tournament.

Updated on Aug 28, 2019 06:09 PM PDT
28. # WorkshopRecent developments in microlocal analysis

Organizers: LEAD Pierre Albin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Nalini Anantharaman (Université de Strasbourg), Colin Guillarmou (Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud))

Microlocal analysis provides tools for the precise analysis of problems arising in areas such as partial differential equations or integral geometry by working in the phase space, i.e. the cotangent bundle, of the underlying manifold. It has origins in areas such as quantum mechanics and hyperbolic equations, in addition to the development of a general PDE theory, and has expanded tremendously over the last 40 years to the analysis of singular spaces, integral geometry, nonlinear equations, scattering theory, hyperbolic dynamical systems, probability… As this description shows microlocal analysis has become a very broad area. Due to its breadth, it is a challenge for researchers to be aware of what is happening in other parts of the field, and the impact this may have in their own research area. The purpose of this workshop is thus to bring together researchers from different parts of microlocal analysis and its applications to facilitate the transfer of new ideas.

Updated on Dec 05, 2019 10:59 AM PST
29. # WorkshopNeural Theories of Cognition

Organizers: David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington), John Maunsell (University of Chicago), Bruno Olshausen (University of California, Berkeley)

The objective of the meeting is to bring theorists and theoretically-motivated experimentalists together to discuss promising theoretical frameworks for understanding cognitive processes and how these may be brought to bear on interpreting neural data or formulating new experiments. We hope that this meeting will be a chance to discuss future goals for theory in neuroscience: what are missing areas and emerging approaches that might help the field to make real progress in developing theories of brain function.

Updated on Feb 27, 2020 04:25 PM PST
30. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Microlocal Analysis

Organizers: Pierre Albin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), LEAD Raluca Felea (Rochester Institute of Technology), Andras Vasy (Stanford University)

Microlocal analysis provides tools for the precise analysis of problems arising in areas such as partial differential equations or integral geometry by working in the phase space, i.e. the cotangent bundle, of the underlying manifold. It has origins in areas such as quantum mechanics and hyperbolic equations, in addition to the development of a general PDE theory, and has expanded tremendously over the last 40 years to the analysis of singular spaces, integral geometry, nonlinear equations, scattering theory… This workshop will provide a comprehensive introduction to the field for postdocs and graduate students as well as specialists outside the field, building up from standard facts about the Fourier transform, distributions and basic functional analysis.

Updated on Sep 05, 2019 01:10 PM PDT
31. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Microlocal Analysis

Organizers: Tanya Christiansen (University of Missouri), LEAD Raluca Felea (Rochester Institute of Technology)

This workshop will provide a gentle introduction to a selection of applications of microlocal analysis.  These may be drawn from among geometric microlocal analysis, inverse problems, scattering theory, hyperbolic dynamical systems,  quantum chaos and relativity.  The workshop will also provide  a panel discussion, a poster session and an introduction/research session.

This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

Updated on Sep 24, 2019 09:45 AM PDT
32. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Holomorphic Differentials in Mathematics and Physics

Organizers: LEAD Jayadev Athreya (University of Washington), Sergei Gukov (California Institute of Technology), Andrew Neitzke (Yale University), Anna Wienhard (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Some holomorphic differentials on a genus 2 surface, with close up views of singular points, image courtesy Jian Jiang.

Holomorphic differentials on Riemann surfaces have long held a distinguished place in low dimensional geometry, dynamics and representation theory. Recently it has become apparent that they constitute a common feature of several other highly active areas of current research in mathematics and also at the interface with physics. In this introductory workshop, we will bring junior and senior researchers from this diverse range of subjects together in order to explore common themes and unexpected connections.

Updated on Aug 22, 2019 10:50 AM PDT
33. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Holomorphic Differentials in Mathematics and Physics

Organizers: Laura Fredrickson (Stanford University), Lotte Hollands (Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus), LEAD Qiongling Li (Chern Institute of Mathematics), Anna Wienhard (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), Grace Work (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Some holomorphic differentials on a genus 2 surface, with close up views of singular points, image courtesy Jian Jiang.

This two-day workshop will consist of various talks given by prominent female mathematicians on topics of new developments in the role of holomorphic differentials on Riemann surfaces. These will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program.

This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

Updated on Sep 24, 2019 09:48 AM PDT
34. # Summer Graduate SchoolToric Varieties (National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan)

Organizers: David Cox (Amherst College), Henry Schenck (Auburn University)
This simplicial fan in 3-dimensional space

Toric varieties are algebraic varieties defined by combinatorial data, and there is a wonderful interplay between algebra, combinatorics and geometry involved in their study. Many of the key concepts of abstract algebraic geometry (for example, constructing a variety by gluing affine pieces) have very concrete interpretations in the toric case, making toric varieties an ideal tool for introducing students to abstruse concepts.

Updated on Jul 14, 2020 04:08 PM PDT
35. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematics of Machine Learning

Organizers: Sebastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research), Anna Karlin (University of Washington), Adith Swaminathan (Microsoft Research)
Popular visualization of the MNIST dataset

Learning theory is a rich field at the intersection of statistics, probability, computer science, and optimization. Over the last decades the statistical learning approach has been successfully applied to many problems of great interest, such as bioinformatics, computer vision, speech processing, robotics, and information retrieval. These impressive successes relied crucially on the mathematical foundation of statistical learning.

Recently, deep neural networks have demonstrated stunning empirical results across many applications like vision, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning. The field is now booming with new mathematical problems, and in particular, the challenge of providing theoretical foundations for deep learning techniques is still largely open. On the other hand, learning theory already has a rich history, with many beautiful connections to various areas of mathematics (e.g., probability theory, high dimensional geometry, game theory). The purpose of the summer school is to introduce graduate students (and advanced undergraduates) to these foundational results, as well as to expose them to the new and exciting modern challenges that arise in deep learning and reinforcement learning.

Updated on Aug 01, 2019 10:00 AM PDT
36. # Summer Graduate SchoolH-Principle (INdAM, Cortona, Italy)

Organizers: LEAD Emmy Murphy (Northwestern University), Takashi Tsuboi (University of Tokyo)
The image of a large sphere isometrically embedded into a small space through a C^1 embedding. (Attributions: E. Bartzos, V. Borrelli, R. Denis, F. Lazarus, D. Rohmer, B. Thibert)

This two week summer school will introduce graduate students to the theory of h-principles.  After building up the theory from basic smooth topology, we will focus on more recent developments of the theory, particularly applications to symplectic and contact geometry, fluid dynamics, and foliation theory.

Updated on Aug 08, 2019 09:31 AM PDT
37. # Summer Graduate SchoolRecent topics on well-posedness and stability of incompressible fluid and related topics

Organizers: LEAD Yoshikazu Giga (University of Tokyo), Maria Schonbek (University of California, Santa Cruz), Tsuyoshi Yoneda (University of Tokyo)
Fluid-flow stream function color-coded by vorticity in 3D flat torus calculated by K. Nakai (The University of Tokyo)

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce graduate students to fundamental results on the Navier-Stokes and the Euler equations, with special emphasis on the solvability of its initial value problem with rough initial data as well as the large time behavior of a solution. These topics have long research history. However, recent studies clarify the problems from a broad point of view, not only from analysis but also from detailed studies of orbit of the flow.

Updated on Aug 19, 2019 04:17 PM PDT
38. # Summer Graduate SchoolPolynomial Method

Organizers: Adam Sheffer (Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY), LEAD Joshua Zahl (University of British Columbia)
from distinct distances in the plane to line incidences in R^3

In the past eight years, a number of longstanding open problems in combinatorics were resolved using a new set of algebraic techniques. In this summer school, we will discuss these new techniques as well as some exciting recent developments.

Updated on Jul 12, 2019 03:36 PM PDT
39. # Summer Graduate SchoolSéminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures 2019: Current trends in Symplectic Topology

Organizers: Octav Cornea (Université de Montréal), Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Michael Hutchings (University of California, Berkeley), Egor Shelukhin (Université de Montréal)
A Holomorphic Curve

Symplectic topology is a fast developing branch of geometry that has seen phenomenal growth in the last twenty years. This two weeks long summer school, organized in the setting of the Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures, intends to survey some of the key directions of development in the subject today thus covering: advances in homological mirror symmetry; applications to hamiltonian dynamics; persistent homology phenomena; implications of flexibility and the dichotomy flexibility/rigidity; legendrian contact homology; embedded contact homology and four-dimensional holomorphic techniques and others. With the collaboration of many of the top researchers in the field today, the school intends to serve as an introduction and guideline to students and young researchers who are interested in accessing this diverse subject.

Updated on Dec 10, 2018 04:21 PM PST
40. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometric Group Theory

Organizers: LEAD Rita Jiménez Rolland (Instituto de Matematicás, UNAM-Oaxaca), LEAD Pierre Py (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Rips's δ-thin triangle condition for Gromov hyperbolicity of metric spaces (Stomatapoll)

Geometric group theory studies discrete groups by understanding the connections between algebraic properties of these groups and topological and geometric properties of the spaces on which they act. The aim of this summer school is to  introduce graduate students to specific central topics and recent developments in geometric group theory. The school will also include students presentations to give the participants an opportunity to practice their speaking skills in mathematics.  Finally, we hope that this meeting will help connect Latin American students with their American and Canadian counterparts in an environment that encourages discussion and collaboration.

Updated on Jul 03, 2019 11:35 AM PDT
41. # Summer Graduate SchoolRepresentation stability

Organizers: Thomas Church (Stanford University), LEAD Andrew Snowden (University of Michigan), Jenny Wilson (University of Michigan)
An illustration of an adaptation of Quillen's classical homological stability spectral sequence argument

This summer school will give an introduction to representation stability, the study of algebraic structural properties and stability phenomena exhibited by sequences of representations of finite or classical groups -- including sequences arising in connection to hyperplane arrangements, configuration spaces, mapping class groups, arithmetic groups, classical representation theory, Deligne categories, and twisted commutative algebras.  Representation stability incorporates tools from commutative algebra, category theory, representation theory, algebraic combinatorics, algebraic geometry, and algebraic topology. This workshop will assume minimal prerequisites, and students in varied disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Updated on Jul 03, 2019 03:47 PM PDT
42. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2019: Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Maria Franco (Queensborough Community College (CUNY); MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), LEAD Rebecca Garcia (Sam Houston State University), Pamela Harris (Williams College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP summer program is designed to serve a diverse group of undergraduate students who would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences.

In 2019, MSRI-Up will focus on the application of combinatorial arguments and techniques to enumerate, examine, and investigate the existence of discrete mathematical structures with certain properties. The areas of interest for these applications encompass a wide range of mathematical fields and will include algebra, number theory, and graph theory, through weight multiplicity computations, the study of vector partition functions, and graph domination problems, respectively. The research program will be led by Dr. Pamela E. Harris, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Williams College.

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 02:54 PM PDT
43. # Summer Graduate SchoolRandom and arithmetic structures in topology

Organizers: LEAD Alexander Furman (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tsachik Gelander (Weizmann Institute of Science)

The study of locally symmetric manifolds, such as closed hyperbolic manifolds, involves geometry of the corresponding symmetric space, topology of towers of its finite covers, and number-theoretic aspects that are relevant to possible constructions.
The workshop will provide an introduction to these and closely related topics such as lattices, invariant random subgroups, and homological methods.

Updated on Jul 09, 2019 08:17 AM PDT
44. # WorkshopImproving the Preparation of Graduate Students to Teach Undergraduate Mathematics

Organizers: Jack Bookman (Duke University), Shandy Hauk (San Francisco State University), LEAD Dave Kung (St. Mary's College of Maryland), LEAD Natasha Speer (University of Maine)

Is your department interested in helping graduate students learn to teach? Perhaps your department is considering starting a teaching-focused professional development program. Or maybe your department has a program but is interested in updating and enhancing it.

Many departments now offer pre-semester orientations, semester-long seminars, and other opportunities for graduate students who are new to teaching so they will be well-equipped to provide high-quality instruction to undergraduates. The purpose of this workshop is to support faculty from departments that are considering starting a teaching-focused professional development program or, for departments that have a program, to learn ways to improve it.

Updated on Mar 04, 2019 04:57 PM PST
45. # Summer Graduate SchoolCommutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Craig Huneke (University of Virginia), Sonja Mapes (University of Notre Dame), Juan Migliore (University of Notre Dame), LEAD Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame), Claudiu Raicu (University of Notre Dame)
The figure represents a blow-up. The so called blow-up algebras or Rees rings are the algebraic realizations of such blow-ups.

Linkage is a method for classifying ideals in local rings. Residual intersections is a generalization of linkage to the case where the two linked' ideals  need not have the same codimension. Residual intersections are ubiquitous: they play an important role in the study of blowups, branch and multiple point loci, secant varieties, and Gauss images; they appear naturally in intersection theory; and they have close connections with integral closures of ideals.

Commutative algebraists have long used the Frobenius or p-th power map to study commutative rings containing a finite fi eld. The theory of tight closure and test ideals has widespread applications to the study of symbolic powers and to Briancon-Skoda type theorems for equi-characteristic rings.

Numerical conditions for the integral dependence of ideals and modules have a wealth of applications, not the least of which is in equisingularity theory. There is a long history of generalized criteria for integral dependence of ideals and modules based on variants of the Hilbert-Samuel and the Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity that still require some remnants of finite length assumptions.

The Rees ring and the special fiber ring of an ideal arise in the process of blowing up a variety along a subvariety. Rees rings and special fiber rings also describe, respectively, the graphs and the images of rational maps between projective spaces. A difficult open problem in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, elimination theory, and geometric modeling is to determine explicitly the equations defining graphs and images of rational maps.

The school will consist of the following four courses with exercise sessions plus a Macaulay2 workshop

• Characteristic p methods and applications
• Blowup algebras
• Multiplicity theory

Updated on May 29, 2019 09:11 AM PDT
46. # WorkshopRecent Progress in Moduli Theory

Organizers: Lucia Caporaso (Terza Università di Roma), LEAD Sándor Kovács (University of Washington), Martin Olsson (University of California, Berkeley)

This workshop will be focused on presenting the latest developments in moduli theory, including (but not restricted to) recent advances in compactifications of moduli spaces of higher dimensional varieties, the birational geometry of moduli spaces, abstract methods including stacks, stability criteria, and applications in other disciplines.

Updated on Sep 24, 2019 09:45 AM PDT
47. # Workshop2019 Spring Opportunities Workshop

Organizers: Brianna Donaldson (AIM - American Institute of Mathematics), Leslie Hogben (AIM - American Institute of Mathematics; Iowa State University), Michael Young (Iowa State University)

GOAL: To highlight careers and opportunities in the mathematical sciences, and to prepare women
and underrepresented minorities for work in academia, industry, and government laboratories.

Updated on Mar 08, 2019 11:08 AM PST
48. # WorkshopHot Topics: Recent progress in Langlands Program

Organizers: Mark Kisin (Harvard University), Elena Mantovan (California Institute of Technology), LEAD Xinwen Zhu (California Institute of Technology)

The purpose of the workshop is to explain Vincent Lafforgue's ground breaking work, constructing the automorphic to Galois direction of the Langlands correspondence for function fields. There will also be a number of talks on more recent developments and related results.

Updated on Sep 24, 2019 09:46 AM PDT
49. # WorkshopDerived algebraic geometry and its applications

Organizers: Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard University), David Nadler (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Nick Rozenblyum (University of Chicago), Peter Scholze (Universität Bonn), Brooke Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago)

This workshop will bring together researchers at various frontiers, including arithmetic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and homotopy theory, where derived algebraic geometry has had recent impact. The aim will be to explain the ideas and tools behind recent progress and to advertise appealing questions. A focus will be on moduli spaces, for example of principal bundles with decorations as arise in many settings, and their natural structures.

Updated on Sep 24, 2019 09:46 AM PDT
50. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2019: Mathematical Modeling in K-16: Community and Cultural Contexts

Organizers: Julia Aguirre (University of Washington - Tacoma), LEAD Cynthia Anhalt (University of Arizona), Staffas Broussard (The Algebra Project), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Michael Driskill (Math for America ), Sol Garfunkel (Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP)), Genetha Gray (Salesforce), Maria Hernandez (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics), LEAD Rachel Levy (MAA - Mathematical Association of America), Javier Rojo (Oregon State)

Mathematical Modeling (MM) now has increased visibility in the education system and in the public domain. It appears as a content standard for high school mathematics and a mathematical practice standard across the K-12 curriculum (Common Core Standards; and other states’ standards in mathematics education).  Job opportunities are increasing in business, industry and government for those trained in the mathematical sciences. Quantitative reasoning is foundational for civic engagement and decision-making for addressing complex social, economic, and technological issues. Therefore, we must take action to support and sustain a significant increase in the teaching and learning of mathematical modeling from Kindergarten through Graduate School.

Mathematical modeling is an iterative process by which mathematical concepts and structures are used to analyze or gain qualitative and quantitative understanding of real world situations. Through modeling students can make genuine mathematical choices and decisions that take into consideration relevant contexts and experiences.

Mathematical modeling can be a vehicle to accomplish multiple pedagogical and mathematical goals. Modeling can be used to introduce new material, solidify student understanding of previously learned concepts, connectthe world to the classroom, make concrete the usefulness (maybe even the advantages) of being mathematically proficient, and provide a rich context to promote awareness of issues of equity, socio-political injustices, and cultural relevance in mathematics.

A critical issue in math education is that although mathematical modeling is part of the K-12 curriculum, the great majority of teachers have little experience with mathematical modeling as learners of mathematics or in their teacher preparation.  In some cases, mathematics teacher educators have limited experience with mathematical modeling while being largely responsible for preparing future teachers.

Currently, the knowledge in teaching and learning MM is underdeveloped and underexplored.  Very few MM resources seem to reach the K-16 classrooms.  Collective efforts to build a cohesive curriculum in MM and exploration of effective teaching practices based on research are necessary to make mathematical modeling accessible to teacher educators, teachers and students.

At the undergraduate level, mathematical modeling has traditionally been reserved for university courses for students in STEM majors beyond their sophomore year.  Many of these courses introduce models but limit the students’ experience to using models that were developed by others rather than giving students the opportunity to generate their own models as is common in everyday life, in modeling competitions and in industry.

The CIME workshop on MM will bring together mathematicians, teacher educators, K-12 teachers, faculty and people in STEM disciplines.  As partners we can address ways to realize mathematical modeling in the K-12 classrooms, teacher preparation, and lower and upper division coursework at universities.  The content and pedagogy associated with teaching mathematical modeling needs special attention due to the nature of modeling as a process and as a body of content knowledge.

Updated on Jun 10, 2020 10:30 AM PDT
51. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Derived Algebraic Geometry and Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces

Organizers: Julie Bergner (University of Virginia), Bhargav Bhatt (University of Michigan), Christopher Hacon (University of Utah), LEAD Mircea Mustaţă (University of Michigan), Gabriele Vezzosi (Università di Firenze)
A picture of a singularity, courtesy of Herwig Hauser

The workshop will survey several areas of algebraic geometry, providing an introduction to the two main programs hosted by MSRI in Spring 2019. It will consist of 7 expository mini-courses and 7 separate lectures, each given by top experts in the field.

The focus of the workshop will be the recent progress in derived algebraic geometry, birational geometry and moduli spaces. The lectures will be aimed at a wide audience including advanced graduate students and postdocs with a background in algebraic geometry.

Updated on Sep 24, 2019 09:47 AM PDT
52. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Derived Algebraic Geometry, Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces

Organizers: Julie Bergner (University of Virginia), LEAD Antonella Grassi (University of Pennsylvania), Bianca Viray (University of Washington), Kirsten Wickelgren (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Image created by Tristan Hübsch

This workshop will be on different aspects of Algebraic Geometry relating Derived Algebraic Geometry and Birational Geometry. In particular the workshop will focus on connections to other branches of mathematics and open problems. There will be some colloquium style lectures as well as shorter research talks. The workshop is open to all.

Updated on Sep 24, 2019 09:47 AM PDT
53. # WorkshopHamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis II

Organizers: Alessandra Celletti (Seconda Università di Roma "Tor Vergata''), Rafael de la Llave (Georgia Institute of Technology), Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Philip Morrison (University of Texas, Austin), Sergei Tabachnikov (Pennsylvania State University), Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago)
An invariant set inhibiting transport in a two degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian system (courtesy J. D. Szezech)

This is a main workshop of the program “Hamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis.”  It  will feature current developments pertaining to finite and infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, with a mix of rigorous theory and applications.  A broad range of topics will be included, e.g., existence of and transport about invariant sets (Arnold diffusion, KAM, etc.),  techniques for projection/reduction of infinite to finite systems, and the role of topological invariants in applications.

Updated on Dec 14, 2018 12:29 PM PST
54. # Workshop2018 Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Banquet

The NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Committee hosts the 2018 Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Awards Ceremony. This is the ninth conference since 2000, held every other year, with the location rotating among NSF Mathematics Institutes. The conference and prize honors David Blackwell, the first African-American member of the National Academy of Science, and Richard Tapia, winner of the National Medal of Science in 2010, two seminal figures who inspired a generation of African-American, Native American and Latino/Latina students to pursue careers in mathematics. The Blackwell-Tapia Prize recognizes a mathematician who has contributed significantly to research in his or her area of expertise, and who has served as a role model for mathematical scientists and students from underrepresented minority groups, or has contributed in other significant ways to addressing the problem of underrepresentation of minorities in math.

The 2018 recipient of the Blackwell-Tapia Prize is Dr. Ronald E. Mickens, the Distinguished Fuller E. Callaway Professor in the Department of Physics at Clark Atlanta University.

The conference will include scientific talks, poster presentations, panel discussions, ample opportunities for networking, and the awarding of the Blackwell-Tapia Prize. Participants are invited from all career stages and will represent institutions of all sizes across the country, including Puerto Rico.

Updated on May 08, 2018 12:46 PM PDT
55. # Workshop2018 Modern Math Workshop

Organizers: Hélène Barcelo (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), LEAD Elvan Ceyhan (SAMSI - Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute), Leslie McClure (SAMSI - Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute), Christian Ratsch (University of California, Los Angeles; Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)), Ulrica Wilson (Morehouse College; Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM))

The Mathematical Sciences Diversity Initiative holds a Modern Math Workshop (MMW) prior to the SACNAS National Conference each year. The 2018 MMW will be hosted by SAMSI at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas on October 10th and 11th, 2018. This workshop is intended to encourage undergraduates, graduate students and recent PhDs from underrepresented minority groups to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and build research and mentoring networks. The Modern Math Workshop is a pre-conference event at the SACNAS National Conference. The MMW includes a keynote lecture, mini-courses, research talks, a question and answer session and a reception.

Updated on Mar 15, 2018 12:33 PM PDT
56. # Workshop Hamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis I

Organizers: Alessandra Celletti (Seconda Università di Roma "Tor Vergata''), Rafael de la Llave (Georgia Institute of Technology), Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Philip Morrison (University of Texas, Austin), Sergei Tabachnikov (Pennsylvania State University), Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago)
Depiction of the standard nontwist map (courtesy of G.Miloshevich).

This is a main workshop of the program “Hamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis” and is a companion to the workshop next month (November 26-30).  Both workshops will feature current developments pertaining to finite and infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, with a mix of rigorous theory and applications.  A broad range of topics will be included, e.g., existence of and transport about invariant sets (Arnold diffusion, KAM, etc.),  techniques for projection/reduction of infinite to finite systems, and the role of topological invariants in applications.

Updated on Oct 15, 2018 12:28 PM PDT
57. # WorkshopHot Topics: Shape and Structure of Materials

Organizers: Myfanwy Evans (TU Berlin), LEAD Frank Lutz (TU Berlin), Dmitriy Morozov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), James Sethian (University of California, Berkeley), Ileana Streinu (Smith College)
Tangled honeycomb networks | and the Advanced Light Source at LBNL

The fascinating and complicated microstructures of materials that are now visible through advanced imaging techniques challenge the frontiers of characterisation and understanding. At the same time, developments in modern geometric and topological techniques are beginning to illuminate important features of material structures, while the microstructures themselves and the analysis and prediction of their macroscopic properties are inspiring new directions in pure and applied mathematics. In a collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), this workshop aims at intensifying the interaction of mathematicians with material scientists, physicists and chemists on the structural description and design of materials.

Updated on Oct 05, 2018 03:08 PM PDT
58. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Hamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis

Organizers: Marie-Claude Arnaud (Université d'Avignon), Wilfrid Gangbo (University of California, Los Angeles), LEAD vadim kaloshin (University of Maryland), Robert Littlejohn (University of California, Berkeley), Philip Morrison (University of Texas, Austin)

The introductory workshop will cover the large variety of topics of the semester: weak KAM theory, Mather theory, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, integrable systems and integrable planar billiards, instability formation for nearly integrable systems, celestial mechanics, billiards, spectral rigidity, Astrodynamics, motion of satellites, Plasma Physics, Accelerator Physics, Theoretical Chemistry, and Atomic Physics.

The workshop will consist of approximately 18 lectures to introduce the main topics relevant to the semester. That will leave time for discussions and exchange between the participants.

Updated on Oct 05, 2018 02:51 PM PDT
59. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Hamiltonian Systems, from topology to applications through analysis

Organizers: Marie-Claude Arnaud (Université d'Avignon), LEAD Basak Gurel (University of Central Florida), Tere Seara (Polytechnical University of Cataluña (Barcelona))
Representing the orbits of the standard map for K = 1.2

This workshop will feature lectures on a variety of topics in Hamiltonian dynamics given by leading researchers in the area. The talks will focus on recent developments in subjects closely related to the program such as Arnold diffusion, celestial mechanics, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, KAM methods, Aubry-Mather theory and symplectic topological techniques, and on applications. The workshop is open to all mathematicians in areas related to the program.

Updated on Dec 05, 2018 03:43 PM PST
60. # Summer Graduate SchoolFrom Symplectic Geometry to Chaos

Organizers: Marcel Guardia (Polytechnical University of Cataluña (Barcelona) ), vadim kaloshin (University of Maryland), Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University)

The purpose of the summer school is to introduce graduate students to state-of-the-art methods and results in Hamiltonian systems and symplectic geometry. We focus on recent developments on the study of chaotic motion in Hamiltonian systems and its applications to models in Celestial Mechanics.

Updated on Jul 31, 2018 12:12 PM PDT
61. # Summer Graduate SchoolRepresentations of High Dimensional Data

Organizers: Blake Hunter (Microsoft), Deanna Needell (University of California, Los Angeles)

In today's world, data is exploding at a faster rate than computer architectures can handle. This summer school will introduce students to modern and innovative mathematical techniques that address this phenomenon. Hands-on topics will include data mining, compression, classification, topic modeling, large-scale stochastic optimization, and more.

Updated on Jul 19, 2018 11:45 AM PDT
62. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI 2018: Harmonic Analysis

Organizers: Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago), Fanghua Lin (New York University, Courant Institute), Svitlana Mayboroda (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Tatiana Toro (University of Washington)

Harmonic analysis is a central field of mathematics with a number of applications to geometry, partial differential equations, probability, and number theory, as well as physics, biology, and engineering. The Graduate Summer School will feature mini-courses in geometric measure theory, homogenization, localization, free boundary problems, and partial differential equations as they apply to questions in or draw techniques from harmonic analysis. The goal of the program is to bring together students and researchers at all levels interested in these areas to share exciting recent developments in these subjects, stimulate further interactions, and inspire the new generation to pursue research in harmonic analysis and its applications.

Updated on Jun 20, 2018 12:17 PM PDT
63. # Summer Graduate SchoolDerived Categories

Organizers: Nicolas Addington (University of Oregon), LEAD Alexander Polishchuk (University of Oregon)

The goal of the school is to give an introduction to basic techniques for working with derived categories, with an emphasis on the derived categories of coherent sheaves on algebraic varieties. A particular goal will be to understand Orlov’s equivalence relating the derived category of a projective hypersurface with matrix factorizations of the corresponding polynomial.

Updated on Jul 05, 2018 09:05 AM PDT

Organizers: Emmy Murphy (Northwestern University), Takashi Tsuboi (University of Tokyo)
The image of a large sphere isometrically embedded into a small space through a C^1 embedding. (Attributions: E. Bartzos, V. Borrelli, R. Denis, F. Lazarus, D. Rohmer, B. Thibert)

This two week summer school will introduce graduate students to the theory of h-principles.  After building up the theory from basic smooth topology, we will focus on more recent developments of the theory, particularly applications to symplectic and contact geometry, and foliation theory.

Updated on Jun 20, 2018 12:17 PM PDT
65. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical Analysis of Behavior

Organizers: Ann Hermundstad (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI), Vivek Jayaraman (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI), Eva Kanso (University of Southern California), L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Explore Outstanding Phenomena in Animal Behavior

Jointly hosted by Janelia and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), this program will bring together 15-20 advanced PhD students with complementary expertise who are interested in working at the interface of mathematics and biology. Emphasis will be placed on linking behavior to neural dynamics and exploring the coupling between these processes and the natural sensory environment of the organism. The aim is to educate a new type of global scientist that will work collaboratively in tackling complex problems in cellular, circuit and behavioral biology by combining experimental and computational techniques with rigorous mathematics and physics.

Updated on Jun 20, 2018 12:16 PM PDT
66. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2018: The Mathematics of Data Science

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), LEAD Maria Franco (Queensborough Community College (CUNY); MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Rebecca Garcia (Sam Houston State University), David Uminsky (University of San Francisco), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP summer program is designed to serve a diverse group of undergraduate students who would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences.

In 2018, MSRI-UP will focus on the core role of (linear) algebra in current research and application areas of Data Science ranging from unsupervised learning, clustering and networks, to algebraic signal processing and feature extraction, to the central role linear algebra plays in deep machine learning.  The research program will be led by Dr. David Uminsky, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of San Francisco.

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 02:56 PM PDT
67. # Summer Graduate SchoolThe ∂-Problem in the Twenty-First Century

Organizers: Debraj Chakrabarti (Central Michigan University), Jeffery McNeal (Ohio State University)

This Summer Graduate School will introduce students to the modern theory of the  inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann equation, the fundamental partial differential equation of Complex Analysis. This theory uses powerful tools of partial differential equations, differential geometry and functional analysis to obtain a refined understanding of holomorphic functions on complex manifolds. Besides students planning to work in complex analysis, this course will be valuable to those planning to study partial differential equations, complex differential and algebraic geometry, and operator theory. The exposition will be self-contained and the prerequisites will be kept at a minimum

Updated on Jun 21, 2018 01:13 PM PDT
68. # Summer Graduate SchoolSéminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures 2018: Derived Geometry and Higher Categorical Structures in Geometry and Physics

Organizers: Anton Alekseev (Université de Genève), Ruxandra Moraru (University of Waterloo), Chenchang Zhu (Universität Göttingen)

Higher categorical structures and homotopy methods have made significant influence on geometry in recent years. This summer school is aimed at transferring these ideas and fundamental technical tools to the next generation of mathematicians.

The summer school will focus on the following four topics:  higher categorical structures in geometry, derived geometry, factorization algebras, and their application in physics.  There will be eight to ten mini courses on these topics, including mini courses led by Chirs Brav, Kevin Costello, Jacob Lurie, and Ezra Getzler. The prerequisites will be kept at a minimum, however, a introductory courses in differential geometry, algebraic topology and abstract algebra are recommended.

Updated on Jun 20, 2018 12:16 PM PDT
69. # WorkshopThe 2018 Infinite Possibilities Conference

Organizers: Alejandra Alvarado (U.S. Navy), Hélène Barcelo (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Rebecca Garcia (Sam Houston State University), Katharine Gurski (Howard University), LEAD Lily Khadjavi (Loyola Marymount University), Candice Price (Smith College), Kimberly Sellers (Georgetown University), Talitha Washington (Howard University; National Science Foundation), Kimberly Weems (North Carolina Central University), Ulrica Wilson (Morehouse College; Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM))

The Infinite Possibilities Conference (IPC) is a national conference that is designed to promote, educate, encourage and support women of color interested in mathematics and statistics, as a step towards addressing the underrepresentation of African-Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders in these fields.

IPC aims to:

• fulfill a need for role models and community-building
• raise awareness of factors that can support or impede underrepresented women in the mathematical sciences

A unique gathering, the conference brings together participants from across the country, at all stages of education and career, for mentoring and mathematics.

Updated on May 18, 2018 12:18 PM PDT
70. # WorkshopRepresentations of Finite and Algebraic Groups

Organizers: Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California), Alexander Kleshchev (University of Oregon), Gunter Malle (Universität Kaiserslautern), Gabriel Navarro (University of Valencia), LEAD Pham Tiep (Rutgers University)

The workshop will bring together key researchers working in various areas of Group Representation Theory to strengthen the interaction and collaboration between them and to make further progress on a number of basic problems and conjectures in the field. Topics of the workshop include
-- Global-local conjectures in the representation theory of finite groups
-- Representations and cohomology of simple, algebraic and finite groups
-- Connections to Lie theory and categorification, and
-- Applications to group theory, number theory, algebraic geometry, and combinatorics.

Updated on May 25, 2018 11:23 AM PDT
71. # Workshop Structures in Enumerative Geometry

Organizers: Mina Aganagic (University of California, Berkeley), Jim Bryan (University of British Columbia), LEAD Davesh Maulik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Balazs Szendroi (University of Oxford), Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together specialists to work on understanding the many-faceted mathematical structures underlying problems in enumerative geometry. Topics represented at the workshop will include: geometric representation theory, supersymmetric gauge theory, string theory, knot theory, and derived geometry, all of which have had a profound effect on the development of modern enumerative geometry.

Updated on Jun 29, 2018 10:50 AM PDT
72. # WorkshopHot Topics: The Homological Conjectures

Organizers: Bhargav Bhatt (University of Michigan), Srikanth Iyengar (University of Utah), Wieslawa Niziol (CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon), LEAD Anurag Singh (University of Utah)

The homological conjectures in commutative algebra are a network of conjectures that have generated a tremendous amount of activity in the last 50 years. They had largely been resolved for commutative rings that contain a field, but, with the exception of some low dimensional cases, several remained open in mixed characteristic --- until recently, when Yves André announced a proof of Hochster's Direct Summand Conjecture. The progress comes from systematically applying Scholze's theory of perfectoid spaces, which had already shown its value by solving formidable problems in number theory and representation theory. One of the goals of the workshop is to cover the ingredients going into the proofs of the Direct Summand Conjecture.

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73. # WorkshopLatinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference 2018

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Tatiana Toro (University of Washington), Mariel Vazquez (University of California, Davis)

On March 8-10, 2018, IPAM will host a conference showcasing the achievements of Latinx in the mathematical sciences. The goal of the conference is to encourage Latinx to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences, to promote the advancement of Latinx currently in the discipline, to showcase research being conducted by Latinx at the forefront of their fields, and, finally, to build a community around shared academic interests. The conference will be held on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, CA. It will begin at noon on Thursday, March 8.

This conference is sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Initiative, with funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences.

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74. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2018: Access to mathematics by opening doors for students currently excluded from mathematics

Organizers: Aditya Adiredja (University of Arizona), LEAD Julia Aguirre (University of Washington - Tacoma), Kate Belin (Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School), LEAD Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Michael Driskill (Math for America ), Nicole Joseph (Vanderbilt University), Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge), Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College), Maria del Rosario Zavala (San Francisco State University)

Our mathematics education system is inequitable. It operates in ways that leave a significant proportion of students with negative mathematics experiences and inadequate mathematical preparation. The problem is historical and systemic, and the students most disaffected by the current system are overwhelmingly Black and Latino, Indigenous, poor, women, immigrant or first generation college students. If our mathematics community is to sustainably grow and thrive, mathematics education at all levels must be transformed.

This workshop focuses on students for whom we do not yet successfully ensure access to and advancement in mathematics. Sessions will share relevant programmatic efforts and innovative research that have been shown to maintain or increase students’ engagement and interests in mathematics across k-12, undergraduate and graduate education. The sessions will focus particularly on reproducible efforts that affirm those students’ identities and their diverse intellectual resources and lived experiences. These efforts at various levels of mathematics education will highlight ways in which meaningful experiences in mathematics can disrupt ongoing systemic oppression. Participants will leave with conceptual and practical ways to open up and elevate mathematics education where all students thrive.

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75. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Group Representation Theory and Applications

Organizers: Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California), Gunter Malle (Universität Kaiserslautern)

The workshop will survey various important and active areas of the representation theory of finite and algebraic groups, and introduce the audience to several basic open problems in the area. It will consist of 6 series of 3 lectures each given by top experts in the field. The lectures are designed for a diverse audience and will be accessible to non-specialists and graduate students with some background in representation theory. Topics covered include Representation theory of algebraic groups, Decomposition numbers of finite groups of Lie type, Deligne-Lusztig theory,  Block theory, Categorification, and Local-global-conjectures.

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76. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Group Representation Theory and Applications

Organizers: Karin Erdmann (University of Oxford), Julia Pevtsova (University of Washington)

This intensive two day workshop will introduce graduate students and recent PhD’s to some current topics of research in Representation Theory. It will consists of a mixture of survey talks on the hot topics in the area given by leading experts and research talks by junior mathematicians covering subjects such as new developments in character theory, group cohomology, representations of Lie algebras and algebraic groups, geometric representation theory, and categorification.

This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

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77. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Enumerative Geometry Beyond Numbers

Organizers: Denis Auroux (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Columbia University), Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University)

This workshop will consist of expository mini-courses and lectures introducing various aspects of modern enumerative geometry, among which: enumeration via intersection theory on moduli spaces of curves or sheaves, including Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas invariants; motivic and K-theoretic refinement of these invariants; and categorical invariants (derived categories of coherent sheaves, Fukaya categories).

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78. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Enumerative Geometry Beyond Numbers

Organizers: Barbara Fantechi (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS)), LEAD Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Columbia University)

This two-day workshop will provide an overview of significant developments and open problems in modern enumerative geometry, from the perspectives of both algebraic geometry and symplectic topology.

This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

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79. # WorkshopWomen in Topology

Organizers: Maria Basterra (University of New Hampshire), Kristine Bauer (University of Calgary), LEAD Kathryn Hess (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Brenda Johnson (Union College--Union University)

The Women in Topology (WIT) network is an international group of female mathematicians interested in homotopy theory whose main goal is to increase the retention of women in the field by providing both unique collaborative research opportunities and mentorship between colleagues.  The MSRI WIT meeting will be organized as an afternoon of short talks from participants, followed by two days of open problem seminars and working groups designed to stimulate new collaborations, as well as to strengthen those already ongoing among the participants.

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80. # WorkshopGeometric functional analysis and applications

Organizers: Franck Barthe (Université de Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier)), Rafal Latala (University of Warsaw), Emanuel Milman (Technion---Israel Institute of Technology), Assaf Naor (Princeton University), LEAD Gideon Schechtman (Weizmann Institute of Science)

This is the main workshop of the program "Geometric functional analysis and applications". It will focus on the main topics of the program. These include: Convex geometry, Asymptotic geometric analysis, Interaction with computer science, Signal processing, Random matrix theory and other aspects of Probability.

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81. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Fall 2017

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), David Hoffman (Stanford University), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Description

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. Here is the seminar schedule with abstracts and other information: BADG October 2017-Berkeley, CA

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82. # WorkshopModern Math Workshop 2017

Organizers: Hélène Barcelo (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Leslie McClure (SAMSI - Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute), Christian Ratsch (University of California, Los Angeles; Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)), Ulrica Wilson (Morehouse College; Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM))

As part of the Mathematical Sciences Collaborative Diversity Initiatives, nine mathematics institutes are pleased to offer their annual SACNAS pre-conference event, the 2017 Modern Math Workshop (MMW). The Modern Math Workshop is intended to encourage minority undergraduates to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and to assist undergraduates, graduate students and recent PhDs in building their research networks. The Modern Math Workshop is part of the SACNAS National Conference; the workshop and the conference take place in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The MMW starts at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, October 18 with registration beginning at noon.

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83. # WorkshopGeometric and topological combinatorics: Modern techniques and methods

Organizers: Patricia Hersh (North Carolina State University), LEAD Victor Reiner (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Bernd Sturmfels (University of California, Berkeley; Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften), Frank Vallentin (Universität zu Köln), Günter Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin)

This workshop will focus on the interaction between Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, including recent developments and techniques in areas such as

-- polytopes and cell complexes,
-- simplicial complexes and higher order graph theory,
-- methods from equivariant topology and configuration spaces,
-- geometric combinatorics in optimization and social choice theory,
-- algebraic and algebro-geometric methods.

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84. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Geometric and Topological Combinatorics

Organizers: Imre Barany (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics), Anders Björner (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)), LEAD Benjamin Braun (University of Kentucky), Isabella Novik (University of Washington), Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College), Rekha Thomas (University of Washington)

The introductory workshop will present the main topics that will be the subject of much of the Geometric and Topological Combinatorics Program at MSRI.  Key areas of interest are point configurations and matroids, hyperplane and subspace arrangements, polytopes and polyhedra, lattices, convex bodies, and sphere packings. This workshop will consist of introductory talks on a variety of topics, intended for a broad audience.

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85. # WorkshopConnections for Women Workshop: Geometric and Topological Combinatorics

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Margaret Bayer (University of Kansas), Francisco Santos Leal (University of Cantabria), LEAD Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University; University of Washington)

This workshop will feature lectures on a variety of topics in geometric and topological combinatorics, given by prominent women and men in the field. It precedes the introductory workshop and will preview the major research themes of the semester program. There will be a panel discussion focusing on issues particularly relevant to junior researchers, women, and minorities, as well as other social events. This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

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86. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: phenomena in high dimensions

Organizers: LEAD Alexander Koldobsky (University of Missouri), Michel Ledoux (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse), Monika Ludwig (Technische Universität Wien), Alain Pajor (Université de Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée), Stanislaw Szarek (Case Western Reserve University), Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan)

This workshop will consist of several short courses related to high dimensional convex geometry, high dimensional probability, and applications in data science. The lectures will be accessible for graduate students.

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87. # WorkshopConnections for Women: geometry and probability in high dimensions

Organizers: LEAD Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv University), Marianna Csornyei (University of Chicago), Eva Kopecka (Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck), Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University)

This workshop will be on topics connected with Asymptotic Geometric Analysis - a relatively new field, the young finite dimensional cousin of Banach Space theory, functional analysis and classical convexity. We study high, but finite, dimensional objects, where the disorder of many parameters and many dimensions is regularized by convexity assumptions.  This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

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88. # Summer Graduate SchoolAutomorphic Forms and the Langlands Program

Organizers: LEAD Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College, London)

The summer school will be an introduction to the more algebraic aspects of the theory of automorphic forms and representations. One of the goals will be to understand the statements of the main conjectures in the Langlands programme. Another will be to gain a good working understanding of the fundamental definitions in the theory, such as principal series representations, the Satake isomorphism, and of course automorphic forms and representations for groups such as GL_n and its inner forms.

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89. # Summer Graduate SchoolNonlinear dispersive PDE, quantum many particle systems and the world between

Organizers: Natasa Pavlovic (University of Texas, Austin), Gigliola Staffilani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nikolaos Tzirakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

The purpose of the summer school is to introduce graduate students to the recent developments in the area of dispersive partial differential equations (PDE), which have received a great deal of attention from mathematicians, in part due to ubiquitous applications to nonlinear optics, water wave theory and plasma physics.

Recently remarkable progress has been made in understanding existence and uniqueness of solutions to nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) and KdV equations, and properties of those solutions. We will outline the basic tools that were developed to address these questions. Also we will present some of recent results on derivation of NLS equations from quantum many particle systems and will discuss how methods developed to study the NLS can be relevant in the context of the derivation of this nonlinear equation.

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90. # Summer Graduate SchoolSéminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures 2017: Contemporary Dynamical Systems

Organizers: Sylvain Crovisier (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)-Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud)), LEAD Konstantin Khanin (University of Toronto), Andrés Navas Flores (University of Santiago de Chile), Christiane Rousseau (Université de Montréal), Marcelo Viana (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA)), Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago)

The theory of dynamical systems has witnessed very significant developments in the last decades, includi​n​g the work of two 2014 Fields medalists, Artur Avila and Maryam Mirzakhani. ​The school will concentrate on the recent significant developments in the field of dynamical systems and present some of the present main streams of research. Two central themes will be those of partial hyperbolicity on one side, and rigidity, group actions and renormalization on the other side.​ ​Other themes will ​include homogeneous dynamics and geometry and dynamics on infinitely flat surfaces (both providing connections to the work of Maryam Mirzakhani), topological dynamics, thermodynamical formalism, singularities and bifurcations in analytic dynamical systems.

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91. # Summer Graduate SchoolPositivity Questions in Geometric Combinatorics

Organizers: Eran Nevo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Raman Sanyal (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

McMullen’s g-Conjecture from 1970 is a shining example of mathematical foresight that combined all results available at that time to conjure a complete characterization of face numbers of convex simple/simplicial polytopes. The key statement in its verification is that certain combinatorial numbers associated to geometric (or topological) objects are non-negative. The aim of this workshop is to introduce graduate students to selected contemporary topics in geometric combinatorics with an emphasis on positivity questions. It is fascinating that the dual notions of simple and simplicial polytopes lead to different but equally powerful algebraic frameworks to treat such questions. A key feature of the lectures will be the simultaneous development of these algebraic frameworks from complementary perspectives: combinatorial-topological and convex-geometric.  General concepts (such as Lefschetz elements, Hodge–Riemann–Minkowski inequalities) will be developed side-by-side, and analogies will be drawn to concepts in algebraic geometry, Fourier analysis, rigidity theory and measure theory. This allows for entry points for students with varying backgrounds.  The courses will be supplemented with guest lectures highlighting further connections to other fields.

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92. # WorkshopAlgebraic Combinatorixx 2: Follow-up to BIRS Workshop

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93. # Summer Graduate SchoolSoergel Bimodules

Organizers: LEAD Ben Elias (University of Oregon), Geordie Williamson (University of Sydney)

We will give an introduction to categorical representation theory, focusing on the example of Soergel bimodules, which is a categorification of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra. We will give a comprehensive introduction to the "tool box" of modern (higher) representation theory: diagrammatics, homotopy categories, categorical diagonalization, module categories, Drinfeld center, algebraic Hodge theory.

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94. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2017: Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations

Organizers: LEAD Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Maria Franco (Queensborough Community College (CUNY); MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), J. Maurice Rojas (Texas A & M University), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP summer program is designed to serve a diverse group of undergraduate students who would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences.
In 2017, MSRI-UP will focus on Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations, a topic at the heart of almost every computational problem in the physical and life sciences. We will pay special attention to complexity issues, highlighting connections with tropical geometry, number theory, and the P vs. NP problem. The research program will be led by Prof. J. Maurice Rojas of Texas A&M University.
Students who have had a linear algebra course and a course in which they have had to write proofs are eligible to apply. Due to funding restrictions, only U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply regardless of funding. Members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

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95. # Summer Graduate SchoolSubfactors: planar algebras, quantum symmetries, and random matrices

Organizers: LEAD Scott Morrison (Australian National University), Emily Peters (Loyola University), Noah Snyder (Indiana University)

Subfactor theory is a subject from operator algebras, with many surprising connections to other areas of mathematics. This summer school will be devoted to understanding the representation theory of subfactors, with a particular emphasis on connections to quantum symmetries, fusion categories, planar algebras, and random matrices

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Organizers: Hélène Barcelo (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Estelle Basor (AIM - American Institute of Mathematics), David Farmer (AIM - American Institute of Mathematics), Sally Koutsoliotas (Bucknell University)

This workshop will focus on preparing each participant for a successful career as a mathematician at a college or university. Beginning with the hiring process, a thorough discussion of the various elements of the application packet will take place in the context of each participant's materials. Working individually with experienced faculty, participants will review and refine their cover letters, C.V., research, and teaching statements. This will be followed by activities related to the interview. The primary goals of the workshop are to develop an understanding of the hiring process from the institutions' perspective, to refine the application packet, to learn what to expect during the interview process (including the job talk), and to prepare for negotiating salary and start-up packages.

Additional time will be spent on aspects of the pre-tenure years including the development of a research program, writing grant proposals, and mentoring research students. The three-day workshop will consist of one-on-one work with experienced mentors, small group discussions, critique of written materials, plenary sessions, and time for individual work and consultation.

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97. # Summer Graduate SchoolCommutative Algebra and Related Topics

Organizers: Shinobu Hikami (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), LEAD Shihoko Ishii (Tsinghua University), Kazuhiko Kurano (Meiji University), Ken-ichi Yoshida (Nihon University)

The purpose of the school will be to introduce graduate students to foundational results in commutative algebra, with particular emphasis of the diversity of the related topics with commutative algebra. Some of these topics are developing remarkably in this decade and through learning those subjects the graduate students will be stimulated toward future research.

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98. # WorkshopRecent Developments in Harmonic Analysis

Organizers: Michael Christ (University of California, Berkeley), Steven Hofmann (University of Missouri), LEAD Michael Lacey (Georgia Institute of Technology), Betsy Stovall (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Brian Street (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Topics for this workshop will be drawn from the main research directions of this conference, including:
(1) Restriction, Kakeya, and geometric incidence problems
(2) Analysis on nonhomogenous spaces
(3) Weighted estimates
(4) Quantitative rectifiability and other topics in PDE

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99. # WorkshopRecent developments in Analytic Number Theory

Organizers: Tim Browning (University of Bristol), Chantal David (Concordia University), Kannan Soundararajan (Stanford University), LEAD Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)

This workshop will be focused on presenting the latest developments in analytic number theory, including (but not restricted to) recent advances in sieve theory, multiplicative number theory, exponential sums, arithmetic statistics, estimates on automorphic forms, and the Hardy-Littlewood circle method.

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100. # Workshop A View Towards Algebraic Geometry, in honor of David Eisenbud’s birthday

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101. # Workshop Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2017

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), 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.

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102. # WorkshopHot Topics: Galois Theory of Periods and Applications

Organizers: LEAD Francis Brown (All Souls College, University of Oxford), Clément Dupont (Université de Montpellier), Richard Hain (Duke University), Vadim Vologodskiy (Higher School of Economics)

Periods are integrals of algebraic differential forms over algebraically-defined domains and are ubiquitous in mathematics and physics. A deep idea, originating with Grothendieck, is that there should be a Galois theory of periods. This general principle provides a unifying approach to several problems in the theory of motives, quantum groups and geometric group theory.  This conference will bring together leading experts around this subject and cover topics such as the theory of multiple zeta values, modular forms, and motivic fundamental groups.

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103. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2017: Observing for Access, Power, and Participation in Mathematics Classrooms as a Strategy to Improve Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Organizers: Michael Driskill (Math for America ), Esther Enright (Boise State University), Rochelle Gutierrez (University of Illinois), LEAD Jodie Novak (University of Northern Colorado), LEAD Miriam Sherin (Northwestern University), Joi Spencer (University of San Diego), Elizabeth van Es (University of California, Irvine)

Success rates in mathematics as well as recruitment and retention rates in the mathematics pipeline are low at all education levels and are, across predictable demographics, disproportionately low for students who are women, Latin@, Black, American Indian, recent immigrants, emergent bilinguals/multilinguals, and poor. Efforts to address these low rates often focus on programmatic solutions such as creating mentoring or bridge programs to address perceived deficiencies. While these programs achieve some success, evidence suggests that they may not substantially improve students’ subsequent success in mathematics or meaningfully address the ways that students experience mathematics instruction.

The 2017 CIME workshop will focus on observations of mathematics classrooms through the lens of equity. Specifically, we will use observation as a tool for understanding and improving imbalances of access, participation, and power in mathematics teaching and learning. In doing so, we seek to better understand students’ experiences in mathematics classrooms in order to improve academic success, recruitment and retention, and meaningful experiences for historically marginalized populations.

Five questions structure the highly interactive design of the workshop:

1. What does it mean to create an equitable classroom environment? How can the structure of classroom interactions lead to imbalances of access, identity, and power in mathematics teaching and learning? How can such structures be rebuilt to better serve all students?
2. How might observations of mathematics instruction help us to identify power dynamics in classrooms? What language is helpful to describe interactions in mathematics classrooms? What might we learn from observations about how culture and identity are developed for some students but not others? What do classroom observations reveal about how instruction supports or discourages engagement in mathematics for students of different backgrounds?
3. What does it mean to observe interactions in a mathematics classroom with an eye towards equity? What language is helpful to describe interactions in mathematics classrooms? How do we observe and describe interactions among students, between students and mathematics, between students and instructors, and between students and resources (i.e., textbooks, computers, chalkboards, manipulatives)?
4. What professional experiences can support mathematics instructors to learn how to observe for, describe, interpret, and productively address interactions in the mathematics classroom from the lens of equity? What professional experiences can support mathematics instructors to increase the number of equitable interactions and decrease the number of inequitable ones in their classrooms?
5. What measures might be useful in tracking our progress in learning to see, describe, interpret, and productively address (in)equitable interactions in mathematics classrooms? What measures and tools might be useful in tracking the impacts on instruction and student learning? How might we develop infrastructure to help with this work (video library, faculty resources, etc.)?

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105. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2017

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), 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.

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106. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Analytic Number Theory

Organizers: Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal), LEAD Emmanuel Kowalski (ETH Zurich), Kaisa Matomäki (University of Turku), Philippe Michel (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))

The introductory workshop will present, through short minicourses and introductory lectures, the main topics that will be the subject of much of the Analytic Number Theory Programme at MSRI. These topics include the theory of multiplicative functions, the theory of modular forms and L-functions, the circle method, sieve methods, and the theory of exponential sums over finite fields

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107. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Analytic Number Theory

Organizers: LEAD Chantal David (Concordia University), Kaisa Matomäki (University of Turku), Lillian Pierce (Duke University), Kannan Soundararajan (Stanford University), Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles)

This workshop will consist of lectures on the current state of research in analytic number theory, given by prominent women and men in the field.  The workshop is open to all graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program; it will also include a panel discussion session among female researchers on career issues, as well as other social events

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108. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Harmonic Analysis

Organizers: Allan Greenleaf (University of Rochester), LEAD Michael Lacey (Georgia Institute of Technology), Svitlana Mayboroda (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Betsy Stovall (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Brian Street (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This week-long workshop will serve as an introduction for graduate students, postdocs, and other researchers to the main themes of the program.  It will feature accessible talks by a number of leading harmonic analysts, including several short courses on the core ideas and techniques in the field.  There will also be a problem session, to which all participants are encouraged to contribute.

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109. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Harmonic Analysis

Organizers: Svitlana Mayboroda (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), LEAD Betsy Stovall (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This workshop will highlight the work of several prominent women working in harmonic analysis, including some of the field's rising stars.  There will also be a panel discussion.  There will also be a contributed poster session.  This workshop is open to, and poster contributions are welcome from all mathematicians.

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110. # WorkshopAmenability, coarse embeddability and fixed point properties

Organizers: Goulnara Arzhantseva (University of Vienna), LEAD Cornelia Drutu (University of Oxford), Graham Niblo (University of Southampton), Piotr Nowak (Polish Academy of Sciences)

The main theme of the workshop is the spectrum of analytic properties running from Kazhdan's property (T) at one end to von Neumann's amenability at the other, that forms a foundational organizing structure for infinite groups and spaces. These properties can be described both analytically, via unitary representation theory, and geometrically, using embedding properties for discrete spaces. Connections with probability and combinatorics will likewise be addressed during the meeting.

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Organizers: Larry Abbott (Columbia University), David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Mimi Koehl (University of California, Berkeley)

A 3-day joint workshop of MSRI and Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Navigation in flies, mosquitos and ants is an interesting scientific problem that has considerable societal importance because of their role as disease vectors. This meeting will address two important aspects of navigation: 1) how are locations and orientations in space computed, represented and used in the insect brain, and 2) how do interactions between an organism and its environment affect its ability to navigate.

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112. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Winter 2016

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), LEAD 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.

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113. # WorkshopCircle on the Road

Organizers: Selin Kalayciglu (The Center for Mathematical Talent), Berna Ok (The Center for Mathematical Talent), LEAD Diana White (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Brandy Wiegers (Central Washington University)

Bringing together new and experienced leaders of Math Circles and other similar outreach programs, this year’s Circle on the Road will include discussions, presentations, and opportunities to facilitate different mathematical problems. In addition, some informal STEM education researchers will join us to further our research and evaluation efforts.

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114. # WorkshopThe 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony

Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Sujit Ghosh (NC State University), Suzanne Lenhart (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis NIMBioS), Kelly Sturner (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis NIMBioS), Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

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115. # WorkshopGeometry of mapping class groups and Out(Fn)

Organizers: Yael Algom-Kfir (University of Haifa), LEAD Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah), Richard Canary (University of Michigan), Gilbert Levitt (Université de Caen)

A four-day workshop with research-level talks on the latest advances in the geometry of mapping class groups and Out(F_n), and spaces on which they act.

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116. # WorkshopGroups acting on CAT(0) spaces

Organizers: Ian Agol (University of California, Berkeley), Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université Catholique de Louvain), Koji Fujiwara (Kyoto University), Alessandra Iozzi (ETH Zürich), LEAD Michah Sageev (Technion---Israel Institute of Technology)

The theme of the workshop is algebraic, geometric and analytical aspects of groups that act by isometries on spaces of non-positive curvature known as CAT(0) spaces. The world of CAT(0) spaces includes classical spaces such as symmetric spaces and buildings, as well as more avant-garde arrivals, such as CAT(0) cube complex. The workshop will bring together researchers studying various aspects of such groups and spaces to discuss recent developments and chart new directions in the field.

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117. # WorkshopMath Circle - Mentorship and Partnership Program

Organizers: Diana White (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Brandy Wiegers (Central Washington University)

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118. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Martin Bridson (University of Oxford), Benson Farb (University of Chicago), LEAD zlil sela (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick)

This will be an introductory workshop to the MSRI jumbo program Geometric Group Theory being held during the Fall Semester of 2016. The purpose of the workshop is to provide an overview of key areas of research to be covered in the program, including an introduction to open problems of current interest.

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119. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: LEAD Ruth Charney (Brandeis University), Indira Chatterji (Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Mark Feighn (Rutgers University), Talia Fernos (University of North Carolina)

This three-day workshop will feature talks by six prominent female mathematicians on a wide range of topics in geometric group theory.  Each speaker will give two lectures, separated by a break-out session during which participants will meet in small groups to discuss ideas presented in the first lecture.   The workshop is open to all mathematicians.

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120. # Summer Graduate SchoolChip Firing and Tropical Curves

Organizers: LEAD Matthew Baker (Georgia Institute of Technology), David Jensen (University of Kentucky), Sam Payne (University of Texas, Austin)

Tropical geometry uses a combination of techniques from algebraic geometry, combinatorics, and convex polyhedral geometry to study degenerations of algebraic varieties; the simplest tropical objects are tropical curves, which one can think of as "shadows" of algebraic curves.  Linear equivalence of divisors on an abstract tropical curve is determined by a simple but rich combinatorial process called "chip firing", which was discovered independently in the discrete setting by physicists and graph theorists.  From a pedagogical point of view, one can view tropical curves as a combinatorial model for the highly analogous but more abstract theory of algebraic curves, but there is in fact much more to the story than this: one can use tropical curves and chip firing to prove theorems in algebraic geometry and number theory.  This field is relatively new, so participants will have the opportunity to start from scratch and still get a glimpse of the cutting edge in this active research area.

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121. # Summer Graduate SchoolElectronic Structure Theory

Organizers: LEAD Lin Lin (University of California, Berkeley), Jianfeng Lu (Duke University), James Sethian (University of California, Berkeley)

Ab initio or first principle electronic structure theories, particularly represented by Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT), have been developed into workhorse tools with a wide range of scientific applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, biology etc. What is needed are new techniques that greatly extend the applicability and versatility of these approaches. At the core, many of the challenges that need to be addressed are essentially mathematical. The purpose of the workshop is to provide graduate students a self-contained introduction to electronic structure theory, with particular emphasis on frontier topics in aspects of applied analysis and numerical methods.

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122. # Summer Graduate SchoolAn Introduction to Character Theory and the McKay Conjecture

Organizers: Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California), Pham Tiep (Rutgers University)

Character Theory of Finite Groups provides one of the most powerful tools to study groups. In this course we will give a gentle introduction to basic results in the Character Theory, as well as some of the main conjectures in Group Representation Theory, with particular emphasis on the McKay Conjecture.

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123. # Summer Graduate SchoolMixed Integer Nonlinear Programming: Theory, algorithms and applications

Organizers: Francisco Castro (University of Sevilla), Elena Fernandez (Polytechnical University of Cataluña (Barcelona) ), Justo Puerto (University of Sevilla)

This school is oriented to the presentation of theory, algorithms and applications for the solution of mixed integer nonlinear problems (MINLP). This type of problems appears in numerous application areas where the modelization of nonlinear phenomena with logical constraints is important; we must remember here the memorable phrase “the world is nonlinear”. Nowadays the theoretical aspects of this area are spread in a number of recent papers which makes it difficult, for non-specialist, to have a solid background of the existing results and new advances in the field. This school aims to organize and present this material in an organized way. Moreover, it also pursues to link theory with actual applications. In particular, remarkable applications can be found in air traffic control agencies, the air companies, the electric power generation companies, the chemical complex units, the analysis of financial products usually associated with risk dealing and in the algorithms in the statistical field and artificial intelligence as for instance artificial neural networks, or supporting vector machines, among many others.

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124. # Summer Graduate SchoolHarmonic Analysis and Elliptic Equations on real Euclidean Spaces and on Rough Sets

Organizers: LEAD Steven Hofmann (University of Missouri), Jose Maria Martell (Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas (ICMAT))

The goal of the workshop is to present harmonic analysis techniques in $R^n$ (the flat" setting), and then to show how those techniques extend to much rougher settings, with application to the theory of elliptic equations. Thus, the subject matter of the workshop will introduce the students to an active, current research area:  the interface between harmonic analysis, elliptic PDE, and geometric measure theory.

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125. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2016: Sandpile Groups

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Maria Franco (Queensborough Community College (CUNY); MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Luis Garcia Puente (Sam Houston State University), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), LEAD Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

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. The academic portion of the 2016 program will be led by Prof. Luis Garcia-Puente of Sam Houston State University.

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126. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2016: Dynamics of Biological Systems

Organizers: Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta), Mark Lewis (University of Alberta), Yingfei Yi (University of Alberta)

The purpose of this summer school is to focus on the interplay of dynamical and biological systems, developing the rich connectionbetween science and mathematics that has been so successful to date. Our focus will be on understanding the mathematical structure of dynamical systems that come from biological problems, and then relating the mathematical structures back to the biology to provide scientific insight. We will focus on five key areas: complex bio-networks, multi scale biological dynamics, biological waves, nonlinear dynamics of pattern formation, and disease dynamics. For each of the five key areas, we will invite 2-3 world leaders who are also excellent communicators to deliver a series of 2-4 one-hour lectures. We expect an average of eight hours of lecture per subject area, spread over approximately two weeks.

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127. # WorkshopGeometric Flows in Riemannian and Complex Geometry

Organizers: Tobias Colding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), LEAD John Lott (University of California, Berkeley), Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University)

The workshop will concentrate on parabolic methods in both Riemannian and complex geometry. The topics will include

- Ricci flow. Analytic questions about Ricci flow in three dimensions. Possible applications of Ricci flow to 4-manifold topology. Ricci flow in higher dimensions under curvature assumptions.

- Kähler-Ricci Flow. Applications to the Kähler-Einstein problem. Connections to the minimal model program. Study of Kähler-Ricci solitons and limits of Kähler-Ricci flow.

- Mean curvature flow. Singularity analysis. Generic mean curvature flow.

- Other geometric flows such as Calabi flow and pluriclosed flow.

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128. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2016

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), 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.

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129. # WorkshopBay Area Discrete (BAD) Math Day 32

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Ralucca Gera (Naval Postgraduate School), Elizabeth Gross (San Jose State University), Angela Hicks (Stanford University), Carol Meyers (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Rick Scott (University of Santa Clara), Erik Slivenken (University of California, Davis), Ellen Veomett (Saint Mary's College of California), Yan Zhang (University of California, Berkeley)

Bay Area Discrete Math Days are one-day meetings aimed at facilitating communication between researchers and graduate students of discrete mathematics around the San Francisco Bay Area.These days happen semi-annually and strive to create an informal atmosphere to talk about discrete mathematics. The term "discrete mathematics" is chosen to include at least the following topics: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, Graph Theory, Coding and Design Theory, Combinatorial Aspects of Computational Algebra and Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, Probabilistic Combinatorics, and Combinatorics in Mathematical Physics

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130. # WorkshopHot Topics: Cluster algebras and wall-crossing

Organizers: LEAD Mark Gross (University of Cambridge), Paul Hacking (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Sean Keel (University of Texas, Austin), Lauren Williams (University of California, Berkeley)

Cluster algebras were introduced in 2001 by Fomin and Zelevinsky to capture the combinatorics of canonical bases and total positivity in semisimple Lie groups. Since then they have revealed a rich combinatorial and group-theoretic structure, and have had significant impact beyond these initial subjects, including string theory, algebraic geometry, and mirror symmetry. Recently Gross, Hacking, Keel and Kontsevich released a preprint introducing mirror symmetry techniques into the subject which resolved several long-standing conjectures, including the construction of canonical bases for cluster algebras and positivity of the Laurent phenomenon. This preprint reformulates the basic construction of cluster algebras in terms of scattering diagrams (or wall-crossing structures). This leads to the proofs of the conjectures and to new constructions of elements of cluster algebras. But fundamentally they provide a new tool for thinking about cluster algebras.

The workshop will bring together many of the different users of cluster algebras to achieve a synthesis of these new techniques with many of the different aspects of the subject. There will be lecture series on the new techniques, and other lecture series on connections with Lie theory, quiver representation theory, mirror symmetry, string theory, and stability conditions.

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131. # WorkshopKähler Geometry, Einstein Metrics, and Generalizations

Organizers: Olivier Biquard (École Normale Supérieure), Simon Donaldson (Imperial College, London), Gang Tian (Princeton University), LEAD Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The workshop will integrate elements from complex differential geometry with Einstein metrics and their generalizations. The topics will include

- Existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics and extremal Kähler metrics. Notions of stability in algebraic geometry such as Chow stability, K-stability, b-stability, and polytope stability. Kähler-Einstein metrics with conical singularities along a divisor.

- Calabi-Yau metrics and collapsed limit spaces. Connections with physics and mirror symmetry.

- Einstein metrics and their moduli spaces, ε-regularity, noncompact examples such as ALE, ALF, and Poincaré-Einstein metrics. Generalizations of the Einstein condition, such as Bach-flat metrics and Ricci solitons.

- Sasaki-Einstein metrics and metrics with special holonomy. New examples and classification problems.

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132. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2016: Observing, Evaluating and Improving Mathematics Teaching from the Early Grades through the University

Organizers: Hyman Bass (University of Michigan), Michael Driskill (Math for America ), LEAD Mark Hoover (University of Michigan), LEAD Deborah Hughes Hallett (University of Arizona), Danny Martin (University of Illinois at Chicago), Miriam Sherin (Northwestern University)

The 2016 CIME workshop focuses directly on the teaching of mathematics at the university and precollege levels. Teaching is not easy to examine in disciplined ways because it is so familiar and seems so obvious.  Although teaching shapes students’ opportunities to learn, what teachers are actually doing is difficult to observe and describe. This impedes work on improving teaching.

This workshop will offer the opportunity to study and talk closely about mathematics teaching through close observation and discussion of video tapes in a setting that will bring together professionals with a range of perspectives, knowledge, experience, and orientations. The goal of the workshop is to develop language and methods for describing, analyzing and evaluating what can be seen in the classroom, with the ultimate goal of helping us shape and improve teaching — our own and more broadly.

Four questions structure the highly interactive design of the workshop:

1. What skills are needed for observing teaching in ways that inform improvement efforts? What is involved in observing teaching? What is the teacher saying and doing? What are students saying and doing? What is the mathematics at play? What else is happening? And what do these imply for teaching?
2. How can the practice and use of observation be structured in order to improve mathematics teaching? What approaches are available? What are their strengths and weaknesses?
3. Observation-based assessment of teaching: Why, what, and how? What are the risks?
4. How can we develop and sustain a cross-professional community that observes and evaluates teaching in such a way that different communities communicate with and learn from each other to support a cycle of improvement in the teaching of mathematics at all levels?

The workshop will provide a library of videos of mathematics teaching for study. In addition, participants are encouraged to submit a short video clip of their own teaching, together with a brief background commentary.  These videos will provide a central text for our collective work on discussing and assessing mathematics teaching.

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133. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2016

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), 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.

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134. # WorkshopNSF Day at Pasadena City College

Organizers: Lisa-Joy Zgorski (National Science Foundation)

NSF Day at Pasadena City College will discuss funding for researchers at 2- and 4-year institutions.

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135. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Modern Riemannian Geometry

Organizers: LEAD Tobias Colding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), John Lott (University of California, Berkeley), Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The week will be devoted to an introduction to modern techniques in Riemannian geometry. This is intended to help graduate students and younger researchers get a headstart, in order to increase their participation during the main semester programs and research lectures. To increase outreach, the week will focus on Riemannian geometry and should be largely accessible. Some minicourses on topics of recent interest will be included. The workshop will also have semi-expository lectures dealing with aspects of spaces with curvature bounded from below, since such spaces will occur throughout the semester. We expect that many Berkeley mathematicians and students will participate in the introductory workshop.

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136. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Differential Geometry

Organizers: Christine Breiner (Fordham University), LEAD Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University)

The purpose of this meeting is to help junior female researchers to become familiar with the focus topics of the main MSRI program, and also for the junior researchers to have an opportunity to get acquainted with more senior women researchers in differential geometry.

This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

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137. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Winter 2015

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), LEAD 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.

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138. # WorkshopWorkshop on Combinatorial Games, in honor of Elwyn Berlekamp's 75th Birthday

Organizers: David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), LEAD Richard Guy (University of Calgary), Thane Plambeck (Counterwave, Inc.), Aaron Siegel (Airbnb)

A two-day workshop with research-level talks on combinatorial game theory, one of the fields to which Elwyn Berlekamp has made enormous contributions.

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139. # WorkshopModern Math Workshop 2015

Organizers: LEAD Hélène Barcelo (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Helen Chamberlin (Ohio State University), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Sujit Ghosh (NC State University), Dagan Karp (Harvey Mudd College), Anne Pfister (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Christian Ratsch (University of California, Los Angeles; Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Mariel Vazquez (University of California, Davis), Talithia Williams (Harvey Mudd College)

As part of the Mathematical Sciences Collaborative Diversity Initiatives, nine mathematics institutes are pleased to host their annual SACNAS pre-conference event, the 2015 Modern Math Workshop (MMW). The Modern Math Workshop is intended to encourage minority undergraduates to pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and to assist undergraduates, graduate students and recent PhD’s in building their research networks.

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140. # WorkshopNew challenges in PDE: Deterministic dynamics and randomness in high and infinite dimensional systems

Organizers: Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University), LEAD Andrea Nahmod (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Pierre Raphael (Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Luc Rey-Bellet (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Daniel Tataru (University of California, Berkeley)

This workshop serves to bring into focus the fundamental aim of the jumbo program by both a)  showcasing the spectacular progress in recent years in the study of both nonlinear dispersive as well as stochastic partial differential equations and b) bringing to the fore the key challenges for the future in quantitatively analyzing the dynamics of solutions arising from the flows generated by deterministic and non-deterministic evolution differential equations, or dynamical evolution of large physical systems.

During the two weeks long workshop, we intertwine talks on a wide array of topics by some of the key researchers in both communities and aim at highlighting the most salient ideas, proofs and questions which are important and fertile for cross-pollination’ between PDE and SPDE. Topics include:  Global dynamics and singularity formation for geometric and physical nonlinear wave and dispersive models (critical and supercritical regimes); dynamics of infinite dimensional systems (critical phenomena, multi scale dynamics and metastability); symplectic structures of infinite dimensional dynamical systems; randomization and long time dynamics, invariant Gibbs and weighted Wiener measures; derivation of effective dynamics in quantum systems; weak turbulence phenomena; optimization and learning algorithms: distributed, stochastic and parallel.

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141. # WorkshopTheory of Neural Computation

Organizers: Dmitri Chklovskii (Simons Foundation), David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Gary Marcus (New York University), LEAD Bruno Olshausen (University of California, Berkeley), Christos Papadimitriou (University of California, Berkeley), Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Fritz Sommer (University of California, Berkeley)

The theme of this workshop is on bringing theory into the study of neural networks---those in brains and those in machines.  We will soon have the capability to monitor activity and structure in the brain at unprecedented scales, but what will these data tell us?  It is unlikely that we will gain insight without some theoretical framework to guide our thinking of what to look for, and why.  Similarly, neural network models can now perform feats of language translation and pattern recognition far beyond what was possible a few years ago; but they have yet to shed new light on neurobiological mechanisms in part because there is only a limited theory of such computations.

What are likely candidates for such theories? Do they already exist? And what is needed to more tightly integrate theoretical frameworks with empirical approaches?

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142. # WorkshopElementary Introduction to the Langlands Program, by Edward Frenkel

Organizers: Edward Frenkel (University of California, Berkeley)

One of the most fascinating and important developments in mathematics in the last 50 years is the "Langlands Program", a collection of ideas that provides a grand unification of many areas of mathematics. Frenkel's celebrated book "Love and Math", now translated into many languages, provides an extraordinarily accessible overview of the deep mathematics involved. The lectures will be a great opportunity to hear the story of these ideas from a great expositor, and participate in a discussion of them. Covering topics from the basic ideas of symmetries and Fermat's last theorem to the recent works connecting the Langlands Program to dualities in quantum physics, the lectures will be accessible to undergraduate students.

The video content of this workshop can also be found at the Langlands Program Lectures page

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143. # WorkshopMath Circle - Mentorship and Partnership Program

Organizers: Diana White (University of Colorado, Denver), Brandy Wiegers (Central Washington University)

The next version of Circle on the Road, the MC-MAP Training Workshops will provide a focused training for Novice Math Circle leaders.  These workshops launch a one-year mentorship and partnership program to support Novice Math Circles through their first few critical years.

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144. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Randomness and long time dynamics in nonlinear evolution differential equations

Organizers: Kay Kirkpatrick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), LEAD Yvan Martel (École Polytechnique), LEAD Luc Rey-Bellet (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Gigliola Staffilani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The purpose of the program New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems is to bring together a core group of mathematicians from the dispersive PDE and the SPDE communities whose research contains an underlying and unifying problem:  analyzing high or infinite dimensional dynamics, where dynamics is understood in a broad sense and arising from the flows generated by either deterministic or stochastic partial differential equations, or from dynamical evolution of large physical systems.

The introductory workshop will serve as an overview to the program.  It aims at familiarizing graduate students, postdocs, and other researchers to the major topics of the program through short courses and discussions.

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145. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Dispersive and Stochastic PDE

Organizers: LEAD Kay Kirkpatrick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Andrea Nahmod (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

This workshop will consist of various talks given by prominent female mathematicians whose research lies in and interfaces with the fields of nonlinear evolution dispersive PDE, wave phenomena and stochastic processes.  These talks will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas above mentioned.  The workshop will allocate ample time for group discussions and will include a professional development session.

This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

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146. # Summer Graduate SchoolIncompressible Fluid Flows at High Reynolds Number

The purpose of this two week workshop is to introduce graduate students to state-of-the-art methods and results in mathematical fluid dynamics. In the first week, we will discuss the mathematical foundations and modern analysis aspects of the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations. In the second week, we will run two courses concurrently on the topics of inviscid limits and hydrodynamic stability. Specifically, one course will focus on boundary layers in high Reynolds number flows and the Prandtl equations while the other will focus on mixing and connections to turbulence. Through the lectures and associated problem sessions, the students will learn about a number of new analysis tools and principles of fluid mechanics that are not always taught in a graduate school curriculum.

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147. # Summer Graduate SchoolGaps between Primes and Analytic Number Theory

Organizers: Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (Université de Montréal), LEAD Emmanuel Kowalski (ETH Zurich), James Maynard (University of Oxford), Kannan Soundararajan (Stanford University)

These courses will give students a full overview of the results of Zhang and Maynard on gaps between primes, and will provide them will a clear understanding of the tools involved. This will make accessible a significant part of modern analytic number theory. The lecturers will also make sure to include, within their course, examples and discussions going further than is strictly required to understand the proofs of Zhang and Maynard, e.g., in the direction of automorphic forms and the Riemann Hypothesis over finite fields.

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148. # Summer Graduate SchoolBerkeley summer course in mining and modeling of neuroscience data

Organizers: Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University), Bruno Olshausen (University of California, Berkeley), Christos Papadimitriou (University of California, Berkeley), Fritz Sommer (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Jeff Teeters (University of California, Berkeley)

This course is for students and researchers with backgrounds in mathematics and computational sciences who are
interested in applying their skills toward problems in neuroscience. It will introduce the major open questions of
neuroscience and teach state-of–the-art techniques for analyzing and modeling neuroscience data sets. The course is designed for students at the graduate level and researchers with background in a quantitative field such as
engineering, mathematics, physics or computer science who may or may not have a specific neuroscience
background. The goal of this summer course is to help researchers find new exciting research areas and at the same time to strengthen quantitative expertise in the field of neuroscience. The course is sponsored by the National Science Foundation from a grant supporting activities at the data sharing repository CRCNS.org, the Helen Wills
Neuroscience Institute, the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and the Mathematical Science Research
Institute.

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149. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical Topics in Systems Biology

Organizers: LEAD Steven Altschuler (University of California, San Francisco), Lani Wu (University of California, San Francisco)

This Summer Graduate School will introduce mathematics graduate students to the rapidly emerging area of systems biology. In particular, we will focus on the design and emergent behaviors of molecular networks used by cells to interpret their environments and create robust temporal-spatial behaviors. This will be a very hands-on workshop with students working alone and in teams to program and present key ideas.

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150. # Summer Graduate SchoolNIMS Summer School on Random Matrix Theory

Organizers: LEAD Jinho Baik (University of Michigan)

This summer graduate school will take place at the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Daejeon, South Korea.  The purpose of this summer school is to introduce some of the basic ideas and methods of random matrix theory to graduate students.  In particular there will be three lecture series on random matrix theory from three different perspectives: from the view points of the integrable structures, the moment method, and the Stieltjes transorm technique.  In addition to the lectures, there will be discussion sessions, and the students will also have plenty of time to interact with the lecturers and with other students.

Please note that accepted students will be provided up to 1700 in travel reimbursement, in addition to meals and accommodation. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 151. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2015: Geometric and Computational Spectral Theory Organizers: Alexandre Girouard (Laval University), Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University), Michael Levitin (University of Reading), Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser University), Iosif Polterovich (Université de Montréal), Frederic Rochon (Université du Québec à Montréal) The lectures will focus on the following four topics: geometry of eigenvalues, geometry of eigenfunctions, spectral theory on manifolds with singularities and computational spectral theory. There has been a number of remarkable recent developments in these closely related fields. The goal of the school is to shed light on different facets of modern spectral theory and to provide a unique opportunity for graduate students and young researchers to get a “big picture” of this rapidly evolving area of mathematics. A particularly novel aspect of the school is the emphasis on the interactions between spectral geometry and computational spectral theory. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 152. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometric Group Theory Organizers: LEAD John Mackay (University of Bristol), Anne Thomas (University of Sydney), Kevin Wortman (University of Utah) The aim of this workshop is to introduce graduate students to some specific core topics which will be under study at the upcoming MSRI program on Geometric Group Theory (GGT) in 2016. GGT encompasses a wide range of topics. The four minicourse topics have been chosen because they are central themes in GGT and in the upcoming MSRI program. Moreover, each topic is accessible to students with a range of backgrounds: the basic definitions are straightforward, with many simple and illuminating examples to work through, yet lead through to important questions in current research. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 153. # Summer Graduate SchoolCRM-PIMS Summer School in Probability Organizers: LEAD Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill University), Louis-Pierre Arguin (University of Montreal), Alexander Fribergh (University of Montreal), Lea Popovic (Concordia University) The 2015 CRM-PIMS Summer School in Probability will take place in Montreal, Canada, from June 15-July 11, 2015. The school is built around two principal 24-hour lecture courses, which will be delivered by Alice Guionnet (random matrices, free probability and the enumeration of maps) and Remco van der Hofstad (high-dimensional percolation and random graphs). There will additionally be mini-courses by Louigi Addario-Berry (random minimum spanning trees), Shankar Bhamidi (dynamic random network models) and Jonathan Mattingly (stabilization by noise). Some time is reserved for participants to present their own work. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 154. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2015: Geometric Combinatorics Motivated by the Social Sciences Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), LEAD Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) 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. The academic portion of the 2015 program will be led by Prof. Francis Su from Harvey Mudd College. Updated on Jul 22, 2020 03:12 PM PDT 155. # WorkshopPartnerships: a Workshop on Collaborations between the NSF/MPS and Private Foundations Organizers: Cynthia Atherton (Heising-Simons Foundation), Paulette Clancy (Cornell University), LEAD David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Thomas Everhart (California Institute of Technology), Caty Pilachowski (Indiana University, Bloomington), Robert Shelton (Research Corporation for Science Advancement), Yuri Tschinkel (New York University, Courant Institute) The National Science Foundation (NSF) and non-profit organizations each provide critical support to the U.S. basic research enterprise in the mathematical and physical sciences. While the missions of these funders differ, many of their goals align and the grantee communities have significant overlap. With the ultimate aim of helping to advance the scientific frontier in the most effective way, we propose to hold a workshop to examine partnerships between the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at NSF and non-profit funders in MPS-related disciplines to • understand different models of collaboration (the “how”); • understand different motivations for collaboration (the “why”); and • develop opportunities for future communication and/or collaboration. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 156. # WorkshopAdvances in Homogeneous Dynamics Organizers: LEAD Dmitry Kleinbock (Brandeis University), Hee Oh (Yale University), Alireza Salehi Golsefidy (University of California, San Diego), Ralf Spatzier (University of Michigan) The Advances in Homogeneous Dynamics workshop will feature the speakers whose work is at the forefront of the field. There will be a panel discussion accompanied by an open problem session to lay out possible directions for the research in homogeneous dynamics. Talks will be in a broad range of topics and this will help to build more connections between researchers interested in dynamical systems, number theory and geometry. For example we hope that the involvement of the participants of the other program held at MSRI during the same academic year (Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures, Spring 2015) would create new connections between the topics. There will be shorter talks presented by early-career researchers Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 157. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2015 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), LEAD 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 158. # WorkshopDynamics on Moduli Spaces Organizers: Marc Burger (ETH Zürich), LEAD David Dumas (University of Illinois at Chicago), Olivier Guichard (Université de Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur)), François Labourie (Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis), Anna Wienhard (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) The Research Workshop of the Dynamics on moduli spaces of geometric structures'' will concentrate on some of the following general interrelated themes: (1) Geometric structures on the spaces of geometric structures which extend and generalize classical constructions on Teichmüller spaces, such as the Weil-Petersoon metric, the pressure metric, the Teichmüller metric and its geodesic flow, Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates, Fock-Goncharov Thurson-Penner coordinates, and the symplectic and Poisson geometries (2) Relations with harmonic maps, Riemann surfaces, complex geometry: specifically Higgs bundles, holomorphic differentials (quadratic, cubic, etc.) as parameters for representations of the fundamental group, hyperkähler and complex symplectic geometry of moduli spaces, lifts of Teichmüller geodesic flows to flat bundles of character varieties (3) Asymptotic properties of higher Teichmüller spaces, including generalized measured geodesic laminations, Culler-Morgan-Shalen asymptotics of character varieties, degenerations of geometric structures and discrete subgroups (4) Actions of mapping class groups and outer automorphism groups, properness criteria for Anosov representations and their generalizations, properness criteria for non-discrete representations, chaotic actions of mapping class groups and the monodromy map from structures to representations (5) Classification of exotic geometric structures, tameness criteria, generalizations of ending lamination-type invariants to higher rank structures, rigidity and flexibility for thin subgroups, arithmeticity conditions, and geometric transitions Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 159. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2015: Developmental Mathematics: For whom? Toward what ends? Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Mark Hoover (University of Michigan), LEAD Robert Megginson (University of Michigan), Richard Sgarlotti (Bay College), Katherine Stevenson (California State University, Northridge) This workshop will address the critical issue of developmental mathematics at two- and four-year colleges and universities and the broader dynamic of mathematics remediation that occurs at all levels. It will engage mathematicians, K-12 teachers, mathematics educators, and administrators in a conversation about the goals of developmental mathematics and the contributions that our different professional communities make to this work. Key questions that will be addressed are: 1. How do we teach content in ways that acknowledge and leverage each student's prior learning experiences? In particular, how do we take advantage of a student's maturity while refining his or her learning habits where necessary? 2. How can developmental mathematics instruction move students through mathematics which must be relearned while simultaneously gaining momentum on more advanced mathematics (including the development of mathematical practices needed for meaningful mathematical work)? 3. What are strategies for supporting the needs of the wide range of students in developmental mathematics programs--those developing mathematical skills for life in general as well as those developing the foundation necessary to proceed towards a STEM major? How can we successfully address equity issues raised for students from groups underrepresented in STEM fields? How can developmental mathematics instruction blend synchronous and asynchronous instruction to achieve maximal efficiency and impact? 4. What is the proper balance between addressing the needs of the wide range of students mentioned in the preceding point and keeping instruction and course offerings concise? 5. What are the characteristics, training, and practices of a successful developmental mathematics teacher? 6. What support services enhance the success of a developmental mathematics program? Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 160. # WorkshopHot Topics: Kadison-Singer, Interlacing Polynomials, and Beyond Organizers: Sorin Popa (University of California, Los Angeles), LEAD Daniel Spielman (Yale University), Nikhil Srivastava (University of California, Berkeley), Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University; University of Washington) In a recent paper, Marcus, Spielman and Srivastava solve the Kadison-Singer Problem by proving Weaver's KS2 conjecture and the Paving Conjecture. Their proof involved a technique they called the “method of interlacing families of polynomials” and a “barrier function” approach to proving bounds on the locations of the zeros of real stable polynomials. Using these techniques, they have also proved that there are infinite families of Ramanujan graphs of every degree, and they have developed a very simple proof of Bourgain and Tzafriri's Restricted Invertibility Theorem. The goal of this workshop is to help build upon this recent development by bringing together researchers from the disparate areas related to these techniques, including Functional Analysis, Spectral Graph Theory, Free Probability, Convex Optimization, Discrepancy Theory, and Real Algebraic Geometry. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 161. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2015 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), LEAD 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 162. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics Organizers: Manfred Einsiedler (ETH Zürich), LEAD Jean-François Quint (Université de Bordeaux I), Barbara Schapira (Université de Picardie (Jules Verne)) This Introductory Workshop will consist of several introductory lectures and series of lectures on the recent trends in the field, given by experts in the domain. In addition, there will be several shorter talks by young researchers. Please note that immediately preceding this workshop there is a Connections for Women workshop which will also be introductory in nature. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 163. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics Organizers: Elon Lindenstrauss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), LEAD Hee Oh (Yale University) This workshop will consist of several mini-courses given by prominent female mathematicians in the field, intended for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program. The workshop will also include an informal panel discussion session among female researchers on career issues. This workshop is open to all mathematicians. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 164. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures Organizers: Richard Canary (University of Michigan), LEAD William Goldman (University of Maryland), Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), Alessandra Iozzi (ETH Zürich) The deformation theory of geometric structures on manifolds is a subfield of differential geometry and topology, with a heavy infusion of Lie theory. Its richness stems from close relations to dynamical systems, algebraic geometry, representation theory, Lie theory, partial differential equations, number theory, and complex analysis. The introductory workshop will serve as an overview to the program. It aims to familiarize graduate students, post-docs, and other researchers to the major topics of the program. There will be a number of short courses. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 165. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures Organizers: Virginie Charette (University of Sherbrooke), LEAD Fanny Kassel (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)), Karin Melnick (University of Maryland), Anna Wienhard (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) This two-day workshop will consist of various talks given by prominent female mathematicians in the field. These will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program. The workshop will also include a professional development session. This workshop is open to all mathematicians. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 166. # WorkshopAutomorphic forms, Shimura varieties, Galois representations and L-functions Organizers: LEAD Pierre Colmez (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), Stephen Kudla (University of Toronto), Elena Mantovan (California Institute of Technology), Ariane Mézard (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu; École Normale Supérieure), Richard Taylor (Stanford University) L-functions attached to Galois representations coming from algebraic geometry contain subtle arithmetic information (conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, Deligne, Beilinson, Bloch and Kato, Fontaine and Perrin-Riou). Langlands has predicted the existence of a correspondence relating these L-functions to L-functions of automorphic forms which are much better understood. The workshop will focus on recent developments related to Langlands correspondence (construction of Galois representations attached to automorphic forms via the cohomology of Shimura varieties, modularity of Galois representations...) and arithmetic of special values of L-functions. It will be dedicated to Michael Harris as a tribute to his enormous influence on the themes of the workshop. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 167. # WorkshopCategorical Structures in Harmonic Analysis Organizers: Thomas Haines (University of Maryland), Florian Herzig (University of Toronto), LEAD 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 168. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Fall 2014 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), LEAD 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 Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 169. # WorkshopBreaking the Neural Code Organizers: Larry Abbott (Columbia University), Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University), Michael Jordan (University of California), LEAD Liam Paninski (Columbia University) For decades, neuroscientists have dreamed about the possibility of recording from all the neurons in a brain, or of having access to a complete large brain wiring diagram, or ideally to obtain both of these datasets simultaneously, in the same brain. Recent technical advances have brought this dream close to reality in some cases. Now the challenge will be to understand these massive datasets. A few domains will be particularly relevant: • Inferring network structure from noisy and incomplete data • Inferring computational input-output function from structure • Optimal experimental design (incl. compressive sensing methods) for observation of networks • Modeling structured stochastic network dynamics • Optimal control of network dynamics • Inferring low-dimensional dynamics from high-dimensional observations There’s a strong need in neuroscience for deep new ideas from mathematics and statistics, and our hope is that this small, focused workshop without many formal talks will spark collaborations that will lead to breakthroughs in the areas described above. This workshop is by invitation only. This workshop is supported by a generous donation from Sanford Grossman. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 170. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Geometric Representation Theory Organizers: David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas, Austin), Kevin McGerty (University of Oxford) 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 171. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Geometric Representation Theory Organizers: LEAD Monica Vazirani (University of California, Davis), Eva Viehmann (TU München) Within the broad range of geometric representation theory the Connections Workshop will focus on three research topics in which we expect particularly striking new developments within the next few years: * Categorical and geometric structures in representation theory and Lie superalgebras * Geometric construction of representations via Shimura varieties and related moduli spaces * Hall algebras and representations The workshop will bring together researchers from these different topics within geometric representation theory and will thus facilitate a successful start of the semester program. It will give junior researchers from each of these parts of geometric representation theory a broader picture of possible applications and of new developments, and will establish a closer contact between junior and senior researchers. This workshop is aimed at encouraging and increasing the active participation of women and members of under-represented groups in the MSRI program. All are welcome to participate in the scientific portions of the workshop and the panel discussion, regardless of gender. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 172. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms Organizers: Laurent Berger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Ariane Mézard (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu; École Normale Supérieure), LEAD Akshay Venkatesh (Institute for Advanced Study), Shou-Wu Zhang (Princeton University) The goal of this workshop is to give a practical introduction to some of the main topics and techniques related to the August-December 2014 MSRI program, "New geometric methods in number theory and automorphic forms." The workshop is aimed at graduate students and interested researchers in number theory or related fields. There will be lecture series on periods of automorphic forms, Shimura varieties, and representations of p-adic groups,as well as more advanced topics, including p-adic Hodge theory and the cohomology of arithmetic groups. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 173. # WorkshopConnections for Women: New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms Organizers: Wenching Li (Pennsylvania State University), LEAD Elena Mantovan (California Institute of Technology), Sophie Morel (Princeton University), Ramdorai Sujatha (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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 174. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometry and Analysis Organizers: Hans-Joachim Hein (Imperial College, London), LEAD Aaron Naber (Northwestern University) Geometric and complex analysis is the application of tools from analysis to study questions from geometry and topology. This two week summer course will provide graduate students with the necessary background to begin studies in the area. The first week will consist of introductory courses on geometric analysis, complex analysis, and Riemann surfaces. The second week will consist of more advanced courses on the regularity theory of Einstein manifolds, Kahler-Einstein manifolds, and the analysis of Riemann surfaces. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 175. # Summer Graduate SchoolStochastic Partial Differential Equations Organizers: Yuri Bakhtin (New York University, Courant Institute), LEAD Ivan Corwin (Columbia University), James Nolen (Duke University) Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs) serve as fundamental models of physical systems subject to random inputs, interactions or environments. It is a particular challenge to develop tools to construct solutions, prove robustness of approximation schemes, and study properties like ergodicity and fluctuation statistics for a wide variety of SPDEs. The purpose of this two week workshop is to educate graduate students on the state-of-the-art methods and results in SPDEs. The three courses which will be run simultaneously will highlight different (though related) aspects of this area including (1) Fluctuation theory of PDEs with random coefficients (2) Ergodic theory of SPDEs and (3) Exact solvability of SPDEs Updated on May 01, 2019 02:31 PM PDT 176. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgebraic Topology Organizers: LEAD Jose Cantarero-Lopez (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas), LEAD Michael Hill (University of California, Los Angeles) Modern algebraic topology is a broad and vibrant field which has seen recent progress on classical problems as well as exciting new interactions with applied mathematics. This summer school will consist of a series of lecture by experts on major research directions, including several lectures on applied algebraic topology. Participants will also have the opportunity to have guided interaction with the seminal texts in the field, reading and speaking about the foundational papers. Videos of selected lectures may be found here. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 177. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI 2014: Mathematics and Materials Organizers: Mark Bowick (Syracuse University), David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie Mellon University), Govind Menon (Brown University), Charles Radin (University of Texas) The program in 2014 will bring together a diverse group of mathematicians and scientists with interests in fundamental questions in mathematics and the behavior of materials. The meeting addresses several themes including computational investigations of material properties, the emergence of long- range order in materials and self-assembly, the geometry of soft condensed matter and the calculus of variations, phase transitions and statistical mechanics. The program will cover several topics in discrete and differential geometry that are motivated by questions in materials science. Many central topics, such as the geometry of packings, problems in the calculus of variations and phase transitions, will be discussed from the complementary points of view of mathematicians and physicists. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 178. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2014: Counting Arithmetic Objects Organizers: Henri Darmon (McGill University), Andrew Granville (Université de Montréal), Benedict Gross (Harvard University) Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 179. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2014: Arithmetic Aspects of Elementary Functions Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), LEAD Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Victor H. Moll (Tulane University), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) 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. The academic portion of the 2014 program will be led by Dr. Victor Moll from Tulane University. Updated on Jul 22, 2020 03:12 PM PDT 180. # Summer Graduate SchoolDispersive Partial Differential Equations Organizers: Natasa Pavlovic (University of Texas, Austin), Nikolaos Tzirakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The purpose of the workshop is to introduce graduate students to the recent developments in the area of dispersive partial differential equations (PDE). Dispersive equations have received a great deal of attention from mathematicians because of their applications to nonlinear optics, water wave theory and plasma physics. We will outline the basic tools of the theory that were developed with the help of multi-linear Harmonic Analysis techniques. The exposition will be as self-contained as possible. Updated on May 01, 2019 02:26 PM PDT 181. # WorkshopModel Theory in Geometry and Arithmetic Organizers: Raf Cluckers (Université de Lille I (Sciences et Techniques de Lille Flandres Artois)), LEAD Jonathan Pila (University of Oxford), Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley) 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. Updated on May 01, 2019 02:09 PM PDT 182. # WorkshopReimagining the Foundations of Algebraic Topology Organizers: Vigleik Angeltveit (Australian National University), Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Julie Bergner (University of Virginia), LEAD Andrew 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 183. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2014: The role of the mathematics department in the mathematical preparation of teachers Organizers: Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), Solomon Friedberg (Boston College), LEAD Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska), Despina Stylianou (City College, CUNY), Peter Trapa (University of Utah), Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley), Darryl Yong (Harvey Mudd College) The 2014 CIME workshop will focus on the role played by mathematics departments in preparing future teachers. As part of this focus, the workshop will consider two broad questions: What mathematics should teachers know, and how should they come to know this mathematics? The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences publication, The Mathematical Education of Teachers II, recommends that, at institutions that prepare teachers, teacher education should be “an important part of a mathematics department’s mission” (p.19). Certainly, at some universities, mathematicians are significantly involved in the mathematical experiences of students who are planning become teachers. But there are many other departments where this is not true. Future mathematics teachers are enrolled in the department’s mathematics classes, but no one is attending to the fact that this is where they are developing mathematical knowledge and (from watching their instructors) ideas about how teach mathematics. This role – whether deliberate or latent –– is vitally important for the mathematical preparation of beginning teachers. The CIME workshop has three core aims: (A) to acquaint mathematicians with basic facts about teacher education and how teacher education intersects with the math department even when no one is taking special note of the department’s role; (B) to explore a set of key questions and best practices central to taking advantage of the role that mathematics departments do – or could – play in the mathematical preparation of teachers: 1. What is known about effective mathematical preparation of teachers, including curriculum, instructional approaches, and assessments? 2. What supports do mathematicians and mathematics departments need to carry out this important role effectively? What are examples of successful models and what evidence exists about their effects? 3. What are some of the persistent problems or challenges and what are promising examples of addressing these? and (C) to identify possible action steps to provide more collective capacity for math departments to contribute to teachers’ mathematical education. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 184. # WorkshopHot Topics: Perfectoid Spaces and their Applications Organizers: Sophie Morel (Princeton University), Peter Scholze (Universität Bonn), LEAD Richard Taylor (Stanford University), Jared Weinstein (Boston University) Since their introduction just two years ago, perfectoid spaces have played a crucial role in a number of striking advances in arithmetic algebraic geometry: the proof of Deligne's weight-monodromy conjecture for complete intersections in toric varieties; the development of p-adic Hodge theory for rigid analytic spaces; a p-adic analogue of Riemann's classification of abelian varieties over the complex numbers; and the construction of Galois representations for torsion classes in the cohomology of many locally symmetric spaces (for instance arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds). We will start the week with an exposition of the foundations of the theory of perfectoid spaces, with the aim of teaching novices to work with them. Then we will discuss their current and potential applications. Updated on May 01, 2019 02:15 PM PDT 185. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Model Theory and Its Interactions with Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry Organizers: Kirsten Eisentraeger (Pennsylvania State University), Julia Gordon (University of British Columbia), 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 186. # WorkshopPacific Northwest and Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Winter 2014 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), David Hoffman (Stanford University), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz) The seminar will take place from 10AM to 5PM on Saturday, and 9:15AM to 1PM on Sunday. Participants and their significant others are invited to a dinner to be arranged at a local restaurant on Saturday evening. The cost of the dinner will be reduced for students and postdocs. There is a signup link on the interactive program. Location: Stanford University Department of Mathematics, Room 380C INTERACTIVE PROGRAM (PDF) Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 187. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory Organizers: Elisabeth Bouscaren (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)), Antoine Chambert-Loir (Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu), LEAD Rahim Moosa (University of Waterloo) 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 program. In particular, we will be offering the following tutorials: 1. An Introduction to Stability-Theoretic Techniques, by Pierre Simon. 2. Model Theory and Diophantine Geometry, by Antoine Chambert-Loir, Ya'acov Peterzil, and Anand Pillay. 3. Valued Fields and Berkovich Spaces, by Deirdre Haskell and Martin Hils. 4. Model Theory and Additive Combinatorics, by Lou van den Dries. In addition to the tutorials there will be several "state of the art" lectures on the program topics, indicating recent results as well as directions for future work. Speakers include Ekaterina Amerik, Ehud Hrushovski, Alice Medvedev, Terence Tao, and Margaret Thomas. 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. Updated on May 01, 2019 02:03 PM PDT 188. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Algebraic Topology Organizers: Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), Jesper Grodal (University of Copenhagen), Kathryn Hess (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), LEAD Michael Hill (University of California, Los Angeles) 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 189. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Algebraic Topology Organizers: Julie Bergner (University of Virginia), LEAD Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), Brooke Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago) 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. Updated on May 01, 2019 01:55 PM PDT 190. # WorkshopMacaulay2 Workshop Organizers: Sonja Mapes (University of Notre Dame), Frank Moore (Wake Forest University), David Swinarski (University of Georgia) The purpose of the workshop is to bring Macaulay2 developers together with those who would like to share or develop their skills at writing packages for Macaulay2 and those interested in developing the corresponding mathematical algorithms. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 191. # WorkshopInfinite-Dimensional Geometry Organizers: Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University), Robert McCann (University of Toronto), LEAD Stephen Preston (University of Colorado) The purpose of this workshop is to gather researchers working in various areas of geometry in infinite dimensions in order to facilitate collaborations and sharing of ideas. Topics represented include optimal transport and geometries on densities, metrics on shape spaces, Euler-Arnold equations on diffeomorphism groups, the universal Teichmuller space, geometry of random Riemann surfaces, metrics on spaces of metrics, and related areas. The workshop will be held on the campus of University of California Berkeley (60 Evans Hall) the weekend of December 7-8, 2013. It is funded by an NSF grant. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 192. # WorkshopInitial Data and Evolution Problems in General Relativity Organizers: LEAD Piotr Chrusciel (Universität Wien), LEAD Igor Rodnianski (Princeton University) 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 193. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Fall 2013 Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Joel Hass (University of California, Davis), LEAD 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 194. # WorkshopFluid Mechanics, Hamiltonian Dynamics, and Numerical Aspects of Optimal Transportation Organizers: Yann Brenier (École Polytechnique), Michael Cullen (Met Office), LEAD Wilfrid Gangbo (University of California, Los Angeles), Allen Tannenbaum (State University of New York, Stony Brook) 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. Updated on May 01, 2019 01:27 PM PDT 195. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Mathematical Relativity Organizers: LEAD Justin Corvino (Lafayette College), Greg Galloway (University of Miami), Hans Ringström (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)) 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. Updated on May 01, 2019 01:09 PM PDT 196. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Mathematical General Relativity Organizers: Beverly Berger (None), LEAD Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan), Iva Stavrov (Lewis and 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. Updated on May 01, 2019 01:06 PM PDT 197. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics Organizers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore), Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Alessio Figalli (University of Texas, 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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 198. # WorkshopConnections for Women on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics Organizers: Sun-Yung Chang (Princeton University), Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University), Robert McCann (University of Toronto), Maria Westdickenberg (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. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 199. # Summer Graduate SchoolIntroduction to the Mathematics of Seismic Imaging Organizers: LEAD Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington) In this two week program we will develop some of the mathematical foundations of seismic imaging that is a basic tool used in Imaging the Earth Interior". This is one of the components of the Mathematics of Planet Earth year in 2013. The goal in seismic imaging is to determine the inner structure of the Earth from the crust to the inner core by using information provided by earthquakes in the case of the deep interior or by measuring the reflection of waves produced by acoustic or elastic sources on the surface of the Earth. The mathematics of seismic imaging involves solving inverse problems for the wave equation. No previous experience on inverse problems will be assumed. Updated on Aug 16, 2019 01:33 PM PDT 200. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical General Relativity in Cortona, Italy Organizers: Justin Corvino (Lafayette College), Pengzi Miao (University of Miami), Giorgio Patrizio (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica "Francesco Severi" (INdAM)) In cooperation with INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica) and the CMI (Clay Mathematical Institute), MSRI will sponsor a summer graduate workshop on Mathematical General Relativity in Cortona during the summer of 2013; the school will reprise the very successful school of Mathematical General Relativity held at MSRI in 2012. Mathematical general relativity is the study of mathematical problems related to Einstein's theory of gravitation. There are interesting connections between the physical theory and problems in differential geometry and partial differential equations. The purpose of the summer school is to introduce graduate students to some fundamental aspects of mathematical general relativity, with particular emphasis on the geometry of the Einstein constraint equations and the Positive Mass Theorem. These topics will comprise a component of the upcoming semester program at MSRI in Fall 2013. There will be mini-courses, as well as several research lectures. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 201. # Summer Graduate SchoolNew Geometric Techniques in Number Theory Organizers: Toby Gee (Imperial College, London), LEAD Ariane Mézard (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu; École Normale Supérieure), David Nadler (University of California, Berkeley), Peter Scholze (Universität Bonn) The branches of number theory most directly related to automorphic forms have seen enormous progress over the past five years. Techniques introduced since 2008 have made it possible to prove many new arithmetic applications. The purpose of the current workshop is to drow the attention of young students or researchers to new questions that have arisen in the course of bringing several chapters in the Langlands program and related algebraic number theory to a close. We will focus especially on some precise questions of a geometric nature, or whose solutions seem to require new geometric insights. A graduate level in Number Theory is expected. This two-week workshop will be devoted to the following subjects: Automorphy lifting theorems, p-adic local Langlands program, Characters of categorical representations and Hasse-Weil zeta function. During the first week, the lecturers present an open question and related mathematical objects. The first exercice sessions serve to direct the participants to an appropriate subject depending on their level. During the second week, the lecturers give some more advanced lectures on the field. Updated on May 01, 2019 01:19 PM PDT 202. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer 2013: Geometric Analysis Organizers: Hubert Bray (Duke University), Greg Galloway (University of Miami), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University) This Summer Graduate Workshop will be held in Park City, Utah. The Graduate Summer School bridges the gap between a general graduate education in mathematics and the specific preparation necessary to do research on problems of current interest. In general, these students will have completed their first year, and in some cases, may already be working on a thesis. While a majority of the participants will be graduate students, some postdoctoral scholars and researchers may also be interested in attending. We strongly recommend that graduate students have already had the equivalent of rigorous first year graduate-level courses in topology, algebra and analysis. The main activity of the Graduate Summer School will be a set of intensive short lectures offered by leaders in the field, designed to introduce students to exciting, current research in mathematics. These lectures will not duplicate standard courses available elsewhere. Each course will consist of lectures with problem sessions. Course assistants will be available for each lecture series. The participants of the Graduate Summer School meet three times each day for lectures, with one or two problem sessions scheduled each day as well. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 203. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2013: Physics and Mathematics of Link Homology Organizers: Sergei Gukov (California Institute of Technology), Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University), Johannes Walcher (McGill University) This Summer Graduate Workshop will be held in Montreal, Canada. Homology theories of knots and links is a burgeoning field at the interface of mathematics with theoretical physics. The 2013 edition of the SMS will bring together leading researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics working in this area, with the aim to educate a new generation of scientists in this exciting subject. The school will provide a pedagogical review of the current state of the various constructions of knot homologies, and also encourage interactions between the communities in order to facilitate development of the unified picture. Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT 204. # WorkshopPacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) Congress 2013 Organizers: Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Marston Conder (University of Auckland), David Eisenbud (MSRI - Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia), Anthony Guttmann (University of Melbourne), Lee Minh Ha, Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Alejandro Jofre, Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo), Jong Keum (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)), Douglas Lind (University of Washington), Kyewon Park (Ajou University), Shige Peng (Shandong University), Jose Seade (UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Gang Tian (Princeton University), Tatiana Toro (University of Washington) 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.

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Additional Travel Support Available from an NSF Grant

The NSF has awarded a substantial grant for travel by scientists at US universities to the PRIMA Congress in Shanghai. For further information and application details, please see https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/152

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
205. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgebraic Topology

Organizers: Andrew Blumberg (University of Texas, Austin), Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), LEAD Michael Hill (University of California, Los Angeles)

Modern algebraic topology is a broad and vibrant field which has seen recent progress on classical problems as well as exciting new interactions with applied mathematics. This summer school will consist of a series of lecture by experts on major research directions, including several lectures on applied algebraic topology. Participants will also have the opportunity to have guided interaction with the seminal texts in the field, reading and speaking about the foundational papers.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
206. # WorkshopBay Area Circle for Teachers (BACT) Summer Workshop 2013

Organizers: LEAD Sage (Ann) Moore (Mills College)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
207. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2013: Algebraic Combinatorics

Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Rosa Orellana (Dartmouth College), LEAD Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

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. The academic portion of the 2013 program will be led by Dr. Rosa Orellana from Dartmouth College.

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 03:13 PM PDT
208. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2013

Organizers: David Bao (San Francisco State University), Robert Bryant (Duke University), 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: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
209. # WorkshopThe Commutative Algebra of Singularities in Birational Geometry: Multiplier Ideals, Jets, Valuations, and Positive Characteristic Methods

Organizers: Craig Huneke (University of Virginia), Yujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo), Mircea Mustaţă (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.

Updated on May 01, 2019 12:57 PM PDT
210. # WorkshopInteractions between Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry

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

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
211. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2013: Assessment of Mathematical Proficiencies in the Age of the Common Core

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
212. # WorkshopHot Topics: Surface subgroups and cube complexes

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
213. # WorkshopAWM Research Symposium 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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
214. # WorkshopCircle on the Road Spring 2013

Organizers: Amanda Serenevy (Riverbend Community Math Center), Dave Auckly (Kansas State University), Jonathan Farley (Research Institute for Mathematics), 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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
215. # WorkshopRepresentation Theory, Homological Algebra, and Free Resolutions

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.

Updated on Nov 27, 2020 12:20 AM PST
216. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory

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.

Updated on Dec 01, 2020 12:20 AM PST
217. # WorkshopUC Berkeley Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
218. # WorkshopBay Area Circle for Teachers (BACT) Winter Workshop 2013

Organizers: Sage Moore, BACT Director

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
219. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory

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.

Updated on Oct 08, 2020 12:20 AM PDT
220. # WorkshopCombinatorial Commutative Algebra and Applications

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.

Updated on Nov 16, 2020 12:20 AM PST
221. # WorkshopCluster Algebras in Combinatorics, Algebra, and Geometry

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.

Updated on Dec 01, 2020 12:20 AM PST
222. # WorkshopJoint Introductory Workshop: Cluster Algebras and Commutative Algebra

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.

Updated on Dec 01, 2020 12:20 AM PST
223. # WorkshopConnections For Women: Joint Workshop on Commutative Algebra and Cluster Algebras

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.

Updated on Nov 17, 2020 12:20 AM PST
224. # Summer Graduate SchoolModel Theory

Organizers: David Marker* (University of Illinois, Chicago), Thomas Scanlon (University of California, Berkeley), Carol Wood (Wesleyan University).

The workshop will consist of two minicourses, together with a selection of topical lectures.

In the model theory course, o-minimality, and specifically the concrete example of the semi-algebraic sets of real numbers will provide the setting in which we introduce various fundamental results from model theory.
The algebraic dynamics course will allow the introduction of concepts and proof techniques from number theory and algebraic geometry in the context of applications involving model theory.

Toward the end of the workshop, the two minicourses will converge on the Pila-Wilkie theorem concerning points on analytic varieties, a result crucial in recent applications of o-minimality to diophantine geometry.

Updated on Oct 06, 2020 12:35 PM PDT
225. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical General Relativity

Organizers: Justin Corvino* (Lafayette College) and Pengzi Miao (University of Miami)

Mathematical general relativity is the study of mathematical problems related to Einstein's theory of gravitation. There are interesting connections between the physical theory and problems in differential geometry and partial differential equations.

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce graduate students to some fundamental aspects of mathematical general relativity, with particular emphasis on the geometry of the Einstein constraint equations and the Positive Mass Theorem. These topics will comprise a component of the upcoming semester program at MSRI in Fall 2013.

There will be mini-courses, as well as several research lectures. Students are expected to have had courses in graduate real analysis and Riemannian geometry, while a course in graduate-level partial differential equations is recommended.

Updated on Dec 02, 2020 12:20 AM PST
226. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer 2012: Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah), Michah Sageev (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), and Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University)

This Summer Graduate Workshop will be held in Park City, Utah.

Some mobility between the Research in Mathematics and Graduate Summer School programs is expected and encouraged, but interested candidates should read the guidelines carefully and apply to the one program best suited to their field of study and experience. Postdoctoral scholars who are working in the field of Geometric Group Theory should apply to the Research Program in Mathematics, not to the Graduate Summer School.
Graduate students who are beyond their basic courses and recent PhDs in all fields of mathematics are encouraged to apply to the Graduate Summer School. Funding will go primarily to graduate students. Postdoctoral scholars not working in the field of Geometric Group Theory should also apply, but should be within four years of receipt of their PhD.
Deadline for submission of applications is January 31, 2012. Supplemental materials (such as Reference Letters) must be received in the PCMI office by February 4, 2012. Please plan accordingly. (Late applications may be accepted at the discretion of the organizers.) Response may be expected in early April. Financial support is available. Applicants are invited to request financial support by checking the appropriate boxes on the application form.

Updated on Mar 20, 2012 11:44 AM PDT
227. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2012: Probabilistic Combinatorics

Organizers: Louigi Addario-Berry* (McGill University), Luc Devroye (McGill University), Bruce Reed (McGill University)

One of the cornerstones of the probabilistic approach to solving combinatorial problems is the following guiding principle: information about global structure can be obtained through local analysis. This principle is ubiquitous in probabilistic combinatorics. It arises in problems ranging from graph colouring, to Markov chain mixing times, to Szemerédi's regularity lemma and its applications, to the theory of influences. The 2012 Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures brings together experts in probabilistic combinatorics from around the world, to explain cutting edge research which in one way or another exhibits this principle.

Updated on May 07, 2013 11:14 PM PDT
228. # Summer Graduate SchoolNoncommutative Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Dan Rogalski* (University of California, San Diego), Travis Schedler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michael Wemyss (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

This workshop will introduce some of the major themes of the MSRI program "Interactions between Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Algebraic Geometry" to be held in the spring of 2013. There will be four mini-courses on the topics of noncommutative projective geometry, deformation theory, noncommutative resolutions of singularities, and symplectic reflection algebras. As well as providing theoretical background, the workshop will aim to equip participants with some intuition for the many open problems in this area through worked examples and experimental computer calculations.

Updated on Oct 15, 2020 12:20 AM PDT
229. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2012: Enumerative Combinatorics

Organizers: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), LEAD Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

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. The academic portion of the 2012 program will be led by Dr. Matthias Beck.

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 03:13 PM PDT
230. # WorkshopRandom Walks and Random Media

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
231. # WorkshopCircle on the Road Spring 2012

Organizers: Dave Auckly, Robert Sachs, Amanda Serenevy, Dan Ullman

This workshop will bring together new and experienced leaders of math circles for students and teachers.

Workshop activities will include discussions, presentations, and a mathematics festival to be held outside of the MathAlive! exhibit that will be in the Smithsonian Institution.

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
232. # WorkshopStatistical Mechanics and Conformal Invariance

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
233. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2012: Teacher education in view of the Common Core

Organizers: Dave Auckly, Hyman Bass, Amy Cohen-Corwin, and William McCallum

The wide adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) offers a helpful curricular coherence to the environment of teacher education. And so the CCSSM present both an opportunity and a challenge to teacher education. An opportunity because of the greater focus made possible. A challenge because not only of the ambitious level of the CCSSM, but also of the prominent role in them of Mathematical Practices. While most mathematicians will find these congenial, much needs to be done to make them meaningfully understood by teachers and teacher educators, and, still more, how to enact them as an organic aspect of instruction. The CIME workshop aims to gather and stimulate ideas for how to meet this opportunity and challenge.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
234. # WorkshopSpring Opportunities

Organizers: David Auckly, Philip Kutzko, Trachette Jackson, and Robert Megginson

This first workshop in a series addresses the professional advancement of underrepresented minorities in the mathematical sciences. It will include an introduction to mathematics represented in the MSRI research programs aimed at faculty in minority serving and primarily undergraduate institutions. Anyone who will be seeking employment in mathematics within the next couple of years would benefit from attending this workshop.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
235. # WorkshopPercolation and Interacting Systems

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
236. # WorkshopHot Topics: Thin Groups and Super-strong Approximation

Organizers: Emmanuel Breuillard* (Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay), Alexander Gamburd (CUNY Graduate Center), Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Emmanuel Kowalski (ETH Zurich), Hee Oh (Brown University)

The workshop will focus on recent developments concerning various quantitative aspects of "thin groups". These are discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups which are both « big » (i.e. Zariski dense) and « small » (i.e. of infinite co-volume). This dual nature leads to many intricate questions. Over the past few years, many new ideas and techniques, arising in particular from arithmetic combinatorics, have been involved in the study of such groups, leading for instance to far-reaching generalizations of the strong approximation theorem in which congruence quotients are shown to exhibit a spectral gap (super-strong approximation).

Simultaneously and sometimes surprisingly, the study of thin groups turns out to be of fundamental importance in a variety of subjects, including equidistribution of homogeneous flows and lattice points counting problems, dynamics on Teichmuller space, the Bourgain-Gamburd-Sarnak sieve in orbit, and arithmetic or geometric properties of certain types of monodromy groups and coverings. The workshop will gather a variety of experts from group theory, number theory, ergodic theory and harmonic analysis to present the accomplishments to date to a broad audience and discuss directions for further study.

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237. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) Spring 2012

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: Stanford University

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238. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Lattice Models and Combinatorics

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.

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239. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Discrete Lattice Models in Mathematics, Physics, and Computing

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.

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240. # WorkshopQuantitative Geometry in Computer Science

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.

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241. # WorkshopChern Centennial Conference

Organizers: Robert Bryant (Co-Chair, Mathematical Science Research Institute - MSRI), Yiming Long (Co-Chair, Chern Institute of Mathematics - CIM), Hélène Barcelo (Mathematical Science Research Institute - MSRI), May Chu (S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematical Research), and Lei Fu (Chern Institute of Mathematics - CIM).

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), in conjunction with the Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM) in Tianjin, China, celebrates the centennial of the birth of Shiing-Shen Chern, one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century and MSRI's co-founder. In commemoration of Chern's work, MSRI and CIM will hold a two-week international mathematics conference. During the first week, October 24 to 28, 2011, the conference will take place at CIM in Tianjin, China. During the second week, October 30 to November 5, 2011, the conference will be held at MSRI in Berkeley, California.

The auditorium at MSRI can seat about 140 participants. We advise early registration.

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242. # WorkshopEmbedding Problems in Banach Spaces and Group Theory

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.

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243. # WorkshopProbabilistic Reasoning in Quantitative Geometry

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).

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244. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Quantitative Geometry

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.

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245. # WorkshopConnections for Women in Quantitative Geometry

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.

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246. # Summer Graduate SchoolCluster Algebras and Cluster Combinatorics

Organizers: Gregg Musiker (University of Minnesota), Lauren Williams* (University of California, Berkeley)

Cluster algebras are a class of combinatorially defined rings that provide a unifying structure for phenomena in a variety of algebraic and geometric contexts. A partial list of related areas includes quiver representations, statistical physics, and Teichmuller theory. This summer workshop for graduate students will focus on the combinatorial aspects of cluster algebras, thereby providing a concrete introduction to this rapidly-growing field. Besides providing background on the fundamentals of cluster theory, the summer school will cover complementary topics such as total positivity, the polyhedral geometry of cluster complexes, cluster algebras from surfaces, and connections to statistical physics. No prior knowledge of cluster algebras will be assumed.

The workshop will consist of four mini-courses with accompanying tutorials. Students will also have opportunities for further exploration using computer packages in Java and Sage.

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247. # Summer Graduate SchoolToric Varieties in Cortona, Italy

Organizers: Scientific Committee: David Cox* (Amherst College) and Hal Schenck (University of Illinois)
Organizing Committee: Giorgio Patrizio (Università di Firenze, Italy) and Sandro Verra (Università di Roma Tre, Italy)

In cooperation with INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica) and the SMI (Scuola Matematica Interuniversitaria), MSRI will sponsor a summer graduate workshop (SGW) on toric varieties in Cortona during summer of 2011; the workshop will reprise the very successful SGW on toric varieties held at MSRI in 2009.
Toric varieties are algebraic varieties defined by combinatorial data, and there is a wonderful interplay between algebra, combinatorics and geometry involved in their study. Many of the key concepts of abstract algebraic geometry (for example, constructing a variety by glueing affine pieces) have very concrete interpretations in the toric case, making toric varieties an ideal tool for introducing students to abstruse concepts.

Special restrictions apply, please see the workshop homepage.

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248. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometric Measure Theory and Applications

Organizers: Camillo De Lellis (Universität Zürich), Tatiana Toro* (University of Washington)

Geometric Measure Theory (GMT) is a field of Mathematics that has contributed greatly to the development of the calculus of variations and geometric analysis. In recent years it has experienced a new boom with the development of GMT in the metric space setting which has lead to unexpected applications (for examples to questions arising from theoretical computer sciences). The goal of this summer graduate workshop is to introduce students to different aspects of this field. There will be 5 mini-courses and a couple of research lectures. We expect students to have a solid background in measure theory.

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249. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS-PCMI Summer School on Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces

Organizers: Benson Farb (University of Chicago), Richard Hain (Duke University), and Eduard Looijenga (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

The study of moduli spaces of Riemann surface is a rich mixture of geometric topology, algebraic topology, complex analysis and algebraic geometry. Each community of researchers that studies these moduli spaces generates its own problems and its own techniques for solving them. However, it is not uncommon for researchers in one community to solve problems generated by another once they become aware of them. The goal of this summer school is to give graduate students a broad background in the various approaches to the study of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces so that they will be aware of the problems and techniques of many of the communities that study these fascinating objects. Graduate student participants from the various communities will be encouraged to interact with their colleagues from the other communities of students in order to maximize cross fertilization.

Special restrictions apply, please see the workshop homepage.

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250. # Summer Graduate SchoolSeminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2011. Metric Measure Spaces: Geometric and Analytic Aspects.

Organizers: Galia Dafni* (Concordia University, Montreal), Robert McCann (University of Toronto), and Alina Stancu (Concordia University, Montreal)

In cooperation with the CRM (Centre de Recherches Mathematiques), the Fields Institute, and the PIMS (Pacific Insitute for Mathematical Sciences), MSRI will sponsor a summer graduate workshop on Metric measure spaces: geometric and analytic aspects in Montreal, Canada.
In recent decades, metric-measure spaces have emerged as a fruitful source of mathematical questions in their own right, and as indispensable tools for addressing classical problems in geometry, topology, dynamical systems and partial differential equations. The purpose of the 2011 summer school is to lead young scientists to the research frontier concerning the analysis and geometry of metric-measure spaces, by exposing them to a series of mini-courses featuring leading researchers who will present both the state-of-the-art and the exciting challenges which remain.

Special restrictions apply, please see the workshop homepage.

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251. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2011: Mathematical Finance

Organizers: Marcel Blais (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), LEAD Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

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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252. # Summer Graduate SchoolThe Dirichlet Space: Connections between Operator Theory, Function Theory, and Complex Analysis

Organizers: Nicola Arcozzi (Universita' di Bologna), Richard Rochberg (Washington University), Eric T Sawyer (McMaster University), Brett D Wick* (Georgia Institute of Technology)

This workshop will focus on the classical Dirichlet space of holomorphic functions on the unit disk. This space is at the center of several active, interrelated areas of research that, viewed more broadly, focus on the interaction between function theoretic operator theory and potential theory. There are several goals of this Summer Graduate Workshop. First, mathematically, the workshop will demonstrate the basic properties of the Dirichlet space, then introduce the technique of Trees in Function Spaces. The workshop will show the interconnections between the areas of Complex Analysis, Function Theory, and Operator Theory and will also illustrate the real-variable analogues of the analytic result discussed.

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253. # WorkshopBay Area Circle for Teachers Summer Workshop

Organizers: David Auckly*

The BACT Summer Workshop supports teachers in their development of problem solving skills as well as supporting the incorporation of problem solving into their teaching curriculum. During the earlier part of the week teachers will gain experience with a variety of problem solving techniques such as symmetry, mathematical patterns, and parity. Subsequent sessions will focus on particular topics such as geometry, sequences, counting, and number theory.

Note: for 2011 Workshop there will be two parallel sessions: one for elementary teachers and one for secondary teachers.

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254. # Summer Graduate SchoolCommutative Algebra

Organizers: Daniel Erman (Stanford University), Irena Swanson* (Reed College), and Amelia Taylor (Colorado College)

This workshop will involve a combination of theory and symbolic computation in commutative algebra. The lectures are intended to introduce three active areas of research: Boij-Söderberg theory, algebraic statistics, and integral closure. The lectures will be accompanied with tutorials on the computer algebra system Macaulay 2.

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255. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2011: Mathematical Education of Teachers

Organizers: Dave Auckly, Sybilla Beckmann (chair), Jim Lewis and William McCallum

This workshop will showcase materials and successful teacher education programs, examine the Common Core State Standards and its implications, and explore how mathematics education research can improve practice.

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256. # WorkshopArithmetic Statistics

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.

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257. # WorkshopCircle on the Road Spring 2011

Organizers: Dave Auckly, Matthias Kawski, Jeff Morgan, Mark Saul, and Sam Vandervelde

This workshop will bring together people who have experience running math circles and teams of people who wish to start a math circle. The workshop will begin on Friday, with discussions and presentations related to math circles. On Saturday several sample math circle sessions will be offered, and the workshop will conclude on Sunday with more discussions and presentations.

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258. # WorkshopFree Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications

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.

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259. # WorkshopWorkshop on Mathematics Journals

Organizers: James M Crowley (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Susan Hezlet* (London Mathematical Society), Robion C Kirby (University of California, Berkeley), and Donald E McClure (American Mathematical Society)

Mathematics relies on its journal literature as the main conduit for peer review and dissemination of research, and it does so more heavily and differently to other scientific fields. The conflict between universal access and the traditional subscription model that funds the journals has been debated for the past decade, while hard data on financial sustainability and usage under the different models has been slow to appear. However the last ten years have seen the move from print to the electronic version of journals becoming the version of record and the workshop plans to take an evidence-based approach to discussing dissemination, access and usage of mathematics journals.

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260. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Arithmetic Statistics

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.

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261. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Arithmetic Statistics

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.

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262. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications

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.

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263. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications

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.

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264. # WorkshopRandom Matrix Theory and its Applications II

Organizers: Alexei Borodin* (California Institute of Technology), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alice Guionnet (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Pierre van Moerbeke (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Brandeis University), and Craig A.Tracy (University of California, Davis)

Random matrix theory (RMT) was introduced into the theoretical physics community by Eugene Wignerinthe 1950s as a model for the scattering resonances of neutrons off large nuclei. In multivariate statistics, random matrix models were introduced in the late 1920s by John Wishart and subsequently developed by Anderson, James and others. Since these early beginnings RMT has found an extraordinary variety of mathematical, physical and engineering applications that, to name some, include number theory, stochastic growth models, tiling problems and wireless communications.

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265. # WorkshopSIAM/MSRI workshop on Hybrid Methodologies for Symbolic-Numeric Computation

Organizers: Mark Giesbrecht (University of Waterloo), Erich Kaltofen* (North Carolina State University), Daniel Lichtblau (Wolfram Research), Seth Sullivant (North Carolina State University), and Lihong Zhi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

This workshop will provide a forum for researchers on both sides (and the middle!) of hybrid symbolic-numeric computation. We anticipate inviting as primary speakers some of the original contributors in the field, as well as younger researchers making strong contributions on different aspects of the field.

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266. # WorkshopInverse Problems: Theory and Applications

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.

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267. # WorkshopHot Topics: Kervaire invariant

Organizers: Mike Hill (University of Virginia), Michael Hopkins (Harvard University), and Douglas C. Ravanel* (University of Rochester)

This workshop will focus on the ideas surrounding the recent solution to the Arf-Kervaire invariant problem in stable homotopy theory by Mike Hill, Mike Hopkins and Doug Ravenel. There will be talks on relevant aspects of equivariant stable homotopy theory, including the norm functor and the slice tower. The pertinent parts of chromatic homotopy theory will be covered including formal groups and formal $A$-modules, the Hopkins-Miller theorem, finite subgroups of Morava stabilizer groups and Ravenel's 1978 solution to the analogous problem at primes bigger than 3. There will also be several talks by the organizers giving a detailed account of the proof of the main theorem. Finally there will be a discussion of the questions raised by the unexpected statement of the theorem.

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268. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry (BADG) Seminar Fall 2010

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 at MSRI (participants will be asked to make a donation to help defray their lunch expenses) and the final talk will be followed by dinner. The schedule (with speakers) will be posted as soon as it becomes available.The October 23rd meeting takes place on the 60th birthday of Rick Schoen, and the dinner will recognize this happy coincidence.

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269. # Workshop21st Bay Area Discrete Math Day (BADMath Day)

Organizers: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), Ruchira Datta (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Hsu (San Jose State University), Fu Liu (University of California, Davis), Carol Meyers (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Raman Sanyal* (University of California, Berkeley), Rick Scott (Santa Clara University), and Ellen Veomett (California State University, East Bay)

BADMath Days are one-day meetings aimed at facilitating communication between researchers and graduate students of discrete mathematics around the San Francisco Bay Area. These days happen twice a year and strive to create an informal atmosphere to talk about discrete mathematics. The term "discrete mathematics" is chosen to include at least the following topics: Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, Graph Theory, Coding and Design Theory, Combinatorial Aspects of Computational Algebra and Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, Probabilistic Combinatorics, Combinatorial Aspects of Statistics, and Combinatorics in Mathematical Physics.

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270. # WorkshopConnections for Women: An Introduction to Random Matrices

Organizers: Estelle Basor (American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto), Alice Guionnet* (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), and Irina Nenciu (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Topics covered in this workshop will include fundamental problems in random matrices, including universality questions and connections to physics, free probability, Riemann Hilbert problems and applications to other areas of mathematics such as number theory and numerical analysis.

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271. # WorkshopRandom Matrix Theory and Its Applications I

Organizers: Jinho Baik (University of Michigan), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alexander Its* (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), Kenneth McLaughlin (University of Arizona), and Craig A. Tracy (University of California, Davis)

In the spring of 1999, MSRI hosted a very successful and influential one-semester program on RMT and its applications. At the workshops during the semester, there was a sense of excitement as brand new and very recent results were reported. The goal of the 2010 Program is to showcase the many remarkable developments that have taken place since 1999 and to spur further developments in RMT and Related areas of interacting particle systems (IPS) and integrable systems (IS) as well as to highlight various applications of RMT.

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272. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications

Organizers: Margaret Cheney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington), Michael Vogelius( Rutgers), and Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley)

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, more recently, modelling in the life sciences.

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273. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Inverse Problems and Applications

Organizers: Tanya Christiansen (University of Missouri, Columbia), Alison Malcolm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Shari Moskow (Drexel University), Chrysoula Tsogka (University of Crete), 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, more recently, modelling in the life sciences.

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274. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgebraic, Geometric, and Combinatorial Methods for Optimization

Organizers: Matthias Köppe (University of California, Davis) and Jiawang Nie (University of California, San Diego)

This workshop is intended to introduce to graduate students the main ideas of algebraic, geometric and combinatorial methods in global optimization. We emphasize the major developments in the past few years from two viewpoints. The first one is that of the interaction of semidefinite programming and real algebraic geometry and includes topics such as linear matrix inequalities, positive polynomials, and sums of squares. The second viewpoint is that of primal methods and generating function methods in integer linear and nonlinear optimization.

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275. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematics of Climate Change

Organizers: Chris Jones (University of North Carolina and University of Warwick), Doug Nychka (National Center for Atmospheric Research), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College)

NCAR supports scientific research on nearly every aspect of the atmosphere and related components of the Earth’s physical and biological systems. This includes developing state-of-the- art climate models, high performance computing and also innovative ways of observing the atmosphere and oceans. The Center has approximately 1000 staff and is supported primarily by the National Science Foundation. Part of the NCAR mission is to engage students in the problems of understanding climate and weather and so provides an ideal context for this summer graduate workshop. The workshop is also part a larger program at NCAR through the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences: Mathematicians and Climate.

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276. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Research Summer School 2010: Image Processing

Organizers: Tony Chan (University of California, Los Angeles), Ron Devore (Unversity of South Carolina, Columbia), Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles), and Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine)

Both an MSRI nomination and PCMI application are required to attend the Image Processing summer school. The application form can be found by going to the PCMI page IAS/PCMI application homepage and clicking on the sentence "You're ready to apply."

Once the PCMI application is complete IAS/PCMI application homepage please return a letter of nomination from the Director of Graduate Studies to MSRI.

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277. # Summer Graduate SchoolProbability workshop: 2010 PIMS Summer School in Probability.

Organizers: Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington), Zhenqing Chen (University of Washington), Christopher Hoffman (University of Washington), Soumik Pal (University of Washington), Yuval Peres ( University of California, Berkeley)

The 2010 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Summer
School in Probability will be held at the University of Washington and
Microsoft Research. The workshop will have two main courses, and three short ones.

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278. # Summer Graduate SchoolSage Days 22: Computing with Elliptic Curves

Organizers: William Stein (University of Washington)

This workshop will introduce graduate students to several central ideas in the arithmetic of elliptic curves. Participants will join a project group that will focus mainly on one topic, possibly involving elliptic curves over number fields, complex or p-adic L-functions, Heegner points and Kolyvagin classes, Iwasawa theory, and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. The workshop will emphasize the essential interplay of abstract mathematics with explicit computation, which has played a central role in number theory ever since Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer made their famous conjecture in the 1960s. Participants will use, and improve, the free open-source Python-based mathematical software system Sage (http://www.sagemath.org) for computational projects.

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279. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer School on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry

Organizers: Heath Emerson, (University of Victoria) Thierry Giordano, (University of Ottawa) Marcelo Laca*, (University of Victoria) Ian Putnam, (University of Victoria)

The summer school aims to expose participants to the classi cation of noncommutative
spaces, to the study of their homological and cohomological invariants, and to explore fascinating
new connections between their symmetries and long standing problems in number
theory. Additional information can be found on the PIMS page

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280. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2010: Elliptic Curves and Applications

Organizers: LEAD Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Edray Goins (Pomona College), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

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. The academic portion of the program will be led by Dr. Edray Goins.

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281. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2010: Reasoning and Sense-Making in the Math Curriculum

Organizers: Dave Auckly, Scott Baldridge, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Aaron Bertram, Wade Ellis, Deborah Hughes Hallett, Gary Martin, and William McCallum (Chair)

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has just released a new document, Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense-Making. The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governor’s Association have initiated a state led effort to produce Common Core State Standards, which they hope will move states toward national curricular coherence. The national scene is being transformed through stimulus money aimed at having states adopt common standards. This is a significant time for mathematicians to weigh in for coherence and a focus on thinking, understanding and sense-making. For this reason MSRI will host the seventh Critical Issues in Mathematics Education Workshop on this topic. Themes of the workshop will include international comparisons, the role of a coherent national curriculum in the teaching of mathematics, and the ways in which technology can be used to support reasoning and sense-making.

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282. # WorkshopSymplectic Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry and Physics

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).

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.

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283. # WorkshopSymplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topology

Organizers: Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Alvaro Pelayo* (University of California, Berkeley), Steve Zelditch (Northwestern University), Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley)

The first week of May 2010 coincides with the first year anniversary of Alan Weinstein's retirement from UC Berkeley; Weinstein has been one of the most influential figures in symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry and analysis in the past forty years. Weinstein's fundamental work inspired many others and led to the development of central concepts in symplectic and Poisson geometry, as well as to the establishment of symplectic geometry as an independent discipline within mathematics. This conference will be a forum to celebrate Weinstein's fundamental contributions to geometry and mathematics at large.

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284. # WorkshopSymplectic and Contact Topology and Dynamics: Puzzles and Horizons

Organizers: Paul Biran (Tel Aviv University), John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Helmut Hofer (Courant Institute), Dusa McDuff *(Barnard College), Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University),

This workshop will focus on recent progress in central problems in
symplectic and contact topology and Hamiltonian dynamics such as
rigidity of Lagrangian submanifolds, algebra/topology/geometry of
symplectomorphism and contactomorphism groups, exotic symplectic and
contact structures, and existence of
periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and Reeb flows.
It will explain applications of the "large machines"
such as Floer Theory, Symplectic Field Theory and Fukaya categories,
showing where these machines do not yet provide satisfactory
answers. Special attention will also be paid to articulating
new problems and
directions, as well as to explaining
interactions between symplectic and contact
topology and other fields.

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285. # WorkshopResearch Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links

Organizers: Peter S. Ozsváth* (Columbia University), Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University), Peter Teichner (UC Berkeley).

Link homology is a young and rapidly-developing area drawing on many branches of mathematics. The subject has its roots in representation theory, and it has benefitted from its interactions with low-dimensional, classical, and quantum topology and symplectic geometry. Indeed, several recent developments have underscored the close parallels between link homology and Floer homological invariants for low-dimensional manifolds.

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286. # WorkshopCircle on the Road

Organizers: Dave Auckly, Matthias Kawski, Omayra Ortega, Hugo Rossi and Mark Saul

This conference will bring together people who have experience running math circles with *teams* of people who wish to start a math circle. The workshop will begin on Saturday with a Math Festival for school children in the Phoenix area. The following two days will have panel discussions and presentations on various topics of interest to people who run or wish to run a math circle.

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287. # WorkshopBay Area Circle for Teachers Winter Workshop

Organizers: Brandy Wiegers*

The Winter workshop supports teachers in their development of problem solving skills as well as sharing with them information about upcoming mathematical opportunities for students and teachers. This will be a great opportunity for teachers new to the Math Circle program and experienced Math Circle teachers.

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288. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links

Organizers: Aaron Lauda (Columbia University), Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University), Dylan Thurston* (Columbia University).

This workshop will introduce the main branches in the study of knot homology theories. It will consist of three mini-courses, one on knot Floer homology and related topics; one on the various approaches to
Khovanov and Khovanov-Rozansky homology; and one on categorification on quantum groups. (There will also be several stand-alone lectures.) The techniques involved in the three branches are quite different; in
particular, Heegaard Floer theory is analytic in nature, with its origin in gauge theory and symplectic geometry, while both Khovanov homology and categorification are more algebraic in nature, with origins in representation theory and algebraic geometry. The workshop will provide an opportunity for graduate students and researchers
outside the field to gain entry, as well as for researchers working in one part of the field to learn about techniques and developments in other parts.

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289. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Homology Theories of Knots and Links

Organizers: Elisenda Grigsby* (Columbia), Olga Plamenevskaya (SUNY/Stonybrook), and Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)

This 2-day workshop will serve as a prelude to the introductory workshop for the semester-long program on homology theories of knots and links. Survey talks in the mornings will position the work in Khovanov and Heegaard Floer homology in a broader context, focusing on:

1) applications to classical questions in low-dimensional topology, and
2) connections to contact and symplectic topology.

Research talks in the afternoons will highlight the range of current activity in the field. We plan a format of no more than four talks each day to allow ample time for presentation opportunities for younger researchers and formal and informal discussions.

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290. # WorkshopMacaulay2 Workgroup

Organizers: David Eisenbud* (University of California, Berkeley), Amelia Taylor (Colorado College), Hirotachi Abo (University of Idaho), Mike Stillman (Cornell University) and Dan Grayson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

/Macaulay2/ is a software system devoted to supporting research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. Its creation and development have been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1992.

/Macaulay2/ includes core algorithms for computing Gröbner bases and graded or multi-graded free resolutions of modules over quotient rings of graded or multi-graded polynomial rings with a monomial ordering. The core algorithms are accessible through a versatile high level interpreted user language with a powerful debugger supporting the creation of new classes of mathematical objects and the installation of methods for computing specifically with them. /Macaulay2/ can compute Betti numbers, Ext, cohomology of coherent sheaves on projective varieties, primary decomposition of ideals, integral closure of rings, and more.

The goal of the workshop was to work at improving and augmenting the functionality of some of the existing packages. Likely projects included computing sheaf cohomology, intersection theory, and enumerative geometry.

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291. # WorkshopTropical Structures in Geometry and Physics

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.

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292. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar

Organizers: Robert Bryant (MSRI), Joel Hass (UC Davis), David Hoffman* (Stanford University), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University), Richard Montgomery (UC Santa Cruz).

The Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar meets around 3 times each year and is a 1-day seminar on recent developments in differential geometry and global analysis, broadly interpreted. Typically, it runs from mid-morning until late afternoon, with 3-4 speakers. Box lunches will be available for purchase and the final talk will be followed by dinner. The schedule (with speakers) will be posted as soon as it becomes available. Please register and also indicate whether you will be attending the dinner afterwards. If you have questions, please feel free to contact the organizers.

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293. # WorkshopAlgebraic Structures in the Theory of Holomorphic Curves

Organizers: Mohammed Abouzaid* ( Clay Mathematics Institute), Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University), Eleny Ionel (Stanford University), Lenny Ng (Duke University), Paul Seidel (MIT).

The theory of holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds leads
to rich algebraic structures. The study of these structures is
increasingly important both for understanding the theory itself, and
for actual computations and applications. The aim of the workshop
is to survey ongoing developments in the area. Some of the topics
of interest are: cohomological field theories; relative and tropical
Gromov-Witten invariants; Symplectic Field Theory (SFT) and connections
with string topology; theories of holomorphic curves with Lagrangian
boundary conditions, such as relative SFT, open Gromov-Witten theory,
and Fukaya categories.

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294. # WorkshopTropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra

Organizers: Federico Ardila* (San Francisco State University), David Speyer (MIT), Jenia Tevelev (U Mass Amherst), Lauren Williams (Harvard)

This workshop will concentrate on tropical methods in Combinatorics
and Algebra. Some of the topics we expect to explore are
tropical ideas and methods in combinatorial linear algebra and in
combinatorial representation theory, as well as computational issues and applications of tropical methods in algebraic statistics.

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295. # WorkshopHot Topics: Black Holes in Relativity

Organizers: Mihalis Dafermos (University of Cambridge) and Igor Rodnianski* (Princeton)

The mathematical study of the dynamics of the Einstein equations forms a central part of both partial differential equations and geometry, and is intimately related to our current physical understanding of gravitational collapse.

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296. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Tropical Geometry

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.

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297. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Tropical Geometry

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.

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298. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology

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.

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299. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology

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.

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300. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer Graduate Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology

Organizers: John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dusa McDuff* (Barnard College, Columbia University) and Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr College).

Symplectic and Contact Topology has undergone rapid and exciting growth
in the past few decades and is currently a rich subject, employing a variety of diverse techniques and touching on many areas of mathematics, such as algebraic and differential geometry, dynamical systems and low dimensional topology. This workshop is intended both for graduate students new to the
area and for those working in the field.
Lectures in the first week will introduce participants to basic topological, geometric and analytic techniques, including J-holomorphic curves. The second week will discuss applications to symplectic geometry and to 3-dimensional topology and knot theory. A variety of discussion
sessions in the afternoon will cater to the differing interests of the students. Participants may consider staying for the Connections for Women and/or the Introductory workshop to the year long Symplectic Geometry program that starts just after this workshop.

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301. # Summer Graduate SchoolInverse Problems

Organizers: 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, more recently, modelling in the life sciences.

The workshop will consist of several minicourses addressing several of the theoretical and practical issues arising in inverse problems including boundary rigidity and travel time tomography, cloaking and invisibility, electrical impedance imaging, statistical methods and biological applications, thermoacoustic and x-ray tomography, and resonances.

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302. # Summer Graduate SchoolComputational Theory of Real Reductive Groups (Salt lake City)

Organizers: Jeffrey Adams (University of Maryland) , Peter Trapa* (University of Utah), Susana Salamanca (New Mexico State University), John Stembridge (University of Michigan), and David Vogan (MIT).

The structure of real reductive algebraic groups is controlled by a remarkably simple combinatorial framework, generalizing the presentation of Coxeter groups by generators and relations. This framework in turn makes much of the infinite-dimensional representation theory of such groups amenable to computation.

The Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations project is devoted to looking at representation theory from this computationally informed perspective. The group (particularly Fokko du Cloux and Marc van Leeuwen) has written computer software aimed at supporting research in the field, and at helping those who want to learn the subject.

The workshop will explore this point of view in lecture series aimed especially at graduate students and postdocs with only a modest background (such as the representation theory of compact Lie groups).

Deadline for funding applications: 1 March, 2009.

The official workshop website is at: http://www.liegroups.org/workshop/

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303. # Summer Graduate SchoolRandom Matrix theory

Organizers: Jinho Baik ( University of Michigan), Percy Deift* (New York University),Toufic Suidan (University of Arizona), Brian Rider (University of Colorado)

The goal of this workshop is two-fold: (1) to describe many of the recent advances that have been made in the application of random matrix theory to problems in mathematics and physics (2) to develop some of the mathematical tools that are needed to enter the field. Applications of random matrix theory are now being made to number theory, combinatorics, statistical physics and statistics amongst other fields. The techniques employed in the field include methods from integrable systems, combinatorics, complex analysis, orthogonal polynomials and of course random matrix theory per se.

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304. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer Program: The Arithmetic of L-functions

Organizers: Cristian Popescu (UCSD), Karl Rubin ( UC Irvine) , Alice Silverberg (UC Irvine).

For application forms and information please visit the following link IAS/PCMI application homepage

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305. # WorkshopBay Area Circle For Teachers 2009-2010

Organizers: Brandy Wiegers

The aim of the Circle for Teachers is to equip educators with an effective problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics.

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306. # Summer Graduate SchoolToric Varieties

Organizers: David Cox ( Amherst College) and Hal Schenck (University of Illinois)

Toric varieties are algebraic varieties defined by combinatorial data, and there is a wonderful interplay between algebra, combinatorics and geometry involved in their study. Many of the key concepts of abstract algebraic geometry (for example, constructing a variety by gluing affine pieces) have very concrete interpretations in the toric case, making toric varieties an ideal tool for introducing students to abstruse concepts.

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307. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2009: Coding Theory

Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), John Little (College of the Holy Cross), LEAD Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support.

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308. # WorkshopModern Perspectives in Applied Mathematics

Organizers: Andrea L. Bertozzi (University of CaliforniaLosAngeles), Panagiotis Souganidis (The University of Chicago), and Eric Vanden-Eijnden (NewYorkUniversity)

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York

Stochastic and multi-scale modeling is becoming a main driving force in many scientific and engineering disciplines, and is a mong the most exciting areas of scientific research. Indeed, many problems in sciences involve quantifying the behavior of complex systems with a very large number of degrees of freedom. The systems interact on al arge span of scales and require to incorporate stochastic effects to account for model errors and/or disturbances from under-resolvedscales.

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309. # WorkshopAlgebraic Geometry: Last Week of Program

Organizers: William Fulton (University of Michigan), Joe Harris (Harvard University), Brendan Hassett (Rice University), János Kollár (Princeton University), Sándor Kovács* (University of Washington), Robert Lazarsfeld (University of Michigan), and Ravi Vakil (Stanford University)

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310. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2009: Teaching Undergraduates Mathematics

Organizers: William McCallum (The University of Arizona), Deborah Loewenberg Ball (University of Michigan), Rikki Blair (Lakeland Comminity College, Ohio), David Bressoud (Macalester College), Amy Cohen-Corwin (Rutgers University), Don Goldberg (El Camino College), Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska), Robert Megginson (University of Michigan), Bob Moses (The Algebra Project), James Donaldson (Howard University),

Teaching Undergraduates Mathematics will be the sixth in a series of Critical Issues in Education workshops hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA. Whereas previous workshops focused on K-12 education and teacher education, this workshop will focus on undergraduate education.

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311. # WorkshopEconomic Games and Mechanisms to Address Climate Change

Organizers: Rene Carmona (Princeton), Prajit Dutta (Columbia), Chris Jones (University of North Carolina), Roy Radner (NYU), and David Zetland (UC Berkeley).

Themes: Carbon cap-and-trade and economic consequences; Game theory and self-enforcing treaties; Economic mechanisms and incentive for greenhouse gas emission reductions.

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312. # WorkshopGreat Circles 2009

Organizers: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University), Amanda Serenevy (Executive Director of the Riverbed Community Math Center), Sam Vandervelde (St. Lawrence University), and Kathy O'Hara (MSRI)

This conference will bring together experienced math circle directors and professional mathematicians along with secondary school teachers and students, with the three- fold goal of inspiring and equipping individuals to begin math circles in their communities, passing along successful math circle presentations and best practices in math circle administration, and renewing and strengthening ties among members of the existing math circle network.

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313. # WorkshopMathematical Genomics

Organizers: David Galas (Institute for Systems Biology), Richard Olshen (Co-chair) (Stanford University), Rick Woychik (The Jackson Laboratory), Nancy Zhang (Co-chair) (Stanford University)

The goal of the conference is to bring individuals from genetics and the mathematical sciences into closer contact so that they might share objectives and skills needed to advance both areas, and especially their intersection.

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314. # WorkshopCombinatorial, Enumerative and Toric Geometry

Organizers: Michel Brion (U. de Genoble), Anders Buch (Rutgers U.), Linda Chen (Ohio State U.), William Fulton (U. Michigan), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Frank Sottile (Texas A&M), Harry Tamvakis (U. Maryland), and Burt Totaro (Cambridge U.)

This workshop will present the state of the art in combinatorial, enumerative, and toric algebraic geometry. It
will highlight this part of modern algebraic geometry within the context of the broader parent program at MSRI, and convey its scope to young researchers.

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315. # WorkshopSage Days: Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: David Eisenbud (UC Berkeley), Daniel Erman (UC Berkeley), Dan Grayson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mike Hansen (University of Washington), William Stein (University of Washington), Mike Stillman (Cornell University).

This workshop features numerous hands on introductory tutorials about Sage, and the interface between Sage and Macaulay2. There were discussions and talks about doing algebraic geometry with both Sage and Macaulay2, and the unique advantages of both systems. There were also talks about working with lattice polytopes and doing Lie theory in Sage. In addition to the talks and tutorials, we had numerous coding sprints.

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316. # WorkshopThe Mathematical Association of America Sectional Meeting

Organizers: Organized by: Dean Gooch (Santa Rosa Junior College), Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University), Robert L. Bryant (MSRI), Steve Chiappari and Frank Farris (Santa Clara University) and Ed Keppelmann (University of Nevada Reno)

As one of the MAAs most entertaining sections this meeting will be no exception. All the presentations will have plenty of rich mathematics accessible to students but equally engaging for seasoned veterans. The featured speakers are Robert Bryant (The idea of Holonomy), David Bressoud - MAA President Elect (The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture), Frank Farris - Editor Mathematics Magazine (A window to the 5th dimension), Kevin McCurley - Google Research (Information Modeling with Graphs), and Helene Barcelo - MSRI (Subspace Arrangements from a Combinatorial point of view). There will also be a student poster session, a luncheon, and plenty of time for catching up with old friends and colleagues.

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317. # WorkshopModern Moduli Theory

Organizers: I. Coskun (U. Illinois - Chicago), S. Katz (U. Illinois), A. Marian (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Pandharipande (Princeton U.), R. Thomas (Imperial College), H.H. Tseng (U. Wisconsin), R. Vakil (Stanford U.)

This workshop will convene experts specializing on the minimal model program, derived categories and moduli
spaces in an informal environment to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas across these different fields of algebraic geometry.

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318. # WorkshopMacaulay2 day

Organizers: Ravi Vakil (Stanford University), Gregory G. Smith (Queen's University) , Mike Stillman (Cornell University)

Using Macaulay 2 in your research.

The goal of the workshop is to help the participants use the Macaulay 2 software in their research. The first presentation will focus on installation, set-up, and basic functions.
Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops to this session to get assistance with the software installation. The other independent talks will focus on different problems in algebraic geometry; likely topics include computing sheaf cohomology, intersection theory, and enumerative geometry. Each of these talks will also demonstrate the use of Macaulay 2.

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319. # WorkshopClassical Algebraic Geometry Today

Organizers: Lucia Caporaso (U. Rome III), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), James McKernan (MIT), Mircea Mustata (U. Michigan), Mihnea Popa (U. Illinois - Chicago)

The main theme of the workshop will be to explore modern approaches to
problems originating in Classical Algebraic Geometry, and at the same time
offer an introduction to various subfields to the younger participants in
the semester-long program.

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320. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields

Organizers: Angela Gibney (U. Pennsylvania), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Diane Maclagan (Warwick U.) Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke), and Ravi Vakil (Stanford U.)

This workshop is part of the semester program on Algebraic Geometry, and
additional funding will be available for participants to attend the associated
"Introductory workshop: Classical algebraic geometry," January 26-30, 2009.

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321. # WorkshopAlgebraic Statistics

Organizers: Serkan Hosten (SFSU), Lior Pachter (UCB), Bernd Sturmfels (UCB)

Algebraic statistics is a maturing discipline focused on the applications of algebraic geometry and its computational
tools in the study of statistical models. Initial results in the area were related to specific problems in categorial data analysis and experimental design, however
a flurry of activity during the past several years has greatly increased the scope of the subject. Areas of interest now include graphical models, maximum likelihood estimation and
Bayesian methods. Moreover, a strong connection has developed to applications in the physical and biological sciences. The field draws its tools not only from computational
algebraic geometry but also from tropical, convex, and information geometry. Moreover, research in algebraic statistics has led to new directions in those fields. The workshop
will be a meeting point for students and leaders in the field. It will present a focused activity parallel to the 2008-2009 program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics being hosted by
the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute.

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322. # WorkshopUsing Partnerships to Strengthen Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education

Organizers: Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), James Lewis (University of Nebraska), and William McCallum (University of Arizona)

A core problem – perhaps the central problem – for improving elementary school mathematics is the mathematical education of elementary teachers. The historic isolation of elementary teachers’ study of mathematics from their pedagogical preparation is increasingly seen to be both unnatural and ineffective. Indeed, the mathematical education of elementary teachers is inherently interdisciplinary as future teachers seek to gain the mathematical knowledge, the pedagogical knowledge and the knowledge of young students that is needed to become a successful mathematics teacher. Thus, it seems reasonable that an integrative learning approach to mathematical education of elementary teachers could yield substantial benefits.

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323. # WorkshopInternational Conference on Cluster Algebras and Related Topics

Organizers: Christof Geiss (UNAM Ciudad Universitaria), Bernhard Keller (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7), Idun Reiten (Nettstedskart Tilgjengelighet Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universite), Andrei Zelevinsky (Nostheastern University).

Location: Morelia/Mexico City

This is a combination of a conference and workshop on cluster algebras and their relations to geometry, representation theory and combinatorics. The workshop will take place in Morelia (a colonial town about 250km west of Mexico-City), December 8-13, 2008 followed by the conference in Mexico-City, December 15-20.

The Research in this area developed with amazing speed after the introduction of cluster algebras around 2001 by Sergey Fomin and Andrei Zelevinsky and has attracted a variety of first rate mathematicians throughout the world, for instance Alexander Goncharov, Bernhard Keller, Maxim Kontsevich, Bernard Leclerc, Idun Reiten and Claus Michael Ringel, most of them being ICM speakers.

A good way to get an overview of the intense activities related to cluster algebras is Sergey Fomin's cluster algebras portal:
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~fomin/cluster.html
see also section below for some discussion of the impact of cluster algebras.

This workshop website is at:
http://www.matem.unam.mx/iconcart/

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324. # WorkshopBay Area Differential Geometry Seminar

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325. # WorkshopDiscrete Rigidity Phenomena in Additive Combinatorics

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)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
326. # WorkshopElliptic and Hyperbolic Equations on Singular Spaces

Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
327. # WorkshopPromoting Diversity at the Graduate Level in Mathematics: a National Forum

Organizers: Sylvia Bozeman (Spelman College), Rhonda Hughes (Bryn Mawr College), Abbe Herzig (SUNY, University at Albany), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ellen Kirkman(Wake Forest University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), and Olivia Scriven (Spelman College). Honorary organizers include: Dusa McDuff ( SUNY Stonybrook and Barnard College), Fern Hunt (NIST), and Karen Uhlenbeck (U of Texas at Austin).

Cultivating diversity and broadening participation of historically underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences are national goals that are identified by the National Science Foundation as "essential components of the innovation engine that drives the Nation's economy." The goal of this three-day conference is to stimulate, identify, and disseminate successful models that imporve retention of underrepresented groups in graduate programs in mathematics.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
328. # WorkshopStatistical and Computational Challenges in Next-Generation Sequencing

Organizers: Sandrine Dudoit, Terry Speed, Margaret Taub

For the past decade, microarrays have been the assays of choice for high-throughput studies of gene expression. Recent improvements in the efficiency, quality, and cost of genome-wide sequencing are prompting biologists to rapidly abandon microarrays in favor of so-called next-generation sequencers, e.g., Applied Biosystems' SOLiD, Helicos BioSciences' HeliScope, Illumina's Solexa, and Roche's 454 Life Sciences sequencing systems. These high-throughput sequencing technologies have already been applied for studying genome-wide transcription levels (mRNA-Seq), transcription factor binding sites (ChIP-Seq), chromatin structure, and DNA methylation status. While sequencing-based gene expression studies have been touted as overcoming longstanding limitations of microarray-based studies, these new biotechnologies raise similar as well as novel statistical and computational challenges.

This workshop website is at: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~seqmtg/

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
329. # WorkshopMath Institutes Modern Mathematics Workshop

Organizers: Ive Rubio, Herbert Medina, Kathy O'Hara, and Robert Megginson

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
330. # WorkshopTopology of Stratified Spaces

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
331. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Analysis on Singular Spaces

Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch

This four-day program will be an introduction to the main themes of the Analysis on Singular Spaces program, geared toward graduate students and postdocs. It will consist of several minicourses, covering topics in
spectral and scattering theory, index theory, and $L²$-cohomology, as well as developing the technical tools needed as background.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
332. # WorkshopBroader Connections: Analysis on Singular Spaces

Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugenie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Michael Taylor, Andras Vasy, and Jared Wunsch

This two-day program will consist of a "crash course" in topics in PDE relevant to the Analysis on Singular Spaces main program, and in particular will attempt to get graduate students, postdocs, and even advanced
undergraduates ready for the Introductory Workshop the following week. The focus will be topics in analysis on smooth manifolds whose generalizations to singular spaces will be the focus of the main program.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
333. # WorkshopIntroduction to Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics

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)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT

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)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
335. # WorkshopLow Dimensional Topology

Organizers: Elisenda Grigsby, Rob Schneiderman, Peter Teichner and Kevin Walker

In recent years, there has been lots of exciting progress in many branches of low-dimensional topology, including Heegard Floer and Khovanov Homology, small 4-Manifolds, TQFT, knot concordance and Lefschetz fibrations. These are the main themes of this workshop whose format will be three one-hour lectures every day, two in the morning and one survey lecture in the afternoon (except for Friday). This survey lecture will be followed by a panel for experts, lead by the afternoon speaker and some other leaders of the field. The panel will discuss current developments and open problems and it can be extended into the late afternoon if so desired by the panelists.

Updated on Oct 24, 2020 12:20 AM PDT
336. # WorkshopBay Area Circle for Teachers

Organizers: Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University) and Joshua Zucker (Castilleja School)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT

Organizers: Christopher Jones (UNC Chapel Hill and U Warwick, UK), Inez Fung (U.C. Berkeley), Eric Kostelich (Arizona State University), K.K. Tung (U. Washington), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College), Charles D. Camp (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), Rachel Kuske (Univ British Columbia)

The goal of the workshop will be to discern ways in which mathematics can contribute and to expose new researchers to some of the key areas that we believe will form the basis of serious mathematical considerations of climate change issues.

Updated on Oct 31, 2020 11:13 AM PDT
338. # WorkshopClimate Change Summer School

Organizers: Chris Jones (UNC Chapel Hill and U Warwick, UK), Inez Fung (U.C. Berkeley), Eric Kostelich (Arizona State University), K.K. Tung (U. Washington), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College), Charles D. Camp (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), Rachel Kuske (Univ British Columbia)

Supported by the Sea Change Foundation, this three-week summer school will incorporate a workshop for graduate students as well as an advanced research workshop. The mini-program is designed to introduce students and postdocs to a set of mathematical ideas and techniques that are highly relevant to climate change research.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
339. # Summer Graduate SchoolGeometry and Representation Theory of Tensors for Computer Science, Statistics, and other areas

Organizers: J.M. Landsberg (Texas A&M), Lek-Heng Lim (UC Berkeley) and Jason Morton (UC Berkeley)

Recently the common geometry of tensors arising in questions in computational complexity, statistical learning theory, signal processing, scientific data analysis have been looked at from a unified perspective. The underlying geometry and representation theory will be covered in this workshop with and eye towards problems such as the complexity of matrix multiplication, Valiant's approach to P=NP, measures of entanglement in quantum information theory, graphicalmodels in statistical learning theory, independent component analysis and other multilinear data analytic techniques.

Updated on Nov 02, 2020 12:20 AM PST
340. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer Program: Analytic and Algebraic Geometry: Common Problems - Different Methods

Organizers: Mircea Mustaţă (University of Michigan), Jeff McNeal (Ohio State University)

Updated on May 08, 2019 11:51 AM PDT
341. # WorkshopCMI/MSRI Workshop: Modular Forms and Arithmetic

Organizers: Frank Calegari, Samit Dasgupta, David Ellwood, Bjorn Poonen, and Richard Taylor

This conference, jointly funded by MSRI and the Clay Mathematics Institute, will bring together researchers on many aspects of the arithmetic applications of modular (and automorphic) forms. This is currently a very broad and very active subject. Our intention is to encourage interaction between those working in different sub-disciplines. To this end it is hoped to limit lectures to 4 hours a
day, allowing plenty of time for informal interactions. On Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 7pm there will be a dinner to honor Ken Ribet on his 60th birthday.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
342. # Summer Graduate SchoolA Window into Zeta and Modular Physics

Organizers: Floyd Williams (University of Massachusetts) and Klaus Kirsten (Baylor University)

In recent years,a noteworthy and very fruitful interlacing of number theory and physics has emerged.As indicated in the September 2007 issue of the AMS Notices,for example,a new journal "Communications in Number Theory and Physics " has just been launched to follow significant interactions and dynamics between these two fields.Several books are now available,in addition to an array of conference and workshop activity,that accent this fortunate merger of "pure"mathematics and physical theory-with applications that range from field theory (conformal and topological),extended objects (strings and branes)cosmology and black hole physics, to Bose-Einstein condensation and the theory of relativistic gases.

Updated on Oct 29, 2020 12:20 AM PDT
343. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2008: Experimental Mathematics

Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Victor H. Moll (Tulane University), LEAD Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support.

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 03:14 PM PDT
344. # WorkshopHot Topics: Contact structures, dynamics and the Seiberg-Witten equations in dimension 3

Organizers: Helmut Hofer, Michael Hutchings, Peter Kronheimer, Tom Mrowka and Cliff Taubes

This workshop will concentrate on recently discovered relationships between Seiberg-Witten theory and contact geometry on 3 dimensional manifolds. One consequence of these relationships is a proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension 3. Another is an isomorphism between the Seiberg-Witten Floer (co)homology and embedded contact homology, the latter a form of Floer homology that was defined by Michael Hutchings. The over arching plan is to introduce the salient features of both the contact geometry side of the story and the Seiberg-Witten side, and then discuss how they are related.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
345. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2008: Teaching and Learning Algebra

Organizers: Al Cuoco, chair, (Center for Mathematics Education), Deborah Ball, ex officio (University of Michigan), Hyman Bass (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), James Fey (University of Maryland), Megan Franke (UCLA), Roger Howe (Yale University), Alan Schoenfeld (UC Berkeley), and Ed Silver (University of Michigan).

For over two decades, the teaching and learning of algebra has been a focus of mathematics education at the precollege level. This workshop will examine issues in algebra education at two critical points in the continuum from elementary school to undergraduate studies: at the transitions from arithmetic to algebra and from high school to university. In addition, the workshop will involve participants in discussions about various ways to structure an algebra curriculum across the entire K-12 curriculum.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
346. # WorkshopExterior Differential Systems and the Method of Equivalence

Organizers: Jeanne Clelland, William F. Shadwick (Chair) and George Wilkens

Exterior Differential Systems and the Method of Equivalence surveys state of the art applications of these techniques and celebrates the contributions of Robby Gardner to our current understanding of Cartan’s powerful machinery.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
347. # WorkshopHomological Methods in Representation Theory

Organizers: David Benson, Daniel Nakano(chair), Raphael Rouquier

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
348. # WorkshopTopics in Combinatorial Representation Theory

Organizers: Sergey Fomin, Bernard Leclerc, Vic Reiner (Chair), Monica Vazirani

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
349. # WorkshopLie Theory

Organizers: Alexander Kleshchev, Arun Ram, Richard Stanley (chair), Bhama Srinivasan

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
350. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on the Representation Theory of Finite Groups

Organizers: Jonathan Alperin(chair), Robert Boltje, Markus Linckelmann

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
351. # WorkshopMSRI's 25th Anniversary Celebration

We hope that you will join us for the Anniversary celebration at the end of January 2008. As befitting the broad mission of the Institute these will include not only mathematical exposition by some of the leaders who have been and are about to be involved with MSRI programs, but also an opening program of mathematics and music and some panels to reflect on the most important directions for future development.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
352. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Combinatorial Representation Theory

Organizers: Persi Diaconis, Arun Ram, Anne Schilling (Chair)

The goal of the Introductory Workshop is to survey current and recent developments in the field. The talks will focus on tableaux, reflection groups, finite groups, geometry and mathematical physics in the realm of Combinatorial Representation Theory.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
353. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Introduction to the Spring, 2008 programs

Organizers: Bhama Srinivasan and Monica Vazirani

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
354. # WorkshopTopics in Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
355. # WorkshopMathematical Systems Biology of Cancer II

Organizers: Joe Gray, Elizabeth Purdom, Terry Speed and Paul Spellman.

This workshop is designed to encourage and support the mathematical community's involvement in the effort to study cancer using system approaches. Conference presenters will include mathematicians and computer scientists presently involved in systems approaches to cancer and more general fields of biology. These presenters will cover general approaches to systems biology including analysis of genome scale data as well as statistical, continuous, and hybrid methods for pathway modeling. The workshop will also provide tutorials covering the use of tools and methods in systems biology as well as on the fundamental biological processes involved in cancer. In addition, the workshop will provide travel support for students and postdocs from the mathematical sciences to foster interest in this field.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
356. # WorkshopComputation and Complex Systems

Organizers: Robert Bryant (MSRI) and Masoud Nikravesh (UC Berkeley)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
357. # WorkshopModern Mathematics: An Introduction to MSRI's 2008-09 Programs

Organizers: Ricardo Cortez, Kathleen O'Hara, Ivelisse Rubio

This workshop is to be held at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown located at 200 West 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, directly preceding the Annual Meeting of SACNAS. The focus is on the Analysis of Singular Spaces, Ergodic Theory and Additive Combinatorics, and Algebraic Geometry

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
358. # WorkshopIntroduction to Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Mladen Bestvina, Jon McCammond, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
359. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Geometric Group Theory

Organizers: Ruth Charney, Indira Chatterji, and Karen Vogtmann

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
360. # WorkshopIntroduction to Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups

Organizers: Jeff Brock, Richard Canary, Howard Masur, Alan Reid, and Maryam Mirzakhani

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
361. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups

Organizers: Moon Duchin, Caroline Series

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
362. # Summer Graduate SchoolDeformation Theory and Moduli in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Max Lieblich (Princeton), Martin Olsson (Berkeley), Brian Osserman (Berkeley), Ravi Vakil (Stanford)

This workshop is intended to introduce to graduate students the main ideas of deformation theory and moduli spaces in algebraic geometry. We hope to illuminate the general theory through extensive discussions of concrete examples and applications.

Updated on Dec 01, 2020 12:20 AM PST
363. # WorkshopMSRI Summer Microprogram on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: L. C. Evans (UC Berkeley, Chair), C. Gutierrez (Temple), C. Sogge (Johns Hopkins), D. Tataru (UC Berkeley)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
364. # Summer Graduate SchoolContinuous Optimization and Applications

Organizers: Henry Wolkowicz. (University of Waterloo)

Updated on Nov 23, 2020 12:20 AM PST
365. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer Graduate Workshop on Data Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 02:26 AM PST
366. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI summer conference: Statistical Mechanics

Organizers: Scott Sheffield, Thomas Spencer

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 02:24 AM PST
367. # MSRI-UPMSRI-UP 2007: Computational Science and Mathematics

Organizers: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), LEAD Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (University of Portland), Juan Meza (University of California, Merced), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support.

Updated on Jul 22, 2020 03:15 PM PDT
368. # Summer Graduate SchoolDerived Categories in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Aaron Bertram (University of Utah), Y.P. Lee (university of Utah), Eric Sharpe (University of Utah and Virginia Tech)

Updated on May 15, 2020 03:50 PM PDT
369. # WorkshopCritical Issues in Mathematics Education 2007: Teaching Teachers Mathematics

Organizers: Deborah Ball (Center for Proficiency in Education and the University of Michigan), Sybilla Beckmann (University of Georgia), Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska) Chair, Ruth Heaton (University of Nebraska), James Hiebert (University of Delaware), William McCallum (University of Arizona) and William Yslas Velez (University of Arizona).

Building on the issues investigated in these previous workshops, this workshop will focus concretely on courses, programs and materials that aim to increase teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching. Both courses and programs that lead to initial certification and professional development of current teachers will be examined at the workshop. In addition, the workshop will examine efforts by colleges, universities, school districts, professional organizations and funding agencies to support people who teach these courses or lead these workshops.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
370. # WorkshopMathematical Issues in Stochastic Approaches for Multiscale Modeling

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
371. # WorkshopGulliver Multiscale Bioimaging Workshop

Organizers: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Contact: Damir Sudar

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
372. # WorkshopComputing in Statistics

Organizers: Organized By: Mark Hansen (UCLA), Deborah Nolan (UCB), Duncan Temple Lang (UCD)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
373. # WorkshopAdvances in Algebra and Geometry

Organizers: David Ellwood, Joe Harris, Craig Huneke, Hugo Rossi, Frank-Olaf Schreyer, Bernd Sturmfels, Julius Zelmanowitz

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
374. # WorkshopHot Topics: Minimal and Canonical Models in Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Alessio Corti, Jean-Pierre Demailly, János Kollár, Shigefumi Mori

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
375. # WorkshopMSRI Symposium on Climate Change: From Global Models to Local Action

Organizers: David Eisenbud, Inez Fung, Chris Jones and Doug Nychka

Updated on Jul 05, 2019 09:12 AM PDT
376. # WorkshopAn Introduction to Multiscale Methods

Organizers: Greg Pavliotis and Andrew Stuart

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
377. # WorkshopStochastic Dynamical Systems and Control

Organizers: Jonathan Mattingly (Duke), Igor Mezic (UCSB-Chair), Andrew Stuart (Warwick)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
378. # WorkshopWorld Congress on Computational Finance: The First Decade

Organizers: Jesper Andraesen, Myron Scholes, Domingo Tavella

The objective of this event is to mark the first decade of Computational Finance as a discipline in its own right. The event will take place in London, England, which offers the advantage of a central location and a substantial local audience.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
379. # WorkshopRecent Developments in Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Geometric Evolution Equations

Organizers: Charles Elliott, Xiaobing Feng, Michael Holst, Hongkai Zhao

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
380. # WorkshopGeometric Evolution Equations

Organizers: Bennett Chow, Gerhard Huisken, Chuu-Lian Terng, and Gang Tian

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
381. # WorkshopInteractive Parallel Computation in Support of Research in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory

Organizers: Ifti Burhanuddin (USC, Computer Science), James Demmel (Berkeley, Math & CS), Edray Goins (Purdue, Math), Erich Kaltofen (North Carolina SU, Math), Fernando Perez (U Colorado, Applied Math), William Stein (Chair; Washington, Math), Helena Verrill (LSU, Math), Joe Weening (CCR, Research)

The goal of this workshop is to study and formulate practical parallel algorithms that support interactive mathematical research in algebra, geometry, and number theory, and to formulate strategies to encourage implementation and testing of these ideas.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
382. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Dynamical Systems with Emphasis on Extended Systems

Organizers: Chris Jones (U North Carolina), Edgar Knobloch (UC-Berkeley-Physics), Nancy Kopell (Boston U), Lai-Sang Young (chair, Courant)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
383. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Dynamical Systems

Organizers: Debra Lewis (UC Santa Cruz), Mary Pugh (U Toronto), and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin College)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
384. # WorkshopCMI/MSRI Hot Topics Workshop: Modularity for GL(2) and Beyond

Organizers: Michael Harris, Mark Kisin, Kenneth Ribet, Richard Taylor, David Ellwood

This workshop is jointly funded by MSRI and the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
385. # WorkshopModern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2007-08 Programs at MSRI

Organizers: Ricardo Cortez, Hugo Rossi, Ivelisse Rubio

This workshop will be held at the Marriott-Waterside in Tampa, Florida, directly preceding the Annual Meeting of SACNAS. The focus is on geometric group theory and representations of finite groups from both the analytic and combinatorial points of view. There will also be a session for undergraduates on topics of mathematical biology.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
386. # WorkshopAnalytic and Computational Aspects of Elliptic and Parabolic Equations

Organizers: Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Peter Li and Lei Ni

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
387. # WorkshopLectures on String(y) Topology

Organizers: Alejandro Adem (University of British Columbia), Hugo Rossi (MSRI), Jose Seade (UNAM, Cuernavaca)

This conference will be held at UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico It is a follow-up to the training program held at UNAM, Morelia in January, 2006 and the MSRI program in New Topological Structures in Physics, held at MSRI during the Spring, 2006 semester.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
388. # WorkshopMathematics of Visual Analysis

Organizers: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University; William Cleveland, Purdue University; Sanda Harabagiu, University Texas-Dallas; Peter Jones, Yale; Leland Wilkinson, Northwestern and SPSS

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
389. # WorkshopWorkshop on Topological Methods in Combinatorics, Computational Geometry, and the Study of Algorithms

Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, R. Jardine, and G. M. Ziegler

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
390. # WorkshopWorkshop on Application of Topology in Science and Engineering

Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, and S. Holmes

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
391. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Geometric Flows and Function Theory in Real and Complex Geometry

Organizers: Bennett Chow, Peter Li and Gang Tian

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
392. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: Christine Guenther and Panagiota Daskalopoulos

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
393. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Computational Application of Algebraic Topology

Organizers: G. Carlsson, P. Diaconis, G. M. Ziegler

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
394. # WorkshopConnections for Women: Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology

Organizers: Susan Holmes

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
395. # WorkshopThe Teachers Circle

Organizers: Tom Davis, Mary Fay-Zenk, Tatiana Shubin, Sam Vandervelde, Paul Zeitz, Joshua Zucker

This is a workshop on solving mathematical problems for middle school teachers sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the American Institute of Mathematics. The workshop will take place at AIM headquarters in Palo Alto, Califronia

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
396. # WorkshopRecent Developments in Arrangements and Configuration Spaces

Organizers: Michael Falk (Northern Arizona University), Eva-Maria Feichtner (University of Stuttgart), Hiroaki Terao (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

The purpose of this workshop is to assess and build upon progress in the theory of hyperplane arrangements and configuration spaces since the 2004 MSRI program Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT

Organizers: William Stein (University of Washington)

This workshop will concentrate on computing with modular forms, providing students with the necessary background in both the theoretical and computational aspects of the subject.

Updated on Nov 16, 2020 12:20 AM PST
398. # Summer Graduate SchoolData Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle

Organizers: Inez Fung (University of California, Berkeley)

Projections of future climate require projections of the abundance of carbon dioxide and other trace constituents in the atmosphere. This in turns requires understanding the sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2 and how they interact with the climate. Participants will work on projects using atmospheric data provided by NCAR.

Updated on Oct 24, 2020 12:20 AM PDT
399. # Summer Graduate SchoolIAS/PCMI Summer Program: Low Dimensional Topology

Organizers: Peter Oszvath (Columbia University) and Tom Mrowka (MIT).

This will be a minicourse for graduate students on recent techniques and advances in three and four dimensional topology.

Updated on Nov 21, 2020 12:20 AM PST
400. # Summer Graduate SchoolMSRI Summer Graduate Workshop: Mathematical aspects of computational biology

Organizers: Reinhard Laubenbacher (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech) and Lior Pachter (Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley)

The novel features of biological systems pose new challenges that require new mathematics. In many cases even the fundamental mathematical language is lacking in order to treat certain biological phenomena quantitatively. Here, traditionally non-applied areas of mathematics can make an important contribution, and at the same time take advantage of unique new problems to open up mathematically interesting avenues of research.

Updated on Nov 11, 2020 12:20 AM PST
401. # WorkshopTeaching a Course in Combinatorial Mathematical Games

Organizers: Morton Brown, University of Michigan

An NSF Chautauqua Short Course, sponsored by the California Field Center at the California State University, Dominguez Hills. An overview of Brown’s University of Michigan course on a variety of two-person combinatorial games, for academics interested in incorporating such a course in their curricula.

Updated on Jun 07, 2013 10:59 AM PDT
402. # WorkshopMathematics of Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Organizers: David A. Levin, Yuval Peres, Elizabeth Wilmer

In the past two decades, a wide range of techniques have been developed for obtaining rigorous bounds on mixing times. Many of these ideas, as well as concrete examples from combinatorics and statistical physics can be included in undergraduate courses. The workshop is aimed at instructors interested in expanding the undergraduate probability curriculum to include developments on mixing times, or who wish to learn about this still growing field.

This is a Professional Enhancement Program of the Mathematical Association of America, held at MSRI.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
403. # WorkshopNew Developments in the Geometry and Physics of Gromov-Witten Theory

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
404. # Summer Graduate SchoolSL(2,R), a Minicourse at the University of Utah

Organizers: Bill Casselman (University of British Columbia), Dragan Milicic (University of Utah), Peter Trapa (University of Utah)

This minicourse will be aimed at beginning graduate students, and is devoted to all aspects of the theory of SL(2,R) including: discrete and principal series, intertwining operators, unitary representations, character theory, etc.

Updated on Jan 02, 2020 02:59 PM PST
405. # WorkshopWomen in Mathematics: The Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik

Organizers: Susan Friedlander, Barbara Keyfitz, Irene Gamba and Krystyna Kuperberg

This workshop,jointly sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and MSRI, is a celebration of careers of women in mathematics, on this occasion those of Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Olga Oleinik.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
406. # WorkshopAnalytic Methods for Diophantine Equations

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
407. # WorkshopRaising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all

Organizers: Deborah Ball, Herb Clemens, Carlos Cabana, Ruth Cossey, Bob Megginson, Bob Moses

This conference will be held at MSRI in Berkeley, CA.

Knowledge of mathematics in the technology and information age has been likened to reading literacy in the industrial age. In each case knowledge is the enabler, the ticket to full participation in society and to some measure of economic well-being. This conference will explore the historical and current challenges to quality and equity in the teaching and learning of mathematics, both in the U.S. and internationally. The exploration will feature case studies of successful and not-so-successful efforts, with the goal of learning together how to improve and refine that which works and correct that which doesn't.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
408. # WorkshopMathematical Systems Biology of Cancer

Organizers: Dick Karp, Bahram Parvin, Terry Speed, Paul Spellman, Carolyn Talcott, Wing Wong

This workshop is designed to encourage and support the mathematical community's involvement in the study of cancer using system approaches. Presenters will include mathematicians and computer scientists involved in systems approaches to cancer and more general fields of biology. The presentations will cover general approaches to systems biology, analysis of genome scale data and statistical, continuous, and hybrid methods for pathway modeling. The workshop will also provide tutorials covering the use of tools and methods in systems biology as well as on the fundamental biological processes involved in cancer.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
409. # WorkshopMathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks

Organizers: Michael Gastpar, Gerhard Kramer, J. Nicholas Laneman

Designing resource-efficient wireless networks requires a fundamental understanding of the mathematics underlying multi-terminal communication systems. One of the simplest such systems is a "three-body problem'', with a source, a destination, and a relay whose purpose is to assist the communication from the source to the
destination. This seemingly simple communication problem has long resisted solution, but new insight has been gained recently.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
410. # WorkshopCohomological Approaches to Rational Points

Organizers: Fedor Bogomolov, Antoine Chambert-Loir, Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (chair), A. Johan de Jong, Raman Parimala

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
411. # WorkshopGeneralized McKay Correspondences and Representation Theory

Organizers: Yongbin Ruan, H. Nakajima, G. Mason

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
412. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Rational and Integral Points on Higher-Dimensional Varieties

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
413. # WorkshopStringy Topology in Morelia

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
414. # WorkshopProbability, Geometry and Integrable Systems

Organizers: Bjorn Birnir, Darryl Holm, Charles Newman, Mark Pinsky, Kirill Vaninsky, Lai-Sang Young

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
415. # WorkshopGeometric and Analytical Aspects of Nonlinear Dispersive Equations

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
416. # WorkshopFlavors of Groups

Organizers: Mladen Bestvina, Jeff Brock, Jon Carlson, Persi Diaconis, Hugo Rossi

(at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada). A workshop to bring together mathematicians working on algebraic, analytic, combinatoric, geometric and topological aspects of group theory in order to strengthen each of these approaches through an exchange of techniques and ideas.

Updated on Nov 19, 2020 12:29 PM PST
417. # WorkshopOptimal Mass Transport and its Applications

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
418. # WorkshopMorehouse College/Spelman College/MSRI Workshop on Modern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2006-07 Programs at MSRI

Organizers: Sylvia Bozeman (Spelman College),Masilamani Sambandham(Morehouse College), Hugo Rossi (MSRI)

Morehouse College and Spelman College in Atlanta, together with the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, will conduct a weekend workshop on the Morehouse and Spelman College campuses on modern developments in mathematics that will be the focus of upcoming research programs and summer graduate programs at MSRI, supplemented by additional special invited talks.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
419. # WorkshopRecent Results in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and their Interactions with Geometry

Organizers: Frank Pacard, Neil Trudinger and Paul Yang

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
420. # WorkshopAnalytical and Stochastic Fluid Dynamics

Organizers: Craig Evans, Susan Friedlander, Boris Rozovsky, Daniel Tataru and David A. Ellwood

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
421. # WorkshopMinicourse on Stochastic ODE and connections with nonlinear PDEs

Organizers: L. C. Evans

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
422. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Nonlinear Dispersive Equations

Organizers: James Colliander (Toronto), Patrick Gerard (Orsay), Herbert Koch (Dortmund), Natasha Pavlovic (Princeton), Daniel Tataru (Berkeley)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
423. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Its Applications

Organizers: Luis Caffarelli, L. Craig Evans, Matt Gursky, Cristian Gutierrez, Paul Yang

There will be two series of five lectures each by L. Caffarelli and M. Gursky. In addition, each day there will be two more lectures by other speakers.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
424. # WorkshopMSRI Workshop for Women in Mathematics: An Introduction to Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: Alice Chang (Princeton) and Lawrence C Evans (UC Berkeley)

This workshop will be an intensive two-day introductory minicourse on elliptic PDE. L C Evans will present a series of lectures on the basic theory and estimates for linear and nonlinear elliptic equations, with applications to variational problems and to nonlinear systems. A Chang will lecture on applications of elliptic PDE to conformal geometry and other geometric problems.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
425. # Summer Graduate SchoolComputing the Continuous Discretely: Integer Point Enumeration in Polyhedra (Summer Graduate Workshop)

Organizers: Mathias Beck and Sinai Robins

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:39 AM PST
426. # Summer Graduate SchoolCR Geometry: Complex Analysis Meets Real Geometry and Number Theory

Organizers: John D’Angelo

Updated on Nov 10, 2020 12:20 AM PST
427. # Summer Graduate SchoolAMS-IMS-SIAM Summer School in Commutative Algebra: Local Cohomology and Its Applications

Organizers: Anurag Singh and Uli Walther

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 06:01 AM PST
428. # Summer Graduate SchoolClay Mathematics Institute 2005 Summer School Ricci Flow, 3 Manifolds And Geometry

Organizers: Gang Tian, John Lott, John Morgan, Bennett Chow, Tobias Colding, Jim Carlson, David Ellwood, Hugo Rossi

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Dec 03, 2020 12:20 AM PST
429. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical Graphics

Organizers: David Austin, Bill Casselman and Jim Fix

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 06:02 AM PST

Organizers: Sándor Kovács, Tony Pantev, and Ravi Vakil

Graduate Students from MSRI Sponsoring Institutions may benominated to participate in this program.

Updated on Dec 01, 2008 06:03 AM PST
431. # WorkshopPREP Workshop: Geometric Combinatorics

Organizers: Francis Su

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, or teach a stand-alone course in geometric combinatorics.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
432. # WorkshopThe Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (K-8): Why, What and How?

Organizers: Deborah Ball, Chair, (University of Michigan), Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Jim Lewis (University of Nebraska)

Using Math to Teach Math (PDF 5.5MB) Second conference in the MSRI series "Critical Issues in Mathematics Education" This workshop will be held at Asilomar in Pacific Grove, California. The conference takes as a premise that improving students’ mathematics learning depends on improving mathematics teaching, for which teachers’ knowledge of mathematics is a key factor. It will bring together different groups for whom issues of teachers’ mathematical knowledge are of critical concern, and explore current perspectives, evidence, and programs. Three questions structure its highly interactive design: 1. Why should K-8 teachers know mathematics? 2. What is the nature of the knowledge of mathematics needed for effective teaching? 3. What can mathematics departments and schools of education do to help teachers develop such knowledge? The conference will foster productive partnerships among research mathematicians, mathematics educators, educational researchers, teachers of school mathematics, and policymakers that will support them in their efforts. This conference is made possible by generous support from The National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov)MfA Math for America(www.mathforamerica.org),Texas Instruments (www.ti.com)Noyce Foundation, and Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
433. # WorkshopModels of Real-World Random Networks

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
434. # WorkshopEmphasis Week on Perceptual Organization

Organizers: Jitendra Malik, Jean-Michel Morel, Song Chun Zhu

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
435. # WorkshopWorld Digital Mathematical Library

Organizers: David Eisenbud

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
436. # WorkshopVisual Recognition

Organizers: Don Geman, Jitendra Malik, Pietro Perona, Cordelia Schmid

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
437. # WorkshopPREP Workshop: The Mathematics of Images

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
438. # WorkshopPhase Transitions in Computation and Reconstruction

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
439. # WorkshopEmphasis Week on Learning and Inference in Low and Mid Level Vision

Organizers: Andrew Blake and Yair Weiss

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
440. # WorkshopEmphasis Week on Neurobiological Vision

Organizers: David Donoho and Bruno Olshausen

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
441. # WorkshopMarkov Chains in Algorithms and Statistical Physics

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
442. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Aspects of Image Analysis

Organizers: David Donoho, Olivier Faugeras, David B Mumford

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
443. # WorkshopMSRI Workshop for Women in Mathematics: Introduction to Image Analysis

Organizers: Ruzena Bajcsy, Jana Kosecka, Kathryn Leonard

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
444. # WorkshopMSRI Program on Probability, Algorithms and Statistical Physics, Spring 2005 --- OPENING DAY, Thursday 13 January, 2005

Organizers: Alistair Sinclair

MSRI Program on Probability, Algorithms and Statistical Physics, Spring 2005 --- OPENING DAY, Thursday 13 January, 2005

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
445. # WorkshopMathematical Circles and Olympiads

Organizers: Hugo Rossi, Tatiana Shubin, Zvezdelina Stankova, Paul Zeitz

The purpose of this workshop is to start a National Network of Math Circles and a set of resources for new Circles

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
446. # WorkshopHOT TOPICS: Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Visualization and Analysis of High Dimensional Data

Organizers: Gunnar Carlsson, Susan Holmes, Persi Diaconis

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
447. # Workshop2004 Blackwell-Tapia Conference

Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State University and Cornell University), Mark Green (IPAM), William Massey (Princeton University), Robert Megginson (MSRI), Richard Tapia (Rice University); Local Organizing Committee: Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University); Stephen Wirkus (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

The third biennial Cornell-MSRI Blackwell-Tapia Conference and the second Blackwell-Tapia Prize Presentation will be held at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in Los Angeles. See the conference website at IPAM for further details.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
448. # WorkshopCombinatorial Aspects of Hyperplane Arrangements

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
449. # WorkshopTopology of Arrangements and Applications

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
450. # WorkshopClay Mathematics Institute and MSRI Conference on Recent Progress in Dynamics

Organizers: Michael Brin, Boris Hasselblatt (chair), Gregory Margulis, Yakov Pesin, Peter Sarnak, Klaus Schmidt, Ralf Spatzier, Robert Zimmer

This conference on dynamical systems will have a fairly wide scope, with emphasis on specific problems that have seen much progress but where significant problems vital to the field remain open.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
451. # WorkshopSan Francisco State University/MSRI Workshop on Modern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2005-06 Programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Organizers: David Ellis (SFSU), David Meredith (SFSU), Hugo Rossi (MSRI)

A weekend workshop at SFSU on upcoming programs at MSRI

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
452. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications

Organizers: Michael Falk, Peter Orlik (Chair), Alexander Suciu, Hiroaki Terao, and SergeyYuzvinsky

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT

Organizers: S. Boyer (UQAM), R. Fenn (Sussex), D. Rolfsen, Chair (UBC), D. Sjerve (UBC)

Updated on May 23, 2018 03:22 PM PDT
454. # WorkshopTenth Annual Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences

Organizers: William A. Massey (Princeton), Bob Megginson (MSRI), Juan Meza (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

This conference, founded at MSRI in 1995, returns to MSRI for its tenth annual offering, and is being co-hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
455. # WorkshopTenth Seminar on Analysis of Algorithms

Organizers: P. Flajolet, P. Jacquet, H. Prodinger, G. Seroussi, R. Sedgewick, W. Szpankowski, B. Vallée, and M. Weinberger

This workshop will follow MSRI's Summer Graduate Program on Analysis of Algorithms

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
456. # WorkshopGeometric Combinatorics

Organizers: Francis Su

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, or teach a stand-alone course in geometric combinatorics. 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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
457. # WorkshopWorkshop for WeBWorK Developers

Organizers: Michael Gage and Arnold Pizer

The purpose of this working seminar is to bring face-to-face programmers who are already involved in implementing, extending and maintaining the WeBWorK homework system on various campuses in order to hammer out standards for future development, prioritize and assign programming development tasks, design protocols for labeling and sharing problem sets, and map out a strategy for producing more comprehensive documentation.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
458. # WorkshopAlgorithmic, Combinatorial and Applicable Real Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Lalo Gonzalez-Vega, Victoria Powers, and Frank Sottile

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
459. # Summer Graduate SchoolHyperplane Arrangements and Applications

Organizers: Sergey Yuzvinsky

This MSRI Summer Graduate Program at the University of Oregon will provide an introduction to the material to be covered in the fall, 2004 MSRI program on Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications. See the program page for more information on the content.

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:42 AM PST
460. # WorkshopGeometric modeling and RAG

Organizers: Frank Sottile and Rimas Krasauskas

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
461. # WorkshopSymplectic Geometry and Mathematical Physics

Organizers: Denis Auroux, Dan Freed, Helmut Hofer, Francis Kirwan, and Gang Tian

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
462. # WorkshopMathematical Neuroscience

Organizers: Paul C. Bressloff, Jack D. Cowan (chair), G. Bard Ermentrout, Mary Pugh, and Terry J. Sejnowski

The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of the current state of research in mathematical and computational neuroscience both to those already working in the field and to those who are considering moving into it. The workshop will focus on neural networks and their properties. Several major themes will be addressed: (1) Oscillations, (2) Waves, (3) Synchrony, (4) Maps, (5) Visual Cortex Dynamics, and (6) Information Processing.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
463. # WorkshopAssessing Students’ Mathematics Learning: Issues, Costs and Benefits

Organizers: Deborah Ball, Hyman Bass, Jim Lewis, Robert Megginson, Alan Schoenfeld

This is the first in a series of workshops on K-12 mathematics education, the goal of which is to engage groups of people with diverse expertise relevant to the framing, investigation, and solution of critical problems in K-12 education. Schedule now available.

Due to the tremendous response to the announcement of this workshop, the workshop is now fully booked, and we have had to close registration. For further information, please contact Bob Megginson at meggin@msri.org.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
464. # WorkshopTopology and Geometry of Real Algebraic Varieties

Organizers: Viatcheslav Kharlamov, Boris Shapiro, and Oleg Viro

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
465. # WorkshopGenetics of Complex Disease

Organizers: Jun Liu, Mary Sara McPeek, Richard Olshen (chair), David O. Siegmund, and Wing Wong

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
466. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Topological Aspects of Real Algebraic Geometry

Organizers: Selman Akbulut, Grisha Mikhalkin, Victoria Powers, Boris Shapiro, Frank Sottile, and Oleg Viro

Updated on Jul 08, 2020 01:19 PM PDT
467. # WorkshopRicci Flow and Geometrization of 3-Manifolds

Organizers: Ian Agol, Ben Chow, Tobias Colding, David Gabai, and Bruce Kleiner

This workshop is the second part of a two-week conference sponsored by MSRI, AIM and the NSF, focusing on Perelman's recent work on Thurston's geometrization conjecture using Hamilton's Ricci flow. The talks at MSRI are intended for a general audience and follow a week long workshop at AIM intended for a more specialized audience.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
468. # WorkshopGeometric Analysis

Organizers: Ben Chow, Peter Li, Richard Schoen (chair), and Richard Wentworth

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
469. # WorkshopCombinatorial and Discrete Geometry

Organizers: Jesús A. De Loera, Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach and Günter M. Ziegler

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
470. # WorkshopFloer homology for 3-manifolds

Organizers: Yasha Eliashberg, Robion Kirby and Peter Kronheimer

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
471. # WorkshopMathematical Foundations of Geometric Algorithms

Organizers: Pankaj Agarwal, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Micha Sharir, and Emo Welzl

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
472. # WorkshopTexas Southern University/MSRI Workshop on Modern Mathematics: An Introduction to 2004-05 Programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Organizers: Nathaniel Dean, Robert Megginson

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:18 AM PDT
473. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Discrete and Computational Geometry

Organizers: Jesús A. De Loera, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, Micha Sharir, Emo Welzl, and Günter M. Ziegler

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
474. # WorkshopVon Neumann Symposium on Complex Geometry, Calibrations, and Special Holonomy

Organizers: Robert Bryant (Co-chair), Simon Donaldson, H. Blaine Lawson, Richard Schoen, and Gang Tian (Co-chair)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
475. # Summer Graduate SchoolTriangulations of Point Sets: Applications, Structures, Algorithms

Organizers: Jesús A. De Loera, Jörg Rambau, and Francisco Santos

Updated on May 13, 2013 11:00 PM PDT
476. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical Graphics

Organizers: Bill Casselman and David Austin

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:47 AM PST
477. # WorkshopPreparatory Workshop for the 2003 AMS/MSRI von Neumann Symposium

Organizers: Robert Bryant

LOCATION: The Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
478. # WorkshopMathematical Semi-Classical Analysis

Organizers: J. Sjostrand, S. Zelditch, and M. Zworski

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
479. # WorkshopThe History of Algebra in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Organizers: Jeremy J. Gray and Karen Hunger Parshall

The past 25 years have seen studies of some of the key figures in the history of algebra -- Hermann Grassmann, James Joseph Sylvester, Leopold Kronecker, Sophus Lie, David Hilbert, Georg Frobenius, Emmy Noether -- and there is work progress on Dedekind, Francis Macaulay, and Oscar Zariski, among many others.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
480. # WorkshopSemi-classical Methods in Physics and Chemistry

Organizers: R. Littlejohn, W.H. Miller, and M. Zworski

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
481. # WorkshopCommutative Algebra and Geometry (Banff Int'l Research Station Workshop)

Organizers: Mark Green, Juergen Herzog, and Bernd Sturmfels (chair)

To be held at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
482. # WorkshopComputational Commutative Algebra

Organizers: Serkan Hosten, Craig Huneke, Bernd Sturmfels (chair), and Irena Swanson

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
483. # WorkshopCommutative Algebra: Interactions with Homological Algebra and Representation Theory

Organizers: Luchezar Avramov (chair), Ragnar Buchweitz, and John Greenlees

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
484. # WorkshopQuantum Information Processing

Organizers: Steering Committee: Dorit Aharonov, Charles Bennett, Harry Buhrman, Isaac Chuang, Mike Mosca, Umesh Vazirani, and John Watrous

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
485. # WorkshopThe Feynman Integral Along with Related Topics and Applications

Organizers: Sergio Albeverio, Cecile DeWitt-Morette, Gerald W. Johnson, Louis H. Kauffman, and Michel L. Lapidus (chair)

The goal of this workshop is to encourage interactions between researchers (mathematicians, physicists and other scientists) who have worked on different approaches to the Feynman integral and its related topics and applications.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
486. # WorkshopCommutative Algebra: Local and Birational Theory

Organizers: Craig Huneke (chair), Paul Roberts, Karen Smith, and Bernd Ulrich.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
487. # WorkshopEvent Risk

Organizers: Marco Avellaneda (New York University), Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara University), Lisa Goldberg (BARRA), David Hoffman (MSRI), Francis Longstaff (UCLA), Mark Rubinstein (UC Berkeley), Michael Singer (MSRI), and Domingo Tavella (Octanti Associates)

LOCATION: Alliance Capital Conference Center, New York City
Event risk modeling in finance incorporates concepts and techniques from insurance, mathematics, physics, seismology, geography, and computer science, amongst other disciplines. This conference on event risk will comprise top-quality, state-of-the-art papers, both theoretical and empirical.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
488. # WorkshopQuantum Information and Cryptography

Organizers: Richard Jozsa and Mary Beth Ruskai

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
489. # WorkshopConference and Prize in Honor of David Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia

Organizers: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, David Eisenbud, Fern Y. Hunt, William A. Massey (co-chair), Robert Megginson, Juan Meza (co-chair), and Michael Singer

MSRI and Cornell University have established a prize in honor of the distinguished mathematical scientists David Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia. The first award will be presented at a conference at MSRI, sponsored by MSRI and Cornell with additional funding from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Arlie O. Petters Receives First Blackwell-Tapia Prize.

Schedule now available.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
490. # WorkshopModels of Quantum Computing

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
491. # WorkshopSemidefinite Programming and Applications

Organizers: Dimitris Bertsimas, Stephen Boyd, Laurent El Ghaoui (chair), and Bernd Sturmfels

The semidefinite programming models of computation has enjoyed tremendous interest recently, due to its ubiquity in many areas of science and engineering.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
492. # WorkshopQuantum Algorithms and Complexity

Organizers: Richard Cleve, Peter Shor, and Umesh Vazirani

To be held at the Banff Conference Centre in Banff (Alberta), Canada

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
493. # WorkshopRecent Progress in Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications

Organizers: Estelle Basor (co-chair), Alexander Its, Persi Diaconis, and Craig Tracy (co-chair)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
494. # WorkshopMSRI/Howard Workshop on Geometry: An Introduction to 2003-04 Programs at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Organizers: Joshua A. Leslie (Howard University) and Robert E. Megginson (MSRI)

A weekend workshop at Howard University on upcoming programs at MSRI.
Schedule now available (updated 9/17/02)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
495. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Commutative Algebra

Organizers: Luchezar Avramov, Mark Green, Craig Huneke, Karen E. Smith and Bernd Sturmfels

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
496. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Quantum Computation

Organizers: Dorit Aharonov, Leonard Schulman, and Umesh Vazirani

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
497. # WorkshopInternational School on Biomathematics, Bioengineering and Clinical Aspects of Blood Flow

Organizers: Stanley A. Berger (University of California, Berkeley), Giovanni P. Galdi (University of Pittsburgh; co-chair), Charles S. Peskin (Courant Institute), Alfio Quarteroni (University of Lausanne, Switzerland & Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Anne M. Robertson (University of Pittsburgh; co-chair), Adélia Sequeira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal),and Howard Yonas (University of Pittsburgh).

summer graduate program: see program web page for further info

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
498. # Summer Graduate SchoolBiomathematics, Bioengineering & Clinical Aspects of Blood Flow

Organizers: Stanley A. Berger, Giovanni P. Galdi (co-chair), Charles S. Peskin, Alfio Quarteroni, Anne M. Robertson (co-chair), Adélia Sequeira, and Howard Yonas

Updated on Nov 18, 2019 12:20 AM PST
499. # Summer Graduate SchoolExcursions in Computational Number Theory -- Polynomials with Integer Coefficients

Organizers: Peter Borwein and Michael Filaseta

Summer Graduate Program -- open only to students nominated by MSRI's Academic Sponsor universities, to be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada at the Pacific Institute of Mathematics facility of Simon Fraser University.

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:44 AM PST
500. # WorkshopFinsler Geometry

Organizers: David Bao, Robert Bryant, S.S. Chern, and Zhongmin Shen

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
501. # WorkshopStatistical Challenges for Meta-Analysis of Medical and Health-Policy Data

Organizers: Organized by: Joseph C. Cappelleri (Associate Director, Global Research & Development, Pfizer Inc.), Joseph Lau (New England Medical Center), Ingram Olkin (Stanford University) (chair), Diana Pettiti (Kaiser Permanente), Drummond Rennie (Deputy Editor of JAMA, and Adj. Professor of Medicine, the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco), and Donna Stroup (Centers for Disease Control)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
502. # WorkshopConformal Field Theory and Supersymmetry

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
503. # WorkshopNon-Abelian Hodge Theory

Organizers: S. Bradlow, O. Garcia-Prada, M. Kapranov, L. Katzarkov, M. Kontsevich, D. Orlov, T. Pantev, C. Simpson, and B. Toen

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
504. # WorkshopGeometric Aspects of the Langlands Program

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

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
505. # WorkshopIntersection Theory on Stacks

Organizers: K. Behrend, W. Fulton, L. Katzarkov, M. Kontsevich, Y. Manin, R. Pandharipande, T. Pantev, B. Toen, and A. Vistoli

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
506. # WorkshopInformation Theory

Organizers: Elwyn Berlekamp, Joe Buhler, Dave Forney, Abraham Lempel, Gadiel Seroussi (co-chair), Sergio Verdu (co-chair), Andy Viterbi, and Marcelo Weinberger

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
507. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Algebraic Stacks, Intersection Theory, and Non-Abelian Hodge Theory

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
508. # WorkshopSpecial values of Rankin L-series

Organizers: Henri Darmon and Shouwu Zhang

The goal of this workshop is to survey recent developments growing out of the landmark work of Gross and Zagier on the
special values of Rankin L-series, and their arithmetic applications.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
509. # WorkshopAutomorphic Forms and Representations of <i>p</i>-adic groups

Organizers: W. T. Gan, J. S. Li, D. Ramakrishnan, G. Savin (chair) and J. K. Yu

Note: The location of this workshop has been moved to The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and runs Tuesday through Saturday.

The main topics of this conference arise out of the classical theory of modular forms. The workshop will focus on recent advances
in the classification of square integrable representations of reductive p-adic groups, and on modular forms, and their
Fourier coefficients, on various reductive groups.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
510. # WorkshopInverse problems and Applications

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
511. # WorkshopPan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Inverse Problems

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)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
512. # WorkshopIntegral Geometry in Representation Theory

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
513. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Inverse Problems and Integral Geometry

Organizers: Liliana Borcea, David Colton, Michael Eastwood, Simon Gindikin, Alexander Goncharov and Gunther Uhlmann

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
514. # WorkshopClay Mathematics Institute Summer School on the Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces

Organizers: Joel Hass, David Hoffman, Arthur Jaffe, Antonio Ros, Harold Rosenberg, Richard Schoen and Michael Wolf

Please note: This program is open by invitation only.
See program webpage at http://zeta.msri.org/calendar/programs/ProgramInfo/12/show_program

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
515. # WorkshopThe Continuum Hypothesis

Organizers: Hugh Woodin and John Steel

The workshop will feature a number of lectures surveying the current insights into the continuum problem and its variations.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
516. # WorkshopGeometric Scattering Theory and Elliptic Theory on Noncompact and Singular Spaces

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
517. # WorkshopCritical Percolation and Conformally Invariant Processes

Organizers: Oded Schramm and Yuval Peres

MSRI's 2000-01 "Hot Topics" Workshop.
NOTE: The first lecture of the workshop is the MSRI-Evans talk at 4:10 pm on Monday, April 30, in room 60 of Evans Hall on the Berkeley campus. Lectures will be in the Lawrence Hall of Science auditorium on Tuesday, May 1, and at MSRI on Wednesday through Friday.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
518. # Workshop29th Canadian Symposium on Operator Algebras

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
519. # WorkshopQuantization and Non-commutative geometry

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
520. # WorkshopConference on Randomized Algorithms in Finance

Organizers: Phelim Boyle (University of Waterloo), Mark Broadie (Columbia University), Joe Buhler (MSRI), Russell Caflisch (UCLA), Sanjiv Das (Santa Clara University), David Eisenbud (MSRI), Philippe Jorion (UC Irvine), Mark Rubinstein (UC Berkeley) and Domingo Tavella (Octanti Associates)

Co-sponsored by the Journal of Computational Finance
Randomized algorithms have been used in finance for many years; the most famous example being the Monte Carlo techniques that have been used in many
contexts. This conference will focus on the latest advances, with talks by leading experts in academia and industry.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
521. # WorkshopNonlinear Estimation and Classification

Organizers: David Denison, Mark Hansen, Chris Holmes, Robert Kohn, Bani Mallick, Martin Tanner and Bin Yu

see workshop program

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
522. # WorkshopGeometric Aspects of Spectral Theory

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
523. # WorkshopAnalysis Models and Methods: A conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Methods in memory of Fred Howes

Organizers: A. Chorin, I. Singer and M. Wright

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
524. # WorkshopThe Preparation of Math Majors in the First Two Years: A Curriculum Policy Workshop

Organizers: David Bressoud, Steve Krantz, Jim Lewis, William G. McMallum (chair), William Velez

An important discipline served by the first two years of college mathematics is mathematics itself. MSRI will host this workshop to formulate curriculum policy recommendations for the first two years aimed at students majoring in mathematics.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
525. # WorkshopFree Probability and Non-commutative Banach Spaces

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
526. # WorkshopArithmetic Geometry

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
527. # WorkshopSubfactors and Algebraic Aspects of Quantum Field Theory

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
528. # WorkshopEmerging Applications of Combinatorial Design

Organizers: Esther Lamken (chair), (Caltech Mathematics), Charlie Colbourn (VermontComputer Science), Jeff Dinitz (Vermont Mathematics)

This workshop will emphasize constructions and computational methods for combinatorial designs and the growing number of new and useful applications of designs in biology/biotechnology, computer science, information theory, and numerical finance.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
529. # WorkshopNumber-theoretic cryptography workshop

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."

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
530. # WorkshopSimple C*-algebras and Non-commutative Dynamical Systems

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
531. # WorkshopThe Panorama Of Mathematics, A conference in honor of S. S. Chern

MSRI will host a conference in honor of its Founding Director, Shing Shen Chern, this fall. The conference will represent Mathematics in a very broad
context.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
532. # WorkshopClay Mathematics Institute Introductory Workshop in Operator Algebras

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
533. # WorkshopClay Mathematics Institute Introductory Workshop in Algorithmic Number Theory

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.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
534. # WorkshopCombinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop

Organizers: Elwyn Berlekamp, David Blackwell, John Conway, Aviezri Fraenkel, Richard Guy, Jurg Nievergelt, Richard Nowakowski, Jonathan Schaeffer, Ken Thompson and David Wolfe

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT

Organizers: Elwyn Berlekamp and David Wolfe

Updated on Feb 07, 2007 06:04 AM PST
536. # WorkshopMathematics and Computational Biology of Genome Analysis

Organizers: Kevin Atteson, Sandrine Dudoit (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Dick Karp (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute), Terry Speed (University of California, Berkeley; Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne),De Witt Sumners (Florida State University)

http://msri.org/ext/pmmb/

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
537. # Summer Graduate SchoolMSRI/PMMB Short Course: Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Molecular and Cell Biology

Organizers: Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Michael Levitt, Wilma Olson, De Witt Sumners

Updated on Aug 06, 2020 12:20 AM PDT
538. # WorkshopGeometric and Topological Aspects of Group Theory

Organizers: Roger Alperin, Marc Culler, Benson Farb, and Peter Shalen

http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/9900/Group_Theory/index.html

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
539. # WorkshopQuantum Groups (in Morelia, Mexico)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
540. # WorkshopInteractions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra

Organizers: M. Artin (MIT), K. R. Goodearl (UC Santa Barbara) and M. Van den Bergh (Limburgs)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
541. # WorkshopMathematics of Quantum Computation

Organizers: M. Freedman, B. Sturmfels, U. Vazirani

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
542. # WorkshopCombinatorial Algebra

Organizers: G. Benkart (Univ.of Wisconsin), A. Shalev (Hebrew Univ.), E. Zelmanov (Yale Univ.)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
543. # WorkshopComputational Algebraic Analysis

Organizers: Bernd Sturmfels, Nobuki Takayama and Uli Walther

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
544. # WorkshopHot Topics Workshop: The Modularity of Elliptic Curves, and Beyond

Organizers: Brian Conrad, Jean-Marc Fontaine, Barry Mazur, Ken Ribet (chair), Richard Taylor

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
545. # WorkshopThe Future of Mathematical Communication 1999

Organizers: Francois Bergeron, Jonathan Borwein (co-chair), Joe Buhler (co-chair), Bradd Hart, Martin Groetschel, Peter Michor, Andrew Odlyzko

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
546. # WorkshopThe Mathematics of Imaging

Organizers: F. Alberto Grünbaum and Gunther Uhlmann

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
547. # WorkshopHopf Algebras

Organizers: Miriam Cohen, Hans-Jurgen Schneider, Susan Montgomery (Chair), Fred Van Oystaeyen

http://www.msri.org/activities/programs/9900/noncomm/hopfalg/index.html

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
548. # WorkshopGalois Actions and Geometry

Organizers: Pierre Debes, Hiroaki Nakamura, Akio Tamagawa

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
549. # WorkshopConstructive Galois Theory

Organizers: Moshe Jarden (Tel Aviv), Gunter Malle (Kassel), Helmut Voelklein (U. of Florida)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
550. # Workshop1999 Von Neumann Conference on Arithmetic Fundamental Groups and Noncommutative Algebra

Organizers: Michael D. Fried, David Harbater and Lance W. Small

http://msri.org/activities/programs/9900/noncomm/vonneumann/

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
551. # WorkshopThe Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women

Organizers: Bettye Anne Case (Chair), Susan Geller, Carolyn Gordon, Dianne O'Leary, Gail Ratcliff, Jean Taylor, and Sylvia Wiegand.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
552. # Summer Graduate SchoolLie groups and the method of the moving frame

Organizers: Robert Bryant and Jeanne N. Clelland

Updated on Oct 22, 2020 12:20 AM PDT
553. # Summer Graduate SchoolLie groups and the method of the moving frame / Exterior Differential Systems

Organizers: Jeanne N. Clelland and Robert Bryant,

Updated on Oct 12, 2018 02:29 PM PDT
554. # Summer Graduate SchoolSummer Graduate Workshop in Nonlinear dynamics of low-dimensional continua

Organizers: Anette Hosoi and L. Mahadevan

Updated on Nov 16, 2020 12:20 AM PST
555. # WorkshopQuantum Chaos, GUE Conjecture for Zeros of Zeta Functions, Combinatorics, and All That

Organizers: Pavel Bleher, D.A. Hejhal, Andrew Odlyzko, and Peter Sarnak

Updated on Jul 07, 2017 08:34 AM PDT
556. # WorkshopMathematical Foundations of CAD

Organizers: Hyeong In Choi, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Rida Farouki, David Ferguson, David Hoffman, Helmut Pottmann

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
557. # WorkshopSelf-Assembling Geometric Structures in Material Science: The Geometry of Interfaces in Mesoscopic Materials

Organizers: Andrew Canning (NERSC) , David Hoffman (MSRI) Brigitte Pansu (LPS, Orsay) , Edwin Thomas (Materials Science and Engineering, MIT), Michel A. Van Hove (Materials Sciences Division LBNL)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
558. # WorkshopRandom Matrices, Statistical Mechanics, and Integrable Systems

Organizers: B. Dubrovin, A. Its, M. Mehta (Chair), and N. Reshetikhin

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
559. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop: Random Matrix Models and their Applications

Organizers: E. Basor (Chair), P. Bleher, A. Its, and C. Tracy

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
560. # WorkshopWestern Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Organizers: Sorin Popescu

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
561. # WorkshopComplexity of Continuous and Algebraic Mathematics

Organizers: Felipe Cucker and Jim Renegar

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
562. # WorkshopSymbolic Computation in Geometry & Analysis

Organizers: Eberhard Becker, Lakshman Yagati, Michael Singer, and Peter Stiller

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
563. # WorkshopMathematics and Media

Organizers: Lenore Blum, KC Cole, Keith Devlin, John Gage, Ron Graham, Allyn Jackson, Gina Kolata, Robert Osserman, Gary Taubes

Updated on Jul 07, 2017 09:50 AM PDT
564. # WorkshopParallel Symbolic Computing Workshop

Organizers: David H Bailey, Daniel R Grayson, Alyson Reeves and Nobuki Takayama

Updated on Jun 30, 2017 01:52 PM PDT
565. # WorkshopSecond Conference on Minorities and Applied Mathematics - Connections to Industry and Laboratories

Organizers: David Bailey, Raymond Johnson, James Turner

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
566. # WorkshopSolving Systems of Equations

Organizers: Jean-Pierre Dedieu, Marie-Francoise Roy, Bernd Sturmfels, and Mike Shub

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
567. # WorkshopA conference on algebraic geometry to celebrate Robin Hartshorne's 60th birthday

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
568. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Foundations of Computational Mathematics and Symbolic Computation in Geometry and Analysis

Organizers: Arieh Iserles, Marie-Francoise Roy, Teresa Krick, Michael Singer, Andrew Stuart, and Bernd Sturmfels

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
569. # WorkshopFifth International Symposium on: Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel

Organizers: NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
570. # WorkshopSummer Graduate Workshop, Algorithmic Algebra and Geometry

Organizers: David Bayer, Sorin Popescu

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
571. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgorithmic Algebra and Geometry

Organizers: David Bayer, Sorin Popescu

Updated on Oct 12, 2018 02:38 PM PDT
572. # WorkshopConference in Low-Dimensional Topology - The KirbyFest

Organizers: A. Casson, T. Cochran, J. Hass, P. Melvin, M. Scharlemann

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
573. # WorkshopConference on Advances in Applied and Computational Mathematics in Honor of A.J. Chorin on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

Organizers: M. Ciment, P. Colella, C. Moore, C. Peskin, E.G. Puckett, J. Sethian

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
574. # WorkshopWorkshop in Math Circles at Lawrence Hall of Science

This workshop consisted of two sessions, June 6, 1998, and June 25, 1998

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
575. # WorkshopModel Theory, Algebra and Arithmetic

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
576. # WorkshopUnderstanding the Genome: Technological and Mathematical Challenges

Organizers: Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Richard Karp (University of Washington), Jill Mesirov (Genome Center, Whitehead Institute), and Michael Waterman (USC)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
577. # WorkshopWorkshop on Homotopy theory for algebraic varieties with applications to K-theory and quadratic forms

Organizers: Spencer Bloch and Eric M. Friedlander

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
578. # WorkshopConference on Nonlinear Analysis and Mathematical Physics in honor of Joel Smoller

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
579. # WorkshopModel Theory of Fields Seminar

Organizers: Alex Wilkie

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
580. # WorkshopConversations between Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics Researchers

Organizers: Kieth Devlin and Harriette Stevens

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
581. # WorkshopSymposium in Geometry: a conference in honor of S. S. Chern

Organizers: Raoul Bott , Phillip Griffiths, I. M. Singer, Gang Tian, Alan Weinstein, Hugo Rossi

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
582. # WorkshopNSF Informational Workshop on the Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Initiative

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
583. # WorkshopConversation between Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics Researchers:The Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad and Math Circles.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
584. # WorkshopThree Talks on Physical Oceanography

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
585. # WorkshopPacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, 1998 Winter Meeting

Organizers: Tom Duchamp, John M. Lee

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
586. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Model Theory of Fields

Organizers: A. Pillay (Chair), C. Steinhorn, D. Haskell

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
587. # WorkshopCryptography and Mathematics

Organizers: Kevin McCurley and Neal Koblitz

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
588. # WorkshopInfinite dimensional stochastic analysis (includes Malliavin Calculus, Dirichlet forms)

Organizers: P. Fitzsimmons, D. Nualart

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
589. # WorkshopOscillatory Integrals and Their Applications to Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: M. Christ, C. Kenig, and G. Ponce

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
590. # WorkshopHarmonic Analysis, Potential Theory, and Geometric Measure Theory

Organizers: E.B. Fabes, J. Pipher and T. Toro

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
591. # WorkshopAn Ahlfors Celebration

Organizers: Stanford University

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
592. # WorkshopStochastic Partial Differential Equations

Organizers: C. Mueller, E. Pardoux, B. Rozovskii

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
593. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop on Harmonic Analysis

Organizers: M. Christ, D. Jerison, C. Kenig, J. Pipher, and E. Stein

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
594. # WorkshopHarmonic Analysis and PDE

Organizers: C. Kenig, F. Ricci, E. Stein

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
595. # WorkshopGeometry, Topology, and Cosmology

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT

Organizers: Neal Koblitz, Alfred Menezes

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:47 AM PST
597. # WorkshopRepresentation Theory and Symmetric Functions

Organizers: Curtis Greene (Chair), Sergey Fomin, Phil Hanlon, and Sheila Sundaram

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
598. # WorkshopGeometric stochastic analysis and fine properties of stochastic processes

Organizers: D. Elworthy, J. F. Le Gall, J. Rosen

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
599. # WorkshopWorkshop on Computational and Algorithmic Methods in Three Dimensional Topology

Organizers: Joe Christy, Sergei Matveev, and Jeff Weeks

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
600. # WorkshopGeometric Combinatorics

Organizers: Margaret Bayer, Louis Billera (Chair), Paul Edelman and Gunter M. Ziegler

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
601. # WorkshopPacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, 1997 Winter Meeting

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
602. # WorkshopCombinatorial Problems Arising in Knots and 3-manifolds

Organizers: Joan Birman (Chair), Xiao-Song Lin, Paul Melvin, and Andrei Zelevinsky

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
603. # WorkshopFour Dimensional Manifolds

Organizers: Robion Kirby (UC Berkeley), Peter Kronheimer (Harvard), Dusa McDuff (SUNY at Stony Brook), Ronald Stern (Chair, UC Irvine), and Gang Tian (MIT)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
604. # WorkshopSymposium: The Future of Mathematics Education at Research Universities

Organizers: Hymann Bass, Estela Gavosto, Steven Krantz, William McCallum (Chair), and William Thurston

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
605. # WorkshopExtremal Combinatorics

Organizers: Anders Bjorner (Chair), Zoltan Furedi, and Jeffry Kahn

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
606. # WorkshopEnumeration and Partially Ordered Sets

Organizers: Lynne Butler, Ira Gessel, Rodica Simion (chair), and Michelle Wachs

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
607. # WorkshopGraph Drawing

Organizers: Franz J. Brandenburg, Giuseppe Di Battista, Emden Gansner, Tomihisa Kamada, David Kirkpatrick, Stephen North (Chair), Janos Pach, and Pierre Rosenstiehl

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
608. # WorkshopKnots and 3-manifolds

Organizers: Andrew Casson (Chair), Allen Hatcher, John Luecke, Walter Neumann, and Abigail Thompson

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
609. # WorkshopJoint Introductory Workshop on Combinatorics and Low-dimensional Topology

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
610. # Summer Graduate SchoolAlgebra, Algorithms, and Approximation

Organizers: Dave Bayer, Ilan Vardi, John Strain

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:45 AM PST
611. # WorkshopJulia Robinson Celebration of Women in Mathematics Conference

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
612. # WorkshopMathematics in Finance

Organizers: Henry Antosiewicz (Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California) and Andrew Rudd (Chairman and CEO, BARRA, Inc., Berkeley)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
613. # WorkshopSharp Inequalities in Harmonic Analysis and Convex Geometry

Organizers: E. Carlen and E. Lutwak.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
614. # WorkshopMathematics Awareness Week 1996 at MSRI

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
615. # WorkshopAlgebraic and Differential Geometric Methods in Complex Analysis

Organizers: Eric Bedford, Daniel Burns,Janos Kollar, Robert Lazarsfeld, Michael Schneider (Chair), Domingo Toledo, and Scott Wolpert

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
616. # WorkshopRandom Methods in Convex Geometry

Organizers: L. Lovasz, N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, and A. Pajor

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
617. # WorkshopPacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, 1996 Winter Meeting

Organizers: Jack Lee and Peter Gilkey

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
618. # WorkshopInfinite-dimensional Convex Geometry

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
619. # WorkshopIntroductory Workshop in Convex Geometry and Geometric Functional Analysis

Organizers: K.M. Ball.

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
620. # WorkshopNevanlinna Theory and Diophantine Approximation

Organizers: Paul Vojta (Chair), Junjiro Noguchi, and Pit-Mann Wong

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
621. # WorkshopNumbers in Action, a special mathematics event for the general public

Updated on Jan 16, 2018 12:12 PM PST
622. # WorkshopSeveral Complex Variables (Analytic & PDE Methods)

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
623. # WorkshopHolomorphic Spaces

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
624. # Summer Graduate SchoolRandom Walk and Geometry

Organizers: Persi Diaconis, Laurent Saloff-Coste

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:45 AM PST
625. # WorkshopAfrican American Researchers in Mathematics

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
626. # WorkshopLow Dimensional Holomorphic Dynamics

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
627. # WorkshopNew Vistas in Automorphic Forms

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
628. # WorkshopHyperbolic 3-Manifolds and Conformal Dynamics

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
629. # WorkshopPeriod of Concentration in CDHG

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
630. # WorkshopFuture of Mathematical Communication

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
631. # WorkshopSpectral Theory of Automorphic Forms and Number Theory

Updated on May 06, 2017 01:17 AM PDT
632. # Summer Graduate SchoolHyperbolic Geometry

Organizers: William P. Thurston, Jane Gilman, David Epstein

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633. # Summer Graduate SchoolAutomorphic Forms and Zeta Functions

Organizers: Dan Bump, Dinakar Ramakrishnan

Updated on Feb 12, 2007 09:47 AM PST
634. # Summer Graduate SchoolMathematical Biology

Organizers: N. Kopell, C. Peskin, M. Reed (chairman), J. Rinzel

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