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Workshop Search
Please note that workshops prior to 1994 are not yet accessible on our site.
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| Circle on the Road |
| March 13, 2010 to March 15, 2010 |
| Organized By: 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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| Research Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
| March 15, 2010 to March 19, 2010 |
| Organized By: 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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| Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
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| Symplectic and Contact Topology and Dynamics: Puzzles and Horizons |
| March 22, 2010 to March 26, 2010 |
| Organized By: 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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| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADGS) |
| April 17, 2010 |
| Organized By: 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. |
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| Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topology |
| May 04, 2010 to May 07, 2010 |
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| 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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| Symplectic Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry and Physics |
| May 10, 2010 to May 14, 2010 |
| Organized By: Robert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam),
Toru Eguchi (Kyoto),
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford),*
Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto),
Yoshiaki Maeda (Yokohama),*
Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook),
Paul Seidel (Cambridge, MA),
Alan Weinstein (Berkeley)*. |
Sponsor: Hayashibara Foundation
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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| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Critical Issues in Mathematics Education: Reasoning and Sense-Making in the Math Curriculum |
| June 07, 2010 to June 09, 2010 |
| Organized By: 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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| MSRI-UP 2010: Elliptic Curves and Applications |
| June 12, 2010 to July 25, 2010 |
| Organized By: Organized By: Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Insitute), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras) and Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University). |
| 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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| Summer Institute for the Professional Development of Middle School Teachers on Algebra 2010 Registration Form |
| July 06, 2010 to July 23, 2010 |
| Organized By: Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley) |
| This is a fourteen-day institute (July 6 to July 23, 2010) on algebra together with five Saturday sessions spread over the 2010-2011 school year. The main target is middle school teachers; preference will be given to teachers who attended the 2009 Pre-Algebra Institute and teams from the same school or same district. However, high school teachers and upper elementary school teachers will also be considered. There is a limited number of seats, so get your application in as soon as possible. |
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| Connections for Women: Inverse Problems and Applications |
| August 19, 2010 to August 20, 2010 |
| Organized By: Tanya Christiansen (University of Missouri, Columbia), Alison Malcolm (MIT), Shari Moskow (Drexel), Chrysoula Tsogka (University of Crete), Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington, chair) |
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| Inverse Problems and Applications |
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| Introductory Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications |
| August 23, 2010 to August 27, 2010 |
| Organized By: Margaret Cheney (RPI), Michael Vogelius( Rutgers), Gunther Uhlmann* (chair) (University of Washington), Maciej Zworski (U.C. Berkeley) |
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| Inverse Problems and Applications |
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| Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications. I. |
| September 13, 2010 to September 17, 2010 |
| Organized By: Jinho Baik (University of Michigan), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alexander Its (IUPUI), Pierre van Moerbeke (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Brandeis University), Craig A. Tracy* (UC 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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| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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| Connections for Women: An Introduction to Random Matrices |
| September 20, 2010 to September 21, 2010 |
| Organized By: Estelle Basor (American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto), Alice Guionnet * (ENS Lyon), Irina Nenciu (UIC, 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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| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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| Inverse Problems: Theory and Applications |
| November 08, 2010 to November 12, 2010 |
| Organized By: Liliana Borcea (Rice), Carlos Kenig (U. Chicago), Maarten de Hoop (Purdue), Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M), Lassi Paivarinta (U. Helsinki), Gunther Uhlmann* (U. Washington) |
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| Inverse Problems and Applications |
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| SIAM/MSRI workshop on Hybrid Methodologies for Symbolic-Numeric Computation |
| November 17, 2010 to November 19, 2010 |
| Organized By: Erich Kaltofen, NCSU, Organizing Chair, for the Organizing Committee:
Mark Giesbrecht, University of Waterloo
Daniel Lichtblau, Wolfram Research
Seth Sullivant, NCSU,
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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| Random Matrix Theory and its Applications II |
| December 06, 2010 to December 10, 2010 |
| Organized By: Alexei Borodin (Caltech), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alice Guionnet (ENS, Lyon), Kenneth McLaughlin (University of Arizona), and Craig A.Tracy (UC 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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| Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems |
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| Connections for Women: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
| January 13, 2011 to January 14, 2011 |
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| Introductory Workshop: Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications |
| January 18, 2011 to January 21, 2011 |
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| Connections for Women:Arithmetic Statistics |
| January 27, 2011 to January 28, 2011 |
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| Introductory Workshop: Arithmetic Statistics |
| January 31, 2011 to February 04, 2011 |
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| Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications Workshop |
| March 07, 2011 to March 11, 2011 |
| Organized By: Henrik Shahgholian* (Royal Institute of Technology), Arshak Petrosyan ( Purdue University), Georg Weiss ( University of Tokyo), John King ( University of Nottingham) |
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| Arithmetic Statistics Workshop |
| April 11, 2011 to April 15, 2011 |
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