Current Developments in Mathematics 2016

Friday and Saturday, Science Center, November 18-19, 2016
Organized by:

David Jerison, Paul Seidel, Richard Stanley (MIT),
Horng-Tzer Yau, Mark Kisin, Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)
Speakers:

Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago

June Huh, IAS Princeton University

Adam W. Marcus, Princeton University

Nikhil Srivastava, UC Berkeley

Xinwen Zhu, Caltech

Kurt Johansson, KTH Sweden

Poster [PDF]

Friday, November 18, 2016 Lecture Hall C

 2:15-3:05 PM June Huh (IAS, Princeton): Hard Lefschetz properties and
             Hodge-Riemann relations in geometry, algebra, and combinatorics (I)
             Youtube.

 3:20-4:10 PM June Huh (IAS, Princeton): Hard Lefschetz properties and
             Hodge-Riemann relations in geometry, algebra, and combinatorics (II)
             Youtube.

 4:25-5:15 PM Xinwen Zhu (Caltech): Geometric Satake for p-adic groups and
             arithmetic of Shimura varieties (I ) Youtube.

 5:30-6:20 PM Xinwen Zhu (Caltech): Geometric Satake for p-adic groups and
             arithmetic of Shimura varieties (II) Youtube.

 7:00 PM Banquet at Royal East Restaurant, Cambridge

Saturday, November 19, 2016 Lecture Hall C

 9:00- 9:50 AM Laszlo Babai (Chicago): Symmetry versus Regularity (I) Youtube.

10:05-10:55 AM Laszlo Babai (Chicago): Symmetry versus Regularity (II) Youtube.

11:10-12:00 AM Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley): Around the Kadison-Singer
               problem (I) Youtube

 2:00- 1:30 PM Lunch

 1:30- 2:20 PM Adam Marcus (Princeton): The solution of the Kadison-Singer
             problem (II) Youtube    

 2:35- 3:25 PM Kurt Johansson (KTH Sweden): Edge fluctuations of limit
             shapes (I) Youtube

 3:40- 4:30 PM Kurt Johansson (KTH Sweden): Edge fluctuations of limit
            shapes (II) Youtube

Travel: For directions click here.

Registration and optional travel support request (Registration is now closed!)

Support

Registration is now closed. Limited funding to help defray travel expenses is available for graduate students and recent PhDs. If you are a graduate student or postdoc and would like to apply for support, please fill out the form to the left or send a letter to [email protected].

A letter indicating your name, address, current status, university affiliation, citizenship, and area of study. F1 visa holders are eligible to apply for support.
If you are a graduate student, please send a brief letter of recommendation from a faculty member to explain the relevance of the conference to your studies or research.

Banquet: There will be a banquet on Friday November 18, 2016, 7 PM in the Royal East Restaurant 791 Main Street, Cambridge MA 02139.

Sponsor: The event is sponsored by the National Science Foundation NSF, Harvard University and MIT.

Hotels: For travel information, click here .

Sheraton Commander
        16 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4800
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Irving House
        24 Irving St., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4600,
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Friendly Inn(B + B)
        1673 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-7851
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Courtyard Marriott Cambridge 
        777 Memorial Drive
        Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
        617-492-7777, 1-800-321-2211
        15-minute walk to Harvard Square, 
        Free shuttle to Harvard
Hotel Tria 
        220 Alewife Brook Pkwy
        Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138-1102
        (617) 491-8000,  outside Harvard Square. 
        10 minute walk to public transportation
        Free Shuttle bus to Harvard

History: Here are links to previous CDM conferences:

Information: Please address any questions to Maureen Armstrong at [email protected].

Last update: June, 2016