Current Developments in Mathematics 2017 Friday and Saturday, Science Center, November 17-18, 2017 Organized by: David Jerison, Paul Seidel, Richard Stanley (MIT), Horng-Tzer Yau, Mark Kisin, Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard) Speakers: Nicolai Makarov (Caltech) Nick Sheridan (University of Cambridge) Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech) Maryna Viazovska (EPFL Lausanne) Neshan Wickramasekera (University of Cambridge)

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Friday, November 17, 2017 Lecture Hall C

2:15-3:05 pm Nicolai Makarov Random matrices, Laplacian growth, and conformal dynamics (I)
3:20-4:10 pm Nicolai Makarov Random matrices, Laplacian growth, and conformal dynamics (II)
4:25-5:15 pm Nick Sheridan Mirror symmetry and versality (I) 
5:30-6:20 pm Nick Sheridan- Versality at the boundary of the moduli space (II)

Saturday, November 18, 2017 Lecture Hall C

 
9:00-9:50 am   Santosh Vempala The KLS conjecture (I)
10:05-10:55 am Santosh Vempala The KLS conjecture (II)
11:10-12:00 pm Neshan Wickramasekera  Variational theory of minimal hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds

12:00-1:30 Lunch
 
1:30-2:20 pm Neshan Wickramasekera  Regularity of minimal and constant-mean-curvature hypersurfaces
2:35-3:25 pm Maryna Viazovska Sphere packings, Fourier interpolation, and modular forms (I)
3:40-4:30 pm  Maryna Viazovska Sphere packings, Fourier interpolation, and modular forms (II)

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