Theoretically Speaking is a lecture series highlighting exciting advances in theoretical computer science for a broad general audience. Events are free and open to the public, with first-come, first-served seating.

The interaction of machine learning with math has attracted a lot of attention, because mathematics is in some respects a closed world with well-defined rules (like chess, and unlike poetry-writing) but also a domain where success is ultimately judged by human assessments of ingenuity and importance, not rigid criteria (like poetry-writing, and unlike chess). Can machines prove theorems? Can they have mathematical ideas? Jordan Ellenberg will talk about his joint work with researchers from DeepMind, which used novel techniques in machine learning to make progress in a problem in combinatorics, and will try to chart some near-term ways that machine learning may affect mathematical practice.

Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison specializing in number theory and arithmetic geometry, with additional interests in combinatorics, topology, and applications of machine learning to pure math. He is also the author of two general-audience books on mathematics, How Not to Be Wrong and Shape, as well as many articles in newspapers and magazines.

Light refreshments will be provided before the talk, starting at 5 p.m.

SLMath's Mathical Books will be featured at the inaugural Joint Conference on K-5/Elementary Literacy and Mathematics, co-hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The NCTE-NCTM Joint Conference will provide elementary teachers and leaders with the opportunity to develop their skills in mathematics and language arts as well as engage in teaching practices and strategies that support connected learning and engagement in both domains. Mathical award-winning authors Grace Lin and Danica McKellar provide the opening and closing keynote addresses.

The National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) and SLMath will host a screening of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience at the NAM Faculty Conference on Research and Teaching Excellence (FCRTE) taking place at Howard University in Washington, DC. Conference registration is required to attend the screening on Saturday, April 13, 2024 from 2:00-3:30pm ET.

The FCRTE conference is geared for faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Learn more: https://nam-math.org/FCRTE or https://nam-math.org/event-5501565.

For details of this screening, visit https://sites.google.com/site/awmpurduechapter/events/upcoming-events. This event is hosted by the AWM Purdue Chapter.

For details of this screening, visit: https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/latest/events/film-screening-journeys-black-mathematicians-forging-resilience. This event is hosted by the Bryn Mawr College Math Department.

Join the SLMath with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) for the announcement of the 2024 winners and honor books receiving the Mathical Book Prize, with live author readings. This event is free and open to the public and takes place from 12-1pm US Eastern Time (9-10am Pacific Time) via Zoom. Register for the Zoom link.

The University of Washington Seattle will host a screening of SLMath's newest documentary film Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience on Thurs., February 15, 2024 in Kane Hall Room 110 on the UW campus. Screening to be followed by a Q&A with director George Csicsery. Hosted by the UW Departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics. Reserve seats here.

For details of this screening and how to reserve tickets, visit https://www.ias.edu/events/ias-film-screening-journeys-black-mathematicians. This event is hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).

Join SLMath for the public premiere of our newest documentary film Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience on Wed., February 7, 2024 at the David L. Brower Center in downtown Berkeley. Screening to be followed by a dessert reception. Tickets are free but advance registration is required at TicketLeap. [Update: This event is sold out as of Feb. 5. See details for more info.]

In memory of late MSRI co-founder and UC Berkeley faculty member Dr. Calvin (Cal) Moore, the Berkeley Math Department and SLMath will hold a joint memorial and reception at SLMath from 1-4pm on Friday, December 1, 2023.

The general public and SLMath visitors are welcome to join us to celebrate the closing of the art exhibit "Kris Lang: Unlikely Worlds" on Thursday, October 12, 2023 from 5:30-7:30pm at the 2nd floor commons room and deck. This event is free and open to the public, with live music by flamenco guitarist Daniel Fríes and refreshments. Art is on display throughout the 2nd floor of the building. 

Colleagues and friends of Lenore Blum will celebrate her 80th birthday with series of talks

For the schedule and registration information, visit: http://www.smaleinstitute.org/lenore_fest.html

The Celebration of Women in Mathematics on May 12 is part of an international initiative to inspire women everywhere to celebrate their achievements in mathematics, and to encourage an open, welcoming, and inclusive work environment for everybody. May 12 was chosen for this annual event, as it is the birthdate of Fields medalist Maryam Mirzakhani. 

MSRI's event will include a short film about women in mathematics; clips from a film about Maryam Mirzakhani; a panel discussion; breakout rooms on the subjects of Math and Racial Justice, Balancing Family and Work, Imposter Syndrome, and the Impact of COVID-19; and a virtual social "tea".  

A Symposium on the occasion of Julia Robinson’s 100th birthday will be held on Monday December 9, 2019 at MSRI. Julia Robinson (1919-1985) was a leading mathematical logician of the twentieth century, and notably a first in many ways, including the first woman president of the American Mathematical Society and the first woman mathematician elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Her most famous work, together with Martin Davis and Hilary Putnam, led to Yuri Matiyasevich's solution in the negative of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem, showing that  there is no general algorithmic solution for  Diophantine equations. She contributed in other topics as well. Her 1948 thesis  linked the undecidability of the field of rational numbers to Godel’s proof of undecidability of the ring of integers.  Confirmed participants in this day-long celebration of her work and of current mathematics insprired by her research include: Lenore Blum, who will give a public lecture, Lou van den Dries, Martin Davis, Kirsten Eisentrager, and (provisionally) Yuri Matiyasevich.

The Celebration of Women in Mathematics on May 12 is part of a new international initiative to inspire women everywhere to celebrate their achievements in mathematics, and to encourage an open, welcoming, and inclusive work environment for everybody. May 12 was chosen for this annual event, as it is the birthdate of Maryam Mirzakhani. 

On May 13th, MSRI invites all women mathematicians in the Bay Area to gather in community. We will have the opportunity to learn about Maryam's work, preview a film about her life, discuss topics of common interest, and connect with each other in celebration. 

A new film about math and mathematicians by the director of “Colors of Math”.

MSRI & Illustrative Mathematics Spring 2016 Virtual Lecture Series
Speaking of Mathematics Education: Productive Conversations with Families

More information & registration

The Program: MSRI and Illustrative Mathematics are partnering to offer a new 4-part webinar series this spring, connected to an education forum which took place at the 2015 National Math Festival in Washington, D.C.

Audience: The intended audience for this series is classroom teachers, mathematics coaches, district and state level math experts, or math teacher leaders that develop or facilitate professional development.

The dates: The webinars take place 1 Thursday per month (7-8 pm Eastern time / 4-5 pm Pacific time) via internet browser, from February to May 2016. Attendees can sign up for the full series or for individual lectures.

The format: Each Virtual Lecture Series is an hour long session featuring a national expert as a guest speaker. Participants will watch a short video together, and then the speaker will present live for 20 minutes, followed by an additional 20 minutes of discussion with participants.

April 28, 2016

Deborah Ball
Dean, School of Education, University of Michigan
"The Mathematical Work of Teaching"

May 19, 2016

Peggy Brookins
President and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and Mathematics Instructor
"Educating All Students"

Previous sessions:

February 25, 2016

Bill McCallum
President and CEO Illustrative Mathematics and University of Arizona Distinguished Professor on leave
"Standards and Curriculum: What's the difference?”

March 24, 2016

Suzanne Wilson
Neag Endowed Professor of Education, University of Connecticut
“How can we learn from the history of efforts to improve U. S. mathematics education?”

The Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics lecture series presents University of California - San Francisco Prof. Philip Sabes speaking on “Brain-Computer Interfaces” at the Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St., Berkeley.

The Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics lecture series presents Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education speaking on “Science Denialism” at the Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St., Berkeley.

The Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics lecture series presents Stanford Prof. Ge Wang speaking on “Music, Computing, People” at the Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St., Berkeley.

The Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics lecture series presents UC Berkeley Prof. Inez Fung speaking on “Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions” at the Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St., Berkeley.

The 8th annual CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications was awarded on Monday, October 21 in Chicago. A panel discussion on “Liquidity and High-Frequency Trading” will be held in conjuction with the awards ceremony. By invitation only.

The Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics lecture series presents Stanford Prof. Keith Devlin speaking on “Video Games for Mathematics” at the Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St., Berkeley.

The first of six lectures, during 2013–14, in the series Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics, presents Tony DeRose from Pixar Animation Studios speaking on "Math in the Movies."  He will use numerous clips from Pixar's award-winning feature films to show how math underlies the stunning visuals that are essential to their storytelling.

Please join MSRI and Berkeley City College at a new lecture series, Not on the Test: The Pleasures and Uses of Mathematics, which will present six talks in 2013–14 by speakers whose expertise, passion, and ability to explain what they do with math can be understood by all. The lectures will be held at the Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St., Berkeley.  The Not on the Test series is sponsored by the Simons Foundation.

Climate disruption: what math and science have to say

Speaker: Emily Shuckburgh
7:30pm, Palace of Fine Arts
3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA
Hosted by: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute / American Institute of Mathematics
Sponsored by Simons Foundation

Professor Emily Shuckburgh (British Antarctic Survey), visits the Bay Area to deliver the the second in the international MPE2013 Simons Public Lecture Series.

The 6th annual CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications will be awarded on Monday, September 26 at the CME Group World Headquarters, in Chicago. A seminar will be held in conjuction with the awards ceremony. By invitation only.

Come recognize the achievement of some of the brightest young mathematical minds in the Bay Area.

The Berkeley Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival will take place on the Berkeley campus this Sunday, January 30. For more information see
http://www.msri.org/web/msri/static-pages/-/node/249

Information and get-to-know session for Free Boundary Problem members.

The fifth annual CME Group/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications will be awarded on Monday, September 13 at the CME Group World Headquarters, in Chicago. A seminar will be held in conjuction with the awards ceremony. By invitation only.

The building will not be open to anyone except maintenance workers, delivery people and staff.

MSRI invites you to a two-part event from 4:45-7:15pm featuring an hour-long class on "Playing Music on your iPhone and iPad" with Stanford Professor Ge Wang and Jieun Oh (4:45-5:45pm), followed by a reception (5:45-6:15pm) and a lecture/demonstration (6:15-7:15pm) by Ge Wang and Jieun Oh. They will also be joined by MSRI's Robert Bryant and UCB Prof. David Eisenbud for a discussion about new technologies in music-making.

11:00-11:30 “Symplectic Topology today” Dusa McDuff

11:30-12:00 “From Whitney disks to the Jacobi identity” Peter Teichner

1:00-1:30 “On Knot Homology Theories” Elisenda Grigsby

1:30-2:00 “Transverse knots and Heegaard Floer homology” Lenhard Ng

2:30-5:00 Panel Discussion on "K12 Math Teacher Preparation: What Math Departments Can Do"

Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), Sybilla Beckman (University of Georgia), Mark Daniels (UT Austin), William McCallum (University of Arizona), and Peter March (NSF). Moderator Eric Stade

A solo show written and performed by Gioia De Cari

The Mathematical Institutes Open House will take place on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 5:30-8pm in Moscone West's Room 3022 at the AMS Joint Meetings in San Francisco.

"A little bit of autumnal music" presented by women from the UC Chamber Chorus, accompanied by horns and harp, will perform Brahms' Op. 17 (four songs for female voices), Schubert choral pieces and selected solo German artsongs. Concert starts at 5:30pm in the Simons Auditorium.

The fourth annual CME Group/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications will be awarded on Thursday, September 17 at the CME Group World Headquarters, in Chicago. A seminar will be held in conjuction with the awards ceremony. By invitation only.

The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival will take place at Stanford on Saturday, May 9, 2009. Advance registration is required.

You are warmly invited to attend the first presentation in MSRI's new Mathematics + Medicine series of talks. Please join us at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre on Monday, May 4, from 7 to 9pm. Free.

You are warmly invited to the next event in the MSRI Mathematics + Music series.



On April 29, at 5:30PM, MSRI will host the renowned St. Lawrence String Quartet and NPR's Rob Kapilow in a 90 minute program that consists of a discussion and performance of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Op. 133. The event is free and open to the public.

The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival will take place on THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009, from 9 am to 3 pm, in UCLA's Ackerman Grand Ballroom in the Ackerman Union (308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California). Advance registration is required.

The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at Pixar Studios will be held on Sunday, March 29, 2009. Advance registration is required.

You are invited to attend the Mathematical Institutes Open House reception on MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the AMS-MAA Joint Meeting in Washington, DC, in the Marriott Ballroom Foyer at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

Join MSRI on Wednesday, November 12, 5:30pm-7pm, for a free public event, "The John Cage Legacy: Chance in Music and Mathematics" in the Simons Auditorium.

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and the CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) will jointly present Lars Peter Hansen with the CME Group/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications on Friday, October 24, 2008 at the CME Group World Headquarters, in Chicago. The third annual awards ceremony will be help in conjunction with a seminar. By invitation only.

MSRI is pleased to present, as part of its Music+Mathematics series, a performance by the world-famous St. Lawrence String Quartet. This concert will take place at noon on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 in MSRI's Simons Auditorium. The program will consist of two well-loved quartets, Haydn, Op. 77 no. 2 and Dvorak, Op. 106. The concert will be free and open to the public, and you are warmly invited to attend.

A Mathematician Rediscovered [Ein Mathematiker wird wiederentdeckt] © Agnes Handwerk, Harrie Willems. In MSRI's Simons Auditorium at 4:00 PM.

MSRI co-sponsors the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at Pixar's Emeryville campus on Saturday, May 10, 2008 for students in grades 6-12.

Biology for Mathematicians- Dr. Garrett Odell (Professor of Biology at the University of Washigton and Director of Center for Cell Dynamics) PRESENTS:

Talk 1. "How, in Silico, the Sea Urchin Embryo Gets its Furrow in the Right Place - Lecture , Dr. Garrett Odell"

Talk 2. "For Making Genetic Networks Operate Robustly, Unintelligent Non-Design Suffices"

Talk 3. "Why are mindless, individual agent-based computer simulation models less likely to deceive than elegant and thoughtful partial differential equation models of traditional continuum mechanics?"

MSRI co-sponsors the Second Annual Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival for students in grades 6-12 at Google's Headquarters in Mountain View on Sunday, May 4, 2008, from 8:30am to 3pm (and at Pixar's campus in Emeryville on Saturday, May 10, 2008).

MSRI and the UCB Department of Mathematics present the Northern California premiere of a documentary film about Julia Robinson whose major contribution to solving Hilbert's Tenth Problem in 1970 was a breakthrough for mathematics and made her a leader among American women in mathematics.

MSRI celebrates the Institute's 25th Anniversary with a special event presenting pianist Christopher Taylor in conversation with David Benson, author of the book "Music: A Mathematical Offering," and Robert Osserman, Special Projects Director at MSRI. The free event will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 4:00 pm in the Simons Auditorium, Chern Hall, at MSRI. 25th Anniversary Reception to follow event.

By an official Proclamation from Mayor Tom Bates of the City of Berkeley, and in honor of MSRI's 25th Anniversary celebration, Saturday, January 26, 2008 is the "Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Day"

Alan Alda, Emmy award-winning actor and author of bestselling memoirs, will talk with mathematician Bob Osserman (Special Projects Director at MSRI) about Alda’s lifelong interest in science on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. at the Roda Theatre at Berkeley Rep. A presentation of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).

You are invited to join MSRI at the AMS Joint Meeting in San Diego for a reception on Sunday, January 6, 2008, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm in Ballroom F of the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina.

Dr. Perelson Presents: Modeling Immune Responses: Coping with Diversity Using Shape-Space Formulations

Dr. Alan Perelson Presents: How Mathematics Provides Information about HIV/AIDS

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), in conjunction with the esteemed CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), will award the second annual CME Group/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications to Dr. David M. Kreps, Sr. Assoc.Dean and Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, on Thursday, September 20 at the CME Group, in Chicago. A seminar, held in conjunction with the recognition ceremony, begins at 2:30 pm.

By invitation only.

You are warmly invited to attend an MSRI concert of sonatas by Mozart with pianist Martha Wasley on Monday, April 30, 2007 at 5:30 to 6:30pm in the Institute's Simons Auditorium. Free admission.

In this talk, Marcus du Sautoy will explain why there is a $1 million award for anybody who can settle the 150 year-old 'Riemann Hypothesis'.

The festival, for students in grades 6-12, will consist of morning mathematical activities, a lunch at Google, a math-circle style talk, and, of course, prizes.

BIOLOGY FOR MATHEMATICIANS: Simons Biology Colloquium Lecture by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Sydney Brenner on "All Those Genomes" at 2:00pm in the Simons Auditorium on THURSDAY, April 12, 2007.

This symposium will address the problems and research necessary to translate these global, long-term predictions into local predictions on shorter scales of time, where governments and businesses can act; and will address the implications for industry and public policy now. There will be a follow-up scientific symposium on April 12-13 at MSRI.

BIOLOGY FOR MATHEMATICIANS: Simons Biology Colloquium Lecture by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Sydney Brenner on "Forward and Inverse Problems" at 4:10pm in Etcheverry Hall’s Room 3113 at University of California, Berkeley, on TUESDAY, April 10, 2007.

BIOLOGY FOR MATHEMATICIANS: Simons Biology Colloquium Lecture by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Sydney Brenner on "Drowning in a Sea of Data and Thirsting for Knowledge" at 4:00pm in MSRI's Simons Auditorium, preceded by a Reception from 3:15pm to 4pm on MONDAY, April 9, 2007.

Free public talk by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Sydney Brenner on "Biology: The Art of the Satisfactory" at the Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre at 8:00 pm on MONDAY, April 9, 2007.

BIOLOGY FOR MATHEMATICIANS: Simons Biology Colloquium Lecture by Robert Schleif on "DNA Looping: Its Discovery and Utility in Gene Regulation" at 4:00 pm in the Simons Auditorium, MSRI, Chern Hall, on Friday, March 23, 2007.

BIOLOGY FOR MATHEMATICIANS: Simons Biology Colloquium Lecture by Robert Schleif on "Information Storage and Retrieval Functions of DNA" at 4:00pm in the Simons Auditorium, preceded by a reception from 3:15pm to 4pm. Wednesday, March 21, 2007.

You are warmly invited to attend a presentation of the MSRI "Mathematics + Music" series for performances by pianists Daniel Walden, Nathan Splitter, Preben Antonsen and Bethany Wang (San Francisco Conservatory of Music students of Sharon Mann), on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 5:30 to 6:30pm in the Institute's new Simons Auditorium. Free admission.

Simons Auditorium

Biologist Mimi Koehl speaks on “Settling down: How do microscopic water-borne larvae of bottom-dwelling marine animals land in the right place?” at 2:30 pm in the Simons Auditorium on Tuesday, February 27, 2007.

A Memorial program in honor of Dr. Irving Kaplansky will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at MSRI's Chern Hall on Friday, February 23, 2007. Along with reminiscences about Dr. Kaplansky, his wide-ranging mathematical work will be recognized in talks by Hyman Bass, Richard Kadison, and T.-Y. Lam.

Mimi Koehl speaks on “Sniffing by hairy noses: Odor capture by crustacean antennules in turbulent environments” at 2:30 pm in the Simons Auditorium followed by reception at 4:00 pm on Thursday, February 22, 2007.

Talk by Dr. Arnold Levine on "The Fruits of the Genome Project: What Genetic Polymorphisms can tell us about Predispositions to Disease and Fecundity" on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 3:00pm in the Simons Auditorium.

You are warmly invited to attend a presentation of the MSRI "Mathematics + Music" series for a performance by the Cavani String Quartet and Sharon Mann, pianist, on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at noon in the Institute's new Simons Auditorium. Free admission.

Talk by Dr. Arnold Levine on "DNA/RNA Sequence Complexity: The Entropy Distribution of Viruses and Bacteria" on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 3:00pm in the Simons Auditorium.

Free public talk by Dr. Arnold Levine on "The Evolution of Influenza Viruses in the 20th and 21st Centuries" at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre at 8:00 pm on MONDAY, February 12, 2007.

Please join MSRI in the third presentation of the "Mathematics + Music" series of solo music by J. S. Bach on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 5:30 pm in the Institute's Simons Auditorium. Suites for Solo Cello will be performed by Tanya Tomkins on Baroque cello. Free admission.

You are invited to join MSRI at the AMS Joint Meeting, in New Orleans, for a reception on Friday, January 5, 2007, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm in the Gallery Ballroom (1st floor) at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel

Explore the role of mathematics, statistics, and computer science in modern biology

You are warmly invited to attend the second presentation in the MSRI "Mathematics + Music" series of solo music by J. S. Bach on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 5:30 pm in the Institute's new Simons Auditorium. Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin will be performed by Elizabeth Blumenstock on Baroque violin. Free admission.

The Thirteenth Bay Area Discrete Math Day (BAD Math Day) will take place at MSRI in Berkeley on Saturday, October 21st, 2006, between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM.

Inaugural Presentation of the CME-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications in economics, mathematics, statistics and computing, and the study of financial markets

Please join MSRI on Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 5:30 pm for a reception launching the One is One and All Alone: Solo Music by Bach series of concerts in the Institute's Simons Auditorium. The Art of Fugue harpsichord concert will begin at 6:00 pm, followed by a conversation on "Mathematics, Bach, Art and Music Art" that takes place at 7:00 pm with mathematician Bob Osserman, harpsichordist Davitt Moroney, and printmaker Elizabeth Harington. Free admission.

Gunnar Carlson: Algebraic Topology and High Dimensional Data

Public Lecture in Mathematics on "The Nature of Roughness in Mathematics, Science, and Art" by Benoît Mandelbrot

This event is preceded by a reception at 3:30 PM.

"Interpreting the Sequence Differences in the Human Genomes of Populations" a lecture by Dr. Arnold Levine (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

The AMS and MSRI present "Who Wants to Be a Mathematician" on Wednesday, APRIL 5, from 9am to 1pm in MSRI's Simons Auditorium at Chern Hall. This popular AMS game (see www.ams.org) brings together top Bay Area students in a fun competition for prizes. All are welcome to attend this free event.

Dr. Penrose will speak 3:00 - 4:00 PM in the Simons Auditorium, followed by a special tea.

Sir Roger Penrose will give a public address on "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in Modern Physical Theory" in honor of MSRI's Chern Hall building celebration events. From 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm on Sunday, March 5, 2006 at Wheeler Auditorium in Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. FREE lecture tickets will be distributed on a first come, first served basis in the Lobby at the entrance of Wheeler Auditorium from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm for admission to the event.

Please join MSRI friends and supporters in celebrating the dedication of the newly enlarged and renovated Chern Hall building on Friday, March 3, 2006 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. This event is open to the public.

Please join MSRI in celebrating the Simons Auditorium Inaugural Lecture by Sir Roger Penrose, entitled "Before the Big Bang: a Radical Solution to the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics," on THURSDAY, March 2, 2006, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

MSRI is pleased to present a conversation between composer Philip Glass and mathematician Bob Osserman on Saturday, February 18, 2006, from 2:00-3:00 pm at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. This is the second in a 2005-06 Series of public events devoted to the theme of Music and Mathematics.

MSRI is pleased to present a conversation between pianist Christopher Taylor and mathematician Bob Osserman on Saturday, November 2005 at 2:00 on the UCB campus in Room 125 of Morrison Hall. Free admission. This is the first in a 2005-6 Series of public events devoted to the theme of Music and Mathematics.

Math + The Simpsons = A freewheeling conversation about math with the show's writers on Sunday, October 16 at 2pm at UCB.

You are warmly invited to MSRI's booksigning party to celebrate the release of "The Visual Mind II" - edited by Michele Emmer and published by Leonardo/ISAST and the MIT Press - on MONDAY, JUNE 6 from 5:30 to 6:30pm at MSRI, 6th Flr.

Co-Sponsored by MSRI and the Commonwealth Club of California

MSRI Presents John Conway speaking on "The Free Will Theorem" at the Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre -- FREE Admission

You are warmly invited to the Mathematical Institutes Open House reception on WEDNESDAY, Jan 5th from 5:30-8:00 pm at the AMS Joint Meeting in Atlanta, in the Hyatt Hotel's Regency VII room (on the Ballroom level).

A Conversation with Benoit Mandelbrot, interviewed by Lisa Goldberg

Co-Sponsored by MSRI and the Commonwealth Club of California

During construction of the new building addition, MSRI will temporarily move in July 2004 to interim headquarters located at 2850 Telegraph Avenue, in Berkeley (about half a mile South of the campus). The mailing address -- 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-5070 -- and phone number, (510) 642-0143, remain the same. After completion of construction, MSRI will return to the newly renovated and expanded building for the fall of 2005.

Groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion and renovation of the new MSRI building.

What is the shape of the Universe? What does that question mean? Please join MSRI on MONDAY, APRIL 19 from 7:30-9:00pm at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for a talk by mathematician Jeff Weeks which will use satellite data and 3D graphics to suggest possible shapes of the universe.

The number is Pi, 3.1415926535…ad infinitum. -- Come to the "Pi Day" celebrations with a special screening of "Porridge Pulleys and Pi" featuring mathematician Vaughn Jones, and joined in conversation with MSRI's Bob Osserman, and filmmaker George Paul Csiscery at 1pm in the Exploratorium's McBean Theater. Pi day culminates, appropriately enough, on Sunday, March 14 at 1:59pm at the Exploratorium and pies will be generously donated by Marie Callender's!

Visit the MSRI Booth (#716) at the AMS Joint Meeting in Phoenix, Wed-Sat, 1/7-10. See the new "Vmath: MSRI Lectures on the Internet." VOTE for your favorite lecture to be included in the Vmath collection of 1000 lectures on the Internet - FREE and easily accessible in high quality resolution!

You are warmly invited to the Mathematical Institutes Open House Reception on WEDNESDAY, Jan 7th from 5:30-8:00 pm at the AMS Joint Meeting in Phoenix, in the Hyatt Hotel's Regency Room C.

Please join MSRI in honoring Professor Irving Kaplansky for his winning performance on the first Putnam Team and in recognition of the brilliant problem-solvers, affiliated with MSRI and UCB, on Putnam teams that followed Prof. Kaplansky. Please come for a dessert reception on MONDAY, NOV. 10th with festivities to begin at 1:00 pm.

MSRI is pleased to present an exhibition from artists associated with the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.

BIRS is now accepting proposals for programmes for its 2005 season. Guidelines and online application forms for the 2005 season are available on the BIRS website (http://pims.math.ca/birs/). The application DEADLINE is October 10, 2003.

A Conversation with "Imagining Numbers" author Barry Mazur and William R. Hearst, III

Co-Sponsored with the Commonwealth Club of California

The goal of this competition is to provide a work of art, graphics, relief, or sculpture that serves to enhance the forecourt of MSRI's new, expanded building (construction to begin summer of 2004).



For more information, please see the following PDF:



MSRIArtCompetition.pdf

A panel discussion - cosponsored with the Aurora Theatre - with mathematical historian Jeremy Gray, director Barbara Oliver, and David Hoffman, MSRI Associate Director



4:00 pm at UCB's Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. FREE.

DJANUS at San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum

presents

CALCULUS

“Newton’s Whores”

Written by Carl Djerassi - Directed by Andrea Gordon

A Conversation with Donald Knuth, the Father of Computer Science, with Sergey Brin and Jennifer Chayes



Wednesday, March 12th, 6:00pm Reception and Program from 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Recital by Teresa Escober at noon on FRIDAY, March 7th

7:00 PM

Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

Note: this event is now SOLD OUT

Reception preceding talk by Sir Michael Atiyah on "Geometry and Physics - from Plato to Hawking." Reception in the interior Courtyard of the Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkelely, 3:00 to 4:00pm. Lecture in the Chanshun Auditorium, second floor, Rm. 2050., 4:00pm to 5:30pm.

For more information on this panel of distinguished mathematicians, including

Sir Michael Atiyah, see the above link.

Sir Michael Atiyah speaking on "Projective planes, spheres and Severi varieties." 10 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley, 5:00 to 6:00pm. Free.

SYLVIA NASAR (author of A Beautiful Mind, the book) and DAVE BAYER (mathematical consultant for A Beautiful Mind, the movie) in conversation with ROBERT OSSERMAN at the Commonwealth Club of California (San Francisco)

MICHAEL FRAYN in conversation with ROBERT OSSERMAN at the BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE

You're invited....to the Mathematical Sciences Institutes Reception on Sunday Jan. 6, 2002, 5.30 - 7.00pm at the San Diego meeting of the AMS. The reception is organized for the fourth consecutive year by MSRI to spread information about the activities and opportunities at the research institutes. This year the CRM, DIMACS, Fields Institute, IMA, IPAM, MSRI and PIMS will participate.

David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of proof, in conversation with Robert Osserman at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.

The conversation will take place from 5:30 - 6:30 pm. The play starts at 8 pm.

Admission to the conversation is free.

6pm Reception and Opening of her West Coast show.

Award-winning Belgian Pianist Jeanne Stark-Iochmans plays Etudes of Debussy.

Today's MSRI program is a preview of a concert to be given Saturday, April 21 in the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Oakland. Future plans include a Carnegie Hall concert on October 28 of this year.

by Dr. Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr. (Hewlett-Packard Visiting Research Professor at MSRI)

A Public Concert featuring the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and The University of California Department of Music present NOAM ELKIES in a lecture-demonstration on Musical Canons.

Wednesday, December 6, 4:30 p.m.

This will take place in the Elkus Room of the Music Department: 125 Morrison Hall

MSRI would like to invite you to a free public lecture on Wednesday, November 29th at 7:30 pm at Sibley Auditorium of the Bechtel Engineering Center on the UC Berkeley Campus.

ABSTRACT:Was this year's Presidential election mess really due to bad chad, poorly designed ballots, -- or subtle flaws of our election procedure?

This is not a new concern; in 1770 the French Mathematician J.C. Borda warned that the plurality vote -- the procedure currently used in the US -- can cause distorted election outcomes. He suggested an alternative to more accurately reflect the voters' wishes. But does it? And if not, can one design an optimal voting procedure?

These turn out to be questions that require a mathematical analysis,and that analysis reveals some unexpected and paradoxical results.This talk, geared to a general audience, will describe some of the insights that one can attain, and the lessons we can apply to preventfuture elections from falling into the electoral morass of Y2K.

On October 19, 2000 at 8:00 PM, Anthony Sale will speak on "Code Breaking in World War II, the Enigma, the Colossus, and Bletchley Park" at Sibley Auditorium, at the Bechtel Engineering Center on the UC Berkeley Campus.

Tony Sale will also be giving another talk at MSRI on Friday October 20th.

This talk is scheduled for 4:00 PM in the MSRI Lecture Hall.

On Sunday, July 23, 2000 beginning at 10:00 AM, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley will host a demonstration Go game between two of the foremost celebrities in the world of Go: Naiwei Rui and Jujo Jiang.

Go is an ancient, beautiful, and intellectually stimulating board game that is played around the world. Its popularity in

Japan, China, and Korea is comparable to the popularity of chess in Russia, or golf in the United States.