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  1. Randomization, Neutrality, and Fairness

    Organizers: LEAD Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University), Berk Ustun (UC San Diego), Rachel Ward (University of Texas at Austin)

    This workshop will look at the idea of fairness and neutrality in algorithms and decision-making. How it relates to the idea of randomization and how randomization can be employed in the pursuit of neutrality and fairness. The goal is both to bring together state-of-the-art research and explore the implications and limitations of the deployment in the real world.

    Updated on Sep 06, 2023 10:54 AM PDT
  2. Algorithms, Approximation, and Learning in Market and Mechanism Design

    Organizers: LEAD Martin Bichler (Technical University of Munich), LEAD Péter Biró (KRTK, Eotvos Lorand Research Network)
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    The workshop is aimed at exploring core subjects in the field of market and mechanism design, such as the design of non-convex auction markets, the design of matching markets with preferences, algorithmic mechanism design, and learning in games. These topics are interrelated and deeply rooted in mathematics and computer science. Each day of the 4-day workshop is devoted to one of these topics with talks by leading scholars in the field and panel discussions on major open problems.

    Updated on Aug 24, 2023 10:00 AM PDT
  3. Connections Workshop: Commutative Algebra

    Organizers: Christine Berkesch (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Louiza Fouli (New Mexico State University), Maria Evelina Rossi (Università di Genova), LEAD Alexandra Seceleanu (University of Nebraska)
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    Emmy Noether (1882-1935), a prominent founder of commutative ring theory

    This two-day workshop will feature the work of mathematicians in commutative algebra who identify as women or another marginalized gender. The talks will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program. This meeting aims to support young researchers. The format will include plenary talks, poster sessions, panel discussions, as well as the opportunity for informal discussions and connections.  The workshop is open to all mathematicians, and members of historically excluded groups and identities are especially encouraged to attend.

    Updated on Nov 04, 2022 04:05 PM PDT
  4. Introductory Workshop: Commutative Algebra

    Organizers: Srikanth Iyengar (University of Utah), Claudia Miller (Syracuse University), Claudia Polini (University of Notre Dame), LEAD Anurag Singh (University of Utah)
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    Fractal behavior of local cohomology. For details, see arXiv:2210.03656 by Gao and Raicu

    The Introductory Workshop will feature lecture series devoted to some recent breakthrough results in commutative algebra, and to new developments in core areas of the field.  It will also highlight links to other areas such as arithmetic geometry, representation theory, noncommutative geometry, and singularity theory.

    Updated on Oct 31, 2022 04:02 PM PDT
  5. Connections Workshop: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry

    Organizers: Rina Anno (Kansas State University), Elizabeth Gasparim (Universidad Católica del Norte), LEAD Alice Rizzardo (University of Liverpool)
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    This two-day workshop will feature the work of mathematicians in noncommutative geometry who identify as women or another marginalized gender. The talks will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program. This meeting aims to support young researchers.

    The workshop will focus on recent developments in noncommutative algebraic geometry including Derived Algebraic Geometry, Categorical and Noncommutative Resolutions, Deformation Theory, and Enumerative Geometry.

    The format will include plenary talks, a poster session, panel discussions, as well as the opportunity for informal discussions and connections in noncommutative geometry. The workshop is open to all mathematicians, and members of historically excluded groups and identities are especially encouraged to attend.

    Updated on Feb 06, 2023 11:36 AM PST
  6. Introductory Workshop: Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry

    Organizers: LEAD Nicolas Addington (University of Oregon), David Favero, Wendy Lowen (Universiteit Antwerpen), Alice Rizzardo (University of Liverpool)
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    This introductory workshop will consist of a combination of minicourses addressing core topics in noncommutative algebraic geometry and research lectures describing recent developments in the field.  The workshop will focus on subjects connected to algebraic geometry, category theory, and mirror symmetry such as categorical and noncommutative resolutions, deformation theory, derived categories in algebraic geometry, derived algebraic geometry, infinity categories, and enumerative geometry.

    Updated on Feb 22, 2023 03:13 PM PST
  7. Recent Developments in Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry

    Organizers: Arend Bayer (University of Edinburgh), Graham Leuschke (Syracuse University), Alexander Polishchuk (University of Oregon), Susan Sierra (University of Edinburgh), Spela Spenko (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Gregory Stevenson (Aarhus University)
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    This workshop will give an overview of recent developments in non-commutative algebraic geometry, including NC projective AG, NC resolutions, semiorthogonal decompositions, enhancements of derived categories, and connections to homological mirror symmetry, to enumerative AG, to moduli spaces and to birational geometry. It will in particular focus on speakers who have built new bridges between these topics.

    Updated on Nov 30, 2022 09:03 AM PST
  8. Recent Developments in Commutative Algebra

    Organizers: Daniel Erman (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Linquan Ma (Purdue University), LEAD Karl Schwede (University of Utah), Karen Smith (University of Michigan), Andrew Snowden (University of Michigan), Irena Swanson (Purdue University)

    Many long-standing conjectures in commutative algebra have been solved in recent years, often through the introduction of new methods that are quickly becoming central to the field.  This workshop will bring together a wide array of researchers in commutative algebra and related fields, with the goal of forging new connections among topics, and with a particular emphasis on transformative new methods.

    Created on Jul 27, 2022 02:01 PM PDT
  9. Connections Workshop: New Frontiers in Curvature & Special Geometric Structures and Analysis

    Organizers: Sun-Yung Chang (Princeton University), Lan-Hsuan Huang (University of Connecticut), Chikako Mese (Johns Hopkins University), Ilaria Mondello (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne), LEAD Guofang Wei (University of California, Santa Barbara), LEAD Xuwen Zhu (Northeastern University)
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    This three-day workshop will consist of various talks given by prominent female mathematicians on topics of differential geometry and geometric analysis. These will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the two programs.  The workshop will also include activities to promote interaction and connection between participants. This workshop is open to all mathematicians.

    Updated on Sep 22, 2023 09:28 AM PDT
  10. Introductory Workshop: New Frontiers in Curvature

    Organizers: Ailana Fraser (University of British Columbia), Karsten Grove (University of Notre Dame), Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine), Catherine Searle (Wichita State University), LEAD Lu Wang (Yale University)
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    The spatial Schwarzschild space with minimal surface boundary foliated by the inverse mean curvature flow

    This workshop will include introductory lectures on each of the four main topics of the program: geometric flows, geometric problems in mathematical relativity, global Riemannian geometry, and minimal submanifolds. The workshop will also have semi-expository lectures on recent advances and breakthroughs involving interactions between the four main topics. This will set the stage and provide important context for the semester-long program itself. 

    Updated on Aug 25, 2023 05:46 AM PDT
  11. Introductory Workshop: Special Geometric Structures and Analysis

    Organizers: Anda Degeratu (Universität Stuttgart), LEAD Eleonora Di Nezza (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu), Luca Spolaor (University of California, San Diego), Song Sun (University of California, Berkeley)
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    This workshop aims to prepare the participants for the main program: Special Geometric Structures and Analysis.
    There will be introductory lectures to recent results in geometry and analysis; more precisely in Kähler geometry, special holonomy, microlocal analysis and geometric measure theory

    Updated on Jun 12, 2023 09:49 AM PDT
  12. Recent progress on geometric analysis and Riemannian geometry

    Organizers: LEAD Lan-Hsuan Huang (University of Connecticut), Bruce Kleiner (New York University, Courant Institute), Andre Neves (Imperial College, London), Richard Schoen (University of California, Irvine), LEAD Catherine Searle (Wichita State University), Guofang Wei (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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    This workshop will bring together researchers at the frontiers of geometric analysis and Riemannian geometry, with a focus on recent advances on geometric flows, geometric problems in mathematical relativity, global Riemannian geometry, and minimal submanifolds. These areas have shown highly intriguing interactions in recent years and we expect this workshop will provide a unique opportunity to facilitate these emerging links.

    Updated on Sep 18, 2023 12:49 PM PDT
  13. Connections Workshop: Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures

    Organizers: Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford), Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge), Kavita Ramanan (Brown University), Dana Randall (Georgia Institute of Technology), LEAD Nike Sun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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    AI-generated interpretation of a random network

    This two-day workshop will bring together researchers from discrete mathematics, probability theory, theoretical computer science, and statistics to explore topics at their interface. The focus will be on probability and statistics of random discrete structures, as well as their applications, including in computer science and physical systems. 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.

    Updated on May 30, 2023 03:32 PM PDT
  14. Introductory Workshop: Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures

    Organizers: Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill University), LEAD Shankar Bhamidi (University of North Carolina), Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford), Dana Randall (Georgia Institute of Technology), Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge), Remco van der Hofstad (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
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    Visualization of a network constructed using simple probabilistic rules, showing the emergence of hubs and other macroscopic network phenomenon. From https://graph-tool.skewed.de

    Networks, graph driven algorithms, and dynamics on graphs such as epidemics, random walks and centrality measures all play a major role, both in our daily lives as well as many scientific and engineering disciplines. This introductory workshop will bring together experts and junior researchers in combinatorics, probability, and statistics to share a broad vision of major challenges and objectives, with a primary focus on models of random graphs and their limits, network inference, dynamic processes on networks and algorithms and optimization on random structures. 

    Updated on May 30, 2023 11:38 AM PDT
  15. Connections Workshop: Extremal Combinatorics

    Organizers: Julia Boettcher (London School of Economics and Political Science), Anita Liebenau (University of New South Wales), LEAD Maya Stein (Universidad de Chile)
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    The purpose of this workshop is to bring together promising early-career researchers in extremal combinatorics who are women or from underrepresented minorities so that they can meet with, forge connections with, and be inspired by the leading figures in the area. The workshop will include lectures, time for collaborative research, and an informal panel discussion session among female and minority researchers on career issues.

    Updated on Apr 04, 2023 08:43 AM PDT
  16. Introductory Workshop - Graph Theory: Extremal, Probabilistic and Structural

    Organizers: LEAD Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo), Michael Krivelevich (Tel Aviv University), Alex Scott (University of Oxford)
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    This workshop will feature leading experts in several major areas of graph theory, including extremal, probabilistic and structural aspects of the field. Introductory lectures will form an important part of the program, providing background and motivation, and aimed at a general mathematical audience. Complementing these, research talks will share exciting recent developments in graph theory.

    Updated on Mar 31, 2023 03:48 PM PDT
  17. Algebraic and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics

    Organizers: Janos Pach (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics), Andrew Suk (University of California, San Diego), LEAD Yufei Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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    A degree 7 curve passing through 35 points in the plane

    Many exciting breakthroughs in combinatorics involve innovative applications of techniques from a wide range of areas such as harmonic analysis, polynomial and linear algebraic methods, spectral graph theory, and representation theory. This workshop will present recent developments in this area and facilitate discussions of research problems.

    Updated on Jul 19, 2023 04:10 PM PDT
  18. Detection, Estimation, and Reconstruction in Networks

    Organizers: Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge), Gabor Lugosi (Barcelona School of Economics), Sofia Olhede (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Roberto Oliveira (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA)), LEAD Miklos Racz (Northwestern University)
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    Recovering communities in a network

    In a growing number of applications, one needs to analyze and interpret data coming from massive networks. The statistical problems arising from such applications lead to important mathematical challenges: building novel probabilistic models, understanding the possibilities and limitations for statistical detection and inference, designing efficient algorithms, and understanding the inherent limitations of fast algorithms. The workshop will bring together leading researchers in combinatorial statistics, machine learning, and random graphs in the hope of cross-fertilization of ideas.

    Updated on Aug 05, 2023 10:06 AM PDT