2012 Summer School
The 2012 CMI Summer School will be on The Resolution of Singular Algebraic Varieties. It will be held June 3 - 30 at the Obergurgl Center, Tyrolean Alps, Austria. more ...
Application Deadline: March 1, 2012
Clay Chair at the Institut Henri Poincaré
The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI, Cambridge, Massachusetts) and the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP, Paris) announced at a press conference today the establishment of the Poincaré Chair, a postdoctoral position for mathematicians in the early stages of their career. Those named to the chair will hold their position at the Institut Henri Poincaré for a term of six months to one year. The Chair is financed for a period of five years with the Clay Millennium Prize funds for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. The conjecture was solved in the affirmative by Grigoriy Perelman, for which he was awarded the Millennium Prize in 2010. Dr. Perelman subsequently declined to accept the prize money. In establishing this chair with IHP, CMI aims to provide an exceptional opportunity for mathematicians of great promise to develop their ideas and pursue their research, just as Grigoriy Perelman was afforded such an opportunity by a fellowship at the Miller Institute in 1993-95. A public call for nominations by the Institut Henri Poincaré will be made at a later date.
Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan receives the National Medal of Science
Abel Laureate Srinivasa Varadhan, a professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and a 2007-2008 CMI Senior Scholar, is named a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers. Varadhan and the six other recipients of this year's National Medal of Science will receive their awards at a White House ceremony later this year.
2011 Clay Research Awards
March 22, 2011. Today the Clay Mathematics Institute announces its 2011 Research Awards: to Yves Benoist (CNRS, Université de Paris Sud 11) and Jean-François Quint (CNRS, Université de Paris 13) for their work on stationary measures and orbit closures; to Jonathan Pila (Mathematical Institute, Oxford) for his resolution of the André-Oort Conjecture in the case of products of modular curves. more ....
The awards were presented at the 2011 Clay Research Conference, held May 16-17 at Harvard University in Science Center Lecture Hall A. Benoist, Pila, and Quint spoke on their work at that occasion.
2011 Clay Research Conference
The 2011 Clay Research Conference was held May 16, 17 (Monday
and Tuesday) in Lecture Hall A of the Harvard University Science
Center.
Speakers were Manjul Bhargava, Yves Benoist, Mihalis
Dafermos, Alex Eskin, Jonathan Pila, Jean-François Quint, Peter
Sarnak, and Alex Wilkie.
Schedule
2011 Clay Research Fellow
Feb 8, 2011. The Clay Mathematics Institute announces today the appointment of Peter Scholze as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning Juy 1, 2011.
Peter Scholze, born 1987 in Dresden, Germany, completed his MSc in 2010 under the supervision of Michael Rapoport at the University of Bonn and is currently working on his PhD thesis there. His interest lies in the field of arithmetic geometry where he has been working on the bad reduction of Shimura varieties and the Langlands program.
Workshops at CMI
CMI plans to hold four to six small Workshops each year at its offices at One Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. These will be of three to six days duration. For more information or to make a proposal, please contact Jim Carlson through his executive assistant Alagi Patel (patel at claymath dot org, 617-995-2600).
P vs NP Problem
If it is easy to check that a solution to a problem is correct, is it also easy to solve the problem? This is the essence of the P vs NP question. Typical of the NP problems is that of the Hamiltonian Path Problem: given N cities to visit (by car), how can one do this without visiting a city twice? If you give me a solution, I can easily check that it is correct. But I cannot so easily (given the methods I know) find a solution.
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