2025 Clay Research Conference and Workshops
The 2025 Clay Research Conference will held on Wednesday and Thursday, 1-2 October. Associated workshops will be held Monday, Tuesday, and Friday during the week of the conference.
The Clay Mathematics Institute is a global organisation dedicated to furthering the beauty, power and universality of mathematical thought.
Yang-Mills & the Mass Gap
Experiment and computer simulations suggest the existence of a “mass gap” in the solution to the quantum versions of the Yang-Mills equations. But no proof of this property is known.
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Supported by much experimental evidence, this conjecture relates the number of points on an elliptic curve mod p to the rank of the group of rational points. Elliptic curves, defined by cubic equations in two variables, are fundamental mathematical objects that arise in many areas: Wiles’ proof of the Fermat Conjecture, factorization of numbers into primes, and cryptography, to name three.
P vs NP
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, 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 find a solution.
Farey’s Legacy in Frieze Patterns and Discrete Geometry
ICMS Edinburgh
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Geometry, Higher Structures, and Physics
ICMS Edinburgh
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Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics
ICMS Edinburgh
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Geometry and Topology in Low Dimensions: Lasting Trends and Emerging Directions
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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