Clay Research Conference, May 14-15, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Clay Research Conference

The Clay Research Conference, was held May 14-15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, inaugurates an expanded format for the Institute's annual meeting.

The conference consisted of a two-day series of lectures on recent research developments, including presentation of the Clay Research Awards. The conference was held in Lecture Hall C of the Harvard University Science Center.





Schedule

Monday, May 14

9:15 Coffee
9:45 Peter Ozsváth, Holomorphic disks and knot invariants
11:00 William Thurston, What is the future for 3-dimensional geometry and topology?
2:00 Clay Research Awards
2:30 Shigefumi Mori, Recent progress in higher dimensional algebraic geometry I
3:45 Alessio Corti, Recent progress in higher dimensional algebraic geometry II
5:15 Reception at CMI

Tuesday, May 15

9:15 Coffee
9:45 Mark Kisin, Modularity of 2-dimensional Galois representations
11:00 Richard Taylor, The Sato-Tate conjecture
1:30 Curtis McMullen, Algebraic dynamics on surfaces
2:45 Alex Eskin, Dynamics of rational billiards
4:00 David Fisher, Coarse differentiation and quasi-isometries of solvable groups

Satellite workshop, May 16-17

On May 16-17, from 2 to 5 pm, there were series of more detailed talks on recent progress in higher dimensional algebraic geometry. These talks was held in the Hilbert space lecture hall at the Clay Mathematics Institute, 1 Bow Street, Cambridge.

Speakers