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

Clay Research Conference

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

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

Note: there will be no break after presentation of the Clay Research Awards. Mori's lecture follows immediately.

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 will be series of more detailed talks on recent progress in higher dimensional algebraic geometry. These talks will be held in the Hilbert space lecture hall at the Clay Mathematics Institute, 1 Bow Street, Cambridge.

See MMP Seminar at MIT for some background material.

Speakers

Schedule

Videos of talks