2011 Clay Research Conference, May 16-17, Cambridge, Massachusetts


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May 16-17

Harvard Science Center
Lecture Hall A
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts


Our thanks to the Harvard Mathematics Department for hosting this event.



Schedule

Monday, May 16

9:15-9:45 Coffee
9:45-10:45 Jean-François Quint
Stationary measures on finite volume homogeneous spaces (I)
11:00-12:00 Yves Benoist
Stationary measures on finite volume homogeneous spaces (II)
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Presentation of Clay Research Awards
2:30-3:30 Alex Eskin
The SL(2,R) action on moduli space of Riemann surfaces
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Alex Wilkie
The relevance of logic to transcendental number theory: a motivated account
5:00-6:30 Reception at the Clay Mathematics Institute, Hilbert Space

Tuesday, May 17

9:15-9:45 Coffee
9:45-10:45 Jonathan PilaDiophantine geometry via o-minimality
11:00-12:00 Mihalis Dafermos
Recent progress in mathematical general relativity
12:00-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 Peter Sarnak
Thin integer matrix groups and the affine sieve
3:00-4:00 Manjul Bhargava
The average rank of elliptic curves

Speakers

Abstracts