2026 Clay Research Conference and Workshops

Date: 21 - 25 September 2026

Location: Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

The 2026 Clay Research Conference will be held on Wednesday, 23 September in L1 of the Andrew Wiles Building.

Schedule

10:00 Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Tomer Schlank (Chicago)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Hong Wang (IHES and NYU)
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Wei Zhang (MIT)
16:40 Peter Varju (Cambridge), The work of Tuomas Orponen, Pablo Shmerking, Hong Wang, and Josh Zahl
17:00 Mike Hopkins (Harvard), The work of Robert Burklund, Jeremy Hahn, Ishan Levy, and Tomer Schlank
17:20 Thomas Clay, Presentation of the 2026 Clay Research Awards
17:30 Reception, South Mezzanine

Conference Workshops

Conference workshops will be held during the week of the conference, 21-25 September. The workshops will pause on Wednesday, 23 September, for the research conference.

The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture and Related Problems: Recent Results
Organisers: Chris Skinner (Princeton), Wei Zhang (MIT)

Multi-valued Harmonicity
Organisers: Aleksander Doan (UCL), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford), Clifford Taubes (Harvard)

Telescopic Homotopy Theory and Algebraic K-theory
Organisers: Robert Burklund (Copenhagen), Jeremy Hahn (MIT), Ishan Levy (IAS and CMI), Tomer Schlank (Chicago)

Registration: Registration for the Clay Research Conference is free but required.  Participation in the workshops is by invitation, but a limited number of additional places is available.  To register for the Clay Research Conference or to register interest in a workshop, please email Naomi Kraker, providing the name of your institution and stating which workshop you wish to attend. Students please also provide a letter of reference from your supervisor.

HOTEL SCAM ALERT:  Some speakers may be contacted via email or telephone by Travellerpoint.org or similar.  Please be advised that we use no external organizing service.  All emails regarding the conference and workshops will be sent by CMI or a workshop organizer.