CMI at 20

The Clay Mathematics Institute grew out of Landon T. Clay's longstanding belief in the centrality of mathematical knowledge to human progress, culture, and intellectual life.  Founded twenty years ago, it came into existence with its incorporation in the USA on September 25, 1998 .

To celebrate its many contributions to the international mathematics community over two decades, CMI will hold a special conference highlighting the outstanding achievements of its research fellows, award winners, and others whom it has supported.

Speakers
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) The density of polynomials having squarefree discriminant
Ben Green (Oxford) The anatomy of integers and permutations (video)
John Morgan (Simons Center) Perelman's work on the Poincaré Conjecture and geometrization of 3-manifolds (video)
Ngô Bao Châu (Chicago) On the Hankel transformation and functional equation of automorphic L-functions (video)
Andrei Okounkov (Columbia) Characters and difference equations (video)
John Pardon (Princeton) Smoothing finite group acitons on three-manifolds (video)
Peter Scholze (Bonn) p-adic geometry (video)
Stanislav Smirnov (Geneva) Percolation crossings and complex analysis (video)
Claire Voisin (Collège de France) New results on rationality questions (video)
Wendelin Werner (ETH) The work of Jason Miller and Scott Sheffield (video)
Andrew Wiles (Oxford) Twenty years of the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (video)

A celebratory dinner will take place on Tuesday 25 September at Balliol College. 

Registration for the 20th Anniversary Conference is now closed. 

Terence Tao, who had planned to give the final talk, is recovering from an accident. He apologises that he will not be able to travel to Oxford for the conference.

Two associated workshops will follow the conference; see links at right.