Current Developments in Mathematics 2006

Organized by: David Jerison, Richard Stanley, Thomas Mrowka (MIT), Barry Mazur, Wilfried Schmid, Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Friday, Saturday and Sunday

November 17-19, 2006

Date: November 17-19, 2006

Place: Science Center, Lecture Hall D, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138.

Travel: For directions click here.

Speakers:

Laurent Clozel
Orsay, Université Paris-Sud Kenneth Ribet
UC Berkeley Paul Seidel
University of Chicago Yakov Sinai
Princeton University Terence Tao
UCLA Edward Witten
IAS

Program:

Friday November 17, 2006

1.15 PM - 2.15 PM  Edward Witten:  Geometric Langlands and Gauge Theory (I)
2.30 PM - 3.30 PM  Edward Witten:  Geometric Langlands and Gauge Theory (II)
3.45 PM - 4.45 PM  Paul Seidel:    Symplectic Homology and Applications (I)
5.00 PM - 6.00 PM  Paul Seidel:    Symplectic Homology and Applications (II)

 7:00 PM             BANQUET

Saturday, November 18, 2006

 9:00-9:30 AM        BREAKFAST
 9.30 AM - 10.30 AM  Yakov Sinai:    Renormalization Group Theory in Probability Theory,
                                   Statistical Physics and Dynamics
10.45 AM - 11.45 AM  Yakov Sinai:    Blow up in Complex Solution of 3-D Navier-Stokes
                                   System and Renormalization
Nov. 3. 2006: note that the talks of Seidel and Sinai have switched time.

12.00- 1.30 PM       LUNCH

 1.30 PM -  2.30 PM  Laurent Clozel: The Sato-Tate Conjecture (in the semi-stable case) (I)
 2.45 PM -  3.45 PM  Laurent Clozel: The Sato-Tate Conjecture (in the semi-stable case) (II)
 4.00 PM -  5.00 PM  Kenneth Ribet:  Recent work on Serre's Conjecture linking Mod p Galois
                                     representations with Mod p Modular Forms (I)
 5.15 PM -  6.15 PM  Kenneth Ribet:  Recent work on Serre's Conjecture linking Mod p Galois
                                     representations with Mod p Modular Forms (II)

Sunday, November 19, 2006

 9:00-9:30 AM        BREAKFAST

 9.30 AM - 10:30 AM  Terence Tao:   Global Behavior of Nonlinear Dispersive and Wave Equations (I)
10.45 AM - 11:45 AM  Terence Tao:   Global Behavior of Nonlinear Dispersive and Wave Equations (II)
12.00 AM - 13:00 AM  Terence Tao:   Global Behavior of Nonlinear Dispersive and Wave Equations (III)

Local Hotels: For travel information, click here .

Sheraton Commander
        16 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4800
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Harvard Square Hotel
        110 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 864-5200
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

The Inn at Harvard
        1201 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 491-2222
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Irving House
        24 Irving St., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4600,
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Friendly Inn(B + B)
        1673 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-7851
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

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Information Address any questions to Gena Bursan at

gena@math.harvard.edu

Last update, 11/03/2006