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Current Developments in Mathematics 2011

Organized by: David Jerison, Richard Stanley, Thomas Mrowka (MIT), Horng-Tzer Yau, Mark Kisin, Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Friday and Saturday, Hall C

November 18-19, 2011

Date: November 18-19, 2011 Place: Science Center, Lecture Hall C, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138. Travel: For directions click here.
Registration
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Support

Registration is free but registration forms are required. Limited funding to help defray travel expenses is available for graduate students and recent PhDs. If you are a graduate student or postdoc and would like to apply for support, please send the following to maureen@math.harvard.edu with CDM SUPPORT in the title of the message.
  1. A letter indicating your name, address, current status, university affiliation, citizenship, and area of study. F1 visa holders are eligible to apply for support.
  2. If you are a graduate student, please send a brief letter of recommendation from a faculty member to explain the relevance of the conference to your studies or research.


Banquet

There will be a banquet on Friday November 18, 2011, 7 PM in the- Royal East Restaurant 791 Main Street, Cambridge MA 02139.

Sponsor The event is sponsored by the National Science Foundation NSF, Harvard University and MIT.

Speakers:

CDM 2011 Speakers:
Jeremy Kahn
Brown University

The surface subgroup theorem and the Ehrenpreis conjecture (I,II)		 Richard Kenyon
Brown University

The Laplacian on planar graphs and graphs on surfaces (I, II)		 Robin Pemantle
University of Pennsylvania

Hyperbolicity, stability and geometry (I) Applications of stability in probability and combinatorics (II) 		Jeremy Quastel
University of Toronto

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class (I,II)		 Akshay Venkatesh
Stanford University

Heuristics for counting number fields, and related questions(I,II)
Program:
Poster [PDF], Agenda [PDF]

Friday November 18, 2011

2:15-3:05Robin PemantleHyperbolicity, stability and geometry (I)
3:20-4:10Robin PemantleApplications of stability in probability and combinatorics (II)
4:25-5:15Akshay VenkateshHeuristics for counting number fields, and related questions (I)
5:30-6:10Akshay VenkateshHeuristics for counting number fields, and related questions (II)
7:00 PM Banquet at Royal East Restaurant, 792 Main Street, Cambridge MA

Saturday November 19, 2011

9:00-9:50Jeremy QuastelThe Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class (I)
10:05-10:55Jeremy QuastelThe Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class (II)
11:10-12:00Richard KenyonThe Laplacian on planar graphs and graphs on surfaces (I)
12:00-1:30Lunch
1:30-2:20Richard KenyonThe Laplacian on planar graphs and graphs on surfaces (II)
2:35-3:25Jeremy KahnThe surface subgroup theorem and the Ehrenpreis conjecture (I)
3:40-4:30Jeremy KahnThe surface subgroup theorem and the Ehrenpreis conjecture (II)


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: (800 458 5886
        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

Courtyard Marriott Cambridge 
        777 Memorial Drive
        Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 USA
        617-492-7777, 1-800-321-2211
        15-minute walk to Harvard Square, Free shuttle to Harvard

Charles Hotel 

Hotel Tria 
        220 Alewife Brook Pkwy
        Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138-1102
        (617) 491-8000  
        outside Harvard Square. 10 minute walk to public transportation
        Free Shuttle bus to Harvard
        15% discount off rate for CDM attendees
History: Here are links to previous CDM conferences:



Information Please address any questions to Maureen Armstrong at

maureen@math.harvard.edu.
Last update: Oct/16/2011