Current Developments in Mathematics 2012

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

Friday and Saturday, Hall C

November 16-17, 2012

Date: November 16-17, 2012 Place: Science Center, Lecture Hall C, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138. Travel: For directions click here.
Support

Registration is free. 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 fill out the form to the left or send a letter to cdm@math.harvard.edu.
  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 16, 2012, 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 and Titles:

Ian Agol: The virtual Haken conjecture
James Arthur: Classifying automorphic representations
Laszlo Erdoes: Universality for random matrices and log-gases
Mark Gross: Mirror symmetry and the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture
Peter Scholze: Perfectoid spaces and the weight-monodromy conjecture
Thomas Spencer: Duality, Statistical Mechanics and Random Matrices
James Arthur
University of Toronto		 Mark Gross
UCSD		 Peter Scholze
Bonn		 Thomas Spencer
IAS		 Laszlo Erdoes
Ludwig Maximilians University		 Ian Agol
Berkeley
Schedule: 

Friday, November 16, 2012 Lecture Hall B

 2:15-3:05PM  Laszlo Erdoes   Universality for random matrices and log-gases (I)
 3:15=4:05PM  Laszlo Erdoes   Universality for random matrices and log-gases(II)
 4:15-5:05PM  Ian Agol        The virtual Haken conjecture (I)
 5:15-6:05PM  Ian Agol        The virtual Haken conjecture (II)
 7:00 pm Banquet at the Royal East Restaurant in Cambridge.

Saturday, November 17, 2012 Lecture Hall C

 9:00-9:50AM  James Arthur    Classifying automorphic representations (I) 
10:00-10:50AM James Arthur    Classifying automorphic representations (II)
11:00-11:50PM Mark Gross      Mirror symmetry and the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture (I)
12:00-12:50PM Mark Gross      Mirror symmetry and the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture (II)
12:50-2:00PM  Lunch
 2:00-2:50PM  Thomas Spencer  Duality, statistical mechanics and random  matrices (I)
 3:00-3:50PM  Thomas Spencer  Duality, statistical mechanics and random  matrices (II)
 4:00-4:50PM  Peter Scholze   Perfectoid spaces and the weight-monodromy conjecture (I)
 5:00-5:50PM  Peter Scholze   Perfectoid spaces and the weight-monodromy  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

cdm@math.harvard.edu.
Last update: Oct/22/2012