Oded Schramm, in Memoriam
Oded Schramm died September 1 in a tragic hiking accident on Guye Peak, Washington. Oded was an extraordinary mathematician, who transformed our understanding of critical processes in two dimensions through his introduction of the Stochastic Loewner evolution, tying probability theory to complex analysis in a completely novel way. more....
2008 Summer School
The 2008 CMI Summer School was held from June 23 to July 18 at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland.
Lecturers include Mihalis Dafermos, Rafe Mazzeo, Pierre Raphaël, Igor Rodnianski, Benjamin Schlein, Gigliola Staffilani, Michael Struwe, András Vasy, Monica Visan, Jared Wunsch and others.
2008 Clay Research Conference
The Clay Research Conference was held May 12-13 at MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater.
Speakers were Kevin Costello, Helmut Hofer, János Kollár, Tom Mrowka, Assaf Naor, Rahul Pandharipande, Scott Sheffield and Claire Voisin. The Clay Research Awards was presented on May 12. more...
2008 Program | 2008 Lecture videos (new)
2007 Program | 2007 Lecture videos
Clay Public Lecture
The Music of the Primes, Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford University, delivered Clay Public Lecture at MIT on May 8.
2008 Clay Research Awards Announced
February 21, 2008. The Clay Mathematics Institute announces Cliff Taubes and Claire Voisin as the recipients of the 2008 Clay Research Awards. more...
2008 Clay Research Fellows
The Clay Mathematics Institute announces the selection of its 2008 Research Fellows: Spyros Alexakis (Princeton University), Adrian Ioana (Caltech), Xinyi Yuan (Columbia University). more....
The Poincaré Conjecture: work of Grigory Perelman
Grigory Perelman was awarded a Fields Medal at the Madrid meeting on the International Congress of Mathematicians for "his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow." A number of authors have written detailed expositions of Perelman's work. These papers, as well as other references, are listed here.
Birch & Swinnerton - Dyer Conjecture
Supported by much experimental evidence, this conjecture relates the number of points on an elliptic curve mod p to the rank of the group of rational points. Elliptic curves, defined by cubic equations in two variables, are fundamental mathematical objects that arise in many areas: Wiles' proof of the Fermat Conjecture, factorization of numbers into primes, and cryptography, to name three.
Workshops at CMI
CMI plans to hold four to six small Workshops each year at its offices at One Bow Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. These will be of three to six days duration. For more information or to make a proposal, please contact David Ellwood (ellwood at claymath dot org, 617-995-2600) or Jim Carlson (carlson at claymath dot org, 617-995-2600).
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