THE MATHEMATICAL GAZETTE

The MATHEMATICAL GAZETTE is published weekly, currently by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mathematical Sciences Department. It provides a list of mathematical seminars and colloquia in the Massachusetts area. Submissions should be sent to ma-gazette@wpi.edu by noon on Thursday of the week preceding the talk.

			  MAY 12 - 16, 2008



WEDNESDAY, May 14, 2008

11:00
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR
Abraham Flaxman (Microsoft Research, Theory Group), "Average-case analysis of 
combinatorial optimization problems (with emphasis on random spanning trees),"
Northeastern University,  509 Lake Hall.

4:30
MIT LIE GROUPS SEMINAR
Hadi Salmasian (University of Alberta), "On the structure and geometry of 
infinite-dimensional classical Lie groups," room 2-142, followed by dinner.


FRIDAY, May 16, 2008

11:00
WPI MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM (CANCELED)


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UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
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2008 CLAY RESEARCH CONFERENCE

The Clay Research Conference will be held May 12-13 at MIT Media Lab,
Bartos Theater. he program consists of a two-day series of lectures on
recent research developments, together with presentation of the Clay
Research Awards.  Speakers are Kevin Costello, Helmut Hofer, János
Kollár, Tom Mrowka, Assaf Naor, Rahul Pandharipande, Scott Sheffield and
Claire Voisin. The conference is hosted by the MIT Mathematics
Department.

2008 Clay Research Conference Schedule:

Monday, May 12

9:15 Coffee
9:45 Asaf Naor,  "Probablistic reasoning in quantitative geometry"

11:00 Scott Sheffield, "Quantum gravity and the Schramm-Loewner
evolution"

2:00 Presentation of the Clay Research Awards

Cliff Taubes, For his proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension
three

Claire Voisin, For her disproof of the Kodaira conjecture

2:30 Claire Voisin, "Hodge structures, cohomology algebras and the
Kodaira problem"

3:45 János Kollár, "Local integrability of holomorphic functions"

Tuesday, May 13

9:15 Coffee

9:45 Tom Mrowka, "Monopoles, closed Reeb orbits and spectral flow:
Taubes' work on the Weinstein conjecture"

11:00 Helmut Hofer, "A generalized Fredholm theory and some new ideas in
nonlinear analysis and geometry"

1:30 Rahul Pandharipande, "Curve counting via stable pairs in the derived
category"

2:45 Kevin Costello, "A Wilsonian point of view on renormalization of
quantum field theories"


For more information, please visit:
http://www.claymath.org/researchconference 
or call 617.996.2600.