Current Developments in Mathematics 2021-22

Current Developments in Mathematics 2021-22

March 18-19, 2022

Harvard University Science Center

Lecture Hall B

Speakers:
Jessica Fintzen (University of Cambridge and Duke University)
Ryan O’Donnell (Carnegie Mellon)
Jack Thorne (University of Cambridge)
Cynthia Vinzant (University of Washington)
Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia)

This conference will also be available in hybrid format as an online Zoom Webinar. To attend virtually, please register using the Zoom Registration links for each day of the conference. Separate Zoom registrations are required for Friday’s and Saturday’s sessions.

Because of COVID protocols, advance registration is required and capacity may be restricted. If you’d like to participate, please fill out the registration form below by March 16.
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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 register above and send an email to cdm@math.harvard.edu. Please include your name, address, current status, university affiliation, citizenship, and area of study. F1 visa holders are eligible to apply for support. 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.

Schedule
• Friday, March 18, 2022
• Friday Zoom Webinar Registration
• Jessica Fintzen
1:30-2:20pm   I: Representations of p-adic groups
2:30-3:20pm   II: Representations of p-adic groups

• Mu-Tao Wang
3:35-4:25pm   I: Angular momentum and supertranslation in general relativity
4:35-5:25pm   II: Angular momentum and supertranslation in general relativity

• Saturday, March 19, 2022
• Saturday Zoom Webinar Registration
• Jack Thorne
9:05-9:55am   I: L-functions and symmetric power functoriality
10:05-10:55am   II: L-functions and symmetric power functoriality

• Ryan O’Donnell
11:10am-12:00pm   I: Learning and Testing Quantum States
12:00-1:30pm   Lunch
1:30-2:20pm   II: Learning and Testing Quantum States

• Cynthia Vinzant
2:35-3:25pm   I: Log-concavity in matroids and expanders
3:40-4:35pm   II: Log-concavity in matroids and expanders

Organizers: David Jerison, Paul Seidel, Nike Sun (MIT); Denis Auroux, Mark Kisin, Lauren Williams, Horng-Tzer Yau, Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Harvard University Mathematics, Harvard University Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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