Abel at IAS
Sponsored by the Abel Committee, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the IAS School of Mathematics
Speakers:
Curtis McMullen, Harvard University
Daniel Spielman, Yale University
Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas at Austin and IAS
Hong Wang, IHES and NYU
Programme - All talks were held in Simonyi Hall, Lecture Hall 101
9:00 - 10:00 Registration & Morning Coffee, Rubenstein Common's Living Room
10:00-10:10 Welcome by David Nirenberg, Director of IAS, and Helge Holden, chair of the Abel Committee, moderator
10:10-11:10 Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas at Austin, IAS, Abel Prize laureate 2019, "A Sampling of Minimization Problems"
11:10-11:45 break
11:45-12:45 Daniel Spielman, Yale University, "Discrepancy Theory is Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics"
12:50-2:00 Lunch in Simons Hall Dining Room
2:00-3:00 Hong Wang, IHES and NYU
3-3:30 Tea in Fuld Hall Common Room
3:30-4:30 Curtis McMullen, Harvard University: “Quintics, braids and billiards, after Abel”
4:30 Conclusion of symposium
The Abel Prize Committee will also be present:
• Helge Holden, NTNU (Chair)
• Hee Oh, Yale University
• Jonathan Pila, Oxford University
• Yoshiko Ogata, Kyoto University
• Benny Sudakov, ETH, Zürich
Registration: CLOSED
(Seating is limited and you must be registered to attend this workshop in person. )