January 28, 2026 | 10:00am - 4:30pm
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01/28/2026 10:0001/28/2026 16:30Abel at IASuse-titleMore: https://www.ias.edu/math/events/abel-ias
_Sponsored by _the Abel Committee and 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
10:00-10:10 Welcome by HELGE HOLDEN, chair of the Abel Committee,
moderator
10:10-11:10 KAREN UHLENBECK, University of Texas at Austin, IAS, Abel
Prize laureate 2019
11:10-11:45 break
11:45-12:45 DANIEL SPIELMAN, Yale University
12:50-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 HONG WANG, IHES and NYU
3-3:30 Tea
3:30-4:30 CURTIS MCMULLEN, Harvard University: “Quintics, braids and
billiards, after Abel”
4:30 Conclusion of symposium
Abstracts and more info TBA
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:
(SEATING IS LIMITED AND YOU MUST BE REGISTERED TO ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP
IN PERSON. )
Local accommodations [https://www.ias.edu/math/local-accommodations]
Travel to IAS [https://www.ias.edu/math/travel-information]
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