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NEWS FROM MSRI - SPRING 2022
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SPRING 2022 EMISSARY NEWSLETTER NOW ONLINE
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In this issue:
- News and scientist profiles from our Spring 2022 programs, Complex Dynamics: From Special Families to Natural Generalizations in One and Several Variables and Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces
- Updates from MSRI Director David Eisenbud - including his reflections on 20 years in the role
- The latest Puzzles column
- Mathical Book Prize winners and 2022 National Math Festival program highlights
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Celebrating 40 Years of Collaborative Research
MSRI begins our 40th anniversary celebrations with the announcement of a landmark joint endowment gift of $70 million from Drs. James and Marilyn Simons and Drs. Henry and Marsha Laufer to support the mathematical sciences research community. Starting this summer, MSRI will become the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. (Learn more)
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FORTHCOMING COMPENDIUM: 2021 MSRI WORKSHOP ON MATHEMATICS & RACIAL JUSTICE
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In June of 2021, MSRI held a virtual Workshop on Mathematics and Racial Justice, which convened nearly 300 mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and STEM educators to critically examine the role that mathematics plays in today’s movement for racial justice. A free and publicly available compendium on the workshop is expected to be released on the occasion of Juneteenth 2022. The 2021 keynotes by Robert Berry (University of Virginia) and Rediet Abebe (University of California, Berkeley) set the stage for this volume: Berry, by presenting a historically-informed view of the way mathematics education as it is often implemented dehumanizes people of color, and Abebe, by demonstrating the power of data and computer science to study social problems and guide their solutions. Following their contributions, the workshop was divided into four primary thematic areas, which have also guided the organization of this compendium: Bias in Algorithms and Technology; Public Health Disparities; Racial Inequities in Mathematics Education; and Fair Division, Allocation, and Representation.
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Full information and access to the compendium will be available at MSRI.org in June 2022. The 2021 workshop was organized by Omayra Ortega (Sonoma State University), Robin Wilson (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), Caleb Ashley (Boston College), Ron Buckmire (Occidental College), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), and Monica Jackson (American University) and supported by the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Center for Minorities in the Mathematical Sciences (CMMS), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
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APPLICATIONS OPEN AUG. 1: SUMMER RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS 2023
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MSRI's Summer Research in Mathematics program provides space, funding, and the opportunity for in-person collaboration to small groups of mathematicians, especially women and gender-expansive individuals, whose ongoing research may have been disproportionately affected by various obstacles including family obligations, professional isolation, or access to funding. Program applications will reopen August 1, 2022, for group visits taking place between June 6 - July 15, 2023.
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FALL 2022 WORKSHOP REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN
MSRI scientific workshops for the 2022-23 academic year are now accepting registration and funding applications.
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August 25-26, 2022
Connections Workshop: Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Gauge Theory
Organizers: Lara Anderson (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Laura Schaposnik* (University of Illinois at Chicago)
August 29, 2022 - September 2, 2022
Introductory Workshop: Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Gauge Theory
Organizers: Aleksander Doan* (Trinity College; University College London), Laura Fredrickson (University of Oregon), Michael Singer (University College London)
September 8-9, 2022
Connections Workshop: Floer Homotopy Theory
Organizers: Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University), Kristen Hendricks* (Rutgers University), Ailsa Keating (University of Cambridge)
September 12-16, 2022
Introductory Workshop: Floer Homotopy Theory
Organizers: Sheel Ganatra (University of Southern California), Tyler Lawson (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Robert Lipshitz* (University of Oregon), Nathalie Wahl (University of Copenhagen)
October 24-28, 2022
New Four-Dimensional Gauge Theories
Organizers: Andriy Haydys (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Lotte Hollands (Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus), Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel* (Stanford University), Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London), Thomas Walpuski (Humboldt-Universität)
November 14-18, 2022
Floer Homotopical Methods in Low Dimensional and Symplectic Topology
Organizers: Mohammed Abouzaid* (Columbia University), Andrew Blumberg (Columbia University), Jennifer Hom (Georgia Institute of Technology), Emmy Murphy (Northwestern University), Sucharit Sarkar (University of California, Los Angeles)
* indicates lead organizers.
Workshop Funding: Established researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students are invited to apply for funding. Funding awards are typically made eight weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadlines are considered only if additional funds become available. MSRI is pleased to be able to offer a private room for nursing mothers.
Resources for Workshop Attendees: MSRI is pleased to be able to offer a private room for nursing parents. To allow visitors to fully participate in its scientific activities, MSRI also offers childcare grants to researchers with children under the age of 17. Learn more at msri.org/workshops.
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VIDEO: MAY 12 WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
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On May 12, MSRI held a graduate student workshop on "How to Build a Career in Math" as part of the 2022 Celebration of Women in Mathematics. The event recording featuring panelists June Barrow-Green (The Open University, UK), Elizabeth Donovan (Murray State University, USA), Yukari Ito (University of Tokyo, Japan), Andrea Solotar (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), and Angela Tabiri (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana) is now available online.
VIEW EVENT VIDEO →
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VIDEOS & RESOURCES: 2022 NATIONAL MATH FESTIVAL
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The 2022 National Math Festival took place April 23 online as part of the North Carolina Science Festival, and included a series of events featuring the Mathical Book Prize and a high school data science event, among the many free programs for all ages! Learn more:
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Nancy Stokey Awarded CME Group - MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications
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On May 16, MSRI and the CME Group hosted an award ceremony and panel discussion honoring Nancy Stokey (University of Chicago), 2021 winner of the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications. Learn more →
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Numberphile on YouTube
- The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova (UC Berkeley)
- An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (The Prison Mathematics Project)
- The First and Last Digits of Pi - with Martin Krzywinski
- Google's 'DeepMind' does Mathematics - with Alex Davies and Marcus du Sautoy
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