Schedule

Wednesday, October 21
08:00 | Registration |
09:00 | Opening |
09:15 | Cédric Villani (Institut Henri Poincaré): "Optimal transport and geometry - where we stand now" |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:40 | Laure Saint-Raymond (Harvard University): "Exchangeability, chaos and dissipation in large systems of particles" |
11:40 | Alice Guionnet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Asymptotics of random matrices and related models: the uses of Schwinger-Dyson equations" |
12:30 | Lunch break |
14:45 | Felix Otto (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften): "A large-scale regularity theory for random elliptic operators" |
15:45 | Coffee break |
16:10 | Michel Goemans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "A Panoramic Tour through Combinatorial Optimization" |
17:10 | Paul Seidel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Topological quantum field theory and Lefschetz pencils" |
18:20 | Guided tours through the exhibition "Transcending Tradition" at the Poppelsdorfer Schloss |
Thursday, October 22
09:15 | Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University): "Mathematicians helping Art Historians and Art Conservators" |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:40 | Jörgen W. Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics): "Evolution, Morality, and Mathematics" |
11:40 | Richard D. James (University of Minnesota): "New materials from mathematics: real and imagined" |
12:40 | Lunch break |
14:45 | Peter Scholze (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics): "Locally symmetric spaces and Galois representations" |
15:45 | Coffee break |
16:10 | Alexander Schrijver (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica): "Graph invariants and invariant theory" |
17:10 | Alfio Quarteroni (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne): "Reduced order models for the solution of partial differential equations" |
18:30 | Conference party with music by the Benjamin Himpel Duo |
Friday, October 23
09:15 | Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University): "Enumerative geometry and geometric representation theory" |
10:15 | Coffee break |
10:40 | Darrell Duffie (Stanford University): "Price Transparency in Over-the-Counter Financial Markets" |
11:40 | Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University): "What is known about the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture?" |
12:30 | Lunch break |
14:45 | Andrew Neitzke (University of Texas): "Some new geometric applications of quantum field theory" |
15:45 | Coffee break |
16:10 | Stanislav Smirnov (Université de Genève): "Clusters, loops and trees in the Ising model" |
19:00 | Concert of the Astor Trio at the Arithmeum |