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1. # COMD Polynomial Arithmetic Dynamics Reading Group: Classification of Special Curves

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Charles Favre (École Polytechnique)

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In this last talk of the reading seminar, I will present the overall strategy of the proof based on all. The material we have seen so far. I will make a special focus on the use of Ritt theory in this problem of classification.

Updated on May 13, 2022 03:36 PM PDT
2. # COMD Essential Seminar Series: Bounded Type Entire Functions, Rays, and Dreadlocks

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Dierk Schleicher (Université d'Aix-Marseille (AMU))

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We discuss the escaping set of an entire function with a bounded set of singular values. In “good cases”, this escaping set is organized in the form of curves that we call “dynamic rays” (or “hairs”). In the other, “interesting cases”, the topology of the escaping set is more complicated; this leads to “dreadlocks”. While these are topologically more involved, for “practical purposes” they should have similar properties. Much of this talk is based on a joint paper with Günter Rottenfußer, Johannes Rückert, and Lasse Rempe; but I would like encourage discussions on further work, especially turning dreadlocks into useful and usable objects.

Updated on May 13, 2022 02:47 PM PDT
3. # Career Development Panel: Panel Discussion on Careers in Industry

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Murray Cantor (University of California, Berkeley), Christopher Severs (A9.com)

COMD participants: To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

AGRS participants: To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

In this installment of the career development panel, our guests will share their experiences and insights with respect to transitioning from academic mathematics to industry careers.  Topics to be discussed include possible avenues for such transitions, key differences between the academic and industrial mindsets, strategies for leveraging the benefits of academic training in a company setting, and some of the mathematical problems currently of interest in industry.

Updated on May 13, 2022 08:21 AM PDT
4. # AGRS Learning Seminar Series: Liouville CFT, Quantum Zipper and Mating of Trees Pt I

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Xin Sun (University of Pennsylvania)

To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

Updated on May 12, 2022 01:37 PM PDT

1. # COMD Stony Brook + MSRI Seminar Series: Snowballs, Quasispheres, and Rational Maps

Location: MSRI: Online/Virtual, Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Daniel Meyer (University of Liverpool)

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A snowball is a self-similar surface that is obtained in a fashion analogous to the snowflake curve. The purpose of this talk is to show that these spaces may serve as deterministic toy models for the Brownian map. This is a random metric space that appears as the scaling limit of triangulations of the $2$-sphere. The self-similarity of a snowball may be represented by a rational map. Snowballs are quasispheres, i.e., quasisymmetrically equivalent to the standard $2$-sphere. This is closely related to the visual metric associated to the rational map being quasisymmetrically equivalent to the spherical metric on the Riemann sphere.

Updated on May 13, 2022 09:58 AM PDT
2. # COMD Learning Seminar Series: Polynomial Dynamics in Per_n(0)

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Caroline Davis (Indiana University)

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Just as Per_1 houses the illustrious Mandelbrot set, so too does Per_n a combinatorial fractal object. In yet another talk about everybody's favorite variety, we’ll see how polynomials with super-attracting n-cycles naturally give rise to rational dynamics, by ways such as matings and captures. With these concepts we will discuss in detail the combinatorics for n<=5 and indicate a strategy to prove Per_n is connected.

Updated on May 12, 2022 08:51 AM PDT
3. # COMD Hubbard Semigroup Series

Location: MSRI: Online/Virtual

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Join us for math discussions with Professor Hubbard. All are welcome! Younger researchers in particular are encouraged to attend. If you have questions about the semigroup, please email Sarah at kochsc@umich.edu

Updated on Feb 17, 2022 11:05 AM PST
4. # COMD Junior Seminar Series: On Karpinska’s Paradox

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Leticia Pardo Simon (University of Manchester)

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The Julia set of many exponential maps consists of an uncountable collection of pairwise disjoint curves that tend to infinity. In 1999, Karpińska proved the following surprising result: the set of endpoints of these curves has Hausdorff dimension 2, while the set of curves without endpoints has Hausdorff dimension 1. In this talk, we will comment on the main ideas of the proof, implications and generalizations.

This seminar is for postdocs and PhD students, and we kindly ask faculty not to attend.

Updated on May 19, 2022 08:24 AM PDT
5. # COMD Junior Seminar Series: "Sharkovskii's ordering: From Real to Complex Polynomials"

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Reila Zheng (University of Toronto)

To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

In this talk I will describe Sharkovskii's classical result for periodic points of a continuous self-map of an interval. I will then introduce some basic concepts in complex dynamics. I will describe the Mandelbrot set as well as a combinatorial structure of the hyperbolic components. Finally I will describe how Sharkovskii's ordering, as well as generalized versions of it, are found on the Mandelbrot set.

This seminar is for postdocs and PhD students, and we kindly ask faculty not to attend.

Updated on May 19, 2022 08:34 AM PDT
6. # COMD Research Seminar Series

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual

To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

Updated on Mar 03, 2022 02:18 PM PST
7. # AGRS The Ubiquitous Diff(S^1) Reading Group

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual

To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

Updated on Feb 23, 2022 01:37 PM PST
8. # AGRS Research Seminar Series: A Gentle Introduction to Kang-Makarov Conformal Field Theory

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Thomas Alberts (University of Utah)

To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

The conformal field theory of Kang and Makarov is a mathematician's take on how the physicists think about CFT and the Coulomb gas. I will try to explain the many aspects of the Kang-Makarov approach, focusing on the geometrical characterizations, the underlying potential theory, and the connection with martingale observables for SLE type processes.

Updated on May 17, 2022 02:47 PM PDT
9. # AGRS Learning Seminar Series on Conformal Dimension

Location: MSRI: Online/Virtual, Baker Board Room

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Updated on Mar 17, 2022 03:37 PM PDT
10. # AGRS Learning Seminar Series

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual

To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

Updated on Feb 07, 2022 11:29 AM PST
11. # COMD Learning Seminar Series: Wrap Up

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speakers: Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)

To participate in this seminar, please register HERE.

Join us for an informal group discussion of some of the exciting math that happened over the past semester at MSRI. We will talk about progress that was made, open problems, possible future directions, etc.

Updated on May 18, 2022 02:55 PM PDT
12. # ADJOINT Professional Development Panel

Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
Speakers: Yuliya Gorb (National Science Foundation), Swatee Naik (National Science Foundation), Carleitta Paige-Anderson (National Science Foundation)
Updated on Apr 27, 2022 04:01 PM PDT
1. # 2022 African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop

The African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop (ADJOINT) is a yearlong program that provides opportunities for U.S. mathematicians – especially those from the African Diaspora – to form collaborations with distinguished African-American research leaders on topics at the forefront of mathematical and statistical research.

Beginning with an intensive two-week summer session at MSRI, participants work in small groups under the guidance of some of the nation’s foremost mathematicians and statisticians to expand their research portfolios into new areas. Throughout the following academic year, the program provides conference and travel support to increase opportunities for collaboration, maximize researcher visibility, and engender a sense of community among participants. The 2022 program takes place June 20 - July 1, 2022 in Berkeley, California.

Updated on Oct 13, 2021 03:27 PM PDT
2. # 2023 African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop

The African Diaspora Joint Mathematics Workshop (ADJOINT) will take place at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA from June 19 to June 30, 2023.

ADJOINT is a two-week summer activity designed for researchers with a Ph.D. degree in the mathematical sciences who are interested in conducting research in a collegial environment.

The main objective of ADJOINT is to provide opportunities for in-person research collaboration to U.S. mathematicians, especially those from the African Diaspora, who will work in small groups with research leaders on various research projects.

Through this effort, MSRI aims to establish and promote research communities that will foster and strengthen research productivity and career development among its participants. The ADJOINT workshops are designed to catalyze research collaborations, provide support for conferences to increase the visibility of the researchers, and to develop a sense of community among the mathematicians who attend.

The end goal of this program is to enhance the mathematical sciences and its community by positively affecting the research and careers of African-American mathematicians and supporting their efforts to achieve full access and engagement in the broader research community.

Each summer, three to five research leaders will each propose a research topic to be studied during a two-week workshop.

During the workshop, each participant will:

• conduct research at MSRI within a group of four to five mathematicians under the direction of one of the research leaders
• participate in professional enhancement activities provided by the onsite ADJOINT Director
• receive funding for two weeks of lodging, meals and incidentals, and one round-trip travel to Berkeley, CA

After the two-week workshop, each participant will:

• have the opportunity to further their research project with the team members including the research leader
• have access to funding to attend conference(s) or to meet with other team members to pursue the research project, or to present results
• become part of a network of research and career mentors

Updated on Jan 13, 2022 11:30 AM PST

1. # SeminarAGRS Research Seminar Series: Near-Critical Dimers and Massive SLE

Updated on May 12, 2022 12:47 PM PDT
2. # SeminarAGRS The Ubiquitous Diff(S^1) Learning Seminar: Evolution of Smooth Shapes and Integrable Systems

Updated on May 17, 2022 12:51 PM PDT
3. # SeminarCOMD Research Seminar Series: Classification of Critically Fixed Anti-Thurston Maps

Updated on May 12, 2022 03:30 PM PDT
4. # SeminarCOMD Research Seminar Series: Eliminating Thurston Obstructions and Controlling the Dynamics of Curves

Updated on May 16, 2022 12:09 PM PDT
5. # SeminarCOMD Junior Seminar Series: Rational Maps, Graphs, Tilings, Fractals and Groups

Updated on May 12, 2022 01:13 PM PDT
6. # SeminarCOMD Hubbard Semigroup Series

Updated on Feb 17, 2022 11:05 AM PST
7. # SeminarCOMD Learning Seminar Series: Unmating Rational Maps

Updated on Apr 21, 2022 08:05 AM PDT
8. # SeminarAGRS Research Seminar Series: Integral Means Spectrum of (Drifted) Whole-Plane SLE

Updated on May 04, 2022 04:01 PM PDT
9. # SeminarCOMD Polynomial Arithmetic Dynamics Reading Group: Realization of Polynomial Portraits

Updated on May 04, 2022 02:30 PM PDT
10. # SeminarAGRS The Ubiquitous Diff(S^1) Learning Seminar Series & AGRS Learning Seminar Series: Liouville Quantum Gravity and KPZ

Updated on May 04, 2022 02:08 PM PDT
11. # SeminarCOMD Research Seminar Series: Upper Bounds for the Moduli of Polynomial-Like Maps

Updated on Apr 29, 2022 08:19 AM PDT
12. # SeminarCareer Development Panel: Grant Writing Pt II

Updated on May 06, 2022 09:33 AM PDT
13. # Seminar COMD Essential Seminar Series: A Counterexample to Eremenko’s Conjecture

Updated on May 06, 2022 08:27 AM PDT
14. # SeminarAGRS Junior Seminar Series: Mixing Times and the Cutoff Phenomenon

Updated on May 06, 2022 08:04 AM PDT
15. # SeminarCOMD Junior Seminar Series: Polynomial-Like Maps

Updated on May 06, 2022 08:07 AM PDT
16. # SeminarCOMD Hubbard Semigroup Series

Updated on Feb 17, 2022 11:05 AM PST
17. # SeminarCOMD Learning Seminar Series: Spaces of Branched Coverings

Updated on Apr 21, 2022 08:04 AM PDT
18. # SeminarCOMD Stony Brook + MSRI Seminar Series: "Conjugacy Classes of Real Analytic Maps Pt I: Manifold Structure and Connectedness"

Updated on Apr 22, 2022 02:32 PM PDT
19. # SeminarCareer Development Panel: Applying for Grants

Updated on Apr 29, 2022 12:04 PM PDT
20. # SeminarCOMD Essential Seminar Series: Thurston Theory for Transcendental Entire Functions

Updated on Apr 25, 2022 08:11 AM PDT
21. # SeminarAGRS Learning Seminar Series: Q&A with Antti Kupiainen

Updated on Apr 27, 2022 10:56 AM PDT
22. # SeminarCOMD Stony Brook + MSRI Seminar Series: Hyperbolic Components and Limits of Extremal Length

Updated on Apr 21, 2022 03:55 PM PDT
23. # SeminarAGRS The Ubiquitous Diff(S^1) Seminar Series: Neretin Polynomials and Unitary Representation of the Virasoro Algebra II

Updated on Apr 21, 2022 02:26 PM PDT
24. # SeminarCOMD Research Seminar Series: Dynamics of Groups of Birational Automorphisms of Cubic Surfaces and Fatou/Julia Decomposition for Painlev\'e 6

Updated on Apr 18, 2022 11:06 AM PDT
25. # SeminarFellowship of the Ring: Nonnegative Polynomials on Low-Dimensional Varieties

Updated on Apr 18, 2022 09:49 AM PDT
26. # SeminarAGRS Junior Seminar Series: The Generalized Fourier Transform (GFT)

Updated on Apr 21, 2022 02:24 PM PDT
27. # SeminarCOMD Junior Seminar Series: Surgery and Applications

Updated on Apr 21, 2022 11:28 AM PDT
28. # SeminarCOMD Hubbard Semigroup Series

Updated on Feb 17, 2022 11:05 AM PST
29. # SeminarCOMD Learning Seminar Series: The Work of Dennis Sullivan in Topology and Dynamics

Updated on Apr 19, 2022 02:11 PM PDT
30. # SeminarCOMD Stony Brook + MSRI Seminar Series: Boundedness Conjecture for Sierpinski Carpet Hyperbolic Component

Updated on Apr 19, 2022 08:13 AM PDT
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