CURRENT EVENTS BULLETIN Friday, January 8, 2016, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room 4C-3 Washington State Convention Center Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
A MERICAN M ATHEMATICAL S OCIETY CURRENT EVENTS BULLETIN Friday, January 8, 2016, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Room 4C-3 Washington State Convention Center Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA 1:00 PM Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University What can topology tell us about the neural code? Surprising new applications of what used to be thought of as “pure” mathematics. 2:00 PM Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research and University of California, Berkeley, and Lionel Levine, Cornell University Laplacian growth, sandpiles and scaling limits Striking large-scale structure arising from simple cellular automata. 3:00 PM Timothy Gowers, Cambridge University Probabilistic combinatorics and the recent work of Peter Keevash The major existence conjecture for combinatorial designs has been proven! 4:00 PM Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago What are Lyapunov exponents, and why are they interesting? A basic tool in understanding the predictability of physical systems, explained. Organized by David Eisenbud, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Introduction to the Current Events Bulletin Will the Riemann Hypothesis be proved this week? What is the Geometric Langlands Conjecture about? How could you best exploit a stream of data flowing by too fast to capture? I think we mathematicians are provoked to ask such questions by our sense that underneath the vastness of mathematics is a fundamental unity allowing us to look into many different corners -- though we couldn't possibly work in all of them. I love the idea of having an expert explain such things to me in a brief, accessible way. And I, like most of us, love common-room gossip.
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