Programs & Events
Data Science in Low-dimensional Spaces
May 13 - 17, 2019
Data science in low-dimensional spaces is motivated by applications in mapping, navigation, geographic resource allocation, modeling of body shapes and chemical structures, and more. In addition to datasets that naturally reside in low-dimension spaces, dimension-reduction methods can often transform high dimensional data to lower-dimensional data while preserving properties of interest. Since many computational problems are intractable for high-dimensional data but potentially tractable for low-dimensional data, it is useful to establish the algorithmic foundations of data science on low-dimensional data, to understand the special properties of such data, and to identify computational methods that are highly effective when applied to such data.
This workshop will bring together researchers in academia and industry to explore algorithmic and data analysis technique specialized for low-dimensional data, and application areas in which such problems arise. The focus of this workshop is... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Vincent Cohen-Addad
- Philip Klein
- Eli Upfal
Arithmetic of Low-Dimensional Abelian Varieties
Jun 3 - 7, 2019
In this workshop, we will explore a number of themes in the arithmetic of abelian varieties of low dimension (typically dimension 2â4), with a focus on computational aspects. Topics will include the study of torsion points, Galois representations, endomorphism rings, Sato-Tate distributions, Mumford-Tate groups, complex and p-adic analytic aspects, L-functions, rational points, and so on. We also seek to classify and tabulate these objects, in particular to understand explicitly the underlying moduli spaces (with specified polarization, endomorphism, and torsion structure), and to find examples of abelian varieties exhibiting special behavior. Finally, we will pursue connections with related areas, including the theory of modular forms, related algebraic varieties (e.g., K3 surfaces), and special values of L-functions.
Our goal is for the workshop to bring together researchers working on abelian varieties in a number of facets to establish collaborations, develop algorithms, and... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Jennifer Balakrishnan
- Noam Elkies
- Brendan Hassett
- Bjorn Poonen
- Andrew Sutherland
- John Voight
Encrypted Search
Jun 10 - 14, 2019
The area of encrypted search focuses on the design and cryptanalysis of practical algorithms and systems that can search on end-to-end encrypted data. With encrypted search algorithms, data can remain encrypted even in use. As such, encrypted search algorithms have a wide array of applications including in data management, healthcare, cloud computing, mobile security, blockchains, and censorship- and surveillance-resistant systems.
Organizing Committee
- Alexandra Boldyreva
- David Cash
- Seny Kamara
- Hugo Krawczyk
- Tarik Moataz
- Charalampos Papamanthou
Summer@ICERM 2019: Computational Arithmetic Dynamics
Jun 10 - Aug 2, 2019
Imagine spending eight-weeks on the beautiful Brown University campus in historic Providence, RI, working in a small team setting to solve mathematical research problems developed by faculty experts in their fields.
Imagine creating career-building connections between peers, near peers (graduate students and postdocs), and academic professionals.
Imagine spending your summer in a fun, memorable, and intellectually stimulating environment.
Now, imagine having this experience with support for travel within the U.S., room and board paid, plus a $3,570 stipend*.
The 2019 Summer@ICERM program at Brown University is an eight-week residential program designed for a select group of 18-22 undergraduate scholars.
The faculty advisers will present a variety of interdisciplinary research... (more)
Organizing Committee
- John Doyle
- Benjamin Hutz
- Bianca Thompson
- Adam Towsley
ICERM Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF)
Jun 17 - 21, 2019
This workshop, a formal collaboration between ICERM and the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), is one in a series of annual REUF workshops. These workshops bring together leading research mathematicians and faculty based at primarily undergraduate institutions to investigate open questions in the mathematical sciences and to equip participants with tools to engage in research with undergraduate students. REUF also serves to jump-start faculty who want to re-engage in research or who are considering a change in their research area.
The goals of this workshop are to promote undergraduate research and to forge research collaborations among the participating faculty. The majority of the workshop will be spent working on problems in small research groups, reporting on progress, and formulating plans for future work. Note that there are opportunities for participants to continue research activities beyond the workshop week, which will be discussed during the workshop.
Preference will... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Brianna Donaldson
- Leslie Hogben
- Ulrica Wilson
Mathematical Optimization of Systems Impacted by Rare, High-Impact Random Events
Jun 24 - 28, 2019
Designing, planning, and operating many systems is challenging due to the possibility of high-impact rare events. A motivating application is the electricity power grid, whose operation can be significantly disrupted by rare weather events such as a severe storm or a polar vortex. This workshop will explore optimization and simulation approaches to designing, planning, and operating systems impacted by such events. Stochastic optimization is one approach for optimizing such systems, in which the uncertain outcomes are modeled with random variables. Rare and high-impact events provide a challenge for stochastic optimization because (1) it is difficult to estimate the likelihood of rare events, (2) estimates of expected values with outcomes that have very low probability but high cost are inherently unstable, and (3) the actual distribution of the random events is often not known. Alternatively, robust and distributionally robust optimization models attempt to identify a solution that is... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Mihai Anitescu
- Güzin Bayraksan
- Jim Luedtke
- Jonathan Weare
Perspectives on Dehn Surgery
Jul 15 - 19, 2019
Dehn surgery has played a central role in the development of low-dimensional topology since it was first introduced by Max Dehn in 1910. Its study has stimulated several fascinating techniques that incorporate ideas from across mathematics: hyperbolic geometry, representation varieties, combinatorics, sutured manifold theory, and Floer homology, to name a few. These tools have led to sensational progress in understanding problems about Dehn surgery and low-dimensional topology at large. Furthermore, they seem well-suited to attack the major open problems in the area, such as the Berge conjecture and the L-space conjecture.
The workshop will function as a graduate summer school. At its core, the school will feature a sequence of mini-courses delivered by a cast of leading experts and distinguished expositors. The courses will unveil Dehn surgery and this suite of techniques to the next generation of researchers in the area. The school will additionally feature guided problem sessions... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Kenneth Baker
- Nathan Dunfield
- Joshua Greene
- Sarah Rasmussen
Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology workshop (WiSCon)
Jul 22 - 26, 2019
The Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology workshop (WiSCon) is a Research Collaboration Conference for Women (RCCW) in the fields of contact and symplectic geometry/topology and related areas of low-dimensional topology. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers at various career stages in these mathematical areas to collaborate in groups on projects designed and led by leaders in the field.
The mathematical fields of symplectic and contact geometry/topology, rooted in concepts from classical physics, have experienced huge growth in the past few decades. This growth has come in many forms, including multiple flavors of homology theories, symplectic embedding problems, techniques for regularizing spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves, and examples of mirror symmetry, to name a few. This workshop aims to generate research collaborations which build on the growing momentum in these topics, while fostering a network for the traditionally underrepresented... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Bahar Acu
- Catherine Cannizzo
- Dusa McDuff
- Ziva Myer
- Yu Pan
- Lisa Traynor
Women in Data Science and Mathematics (WiSDM) 2019
Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2019
WiSDM 2019 is a research collaboration workshop targeted toward people working in data science and mathematics. This program will bring together researchers at all stages of their careers, from graduate students to senior researchers, to collaborate on problems in data science.
Data science is typically characterized as work at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, statistics, and an application domain. The scientific focus will be on cutting-edge problems in network analysis for gene detection, group dynamics, graph clustering, novel statistical and topological learning algorithms, tensor product decompositions, reconciliation of assurance of anonymity and privacy with utility measures for data transfer and analytics, as well as efficient and accurate completion, inference and fusion methods for large data and correlations.
Applications are now open. Applicants should rank their top 3 choices of projects in their personal statement. Project descriptions can be found... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Ellen Gasparovic
- Kathryn Leonard
- Linda Ness
Applied Mathematical Modeling with Topological Techniques
Aug 5 - 9, 2019
Mathematical modelers face a variety of challenges, including summarizing large data sets to understand and explore a system of interest, inferring the model parameters most accurate for describing a given data set, and assessing the goodness-of-fit between data sets. Computational topology provides a lens through which these challenges may be addressed. At the same time, just as topological techniques provide opportunities for modelers, the challenges that modelers face give rise to opportunities for applied topologists. For instance, topologists may develop techniques that make model predictions based on the topology of experimental or simulation data, that analyze time-varying data, or that turn model outputs into formats suitable for machine learning.
This workshop brings together the applied mathematical modeling and applied topology communities, aiming to give modelers exposure to topological techniques still not commonly used in their community, and to give topologists exposure... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Henry Adams
- Maria D’Orsogna
- Rachel Neville
- Jose Perea
- Chad Topaz
GirlsGetMath@ICERM: Summer Math Camp for High Schoolers
Aug 12 - 16, 2019
GirlsGetMath@ICERM is a five-day non-residential mathematics program that is open to high schoolers, regardless of gender, who live in or near greater Rhode Island and who will be entering the 10th or 11th grade in the fall of 2019.
GirlsGetMath occurs in an encouraging environment that builds young students' confidence in math and science.
GirlsGetMath expands participants' understanding and knowledge of mathematics through computations and experimentations.
GirlsGetMath provides expert mathematical training and mentoring.
GirlsGetMath@ICERM encourages 20-25 high schoolers to explore topics such as cryptography, the mathematics of voting, image processing, prime numbers and factoring, and fractals.
The goals of the program are:
- to show young adults that the study of mathematics can be exciting,... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Amalia Culiuc
- Augustine O'Keefe
- Katharine Ott
- Ulrica Wilson
Illustrating Mathematics
Sep 4 - Dec 6, 2019
The Illustrating Mathematics program brings together mathematicians, makers, and artists who share a common interest in illustrating mathematical ideas via computational tools.
The goals of the program are to:
- introduce mathematicians to new computational illustration tools to guide and inform their research;
- spark collaborations among and between mathematicians, makers and artists;
- find ways to communicate research mathematics to as wide an audience as possible.
The program includes week-long workshops in Geometry and Topology, Algebra and Number Theory, and Dynamics and Probability, as well as master courses, seminars, and an art exhibition.
Mathematical topics include: moduli spaces of geometric structures, hyperbolic geometry, configuration spaces, sphere eversions, apollonian packings, kleinian groups, sandpiles and tropical geometry, analytic number theory, supercharacters, complex dynamics, billiards, random walks, and SchrammâLoewner... (more)
Organizing Committee
- David Bachman
- Kelly Delp
- David Dumas
- Saul Schleimer
- Richard Schwartz
- Henry Segerman
- Katherine Stange
- Laura Taalman