ICERM

The Simons Foundation has established the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory and Computation, to be directed by ICERM's Brendan Hassett.
ICERM is grateful to Microsoft Research for their recent gift of $50,000.
Summer@ICERM undergraduate researchers learn about the geometry of metric spaces.
ICERM was pleased to host the Research Experience for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF) summer workshop.
Thanks to the organizers of the spring 2017 "Singularities and Waves In Incompressible Fluids" semester program.

September 6 - December 8, 2017	Semester Program: Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Radar and Seismic Reconstruction
October 2 - November 3, 2017	Research Cluster 2: Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Radar Imaging
October 16 - 20, 2017	Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Radar Imaging
October 18, 2017	Public Lecture: Musical Geometry, Games, and Multimedia Art
October 18 - 19, 2017	NSF Mathematics Institutes’ Modern Math Workshop (at SACNAS in Salt Lake City, Utah)
October 23 - November 21, 2017	Research Cluster 3: Wave Propagation and Inversion in Seismic Applications
November 3, 2017	Advances in Model Reduction with Application to Inverse Scattering Problems
November 6 - 10, 2017	Recent Advances in Seismic Modeling and Inversion: From Analysis to Applications
February 1 - May 4, 2018	Point Configurations in Geometry, Physics and Computer Science

Monday	October 16, 2017
Time	Description	Speaker	Location	Abstracts	Slides
8:30 - 8:55	Registration		121 South Main Street Providence RI 11th Floor Collaborative Space
8:55 - 9:00	Welcome	ICERM Director	11th Floor Lecture Hall
9:00 - 9:45	Non-uniform motion and the Doppler effect	John Gray, Naval SWC, Dahlgren	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Tutorial on phenomenology in SAR images	Armin Doerry, Sandia National Laboratories	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Correlation imaging	Kaitlyn Muller, Villanova University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Tomographic Microwave Imaging of the Brain	Christian Pichot, Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:00 - 4:45	Estimating Shape and Motion From Radar Data	Andrew Homan, Matrix Research	11th Floor Lecture Hall
5:00 - 6:30	Welcome Reception		11th Floor Collaborative Space

Monday, October 16, 2017

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
8:30 - 8:55	Registration		121 South Main Street Providence RI 11th Floor Collaborative Space
8:55 - 9:00	Welcome	ICERM Director	11th Floor Lecture Hall
9:00 - 9:45	Non-uniform motion and the Doppler effect	John Gray, Naval SWC, Dahlgren	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Tutorial on phenomenology in SAR images	Armin Doerry, Sandia National Laboratories	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Correlation imaging	Kaitlyn Muller, Villanova University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Tomographic Microwave Imaging of the Brain	Christian Pichot, Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:00 - 4:45	Estimating Shape and Motion From Radar Data	Andrew Homan, Matrix Research	11th Floor Lecture Hall
5:00 - 6:30	Welcome Reception		11th Floor Collaborative Space

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 9:45	Tutorial on exploitation of radar images	Armin Doerry, Sandia National Laboratories	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Radar Scattering Phenomenology and Prediction Models	Julie Jackson, Air Force Institute of Technology	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Polarimetric Synthetic-Aperture Radar	Derek West, Sandia National Laboratories	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Microlocal Analysis in radar and seismic imaging	Cliff Nolan, University of Limerick	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:00 - 4:45	When is the single-scattering approximation valid	Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester	11th Floor Lecture Hall

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 9:45	Level sets in magnetic induction tomography	Oliver Dorn, University of Manchester	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Interferometric inversion for imaging and geolocation	Laurent Demanet, MIT	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Problems in Target Recognition	Ed Zelnio, AFRL	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:20 - 12:30	Group Photo		11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Transionospheric SAR	Semyon Tsynkov, NC State University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 5:00	Poster Session with Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
6:30 - 8:00	ICERM Public Lecture: Musical Geometry, Games, and Multimedia Art	Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University	121 S Main St, Providence, RI 02903, USA 11th Floor Lecture Hall

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
12:00 - 1:00	Registration/Check-In		Salt Palace Convention Center (150 D-G)
1:00 - 2:30	Undergraduate Mini-Course 1: Polynomial exact sequences in numerical analysis	Johnny Guzman, Brown University	151 D-F
1:00 - 2:30	Undergraduate Mini-Course 2: Counting curves, intersections, and designs in hyperbolic geometry	Tarik Aougab, Brown University	151 A-C
1:00 - 1:40	Mathematics for Sea Ice and Climate	Christian Sampson, SAMSI	150 A-C
1:45 - 2:25	Science at Extreme Scales: Where Big Data Meets Large Scale Computing	Chris Johnson, IPAM	150 A-C
2:30 - 2:45	Coffee Break		Outside of 150 A-C
2:45 - 4:10	Undergraduate Mini-Course 1: Polynomial exact sequences in numerical analysis	Johnny Guzman, Brown University	151 D-F
2:45 - 4:10	Undergraduate Mini-Course 2: Counting curves, intersections, and designs in hyperbolic geometry	Tarik Aougab, Brown University	151 A-C
2:45 - 3:25	Using Mathematics to Address Problems in Biology and Medicine	Adriana Dawes, MBI	150 A-C
3:30 - 4:10	Analyzing trade-offs between tactics for grass-roots advocacy in a dual-belief social network	Oyita Udiani, NIMBioS	150 A-C
4:30 - 5:30	Keynote Lecture: The little theorem that could: How Sperner’s coloring lemma influenced Mathematics & Economics	Jesus De Loera, UC Davis	150 D-G
5:30 - 6:30	Modern Math Workshop Reception		151 G

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 9:45	Space-time adaptive processing	Tapan Sarkar, Syracuse University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Intro. to Single-Scan Target Tracking	David Crouse, Naval Research Laboratory	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Bayesian Imaging and Compressive Sensing	Rahgu Raj, Naval Research Laboratory	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Panel Discussion		11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:00 - 4:45	Mathematical Challenges of Quantum Radar	Marco Lanzagorta, Naval Research Laboratory	11th Floor Lecture Hall

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 9:40	Polytopes and Positroids	Anastasia Chaves, MSRI	150 A-C
9:45 - 10:25	Exploring symmetric spaces of SL(n,k) where k is a finite field	Carmen Wright, ICERM	150 A-C
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break		Outside of 150 A-C
10:45 - 11:25	Bases for cohomology of the affine Grassmannian	Kaisa Taipale, IAS	150 A-C
11:30 - 12:30	Q&A with Institute Representatives		150 A-C

Friday, October 20, 2017

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 9:45	Ionospheric imaging	Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Shadow Exploitation in SAR	Ann Marie Raynal, Sandia National Laboratory	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Vector Green's functions	Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Microlocal analysis of bistatic SAR	Raluca Felea, Rochester Institute of Technology	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:00 - 4:45	Radar Microdopler Signatures	David Tahmoush, Naval Research Laboratory	11th Floor Lecture Hall

99_Month_2012

Foundation Announces Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory and Computation

July 13, 2017 — The Simons Foundation announced a new Simons Collaboration - Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory and Computation - which grew directly out of the Fall 2015 ICERM program Computational Aspects of the Langlands Program. The collaboration includes Jennifer Balakrishnan (BU), Noam Elkies (Harvard), Bjorn Poonen (MIT), Andrew Sutherland (MIT), and John Voight (Dartmouth), and Brendan Hassett (Director, ICERM). The budget is nearly $8 million across the five participating institutions over the four years of the project. This will support programmers and staff mathematicians with a view toward enriching databases of elliptic curves, L-functions, and varieties over finite fields and extending them to new classes of objects. We expect these to inspire new progress on fundamental questions in algebraic geometry, Galois representations, and number theory. As the lead node of the collaboration, ICERM will provide logistical support and host two workshops in 2019 and 2020. ICERM is grateful that the Simons Foundation is investing these resources in the computationally-inspired mathematical research that is a major strand of ICERM's mission.

11_July_2017

MSR gifts $50K to ICERM

July 1, 2017 — ICERM recently received a generous gift of $50,000 from Microsoft Research. We are very grateful to them for their support.

02_July_2017

Brown names math institute founder new research VP

July 1, 2017 — ICERM's founding Director, Jill Pipher, officially began her new role as Vice President for Research at Brown University this month.

01_July_2017

ICERM Welcomes New Deputy Director

July 1, 2017 — ICERM is pleased to announce that Sigal Gottlieb has joined ICERM as a Deputy Director. She is a Professor of Mathematics at UMass Dartmouth, where she also founded the center for scientific computing and visualization. She has extensive experience organizing conferences both at ICERM and around the country. She succeeds Sinai Robins, who is returning full time to the University of Sao Paulo after two years at ICERM. We are grateful to Sinai for developing our "Illustrating Mathematics" program and overseeing numerous other ICERM events.

21_June_2017

Friends of ICERM honored as speakers for ICM

June 21, 2017 — ICERM congratulates the former board members and program organizers who were selected as plenary or sectional speakers for the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1-9, 2018. Andrea Bertozzi Pierre Degond Laura DeMarco Qiang Du Michael Hochman Gil Kalai Richard Kenyon Helena Nussenzveig Lopes Igor Pak Sylvia Serfaty Rekha Thomas The IMC meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (awarders of The Fields Medals, among other prizes). Being invited to give a talk at the ICM is considered a great honor.

Opportunities

Semester Program Visitors

ICERM welcomes applications for semester program visitors who wish to spend between 2 weeks and one semester at ICERM to participate in one of our semester-long programs. The research interest of semester program visitors should relate to the semester program. Applications may be submitted at any time until the end of the semester program and will be considered as long as funds remain available. Apply to upcoming programs with Cube.

Workshop Participants

ICERM workshops, both semester and topical, provide other opportunities for participation in our activities. Funding for workshop participation is limited. Apply to upcoming workshops with Cube. Decisions about online applications are typically made 1-3 months before the workshop.

Each year ICERM runs Summer@ICERM, an undergraduate research program that spans eight weeks. Our program involves approximately 15-20 undergraduate students who work in groups of two or three, supervised by faculty advisors and aided by teaching assistants. Travel within the U.S. and lodging expenses are paid for, and every participant receives a $3,000 salary (Brown students typically receive an UTRA grant in lieu of the S@I salary). Proposals for undergraduate research programs are chosen competitively, and undergraduates need to apply to participate. View details about the summer 2018 program.

ICERM welcomes applications from graduate students who wish to spend between 6 weeks and one semester at ICERM to participate in one of our semester-long programs. ICERM will provide workspace, shared computers, and lockers; ICERM offers support for travel to the institute and local accommodations. The research interest of visiting graduate students should relate to the semester program. Applications may be submitted at any time until the end of the semester program and will be considered as long as funds and space remain available.

If you are interested in applying to attend a workshop, you will need to request that your advisor submit a statement of support. Graduate students who present a poster at an ICERM workshop are typically awarded funding for local accommodations.

Apply to upcoming programs using Cube.

ICERM brings early-career mathematicians to the institute in order to support and expand their research and to create lasting career collaborations and connections. There are three ways to participate as a Postdoctoral Fellow in an ICERM semester program:

Postdoctoral Institute Fellows: The institute funds two academic-year postdoctoral positions that include a salary and benefits. Each Institute Postdoc is a research participant in one of the semester programs planned for that academic year, and remains at the institute during the alternate semester as a researcher-in-residence. Applications for the 2018-2019 positions are open on Mathjobs.org.
Postdoctoral Semester Fellows: These postdoctoral researchers are associated with a specific program and are in residence for that semester, supported by a monthly salary and benefits. Applications for the 2018-2019 positions are open on Mathjobs.org.
Postdoctoral Visitors: Postdoctoral researchers with support from their home institutions can apply for travel and/or lodging support to participate in an ICERM semester program. Go to ICERM's "Cube" system to apply.

Each postdoctoral researcher is paired with a senior long-term participant to ensure mentoring and professional guidance. The institute provides a range of professional development activities for postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. A weekly graduate student/postdoctoral seminar facilitates peer connections between graduate student researchers and postdoctoral researchers.

ICERM encourages proposals for programs that support its mission to foster and broaden the relationship between mathematics and computation. We welcome your ideas for semester programs, topical workshops, small group research (Collaborate@ICERM), and our Summer@ICERM undergraduate research programs. How to propose an Program or Workshop.