ICERM

ICERM's founding director, Jill Pipher, was elected to serve as President of the American Mathematical Society. She will serve as President-elect beginning January 2018, then as President for two years beginning January 2019.
ICERM had a full house for its "Musical Geometry, Games, and Multimedia Art" public lecture, featuring Dmitri Tymoczko of Princeton University.
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.

February 1 - May 4, 2018	Semester Program: Point Configurations in Geometry, Physics and Computer Science
April 23–27, 2018	Computational Challenges in the Theory of Lattices
May 9-12, 2018	2018 Seminar on Stochastic Processes at Brown University
May 14 - 18, 2018	Birational Geometry and Arithmetic
June 4 - 8, 2018	Frame Theory and Exponential Bases
June 11 – August 3, 2018	Summer@ICERM 2018: Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry
June 11-15, 2018	Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF) at AIM in San Jose, CA
June 18 - 22, 2018	Fractional PDEs: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
June 25 - 29, 2018	Computational Aspects of Time Dependent Electromagnetic Wave Problems in Complex Materials
July 23 - 27, 2018	SageDays@ICERM: Combinatorics and Representation Theory
August 6-10, 2018	GirlsGetMath@ICERM: Summer Math Camp for High School Girls
August 20-24, 2018	Advances in PDEs: Theory, Computation and Application to CFD

Tuesday	April 24, 2018
Time	Description	Speaker	Location	Abstracts	Slides
9:00 - 10:00	On algebraic variants of the LWE problem	Damien Stehlé, ENS de Lyon	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Hardness and advantages of Module-SIS and LWE	Adeline Roux-Langlois, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Automorphisms of even unimodular lattices	Eva Bayer, EPFL	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Lattice methods for algebraic modular forms on orthogonal groups	John Voight, Dartmouth College	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 5:00	Poster Session		11th Floor Collaborative Space

Monday, April 23, 2018

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 - 10:00	A Reverse Minkowski Theorem	Oded Regev, Courant Institute, New York University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:45 - 11:30	On Approximating the Covering Radius and Finding Dense Lattice Subspaces	Daniel Dadush, CWI	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:40 - 12:40	Logarithmic Lattices	Leo Ducas, CWI	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:40 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:30	Variations and Applications of Voronoi’s Algorithm	Achill Schurmann, Universität Rostock	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:45 - 4:15	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:15 - 5:00	Computational Challenges in Perfect form theory	Mathieu Dutour Sikiric, Institut Rudjer Boskovic	11th Floor Lecture Hall
5:00 - 6:30	Welcome Reception		11th Floor Collaborative Space

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 10:00	On algebraic variants of the LWE problem	Damien Stehlé, ENS de Lyon	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Hardness and advantages of Module-SIS and LWE	Adeline Roux-Langlois, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	Automorphisms of even unimodular lattices	Eva Bayer, EPFL	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Lattice methods for algebraic modular forms on orthogonal groups	John Voight, Dartmouth College	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 5:00	Poster Session		11th Floor Collaborative Space

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 10:00	Applications of harmonic analysis to packing and covering problems	Stephen Miller, Rutgers University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:45 - 11:30	Sphere packing, lattice packing, and related problems	Abhinav Kumar, Stony Brook University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:40 - 12:25	Lattice packings of superballs	Maria Dostert, ICERM - EPFL	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 12:40	Workshop Group Photo		11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:40 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Testing isomorphism of lattices over CM-orders	Alice Silverberg, University of California, Irvine	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:00 - 4:45	Orders and their discriminants	Hendrik Lenstra, Universiteit Leiden	11th Floor Lecture Hall

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 9:45	Fully Homomorphic Encryption - Simple Construction and Open Problems	Daniele Micciancio, UCSD	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	The hidden number problem revisited	Nadia Heninger, University of Pennsylvania	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 12:15	On the Probability of Primitive Sets and Generators in Lattices	Phong Nguyen, Inria and CNRS, JFLI, University of Tokyo	11th Floor Lecture Hall
12:30 - 2:30	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:30 - 3:15	Lattices generated by equiangular tight frames	Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
4:00 - 4:45	On the Density of Sets Avoiding Parallelohedron Distance 1	Philippe Moustrou, ICERM	11th Floor Lecture Hall

Friday, April 27, 2018

Time	Description	Speaker	Location
9:00 - 9:45	TBA	Jeffrey Hoffstein, Brown University	11th Floor Lecture Hall
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea Break		11th Floor Collaborative Space
10:30 - 11:15	Spinor regular ternary quadratic lattices	Anna Haensch, Duquesne Univeristy and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics	11th Floor Lecture Hall
11:30 - 2:00	Break for Lunch / Free Time
2:00 - 3:30	Open Problem Sessions	Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research New England	11th Floor Lecture Hall
3:30 - 5:00	Semester Program Closing Reception		11th Floor Collaborative Space

04_April_2018

Walker Named SIAM Fellow

April 4, 2018 — Homer Walker (WPI) was recently named a SIAM Fellow. Homer, an ICERM Deputy Director Emeritus, was recognized for his contributions to theory and software of iterative methods for nonlinear systems and optimization, as well as application of these methods to scientific simulations. http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2018

31_March_2018

Bjorn Sandstede Named New DSI Director

March 31, 2018 — Bjorn Sandstede, one of ICERM's founding Associate Directors, has been named the director of Brown's Data Science Initiative. He will succeed Jeff Brock (a founding ICERM Deputy Director), who has accepted a position at Yale as inaugural dean of science for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). https://today.brown.edu/archive.php?id=106187

23_February_2018

Juan Meza Appointed DMS Director

February 23, 2018 — Congratulations to founding ICERM science board member, Juan Meza, who has been appointed as the Division Director for the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=244601&WT.mc_id=USNSF_61&WT.mc_ev=click

08_February_2018

Jill Pipher, President-elect of the AMS

February 8, 2018 — Jill Pipher, founding director of ICERM, began her term as president-elect of the American Mathematical Society on February 1 — a position which she will hold until she officially becomes president next February. http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=3868

06_February_2018

Inaugural Simons Collaboration Conference

February 6, 2018 — The Simons Collaboration on "Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation", led by ICERM, announced that its first conference will be held this summer at MIT on August 20-24, 2018. https://icerm.brown.edu/simonscollaboration/events/

24_January_2018

MAA Outstanding Poster Awards

January 24, 2018 — ICERM was pleased that several students from its Summer@ICERM 2017 program won the MAA "Outstanding Poster Award" at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting. Congrats to Erin Bugbee and Claire Savard ("Comparing Songs Using Matrix Pattern Preservation"), Nathaniel Clause and Jose Angel Sanchez Gomez ("A First Approach to a General Theory of Filtration Functions"), and Adam Jaffee ("Vietoris-Rips Complexes of Regular Polygons"). https://www.maa.org/programs/students/undergraduate-research/past-sessions-winners

16_January_2018

Love of Puzzles

January 16, 2018 — Rich Schwartz, a member of ICERM's Scientific Advisory Board, was featured in Quantamagazine.org describing his love of simple puzzles which can reveal hidden depths to mathematical problems. https://www.quantamagazine.org/richard-schwartz-in-praise-of-simple-problems-20180109/

12_January_2018

Board Member Honored

January 12, 2018 — The King Faisal International Prize honors excellence in Service to Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic Language & Literature, Medicine, and Science. University of Oxford’s Professor Sir John M. Ball, a member of ICERM's Board of Trustees, was awarded the prize for Science for his fundamental and groundbreaking contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, and dynamical systems. Congrats, Sir Ball! http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/525955/SAUDI-ARABIA/Prof-Jaswir-of-Indonesia-wins-King-Faisal-Prize-for-service-to-Islam

10_January_2018

ICERM Reunion at JMM 2018

January 10, 2018 — ICERM was pleased to host its second annual reunion for our past, present and future participants at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting held in San Diego, CA. We look forward to making this an annual tradition!

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.