Programs & Events
Careers in Academia
Jun 25 - 27, 2014
This workshop will focus on preparing each participant for a successful career as a mathematician at a college or university. Beginning with the hiring process, a thorough discussion of the various elements of the application packet will take place in the context of each participant's materials. Working individually with experienced faculty, participants will review and refine their cover letters, C.V., research, and teaching statements. This will be followed by activities related to the interview. The primary goals of the workshop are to develop an understanding of the hiring process from the institutions' perspective, to refine the application packet, to learn what to expect during the interview process (including the job talk), and to prepare for negotiating salary and start-up packages.
Additional time will be spent on aspects of the pre-tenure years including the development of a research program, writing grant proposals, and mentoring research students. The three-day workshop... (more)
Organizing Committee
- David Farmer
- Ruth Haas
- Loek Helminck
- Sally Koutsoliotas
Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF) at AIM
Jul 7 - 11, 2014
The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), co-sponsored by ICERM, invites applications for the Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF) workshop to be held at AIM in Palo Alto, CA.
This workshop, sponsored by AIM, ICERM, and the National Science Foundation, is one in a series of annual REUF workshops that bring together leading research mathematicians with faculty at undergraduate institutions who are interested in involving their students in areas of active research. The workshop can also serve as a research renewal opportunity for faculty who want to re--engage in research or are considering a change of research area.
The goals of the workshop are to promote undergraduate research in undergraduate institutions, and to forge lasting 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. In addition to the workshop... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Leslie Hogben
- Roselyn Williams
- Ulrica Wilson
GirlsGetMath@ICERM: Summer Math Camp for High School Girls
Jul 14 - 18, 2014
GirlsGetMath is a weeklong mathematics summer day-program for 9th and 10th grade high school girls in the Providence, RI area.
GirlsGetMath occurs in an encouraging environment that builds young women's 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 2014 is the first of what will become a replicable national model of mathematical outreach for high school girls, with an emphasis on mathematical experimentation.
This five-day non-residential mathematics program is open to high school girls from the greater Providence, RI area who will have just completed either grade 9 or grade 10 by July 2014.
GirlsGetMath@ICERM will... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Ruth Crane
- Maria Lorenz
- Irina Mitrea
- Katharine Ott
- Allison Pacelli
Challenges in 21st Century Experimental Mathematical Computation
Jul 21 - 25, 2014
Over the past 25 years, experimental mathematics has developed as an important additional arrow in the mathematical quiver. Many mathematical scientists now use powerful symbolic, numeric and graphic (sometimes abbreviated "SNAG") computing environments in their research, in a remarkable departure from tradition. While these tools collectively are quite effective, challenges remain in numerous areas, including: (a) rapid, high-precision computation of special functions and their derivatives; (b) user-customizable symbolic computing; (c) graphical computing; (d) data-intensive computing; and (e) large-scale computing on parallel and GPU architectures (including algorithm and software design for such systems).
This workshop will convene mathematical and computer scientists who create or exploit these tools, together with computational tool developers and commercial vendors of mathematical software, to exchange approaches and extend the state of the art in the field, both in the design... (more)
Organizing Committee
- David Bailey
- Jonathan Borwein
- Olga Caprotti
- Ursula Martin
- Bruno Salvy
- Michela Taufer
Combinatorial Link Homology Theories, Braids, and Contact Geometry
Aug 4 - 8, 2014
This workshop will focus on recent advances in combinatorial link homology theories (e.g., Heegaard-Floer homology and Khovanov homology), especially as they apply to questions about braids and, more generally, mapping class groups of surfaces. There will be short mini-courses on
- Combinatorial knot Floer homology, with applications to contact geometry,
- Braid foliations and the Jones conjecture,
- Nielsen-Thurston theory, and
- Garside theory and a linear order on the braid group,
As the main goal of the workshop is to facilitate... (more)
Organizing Committee
- John Baldwin
- Julia E Grigsby
- Joshua Greene
- Keiko Kawamuro
- Dan Margalit
IdeaLab 2014: Program for Early Career Researchers
Aug 11 - 15, 2014
Interested in discussing cutting edge research ideas with both peers and leaders in their field?
Interested in broadening your professional network across the mathematical sciences?
Interested in the opportunity to present your ideas and hear about funding opportunities from program officers?
Idea-Lab invites 20 early career researchers (postdoctoral candidates and assistant professors) to ICERM for a week during the summer. The program will start with brief participant presentations on their research interests in order to build a common understanding of the breadth and depth of expertise. Throughout the week, organizers or visiting researchers will give comprehensive overviews of their research topics. Organizers will create smaller teams of participants who will discuss, in depth, these research questions, obstacles, and... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Ricardo Cortez
- Mark Levi
- Michael Minion
- Richard Montgomery
Integrability and Cluster Algebras: Geometry and Combinatorics
Aug 25 - 29, 2014
This workshop focuses on certain kinds of discrete dynamical systems that are integrable and have interpretations in terms of cluster algebras. Some such systems, like the pentagram map and the octahedral recurrence, are motivated by concrete algebraic constructions (taking determinants) or geometric constructions based on specific configurations of points and lines in the projective plane. The systems of interest in this workshop have connections to Poisson and symplectic geometry, classical integrable PDE such as the KdV and Boussinesq equations and also to cluster algebras. The aim of the workshop is to explore geometric, algebraic, and computational facets of these systems, with a view towards uncovering new phenomena and unifying the work to date.
Organizing Committee
- Vladimir Fock
- Max Glick
- Olga Kravchenko
- Sophie Morier-Genoud
- Valentin Ovsienko
- Richard Schwartz
Integrability in Mechanics and Geometry: Theory and Computations
Jun 1 - 5, 2015
This workshop focuses on topics at the interface of classical mechanics, differential geometry, and computer experiments. The directions of current research to be explored at the workshop include the study of invariants and complete integrability of geometrically motivated differential equations (in particular, vehicle motion, tire track geometry, and smoke ring equations), sub-Riemannian geometry, geometric control, nonholonomic systems (such as e.g. bicycle stability and nonholonomic methods in billiard problems), computational methods in mechanics and dynamics (including geometric integrators, biological applications, etc.).
The goal of the workshop is to explore broad applications of the mechanical approach to geometry and geometric one to classical mechanics, to foster interaction between researchers in the above areas, with a view of finding new domains for applications of these fertile ideas.
Organizing Committee
- Annalisa Calini
- Boris Khesin
- Gloria Mari-Beffa
- Vadim Zharnitsky
Summer@ICERM 2015: Computational Dynamics and Topology
Jun 15 - Aug 7, 2015
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 $3,000 stipend*.
The 2015 Summer@ICERM Program is designed for a select group of 14-16 undergraduate scholars. Students work in groups of two or three, supervised by faculty advisors and aided by teaching assistants. The faculty... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Yuliy Baryshnikov
- Vadim Zharnitsky
Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS)
Jun 24 - 27, 2015
In the early 1990s, William Massey of Bell Laboratories (then AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) had an idea for an organization devoted mainly to addressing critical issues involving African-American researchers and graduate students in the mathematical sciences. It was envisioned that this organization would highlight current research by African-American researchers and graduate students in mathematics, strengthen the mathematical sciences by encouraging increased participation of African-Americans and members of other underrepresented groups, facilitate working relations among them, and provide assistance to them in cultivating their careers.
This organization became known as the Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS). For the past twenty years this conference has been held at various institutions and institutes across the U.S.. The CAARMS 21 program will include invited speakers, tutorials, and... (more)
Organizing Committee
- William Massey
- Ulrica Wilson
Computational Geometric Topology in Arrangement Theory
Jul 6 - 10, 2015
This workshop will bring together mathematicians working on combinatorial, geometric and topological properties of arrangements. In addition to fundamental open problems in the area, we will emphasize connections to tropical geometry, configuration spaces, and applications (coding theory, statistical economics, topological robotics), building bridges between those working on different aspects of the area. The main aim of the workshop is to discuss computational issues that arise in studying topological and combinatorial invariants of arrangements.
The workshop will be comprised of two main activities: A series of short courses by leading experts and research or expository talks. The short courses will be aimed at a broad audience; in particular they will be appropriate for advanced graduate students and early career mathematicians. In addition to theory, talks will highlight computational aspects of the problems, and the state of the art on the main open conjectures in the field. We... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Nero Budur
- Graham Denham
- Anca Daniela Macinic
- Daniel Matei
- Laurentiu Maxim
- Hal Schenck
- Max Wakefield
IdeaLab 2015: Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification
Jul 6 - 10, 2015
Interested in discussing cutting edge research ideas with both peers and leaders in their field?
Interested in broadening your professional network across the mathematical sciences?
Interested in the opportunity to present your ideas and hear about funding opportunities from program officers?
Idea-Lab is a one-week program aimed at 15 early career researchers (within five years of their Ph.D.) that will focus on a topic at the frontier of research. Participants will be exposed to a problem whose solution may require broad perspectives and multiple areas of expertise. Senior researchers will introduce the topic in tutorials and lead discussions. The participants will break into teams to brainstorm ideas, comprehend the obstacles, and explore possible avenues towards a solution. The teams will be encouraged to develop a... (more)
Organizing Committee
- Omar Ghattas
- Youssef Marzouk
- Noemi Petra