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The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), founded in 1982, is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution whose funding sources include the National Science Foundation, foundations, corporations, and more than 90 universities and institutions. The Institute is located at 17 Gauss Way, on the University of California, Berkeley campus, close to Grizzly Peak, on the hills overlooking Berkeley.
MSRI was founded in 1982 by Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore, and Isadore M. Singer. MSRI hosts about 85 mathematicians and postdoctoral research fellows each semester for extended stays and holds programs and workshops, which draw approximately 2,000 visits by mathematical scientists throughout the year. Unlike many mathematical institutes, it has no permanent faculty or members, and its scientific activities are overseen by its Directorate and its Scientific Advisory Committee, a panel of distinguished mathematicians drawn from a variety of different areas of mathematical research.
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical problems about these sets of zeros.
The fundamental objects of study in algebraic geometry are algebraic varieties, which are geometric manifestations of solutions of systems of polynomial equations. Examples of the most studied classes of algebraic varieties are: plane algebraic curves, which include lines, circles, parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas, cubic curves like elliptic curves and quartic curves like lemniscates, and Cassini ovals. A point of the plane belongs to an algebraic curve if its coordinates satisfy a given polynomial equation. Basic questions involve the study of the points of special interest like the singular points, the inflection points and the points at infinity. More advanced questions involve the topology of the curve and relations between the curves given by different equations.
Yitang "Tom" Zhang (Romanized form: Yitang Zhang, Chinese: 张益唐, Zhāng Yìtáng) is a Chinese-born American mathematician working in the area of number theory. While working for the University of New Hampshire as a lecturer, Zhang submitted an article to the Annals of Mathematics in 2013 that established the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers, leading to a 2014 MacArthur award and his appointment as a professor.
Zhang was born in Shanghai and lived there until he was 13 years old. At the age of 23, Zhang entered Peking University in 1978 as an undergraduate student and received his B.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1982. He became a graduate student of Professor Pan Chengbiao, a number theorist at Peking University, and obtained his M.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1984.
After receiving his master's degree in mathematics, with recommendations from Professor Ding Shisun, the President of Peking University, and Professor Deng Donggao, Chair of the university's Math Department, Zhang was granted a full scholarship at Purdue University. Zhang arrived at Purdue in January 1985, studied there for seven years, and obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics in December 1991.
From the MSRI workshop "Reimagining the Foundations of Algebraic Topology" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in April 2014. The workshop page (with videos and some supplemental material) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/689 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/workshops/689/schedules/18236
A conversation between Yitang Zhang and David Eisenbud September 13, 2013 This interview is part of "Counting From Infinity - Bonus Material Three conversations with Yitang Zhang" The DVD "Counting from Infinity" can be ordered here: http://www.zalafilms.com/films/cfiflyer.pdf Video is taken from: http://www.msri.org/web/msri/online-videos/conversations
From the MSRI introductory workshop on "Algebraic Topology" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in January 2014. The workshop page (with videos and references and exercises) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/685 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/workshops/685/schedules/17880
From the MSRI "Introductory Workshop on Analysis on Singular Spaces" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in September 2008. The workshop page (with videos and some supplemental material) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/443 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/workshops/443/schedules/3343
From the MSRI workshop "Reimagining the Foundations of Algebraic Topology" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in April 2014. The workshop page (with videos and some supplemental material) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/689 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/workshops/689/schedules/18223
From the MSRI summer graduate school "Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in June 2012. The workshop page (with videos and references and exercises) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/648 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/summer_schools/648/schedules/15186
From the MSRI summer graduate school "Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in June 2012. The workshop page (with videos and references and exercises) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/648 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/summer_schools/648/schedules/15134
From the MSRI workshop "Introductory Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in August 2009. The workshop page (where you can download the videos) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/479 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/workshops/479/schedules/3766
From the MSRI workshop "Symplectic Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry, and Physics" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in May 2010. The workshop page (with videos and some supplemental material) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/548 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/workshops/548/schedules/4154
From the MSRI "Introductory Workshop on Analysis on Singular Spaces" that took place at MSRI, Berkeley in September 2008. The workshop page (with videos and some supplemental material) can be found here: http://www.msri.org/workshops/443 The page for this particular talk is: http://www.msri.org/workshops/443/schedules/3342
How many triangles are too many? Featuring Henry Segerman from Oklahoma State University. Check Henry's book about 3D printing math: http://amzn.to/2cWhY3R More Henry videos: http://bit.ly/Segerman_Videos Henry's hinged doilies were joint work with Geoffrey Irving (https://naml.us) NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile Videos by Brady Haran Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos across all channels: http://www....
Tadashi Tokieda is back. This time talking about stability, instability and train wheels. More Tadashi videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile We are also supported by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile tweets: https://twitter.com/numberphile Subscribe: http://bit.ly/Numberphile_Sub Videos by Brady Haran Editing and animation in the is video by Pete McPartlan Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile Brady's videos subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/ Brady's latest videos ac...
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Speaker: Kazuhisa Makino - Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University Dualization of a monotone Boolean function represented by a conjunctive normal form (CNF) is a problem which, in different disguise, is ubiquitous in many areas including computer science, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, and game theory to mention some of them. It is also one of the few problems whose precise tractability status (in terms of polynomial-time solvability) is still unknown, and now open for more than 30 years. We briefly survey computational results for this problem, which includes the remarkable result by M.L. Fredman and L.G. Khachiyan that the problem is solvable in quasi-polynomial time (and thus most likely not coNP-hard), as well as on follow-up works.
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