Gelfand Centennial Conference: A View of 21st Century Mathematics
Month: August 2013
Date: August 28--September 2
Name: Gelfand Centennial Conference: A View of 21st Century Mathematics
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Description
This conference will bring together mathematicians working in many fields, to review some of the most significant advances in mathematics in the 21st century, and commemorate I. M. Gelfand, a giant of modern mathematics, on the occasion of his Centennial.
Speakers
R. Bezrukavnikov (MIT), M. Bhargava (Princeton), V. Drinfeld* (University of Chicago), M. Emerton* (University of Chicago), D. Gaitsgory (Harvard), A. Goncharov (Yale), M. Hopkins (Harvard), M. Kontsevich (IHES), J. Lurie (Harvard), G. Margulis (Yale), D. McDuff (Columbia), C. Moeglin (Jussieu), N. Nekrasov (IHES and Simons Institute), A. Okounkov (Columbia), D. Orlov (Steklov Institute), R. Rouquier (Oxford), P. Sarnak (Princeton), P. Seidel (MIT), S. Smirnov* (University of Geneva), Y.-T. Siu (Harvard), E. Urban (Columbia), A. Venkatesh (Stanford), C. Voisin (Jussieu), E. Witten* (IAS). * tentatively scheduled.
Information
http://math.mit.edu/conferences/Gelfand/index.php.