Mechanism Design is the systematic analysis of the design of institutions, and of the effect of those institutions on social outcomes. The main focus is on the design of mechanisms that satisfy certain objectives under the assumption that the interacting agents possess private information and act strategically. Besides an elegant body of theory, there are also numerous applications (e.g., to practical auction design).

http://www.or.uni-bonn.de/mechanism-design

Conference Objectives:
• Provide graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with the opportunity to speak on an area of interest within probability.
• Foster discussions with a friendly and informal atmosphere.
• Establish connections for potential future collaborations.
• Introduction to recent developments in probability from keynote speakers.

Keynote Speakers:
• David Aldous (UC, Berkeley)
• Russell Lyons (Indiana University)
• Daniel Stroock (MIT)

Who can participate:
• Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in probability.

The 3rd Annual GSCP is jointly hosted by the Mathematics Department at Duke University and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Organizing committee members are Changryong Baek, Jessi Cisewski, Xin Liu, Dominik Reinhold, Tiffany Kolba and Rachel Thomas under the supervision of Prof. Amarjit Budhiraja and Prof. Jonathan Mattingly. 

http://www.unc.edu/~crbaek/gscp/

The Clay Mathematics Institute's annual research conference featuring lectures on recent mathematical advances and presentation of the Clay Research Awards.

http://www.claymath.org/researchconference/2009/

To foster scientific exchanges within the scientific computing community; to train senior undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and young researchers in the form of three minicourses given by world recognized experts in the general areas of scientific computing in Science, Engineering and Medicine; to maximize interactions between the students, the senior participants, and the main speakers by reserving up to half of the time for student presentations; to encourage the participation of non-academic (private or public sector) research or other organizations.

http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Comp09/index_e.shtml

In keeping with the breadth and influence of Fefferman's work, there will be speakers from a wide variety of fields in analysis and with applications for problems in several complex variables, PDE, geometry, dynamical systems, and mathematical physics. There will be an emphasis on the global overview of the power of analysis on mathematics in general as well as the interaction between analysis and different areas of mathematics and the role of this interaction on recent and future research directions.

Specifically, the purpose of this conference is:
to disseminate the major results in analysis and the tools developed in analysis over the last decades.
to assess the effect of these results on the development of mathematics and to discuss focus areas for the future.

http://www.math.princeton.edu/conference/fefferman09/

Plenary Speakers:
Harvey Friedman, Ohio State
Hilary Putnam, Harvard
Patrick Suppes, Stanford
Martin Davis, NYU
Anil Nerode, Cornell
Solomon Feferman, Stanford
Saul Kripke, CUNY
Gerald Sacks, Harvard & MIT

http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/tennant9/friedman_conference.html

Asymptotic methods for dissipative particle systems have been emerging over the last decade out of a number of streams of research that involve kinetic and complex particle systems, modeling the evolution of probability distributions of various kinds. In many cases where classical macroscopic models fail, interesting non-classical states have been found. Examples of such systems have been recently reported in rapid granular flows, coalescence-breakage models for jet-bubble flows, coagulation-fragmentation processes, cooling effects in gas mixtures involving chemical reactions, soft condensed matter, social-science-related applications such as the modeling of swarms, opinion formation, wealth distribution, economic models related to decision making, and pedestrian and evacuation dynamics.

It is the goal of this workshop to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including statistical mechanics, particle systems, probability theory and applications, to discuss developing areas of non-conservative dynamics and the emergence of non-equilibrium statistical states, and to explore potential applications in the natural and social sciences.

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/ktws4/

In 1917 Birkhoff proved the existence of a nontrivial closed geodesic in any Riemannian 2-dimensional manifold diffeomorphic to the sphere. This result was later improved in a famous work by Ljusternik and Shnirelman to the existence of three distinct closed geodesics. The interest of Birkhoff's theorem lies on the fact that it cannot be achieved by standard "minimization arguments": since any closed curve in the sphere is contractible, minimizers of the length are necessarily trivial. In fact, much more can be proved: if the curvature of the metric is positive, there is no stable closed geodesic.

It is natural to ask whether the method of Birkhoff, a "min-max argument", can be extended to higher dimensions to produce nontrivial minimal hypersurfaces in general Riemannian manifolds. The answer to this question is positive and has quite important applications to other problems in geometry and topology. However, the difficulties in generalizing Birkhoff's argument are many, since the area functional does not enjoy good functional analytic properties. Indeed, the first proof of the existence of an (immersed) minimal 2-sphere in any Riemannian manifold diffeomorphic to the 3-sphere appeared only in 1981 in a celebrated paper by Sacks and Uhlenbeck.

Much research in the area has been triggered by a monograph of Pitts, who proved the existence of smooth embedded closed minimal hypersurface in any closed compact Riemannian manifold of dimension at most 6. Pitts' monograph appeared in 1981 and his result was then generalized to all dimensions by Schoen and Simon.

In a recent work with Dominik Tasnady we have introduced an approach similar to that of Pitts which however shortens the proof dramatically. The aim of this course is to give an account of this proof and of several tools of geometric measure theory which are used in it. I will therefore give short introductions to topics like the theory of Caccioppoli sets, the theory of varifolds and the curvature estimates for stable minimal hypersurfaces (due to works of Schoen, Simon and Yau).

http://www.hausdorff-center.uni-bonn.de/event/2009/lipschitz-delellis/

The theme of this CBMS conference is Topology, C*-algebras, and String Duality. The principal speaker will be Professor Jonathan Rosenberg of the University of Maryland.

Some of the most exciting current research in geometry and topology has been motivated by problems in mathematical physics in general, and string theory in particular. Physicists are still divided concerning the usefulness of string theory as a ``unified field theory,'' uniting our understanding of all the fundamental forces of nature. However, even if string theory should turn out not to be fully confirmed by experiment, the fascinating and beautiful mathematics it has generated is expected to retain its mathematical value.

The subject of the conference will involve a number of such ``spin-offs'' of string theory into pure mathematics, and the way they connect with other topics in topology and operator algebras that were initially developed for other purposes. The conference will focus largely on the rich interaction between these and other important concepts of current interest. Topics from pure mathematics will include K-theory and twisted K-theory, continuous-trace algebras and the Dixmier-Douady invariant, crossed product C*-algebras and their K-theory, bundles, and homotopy theory. The lecturer will develop parts of these subjects in their own right, as well as discussing their relevance to the very active current research in mathematical physics concerning dualities between various string theories, especially T-duality and S-duality. 

http://faculty.tcu.edu/gfriedman/CBMS/

Keynote speaker: Rolf Rannacher, Universität Heidelberg, Germany 

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kanschat/cbms/

The conference will be devoted to the interaction between various branches of Mathematical Analysis. The main themes will be Complex Dynamical Systems and Loewner Equations, Geometric Function Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, Partial Differential Equations, Pseudodifferential Operators, Differential Geometry, General Relativity and Einstein Equations. We intend to publish the Proceeding of the Conference in the AMS Contemporary Mathematics Series. 

http://conferences.braude.ac.il/math2009/

This will be the seventh in a series of octennial conferences at the University that started in 1961. 

http://www.math.uga.edu/~topology/

This two week intensive learning experience is designed to give graduate students in the Mathematical Sciences an opportunity to learn industrial mathematical modeling techniques under the guidance of renowned industrial researchers.

Graduate Industrial Mathematics Modeling Camp (GIMMC)
During the first week of this two week event, mentors present challenging industrial problems and guide participants through the resolution process using a range of different mathematical modeling techniques. The Camp is a preparation for the Industrial Problem Solving Workshop that follows. In order to ensure that participants receive the highest quality learning experience, PIMS encourages students to apply for participation in both the GIMMC and IPSW.

Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW)
The Workshop provides a unique opportunity to work on real-world problems relevant to industry and with a focus on achieving viable mathematical results. Workshop problems are provided by industrial partners who will also provide feedback on student results. Students will work closely with our team of mentors and industry partners.

http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial/industrial-problem-solving-workshops

Perspectives in Mathematics and Physics is in celebration of I.M. Singer's 85th birthday and his legendary contributions to mathematics and physics.

http://math.mit.edu/conferences/singerconference/

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~danielli/symposium09