Notice of two Clay-LMS Research Schools

(forwarded request)

1. Developments in contact and symplectic topology, Glasgow: 20-24 June 2016.

Lecturers; Vincent Colin, Université de Nantes, Emmy Murphy, MIT, András Stipscz, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics.

This LMS-CMI Research School will give students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key aspects of contact topology in three dimensions and to the new frontier of high-dimensional contact topology. This is a unique opportunity for students and early-career researchers to get a hands-on guided tour of an exciting and fast-developing area of research from a world-leading team of experts.

Apply here by 28 March 2016

2. Modern topics in Nonlinear PDE and Geometric Analysis, Reading: 4-8 July 2016.

The school will cover important recent developments in three central areas of mathematical analysis, namely Calculus of Variations, Geometric nonlinear PDE and Mathematical Physics. For each of these research areas there will be a course consisting of three mini-courses as follows:

Course 1: Nonlinear PDE and Calculus of Variations

Lawrence C. Evans (Berkeley, USA) Nonlinear PDE and optimisation

Jan Kristensen (Oxford, UK) Convexity notions in the Calculus of Variations

Course 2: Geometric hyperbolic PDE, General Relativity & Fluid Dynamics

Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton, USA & Cambridge, UK) The stability problem for black holes

Gustav Holzegel (Imperial College London, UK) The formation of shocks in three dimensional fluid dynamics

Course 3: Geometric nonlinear PDE

Bernard Dacorogna (EPFL, CH) The pull-back equation for differential forms

Spyros Alexakis (Toronto, CAN) Geometric inverse problems and PDE

The school will also include distinguished guest lectures given by:
Robert Jensen Loyola University of Chicago (USA),

Juan Manfredi Pittsburgh (USA) Obstacle problems for the p-Laplacian via optimal stopping of Tug-of-War games

Apply here by 11 April 2016

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