This year-long SAMSI program focuses on the emerging area of network science. This highly interdisciplinary field is characterized by novel interactions in the mathematical sciences occurring at the interface of applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, and statistical physics, as well as those areas with network-oriented thrusts in biology, computer networks, engineering, and the social ...

The program focuses on the role of numerical analysis, simulation and scientific computing for understanding and illuminating our complex world. The development of computational methodologies and framework has been a mainstay of the applied mathematics community for more than 50 years. The IMA has not sponsored a program in this general area since the annual year in High Performance Computation in...

Myriad influences shape the patterns of evolution, timing, behavior and ecology of living organisms. These influences range from biochemical cues to configurations of temperature, space and light, to interactions with other organisms. This one-year program focuses on connecting influence to pattern for processes involving plants and insects.

How do biotic and abiotic influences affect patterns ...

The MBI Bootcamp on Cancer Modeling is aimed at young researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences, although young researchers in the mathematical sciences will both benefit from and be accepted into the bootcamp. The bootcamp will focus on three themes surrounding cancer modeling: signaling pathways, tumor growth, and radiotherapy.

Three speakers will address each theme: the first wil...

The 12-month SAMSI program will focus on the analysis of complex data types that are an extension of Functional Data Analysis where one considers methods to analyze data samples of complex objects. Modern science is generating a need to understand, and statistically analyze, populations of increasingly complex types. The term "Analysis of Object Data" (AOOD) is aimed at encompassing a broad array ...

This workshop will focus on the evolving notion of complexity in CR Geometry.

This workshop is to bring together a group of scientists, mathematicians, and physicians to discuss the device-biological interactions at the material-tissue interfaces from the perspective of medical efficacy and scientific mechanisms. Medical, engineering, and mathematic tools will be used. The goal of the workshop is to identify challenges and opportunities in the fields to stimulate collaborat...

This long program will be centered on the development and application of these modern trends in optimization. It will bring together researchers from mathematics, computer science, operations research, engineering, and other fields, who have a common interest in optimization. The goal is to develop and exchange ideas about modern optimization which can be influenced by, and influence in turn, prog...

These two workshops will address two topics important for efficiently obtaining and utilizing the information inherent in complex real-world data, namely Representation and Understanding. Workshop I on Data Representation will begin on Monday, September 20 in the morning and continue until lunch on Wednesday, September 22. Workshop II on Understanding of Data commences after lunch on Wednesday, S...

Plant development can be considered far beyond the original context of timing and elementary topology of organ development. We may explore its process origins in biochemistry; its mutual coupling to the environment as in energy balance and organ microclimate; the geometry of resources (rectilinear radiation, patchy and diffusive nutrients) that in turn conditions the necessary geometry of plant or...

This workshop is devoted to identifiability problems in graphical statistical models.

This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to the
study of different versions of the B. and M. Shapiro Conjecture and
related questions in real algebraic geometry.

These two workshops will address two topics important for efficiently obtaining and utilizing the information inherent in complex real-world data, namely Actions/Reactions and System Integration. Workshop III on Actions/Reactions will begin on Monday, October 18 in the morning and continue until lunch on Wednesday, October 20. Workshop IV on System Integration commences after lunch on Wednesday, O...

This workshop will be devoted to the outer automorphism group of the free
group, Out(F); in particular, its geometry and its inherent asymmetry.

Circadian (~24-hour) rhythms control the timing of many biological processes including leaf movements in plants and sporulation in fungi. Advances in understanding the biological mechanism of plant and fungal clocks have also helped inspire clock research in higher organisms. This workshop brings together theorists and experimentalists to better understanding timekeeping in plants and fungi and ho...

The role of mathematics in science has been transformed over the last few decades. Emerging applications in information science, nanosystems, multiscale and multiphysics problems, bioinformatics and other fields have required new kinds of mathematics, both pure and applied. Since its inception in 2000, the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) has catalyzed the interaction of mathemati...

The Finite Element Circus is a conference series with a rich history, focusing on new developments in the finite element method (FEM) and applications. FEM plays a crucial role in simulation of engineering, physical, biological, and other scientific phenomena. A driving force for its success has been its mathematical analysis, which has led to novel competitive methods and significant improvements...

This is the sixth in a series of biannual conferences honoring David Blackwell and Richard Tapia, two seminal figures who inspired a generation of African-American, Native American and Latino/Latina students to pursue careers in mathematics.

Carrying forward their work, this one and a half day conference will:

* Recognize and showcase mathematical excellence by minority researchers
...

This workshop will bring university-based mathematicians and physicists together
with scientists from operational climate modeling centers to discuss the new insights
and the mathematical basis for tropical multiscale processes coming from
observations and from theory, and the consequences of such insights for the
simulation of these processes in fully complex global climate models....

This workshop will focus on recent developments on limiting distributions
concerning both local and global properties of the spectrum of a random matrix.

This workshop will bring together mathematicians, graduate students,
and industry and public agency representatives to work on a wide variety
of sustainability problems, including such topics as renewable energy,
air quality, water management, and other environmental issues.

This workshop will gather scientists and researchers from various communities such as mathematics, computer science, economics, game theory, information theory, from academia as well as industry to provide a joint platform to discuss fundamental issues in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Algorithmic Game Theory.

This workshop will focus on the interaction between algebraic geometry and the
structure theory of fields, particularly the use of deformation theory and patching.

This workshop is devoted to the simplex method and the Hirsch conjecture, bringing together researchers with a variety contemporary approaches, including the smoothed analysis of the simplex method, analogies with interior point methods, explicit constructions and the systematic search for counterexamples through computational tools, and the investigation of combinatorial-topological abstractions ...

One goal of the workshop is to bring current practical and numerical issues to the attention of mathematicians knowledgeable in random media techniques. Another is to address pressing issues beyond homogenization theory. These issues include random media models with slowly decaying correlations or without strong separation of scales. Other important questions to be addressed concern the stochastic...

The spread of invasive species is a key applied problem in ecology. In North America, invasive exotic species are widespread, ranging from gypsy moth to Asian longhorn beetle to weedy plants. The associated costs are immense, by some estimates exceeding $100 billion US per year. While many invasive species are introduced from Asia or Europe, others, like mountain pine beetle, are simply spreading ...

This workshop explores recent, novel relationships between mathematics and information-theoretically secure cryptography, the area studying the extent to which cryptographic security can be based on principles that do not rely on presumed computational intractability of mathematical problems.

Chemical compound space (CCS) is the combinatorial set which encompasses all chemical compounds. Due to the combinatorial nature of CCS, systematic screening for interesting properties or even simple enumeration is beyond any computational capacity. But CCS provides a natural framework in which to construct rigorous mathematical tools for the development of direct and inverse quantitative structur...

Insect groups generate a wide range of interesting collective patterns and behaviours, for example the formation of ant trails, the building of elaborate nests, collective movement of honey bee swarms and marching locust bands, to name just a few. The complex non-linear nature of the mechanisms underlying such collective behaviour has generated a great deal of theoretical interest from mathematici...

This workshop will be devoted to the study of the hypergraph Turan function ex(n,F),
the maximum size of an F-free k-hypergraph on n vertices.

The biosciences provide rich grounds for mathematical problems, and
many questions require the development of new mathematical theory and
algorithms. With this workshop we give particular attention to
new ideas and developments in dynamical systems. We have chosen four
themes to showcase how the biosciences inspired recent progress:
systems with delays, systems with multiple scales, dynamics ...

This workshop will explore the recent conjectures on "unlikely intersections"
due to Zilber, Pink, and Bombieri-Masser-Zannier, and related or analogous
problems in model theory, diophantine geometry, and arithmetic dynamics.

Plant-insect interactions have played a pivotal role in the development of modern coevolutionary theory, beginning with Darwin's initial insights into reciprocal adaptation between plants and pollinators. When Ehrlich and Raven published their now classic study of coevolution between butterflies and plants in 1964, the link between the development of coevolutionary theory and plant-insect interact...

This workshop will be devoted to questions surrounding some of
the various exciting recent developments on the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together biologists studying ocean and polar ecologies; oceanographers, biogeochemists, and climate scientists studying the changing physical habitats; and mathematicians with ecological and physical expertise. The two-way feedback interactions between ocean ecological systems and their physical environments have the potential to dramatically impact both marine...

This workshop will focus on branching laws for the restriction of a
unitary representation to a subgroup.

This workshop will be devoted to the emerging theory of graph and hypergraph limits.

The Mathematics of Information program will involve invited long-term visitors, New Direction Visiting Professors, as well as postdoctoral fellows. Six workshops on rapidly growing research areas are being organized. In addition, there will be tutorials as well as short courses offered to introduce graduate students, postdocs, and other researchers in neighboring areas to the topics covered in the...

One of the main objectives of the workshop is to promote research that leads to the discovery and understanding of the underlying processes in order to provide a base for building predictive models. An extension of the trend study is the problem of regression, which is also of great interests to a broad research community, including the econometrics/finance community.

This workshop will be devoted to the study of the asymptotic behavior of
some natural invariants of finitely generated groups.

The goal of this long program is to bring together mathematical and computational scientists, sequencing technology developers in both industry and academia, and the biologists who use the instruments for particular research applications. This presents a unique opportunity to foster interactions between these three communities and advance the mathematics of this exciting field.