Past Events

Mathematicians have helped art historians and art conservators reconstruct the famous Mantegna frescos, shattered into thousands of fragments by WWII bombing.

It would be laughable to compare anything in the modern physics with what was known to the ancient Egyptians 4000 years ago, but our ideas of the brain–mind relation has not changed much since the…

We shall explain in this lecture what can be seen of the scalar curvature from the perspective suggested by geometry and combinatorics of convex polyhedra.

For seven years, a group of students from MIT exploited a loophole in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s Cash WinFall game to win drawing after drawing, eventually pocketing more than $3 million.…

 The first talk is an introduction
and an overview. In the second and third talks, we look at the question of uniform

We will see how different kinds of local-global principles play a role in the proofs of

Will talk about recent work of Tsimerman about reducing the AndreOort conjecture to an averaged version of Colmez’ conjecture, and some related work on derivatives of L-functions by Zhiwei Yun and…

In the same way that the Poles mined hexagram patterns to discovers the Enigma machine’s wiring, today’s scientists mine DNA patterns to unravel the cancer genome.

Stanford MRC hosts a presentation and panel discussion “Behind the Man Who Knew Infinity”, celebrating the life and work of Indian mathematician Ramanujan, on the occasion of the film about him (…

He will present three lectures motivated by the recent direct detection of gravitational waves emitted in the final state of a two black hole - merger which gives an emphatic evidence on the…

 This lecture is based on joint works with F. Bekerman, A. Figalli and D. Shlyakhtenko.