The Mathematics Research Center (MRC) supports many of the research activities of the Department, including seminars and conferences, short and long term visitors, partial support for postdoctoral researchers, and outreach activities involving undergraduates and high school students. Each year the MRC supports in part the Department Colloquium, the Algebraic Geometry, Geometry, Number Theory, Topology, Symplectic Geometry, Probability, and Applied Mathematics seminars. We highlight some of the other recent activities of the MRC.
Distinguished Lecture Series The MRC partially supported the Bergman Lecture series and the public lecture given by Terence Tao.
Conferences Jointly with the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, the MRC organized a symposium on Chern-Simons Theory. MRC will partially fund the 2011 Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium
Visitor Program Some of the visitors to the Department supported by MRC are: Jaigyong Choe, Youngju Choie, Tom Ilmanen, Jeff Lagarias, Werner Mueller.
Distinguished Lecture Series We had three MRC Distinguished Lecturers Artur Avila, Jean-Pierre Serre and Serguei Novikov. In addition, MRC partially supported the Bergman Lecture series given by Gerard Ben-Arous.
Conferences The MRC partially supported the memorial conference for Kai Lai Chung, the Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics, and the Summer Topology Workshop.
Visitor Program A large number of short and long term visitors were supported by MRC including: Ricardo Andrade, Artur Avila, Thomas Banchoff, Gerard Ben-Arous, Sourav Chatterjee, Sergey Cherkis, Kai Cieliebak, Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Alex Eskin, Dmitry Faykhtner, Alexander Felshtyn, Dmitry Fuchs, Daniel Greiser, Francois Hamel, Young-Hoon Kiem, Maki Kiriyama, Alex Kiselev, Fernando Marques, Laurent Michel, John Morgan, Serguei Novikov, Alan Reid, Igor Rodnianski, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre, Yanir Rubinstein, Jean-Pierre Serre, and Boris Vertman.