2016 Schedule
Curves, Loops and Words in Geometry 2016
Daily Schedule
May 9-20, 2016
Monday, May 9
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration (Nassau Inn 10 Palmer Square Princeton, NJ 08542)
5:30 p.m. -
Welcome dinner (Nassau Inn )
Tuesday, May 10
7:00 am – 8:30 am
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:30 a.m.
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS
8:45 a.m.
Tour of the Institute (Fuld Hall Common Room)
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Moira Chas, Stony Brook Univ, “Computer driven questions and theorems in geometry”
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Moon Duchin, Tufts Univ, “Counting and growth”
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Advanced Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Sarah Mousley, Univ Illinois, “Nielsen-Thurston classification of mapping classes of closed surfaces”
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. – 5:25 p.m.
Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Introductions/Crochet
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Opening Dinner (Dining Hall) - IAS
7:00 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
Wednesday, May 11
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:45 a.m. -
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS Fuld Hall
9:00 a.m.
Group Photo – Fuld Hall Common Room
9:05 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Moira Chas, Stony Brook Univ, “Computer driven questions and theorems in geometry” Video
10:05 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11: 15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11: 30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Moon Duchin, Tufts Univ, “Counting and growth” Video
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Advanced Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Priyam Patel, Purdue, “Building metrics for closed curves and applications to lifting curves simply”
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Women in Science Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Piper Harron, “The Equidistribution of Lattice shapes of Rings of Integers in Cubic, Quartic, and Quintic Number Fields”
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Special Lecture (Wolfensohn Hall)
Sandi Peterson, Group Worldwide Chairman, Johnson & Johnson and Kathy Wengel, Worldwide Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain
“Math in the Real World: More Than Just a Numbers Game” Video
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) – IAS buffet
7:30 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
Thursday, May 12
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:45 a.m. -
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS Fuld Hall
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Moira Chas, Stony Brook Univ, “Computer driven questions and theorems in geometry” Video
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Moon Duchin, Tufts Univ, “Counting and growth” Video
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Advanced Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room )
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Federica Fanoni, Univ of Warwick, “Mapping class group orbits of non-simple curves”
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Amie Wilkinson, Univ Chicago, "Geometry, Lyapunov exponents and rigidity"
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) – Emily’s
Piper Harron Chat: How to Become a Liberated Mathematician in 13 Painful Years”
7:00 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
Friday, May 13
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:45 a.m. -
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS Fuld Hall
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Moira Chas, Stony Brook Univ, “Computer driven questions and theorems in geometry” Video
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Moon Duchin, Tufts Univ, “Counting and growth” Video
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Advanced Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room )
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Yan Mary He, Univ Chicago, “Basmajan-type identities and Hausdorff dimension of limit sets”
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Special Lecture (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Dennis Sullivan, SUNY, "Some elementary remarks about close complex manifolds"
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
IAS AMIAS Lecture (Wolfensohn Hall)
Deva Woodly, "An antidote tot he politics of despair: enabling conceptions of justice and the democratic necessity of insurgency"
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) – Nomad’s Pizza
Chat with Moon Duchin: Overlapping identities
7:30 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
Saturday, May 14 FREE DAY
Sunday, May 15 8:30 am Princeton 5k community run, http://www.princeton5k.com/, followed by WAM outreach event (not Princeton Univ)
Monday, May 16
Princeton University Day (see separate schedule)
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
10:00 a.m. –
Depart for Princeton University
(talks, lunch, concert, and dinner)
Meet in lobby of Nassau Inn. Walk over to Princeton Univ, Fine Hall.
Tuesday, May 17
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:45 a.m. -
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS Fuld Hall
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Nancy Hingston, TCNJ, “Closed geodesics on surfaces”
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Nathalie Wahl, Univ Copenhagen, Structures on the free loop space”
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Advanced Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room )
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Chandrika Sadanand, SUNY, “Visualizing Heegaard decompositions of 3-manifolds”
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
Emmy Noether Exhibit with artist Stephanie Magdziak (Wolfensohn Hall)
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Panel led by Lisa Carbone and Jo Nelson “Careers in mathematics, from academia to industry”
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) – Emily’s
7:00 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
7:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Play reading ( Fuld Hall Common Room)
Moira Chas, Stony Brook Univ, “The mathematical visions of Alicia Boole”
8:00 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
Wednesday, May 18
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:45 a.m. -
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS Fuld Hall
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Nancy Hingston, TCNJ, “Closed geodesics on surfaces”
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Nathalie Wahl, Univ Copenhagen, Structures on the free loop space”
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Advanced Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room )
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Kasia Jankiewicz, McGill Univ, “Co-compact cubulations of Artin groups”
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Regina Rotman, Univ Toronto, “Loops and periodic geodesics on a Riemannian 2-sphere”
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) – Emily’s
Chat with Lisa Traynor, IAS Member
7:00 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
Thursday, May 19
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:45 a.m. -
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS Fuld Hall
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Nancy Hingston, TCNJ, “Closed geodesics on surfaces”
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Tshirt Sale (Harry’s Bar, Dining Hall)
Cash only!
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Nathalie Wahl, Univ Copenhagen, Structures on the free loop space”
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Advanced Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room )
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Yen Duong, Univ Illinois, “Working with the square model of random groups”
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Panel led by Lisa Traynor and Katrin Wehrheim
“Becoming an academic mathematician: Transitioning from undergrad to grad student (L Traynor) and Becoming an academic mathematician: Introduction to grant writing (K Wehrheim)”
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Closing Dinner (Dining Hall)
7:30 p.m. -
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
Friday, May 20
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast (Nassau Inn)
8:45 a.m. -
First Transit Bus from Nassau Inn to IAS Fuld Hall
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Nancy Hingston, TCNJ, “Closed geodesics on surfaces”
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Beginner Review Session (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Nathalie Wahl, Univ Copenhagen, Structures on the free loop space”
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:30 p.m.
First Transit Bus from IAS Fuld Hall to Nassau Inn
2:00 p.m.-
End of program - Depart IAS