American Inst. of Mathematics

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Home The American Institute of Mathematics stands in solidarity with the Black community and with peaceful protesters across the nation and the world in outrage, grief, and despair over the brutal police killing of George Floyd and many other Black individuals before him.We believe that mathematics is a fundamental human endeavor, and we reaffirm AIM’s commitment to diversity and inclusion as essential to the health and development of our discipline. For many of us, the beauty of mathematics often provides a silent refuge from the chaos of the world. Let us not retreat from this moment, however, but instead commit to draw upon the power of mathematics as we work together to bring about systemic change and greater justice in our society.Call for Proposals: Due November 1The American Institute of Mathematics seeks proposals for three new virtual research programs. Successful proposals will receive access to a dedicated online platform with integrated tools to support research collaboration, as well as logistical support and training in best practices for facilitating virtual research activities.AIM Virtual Workshops are collaborative activities for 20-30 people, focused on a specialized area of research mathematics. Modeled after the AIM-style workshops, the main feature is plenty of time for groups of 4-6 people to work on interesting problems, supported by a few lectures and large groups discussions. The expectation is that work begun during the workshop will continue long after the initial week. Participation in AIM Virtual Workshops is by invitation only, but open applications are accepted for approximately 1/4 of the available positions. Learn more.AIM Virtual SQuaREs are collaborations of 4-6 people, focused on very specific research problems. AIM Virtual SQuaREs meet for one week, with the possibility of additional week-long meetings one year and two years later. Subject to availability, meetings in subsequent years may be in-person. Participation is limited to the individuals named in the proposal. Learn more.AIM Research Communities are larger collaborative efforts, typically involving 40-60 researchers, organized around a particular specialty area of the mathematical sciences. The purpose of an AIM Research Community is to support the ongoing research activities of its participants. It is expected that Research Communities have a multi-year lifetime and grow over time. Learn more.Please see the description of AIM virtual activities.The deadline for applications is November 1, 2020, for activities which will begin in 2021. Questions or comments to research@aimath.org.Alexanderson Award 2020The American Institute of Mathematics is pleased to announce the third annual Alexanderson Award. The award is given in honor of Gerald Alexanderson, Professor of Mathematics at Santa Clara University and founding chair of AIM’s Board of Trustees. The Alexanderson Award recognizes outstanding research articles arising from AIM research activities that have been published within the past three years.Receiving this year s award are Laura DeMarco, Holly Krieger, and Hexhi Ye for their paper Uniform Manin-Mumford for a family of genus 2 curves, published this year in the Annals of Mathematics. Read more Due to the pandemic there will not be a 2020 Alexanderson Award Ceremony and Lecture, but we hope to have a celebration in the future. Math activities for students, teachers, families just about everyone!AIM s Math Communities website has a new calendar of upcoming math activities you can take part in.Coronavirus updateWednesday, September 30, 2020All workshops through December have been rescheduled or will be held virtually. All registered participants should have received more information via email.All SQuaREs scheduled through the end of January 2021 have been postponed or will be held virtually. All participants have been sent further information via email about their SQuaREs.Upcoming WorkshopsSpecial holonomy and branesOctober 26-30, 2020. Online in Sococo.Delta symbols and the subconvexity problemNovember 2-6, 2020. Online in Sococo.Stability in mirror symmetryDecember 7-11, 2020. Online in Sococo.Mathematics of topological insulatorsDecember 7-11, 2020. Online in Sococo.All Upcoming WorkshopsAIM Summer School onDynamics, Data and the COVID 19 PandemicFor six weeks this summer more than forty graduate students and advanced undergraduates took part in an online summer program on the mathematics of this critical and timely topic. Students learned the basic mathematical epidemiology underlying the models used in studying COVID19. The program director was Chris Jones (UNC-Chapel Hill).Faculty: Linda Allen (Texas Tech), James Broda (Bowdoin), Pauline van den Driessche (UVic), Hans Engler (Georgetown), John Gemmer (Wake Forest), Hans Kaper (Georgetown), Richard McGehee (Minnesota), Jack O’Brien (Bowdoin), Nancy Rodriguez (CU-Boulder), Christian Sampson (UNC-Chapel Hill), Mary Silber (Chicago), Erik Van Vleck (Kansas), Jianhong Wu (YorkU), Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (Howard) and Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin).Program announcementMath that feels goodCreating learning resources for blind studentsMartha Siegel, Professor Emerita from Towson University in Maryland, was working with a blind student who needed a statistics textbook for a required course. The Braille version of the textbook required six months to prepare, a delay which caused the student a significant delay in her studies. Siegel reached out to Al Maneki, a retired NSA mathematician who is blind, and the two of them decided to do something about it.Focusing on math textbooks initially, Siegel and Maneki pulled together a collaborative team intent on solving the problem. We were shocked to realize there did not already exist an automated method for producing mathematics Braille textbooks, said Alexei Kolesnikov, a colleague of Siegel at Towson University and member of the team. Read more AIM Newsletters John Horton Conway: 1937-2020 John Conway, one of the most remarkable mathematicians of our time, died on April 11, 2020, at the age of 82. His interests were so varied and his contributions so numerous that it is difficult to characterize them in a few words. To begin to appreciate his legacy see this obituary from the New York Times and this article from Princeton University. For more mathematical details about his accomplishments see this tribute from Ed Dunne. John Tate: 1925-2019 John Tate, who made major contributions to algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry during his long and distinguished career, died on October 16, 2019. Read more Climate Network The Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) seeks graduate and undergraduate students for the MCRN summer school and academic year engagement program. This program begins with a summer school in July, 2019 and continues with an online engagement in group work over the academic year. Read more Perspectives on the Riemann Hypothesis Held at the Heilbronn Institute, University of Bristol, in the summer of 2018, this was the fourth in a series of meetings devoted to progress on the Riemann Hypothesis. Read more Tweets by AIMathematics Math Teachers Circles Math Teachers’ Circles are professional learning communities of middle school teachers and mathematicians. National Math Teachers' Circle Network Math Teachers' Circles in the San Francisco Bay Area A Brief History of AIM Established in 1994 by businessman and math enthusiast John Fry, the American Institute of Mathematics is now located in San Jose, California, after moving from its original Palo Alto location in 2015.AIM's mission is to advance mathematical knowledge through collaboration, to broaden participation in the mathematical endeavor, and to increase awareness of the contributions of the mathematical sciences to society. Since 2002 AIM has been part of the Mathematical Sciences Institutes program in the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation. Read more...

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