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Point Configurations: Deformations and Rigidity

LMS Research School

University College London, 20-24 July 2020



Organisers

Codina Cotar (UCL, London) and Mircea Petrache (PUC, Santiago)

Location

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, UK

Details

The aim of the research summer school is to present several different modern perspectives on the rigidity and deformability of optimum point configurations. Three main points of view are presented in the lecture courses: the point of view of material scienc-es and elasticity; the point of view of approximation theory; and the point of view of the methods of Viazovska, based on linear programming bounds.

The workshop is funded by the London Mathematical Society, Clay Mathematics Institute, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research and UCL.

Lecturers and Plenary Speakers

The three main lecture course topics are:

  • Crystallization in classical particle systems (Gero Friesecke, Technical University of Munich)
  • Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets (Douglas Hardin and Edward Saff, Vanderbilt University)
  • Modular forms, universal optimality and Fourier interpolation (Danylo Radchenko, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics & Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
These lecture courses will be supplemented by tutorial sessions. Additionally, there will be three plenary talks by:

Registration

Apply for a place on the Research School!

Research students, post-docs and those working in industry are invited to apply here. Applications will be reviewed starting from March 31st, 2020 and on a rolling basis until all places are filled, with a processing time of at most two weeks; information about individual applications will not be available before April 14th, 2020.

Registration Fees
  • Research students*: £150 (no charge for subsistence costs)
  • Early career researchers**: £250 (no charge for subsistence costs)
  • Other participants: £250 (plus subsistence costs)

* defined as MSc students and PhD students.

** defined as within five years of completing their PhD (excluding career breaks).

Fees are not payable until a place at the Research School is offered but will be due by June 20th, 2020.

Financial Aid

Financial aid (towards travel costs and/or registration fees): Research students who have successfully secured a place on the Research School following the instructions above, will then be invited to apply for financial aid using the Financial Aid Application form, which will be sent to them by the organisers. Details on the information that will be required appear here.

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Local Information

Maps

The workshop will take place at:

1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 7HB
United Kingdom

The main (security-manned) entrance is on the eastern side of the building. Directions to the building.

Further information will be added closer to the workshop.