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I'm applying for jobs, and I am frustrated that I haven't yet found a nice 'master list' of thematic programs at various institutes in the coming year. I'm talking about semester-long or year-long programs in a topic, with the aim of assembling a bunch of young mathematicians in field for that length of time.

The ones I have found so far are:

Random Matrix Theory, Interacting Particle Systems and Integrable Systems (MSRI, Fall 2010)
Inverse Problems and Applications (MSRI, Fall 2010)
Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications (MSRI, Spring 2011)
Arithmetic Statistics (MSRI, Spring 2011)
Asymptotic Geometric Analysis (Fields, Fall 2010)
Dynamics and Transport in Disordered Systems (Fields, Spring 2011)
Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms (IAS, Full Year 2010–2011)

And here are other 2011 programs:

Discrete Geometry and Applications (Fields, second half of 2011)

edited Oct 24 2009 at 13:57

Ilya Nikokoshev

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I don't know if this is the appropriate sort of question; if not, I can delete it. Also, should this be communitywiki? I'm not clear on what that means. – Greg Muller Oct 24 2009 at 5:24

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I think this is absolutely appropriate -- certainly of interest to mathematicians! Community wiki means that it's easier to edit questions and answers (i.e. you need less reputation), and also that no one gains reputation from questions and answers. Any question that hopes to produce a "sorted list of answers" should generally by community wiki. Also, any "soft" questions should be community wiki, mostly so they don't look like cheap attempts to garner reputation. Use your own judgement on this one, it's not essential but might help producing better organised answers. – Scott Morrison♦ Oct 24 2009 at 7:03

My thought would be that this question would benefit especially from community work, e.g. I was just going to linkify it when I realized that I don't have enough reputation (I'm not used to it since I have enough reputation on StackOverflow). So if I was to post it, yes, I would make it a CW. – Ilya Nikokoshev Oct 24 2009 at 9:57

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The Fields program in Discrete Geometry and Applications is actually Fall 2011, not Spring 2011. Perhaps someone with more mana than me could correct the post. – Hugh Thomas Oct 24 2009 at 13:33

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A master list of thematic programs might be a good idea for a page on the Notable Math Wiki (notable.math.ucdavis.edu/wiki/Main_Page), alongside the existing Math Jobs Wiki that they host. – Ari Oct 27 2009 at 2:10

Martin O · Answer 1 · 2009-10-24 11:54:02Z UTC

The Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany has:

Future Trimester Programs

* Geometry and dynamics of Teichmüller space
  May - August 2010
* On the Interaction of Representation Theory with Geometry and Combinatorics
  January - April 2011
* Analysis, and Numerics for High Dimensional Problems
  May - August 2011

Future Junior Programs

* Algebra and Number Theory
  January - April 2010
* Stochastics
  September - December 2010

Here's a link to their webpage.

Scott Morrison · Answer 2 · 2009-10-24 19:04:36Z UTC

Here are some future programs at the Isaac Newton institute in Cambridge.

Non-Abelian Fundamental Groups in Arithmetic Geometry  	20/07/09-18/12/09
Dynamics of Discs and Planets 	12/08/09-18/12/09
Stochastic Partial Differential Equations 	04/01/10-02/07/10
Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences 	11/01/10-02/07/10
Statistical Challenges Arising from Genome Resequencing 	12/07/10-06/08/10
Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas 	19/07/10-13/08/10
Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to Climate Modelling and Prediction 	11/08/10-22/12/10
Partial Differential Equations in Kinetic Theories 	16/08/10-22/12/10
Moduli Spaces 	04/01/11-01/07/11
Discrete Analysis 	10/01/11-08/07/11
Inverse Problems 	25/07/11-21/12/11

Greg Kuperberg · Answer 3 · 2009-11-02 23:32:56Z UTC

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I'd like to invite people to put all relevant information up on the Math Jobs Wiki. Any thematic program with visitor support and competitive applications can go there.

answered Nov 2 2009 at 23:32

Greg Kuperberg

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	Where would it go on the wiki? – Greg Muller Nov 3 2009 at 0:51
	All of the thematic programs are at institutes, so what you want to do is put the announcements in the fellowships/institutes section of whatever country. Or create such a section if the country/region doesn't have one. – Greg Kuperberg Nov 3 2009 at 5:42

Gray Taylor · Answer 4 · 2009-10-24 09:26:46Z UTC

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By next year do you mean the next academic year? If not, there's Number Theory as Experimental and Applied Science at CRM in Montreal Jan-Apr 2010.

answered Oct 24 2009 at 9:26

Gray Taylor
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Also, July-December 2010 at the CMS is "Geometric, Combinatorial, and Computational Group Theory". – Hugh Thomas Nov 2 2009 at 20:09

Scott Morrison · Answer 5 · 2009-10-26 21:51:16Z UTC

via allgrads@math.berkeley.edu:

The online registration is now open for the

2010 PIMS SUMMER SCHOOL IN PROBABILITY

http://pims2010.web.officelive.com/Registration.aspx

The 2010 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Summer
School in Probability will be held at the University of Washington and
Microsoft Research from June 21 to July 10, 2010.

Hugh Thomas · Answer 6 · 2009-11-02 20:06:41Z UTC

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Mittag-Leffler:

Dynamics and PDE:s, 2010 spring
Quantum Information Theory, 2010 fall
Algebraic Geometry with a view towards applications, 2011 spring

answered Nov 2 2009 at 20:06

Hugh Thomas

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Gerald Edgar · Answer 7 · 2009-12-16 23:20:34Z UTC

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Mathematical Biosciences Institute http://mbi.osu.edu/

answered Dec 16 2009 at 23:20

Gerald Edgar

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Nilima Nigam · Answer 8 · 2009-12-16 22:06:41Z UTC

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MITACS will be hosting the International Focus Period on Network Analysis and Applications in 2010-2011. http://www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca/

answered Dec 16 2009 at 22:06

Nilima Nigam

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Brian Borchers · Answer 9 · 2011-02-02 05:35:00Z UTC

There's a very useful list of mathematical institutes around the world at:

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/IMSI.html

Many of these institutes sponsor semester or year long programs with support for graduate students, post docs, and even more senior researchers.

Dan Petersen · Answer 10 · 2011-02-02 08:17:25Z UTC

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I typically stop by Kedlaya's page here. Of course, this is for stuff related to number theory/arithmetic geometry.

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Dan Petersen

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