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Is St. Petersburg a good place for the 2022 Int. Congress of Mathematicians
To answer the question in the title: "No."
And I would imagine that Ukrainian mathematicians would boycott any ICM held in Russia, in these times. So the question of whether Russia would ...
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How about a lecture on proof assistants/formal proofs?
Most mathematicians are still skeptical of the value of proof assistants, and it's certainly true that proof assistants are still very difficult ...
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I suggest lectures on big and transformative ideas. For example, it would be great to have a lecture by Tim Gowers about the future of mathematics publishing, and getting away from the issues with our ...
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A topic worthy of a special lecture, and with no obvious other place to go, is ways we as mathematicians can make our field more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As we know, women and minorities are ...
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Is St. Petersburg a good place for the 2022 Int. Congress of Mathematicians
The real question is not about the Congress. There will be no ICM in Petersburg. Maximum what they can stage is a Russian-Chinese conference. Which decent Russians and Chinese will not attend anyway.
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Why aren't proceedings from ICM 2014 on mathscinet?
We have had difficulty obtaining the requisite permissions from the publisher. The ICM2014 website has the Legal Disclaimer: "The Seoul ICM Organizing Committee, the legal copyright owner of the ...
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Is St. Petersburg a good place for the 2022 Int. Congress of Mathematicians
The IMU reached their decision, the ICM will take place entirely virtually except for the IMU general assembly and awards ceremony which will take place in-person outside of Russia. No word on whether ...
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The Weapons of Math Destruction would make an interesting and timely topic for such a lecture.
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Online events during the quarantine
I invite you to look at researchseminars.org.
Anyone can create listings for seminars or conferences, either as an organizer or as a curator. These listings will automatically appear once the ...
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I think one lecture topic should be devoted to (some aspects of) the communication and dissemination of mathematics. Even though it is like fitting a mini conference into one hour, aspects of ...
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Work of plenary speakers at ICM 2018
Kronheimer and Mrowka have both spoken at the ICM before. Most likely, the current invitation is based on their proof that Khovanov homology detects the unknot (although they have other spectacular ...
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Especially since we lost Michael Atiyah in 2019, I would like to see a talk dedicated to the unity of mathematics. The idea of addressing the "tower of Babel" tendency of increased ...
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Work of plenary speakers at ICM 2018
Vincent Lafforgue's work span many topics and contain many striking results but the most probable recent work to be described in the spirit of the question is Chtoucas pour les groupes réductifs et ...
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Particularly in memory of John Conway, whose creations were mathematically interesting and nontrivial, while of potential appeal to a wide audience: a lecture on developments in accessible mathematics....
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I'd suggest a lecture discussing when and how a computer can be useful to prove or disprove conjectures. As a first example, think about Euler's sum of powers conjecture. In 1769, Euler proposed a ...
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During the lockdown I've seen an online talk by Pierre Pansu about persistent homology. Roughly (I'm not the right person to explain it) this is a robust and recent computational way to compute ...
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ICM 2018 lecture videos
Update 2018.09.22. Go to the website icm2018.org, and use the menu icon (three horizontal bars) to get a menu list that has ICM videos on it. That takes you to a YouTube channel which has some of the ...
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Maybe a panel lecture on tools for online collaboration.
A lot of people now know about and attend online seminars (as listed on researchseminars.org), and there has been some panel discussions ...
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Work of plenary speakers at ICM 2018
Nalini Anantharaman is a french mathematician working in the fields of dynamical systems, partial differential equations and mathematical physics.
Her early works deal with the counting of closed ...
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Software and ideas for workshops and conferences with long-distance participants
In addition to the homotopy type theory seminar already mentioned, there is also the electronic Computational Homotopy Theory Seminar:
https://s.wayne.edu/isaksen/echt/
Every week, the audience ...
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PDF readers for presenting Math online
For a couple of talks I borrowed an iPad and used the app Notability, which seems to cover most of what you wanted.
I presented a PDF prepared with Beamer.
The talk was through Zoom, which allows you ...
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Software and ideas for workshops and conferences with long-distance participants
The HoTTEST seminar comes to mind, intended for 60 min talks and 30 min discussion. You can check the link:
https://www.uwo.ca/math/faculty/kapulkin/seminars/hottest.html
for details on the software ...
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Online events during the quarantine
One ongoing effort to collect online seminars in all areas of mathematics (indicated by arXiv category) is by Ao Sun (MIT) and Mingchen Xia (Chalmers), on this website.
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How about a survey lecture on the impact of algebraic geometry in mathematical physics? Second proposal: A survey about the impact of mathematical algorithms for computational simulation in science ...
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PDF readers for presenting Math online
XODO PDF READER
Free to use. For the Windows version:
Allows to present PDFs, as generated by the beamer Latex package
Yes
Compatibility with usual video conference software (should be easy, just ...
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Software and ideas for workshops and conferences with long-distance participants
The Northeastern Combinatorics Network has been running a Virtual Combinatorics Colloquium since March 2018 using Zoom and encouraging local viewing parties. Not exactly a conference, but perhaps a ...
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Suggestions for special lectures at next ICM
In their recent ICM paper, Numbers, germs and transseries, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Rio de Janeiro, 2018, Volume 2, edited by B. Sirakov, P. N. de Souza and M. ...
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PDF readers for presenting Math online
If your presentation is based on a Beamer file, I recommend PdfPc. It supports a hidden dashboard for the speaker, showing previous/next slides and some annotation and pointing tools.
Moreover, it ...
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Empirical processes are key to certain subfields such as high dimensional statistics, compressed sensing,... Even though the field of empirical processes is far from being new, I believe that ...
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Research semester in math
Generally one applies for a short-term position to perform the (expected) final research (and writing) on a topic one has been working on for a while, for instance to explore ramifications, extensions,...
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