Program (currently being developed)

Tuesday, September 15, morning

• Pierre Deligne

  Complex representations of finite reductive groups, according to G. Lusztig

  I’ve taken another look at Lusztig’s work, and I’ll try to explain what surprised me the most.

• Peter Sarnak

Tuesday, September 15, afternoon

• Maryna Viazovska

• Possibly Jean-Pierre Serre 

Wednesday, September 16, morning

• Ramon van Handel 

  The diabolical bubbles of H. Minkowski

  It is a common, but nonetheless curious, phenomenon that a mathematical idea can keep resurfacing in unexpected places in the history of mathematics. I will aim to tell one such story, as I understand it (and perhaps some parts I do not understand so well), that I encountered while studying some long-forgotten questions that arise from the work of H. Minkowski from the early 1900s.

• Don Zagier