Upcoming Events
Events coming soon:
Doenet Community Workshop 2026
Monday, June 1, 2026, 9 a.m. through Friday, June 5, 2026, Noon
325 Lind Hall
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
We invite you to participate in a five-day in-person workshop to learn how to create richly interactive classroom activities using the free and open-source Doenet platform. Not only is Doenet a fun way to create cool activities, it is also a community of STEM instructors and authors who strive to engage students' minds and spur active interaction with mathematical ideas. We welcome you to work together with us to develop an open-source community, resources, and tools that enable anyone to create exploratory activities with feedback.
The workshop will include brief introductions and demos of features of the Doenet platform, as well as short presentations on how people are using Doenet. For the majority of the time, participants will work in small groups on projects of interest to them. These groups will be created dynamically each day. Possible groups could focus on:
- creating your first activity in Doenet
- exploring advanced features of Doenet
- developing activities for a specific open-source textbook
- developing new features to add to the Doenet software
- exploring ways to contribute to the Doenet community and project
- planning steps for long-term sustainability of Doenet
Summer Workshop on Character Sheaves on Loop Groups
Monday, June 8, 2026, 9 a.m. through Friday, June 12, 2026, Noon
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
Overview
Lusztig's theory of character sheaves for reductive groups provides powerful geometric tools for harmonic analysis over finite fields. In recent years, there has been impressive development in the generalization of character sheaves theory to loop groups. These advances uncover deep geometric structures underlying representation and harmonic analysis over p-adic fields, leading to new perspectives on the local aspect of the arithmetic and geometric Langlands program. We are hosting a workshop with lectures covering a broad range of topics connected with character sheaves on loop groups, its applications, and related future directions.
Registration
Registration and applications for travel support are now being accepted.
Special lecture
George Lusztig (MIT)
Speakers
- Alexis Bouthier (Paris)
- Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
- Charlotte Chan (Michigan)
- Ngo Bao Chau (Chicago)
- Gurbir Dhillon (UCLA)
- Tasho Kaletha (Bonn/Michigan)
- David Nadler (Berkeley)
- Cheng-Chiang Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
- Yakov Varshavsky (Hebrew University)
- David Yang (MIT)
- Zhiwei Yun (MIT)
- Xinwen Zhu (Stanford)
Organizers
- Tsao-Hsien Chen (UMN)
- Mark Macerato (UMN)
- Cheng-Chiang Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Mathematics of Data Science Summer School
Monday, July 20, 2026, 8 a.m. through Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026, 4 p.m.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota
In this two-week summer school for advanced undergraduate students, participants will be introduced to the mathematics underlying selected fundamental algorithms in data science, with a focus on methods of unsupervised learning for embedding and clustering data. Students will learn topics from high-dimensional probability, random matrix theory, graph theory, optimal transport, and spectral theory, among others. The material is geared toward students considering graduate study in the mathematics of data science.
Registration and Financial Support
Financial support in the form of reimbursement of travel and living expenses will be provided to facilitate students' participation. To apply, please submit your application materials at the link below. The application deadline is February 16, 2026.
Faculty hosts
Questions?
Email Professor William Leeb at [email protected].
Order and Function in Complex Systems Conference
Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, 9:30 a.m. through Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
Conference on order and function in complex systems: coherent structures, selection and stability
August 10 – 14, 2026
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Overview
Many systems of interest in the natural sciences and engineering are complex, in that they possess a large number of degrees of freedom, which makes it a priori difficult to predict their behavior. Despite this, the behavior of many complex systems may be largely driven by a small number of coherent states, with a simpler description and a small number of free effective degrees of freedom. The focus of this conference is on methods from dynamical systems, PDE theory, and functional analysis for explaining and predicting the emergence of such coherent structures, as well as understanding their subsequent temporal dynamics. These coherent structures include fronts, waves, vortices or patterned states such as rolls or spots. Their existence and dynamics are essential to a range of applications spanning ecology, fluid dynamics, materials science, biology, and physics. There are nonetheless many mathematical commonalities in the study of coherent structures in these seemingly disparate areas of application. Recent years have seen many significant advances in both the theoretical and experimental understanding of different aspects of coherent structures. The conference will assemble international experts in the dynamics of coherent structures, together with a sizable group of early career researchers, for a week-long meeting covering the many facets of coherent structures research. It will facilitate the cross pollination of ideas key to recent advances in theory, computation, and experiment.
Organizers
- Montie Avery, Emory University
- Grégory Faye, CNRS, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
- Ryan Goh, Boston University
- Matt Holzer, George Mason University
- Gabriela Jaramillo, University of Houston
- Merlin Pelz, University of Minnesota
- Qiliang Wu, Ohio University