Spring 2011 MSRI-Evans Lectures
Spring 2011
The talks for the Spring 2011 semester were on two different topics, namely, Free Boundary Problems (FBP) and Arithmetic Statistics (AS). The schedule of the talks were as follows:
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Title |
| Jan. 24 | FBP | Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin | Free Boundary Problems |
| Feb. 7 | AS | Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers | Counting Integers |
| Feb. 14 | AS | Jon Hanke, University of Georgia | The Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms |
| Mar. 7 | FBP | Juan Luis Vazquez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | Nonlinear diffusion and free boundaries. From porous media to fractional diffusion |
| Mar. 14 | AS | Barry Mazur, Harvard University | Elliptic curves, their companions, and their statistics |
| Mar. 28 | FBP | John E. Andersson, University of Warwick | Linearization Techniques In Free Boundary Problems |
| Apr. 18 | AS | Melanie Wood, Stanford University | Counting Points On Curves Over Finite Fields |
| Apr. 25 | FBP | Susanna Terracini, Universite di Milano - Bicocca | Boundary singular solutions associated with connecting thin tubes |
