Plenary Speakers at YMC 2024:
Besides the student presentations, we are delighted to have the following distinguished speakers to deliver plenary talks at YMC:
Veronica Ciocanel (Duke University)
Wednesday August 14, 9:30am-10:30am at EA 160
Title: Decoding the protein dynamics inside cells through
mathematical modeling and analysts
Abstract: Inside cells, there are many proteins that must make their way to specific locations in order to ensure that cells function and develop properly. Other classes of proteins use energy to help fuel this movement, and protein filaments provide roads along which the transport dynamics occurs. I will give examples where understanding interactions between these proteins inside cells requires the development of novel mathematical modeling, analysis, and simulation tools. The techniques draw from partial differential equations, stochastic processes, numerical analysis and topological data analysis, while the applications include proper organism development as well as neuronal function and regeneration.
Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin)
Thursday August 15, 9:30am-10:30am at EA 160
Title: Cap sets and deep minds
Abstract: A seemingly simple but actually very rich problem that I and a lot of other people have spent quite a bit of time on is this: how large can a subset S of (Z/3Z)^n be if it has the property that no three elements of S sum to 0? I’ll talk a bit about the history of this problem (sometimes called the “cap set problem”), what it has to do with famous conjectures in number theory, what we’ve learned about it recently, and finally, how a team at DeepMind was able to make some interesting progress using large language models.
Carl Wang-Erickson (University of Pittsburgh)
Wednesday August 14, 4:30pm-5:30pm at EA 160
Title: p-adicity
Abstract:
In this talk we introduce p-adic numbers and tell a few stories from number theory that have strong p-adic themes. These include p-adic perspectives on the Riemann zeta function and on rational solutions to cubic equations called elliptic curves.
Edriss Titi (Texas A&M University)
(postponed to YMC 2025)
Title: Mathematics of Turbulent Flows: A Million Dollar Problem!
Abstract: Turbulence is a classical physical phenomenon that has been a great challenge to mathematicians, physicists, engineers and computational scientists. In the end of the last century, chaos theory was developed to explore similar phenomena that occur in a wide range of applied sciences, but the eyes have always been on the big ball – Turbulence. Controlling and identifying the onset of turbulence have a great economic and industrial impact ranging from reducing the drag on cars and commercial airplanes to better design of fuel engines, and weather and climate predictions.
It is widely accepted by the scientific community that turbulent flows are governed by the Navier-Stokes equations, for large Reynolds numbers, i.e. when the nonlinear advective effects dominate the linear viscous effects (internal friction within the fluids) in the Navier-Stokes equations. As such, the Navier-Stokes equations form the main building block in any fluid model, in particular in global climate models. Whether the solutions to the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations remain smooth, indefinitely in time, is one of the most challenging mathematical problems. Therefore, by the turn of the millennium, it was identified by the Clay Institute of Mathematics as one of the seven most outstanding Millennium Problems in mathematics, and it has set one million US dollars prize for solving it. Notably, reliable computer simulations of turbulent flows is way out of reach even for the most powerful state-of-the art supercomputers. In this talk I will describe, using layman language, the main challenges that the different scientific communities are facing while attempting to attack this problem. In particular, I will emphasize the mathematical point of view of turbulence.
Lectures of many of the talks below can be found at the YMC Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@youngmathematiciansconfere9565
Previous YMCs
2023 Plenary Speakers
- Alejandra Alvarado (Easters Illinois University)
- Loredana Lanzani (Syracuse University and University of Bologna)
- Camen Rovi (Loyola University)
2022 Plenary Speakers
- Jeff Diller (NotreDame University)
- Julia Plavnik (Indiana University)
- Isabel Vogt (Brown University)
2021 Plenary Speakers
- Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University)
- Marissa Kawehi Loving (Georgia Tech)
- Jose Perea (Northeastern University)
- Lilian Pierce (Duke University)
2020 Plenary Speakers
- Matthew Kahle (Ohio State University)
- Roland Roeder (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis)
2019 Plenary Speakers
- Moon Duchin (Tufts University)
- Sam Payne (University of Texas at Austin)
- Tatiana Toro (University of Washington)
2018 Plenary Speakers
- Corina Calinescu (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)
- Francis Edward Su (Harvey Mudd College)
- Karen Smith (University of Michigan)
2017 Plenary Speakers
- Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)
- Alex Kontorovich (Rutgers University)
- Ezra Miller (Duke University)
2016 Plenary Speakers
- Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)
- Ileana Streinu (Smith College)
- Melanie Wood (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2015 Plenary Speakers
- Marty Golubitsky (Ohio State University)
- Dave Futer (Temple University)
- Svitlana Mayboroda (University of Minnesota)
2014 Plenary Speakers
- Benson Farb (University of Chicago)
- Ivelisse Rubio Canabal (University of Puerto Rico)
- Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago)