Three workshops, a summer school and a high school camp are planned for this summer.
Summer 2025 signifies the completion of three years since the establishment of the Brin Mathematics Research Center. In this relatively brief timeframe, the Brin MRC has rapidly evolved into one of the foremost mathematics institutes in the country. Given the uncertainties surrounding NSF funding, it is anticipated that the Brin MRC's influence in the global mathematics community will continue to grow significantly.
Spring 2025 proved to be an exceptionally busy semester for the Brin Mathematics Research Center, featuring seven workshops, three distinguished lectures, and an array of other special activities. Despite the challenging winter conditions in late January, the center successfully hosted a workshop on Moduli in Algebraic Geometry, with Dori Bejleri as one of the organizers. This was succeeded by workshops on Hamiltonian Dynamics, organized by Bassam Fayad, Dima Dolgopyat, Vadim Kaloshin, and Jaime Paradela. Additionally, a workshop led by Thom Haines and Peter Dillery concentrated on geometric approaches to the Local Langlands Program. The semester was further enriched by three remarkable Brin MRC Distinguished Lectures delivered by Albert Cohen from Sorbonne, Chris Cosner from the University of Miami, and Harrison Zhou from Yale.
The Brin Mathematics Research Center hosted the annual Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Numbers (MASON-7), organized by Larry Washington, as well as a Junior Investigators Workshop on Dynamics. April began with a conference on Lorentzian, Affine, and Hyperbolic Differential Geometry, held in memory of Todd Drumm and organized by Bill Goldman and our former colleague Karin Melnick. Following this memorial conference, the center hosted workshops on G-Torsors on Curves, organized by Richard Wentworth, Weyl Laws Across Mathematics led by Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, and Bifurcation and Chaos Theory, organized by Abba Gumel, Sana Jahedi, Alex Safsten, Roberto De Leo, and Jim Yorke.
For the second consecutive year, the Brin Mathematics Research Center had the honor of hosting the chairs of the Math Departments from the Big 10 Universities. This year, we were delighted to welcome two of our new Big 10 members: USC and the University of Oregon.
The summer promises to be bustling with workshops focusing on Geometry and Higher Structures, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, and Random Dynamical Systems. Additionally, we will host the Brin Maryland Mathematics Camp for high school students and a summer school on the highly topical subject of Scientific Machine Learning.
This marks the conclusion of an exceptionally productive and exhilarating year. We are eagerly anticipating the next year, which will feature 15 workshops and 2 summer schools. Stay tuned for more exciting developments! The details of all the center’s activities can be found at brinmrc.umd.edu.
