Point Configurations: Deformations and Rigidity
LMS Research School at the University College London
27th JUNE - 1st JULY 2022 (see video recordings below)
The aim of the research summer school was to present several different modern perspectives on the rigidity and deformability of optimum point configurations. Three main points of view are presented in the lecture courses: the point of view of material science and elasticity; the point of view of approximation theory; and the point of view of the methods of Viazovska, based on linear programming bounds.
The research school is funded by the London Mathematical Society, Clay Mathematics Institute, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research and UCL.
Minicourses:
(click on the title = abstract+slides+videos)
by Douglas Hardin and Edward Saff, from Vanderbilt University (tutorial classes by Oleksandr Vlasiuk from Vanderbilt University)
by Gero Friesecke, from Technical University of Munich (including tutorials)
by Danylo Radchenko, from Lille University (tutorial classes by Steven Charlton, from University of Hamburg)
Plenary lectures:
- Franz Merkl (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) -- Dislocation lines in three-dimensional solids at low temperature
Photo by Vance Williams
Mini talks (in order of appearance)
- Continuous Kasteleyn theory and the bead process
- Nearest neighbor interactions and meshing algorithms
- Large Deviations Principles for Coulomb gases at intermediate temperature regime
- Almost sure recovery of some Discrete Structures
- The Mathematics of the Magnetisation Ripple
by Tobias Ried, from Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (abstract+slides) (video recording)
- Multiple zeta values and modular forms
- Minimization of Multivariate Geometric Riesz Energies
Schedule
Here are the recordings in chronological order: 27 june, 28 june, 29 june, 30 june, 1 july
Registration
Research students (MSc, PhD students, or equivalent) and early career researchers (i.e. researchers within 5 years of PhD graduation date, excluding career breaks) are invited to apply for an in-person place on the Research School at reduced registration rates here. They can furthermore apply for Financial Aid (towards travel costs and/or waiving registration fees) by filling in the additional section in the form.
Other in-person participants can register directly here.
Online-only participants are required to register via this link as well, though their participation is free.
Applications from research students and early career researchers will be reviewed starting from March 1st 2022 and on a rolling basis until all places are filled. Applications will have a processing time of at most two weeks; information about individual applications will not be available before March 14th 2022.
Registration fee for in-person participants includes:
Five nights on-campus accommodation* (private single room in UCL accommodation in central London, breakfast and dinner included, between 26.06.2022 - 01.07.2022)
All lunches and coffee breaks
Monday evening welcome reception
Registration Fees (in-person participants only)
Research students*: £150 (accommodation and food will be included)
Early career researchers**: £250 (accommodation and food will be included)
Other participants: £250 + subsistence costs (only lunch and dinner will be included, and not accommodation and breakfast)
Research students and early career researchers from UCL and other London universities (who only require lunches and coffee breaks, but do not require on-campus accommodation, breakfasts and dinners): £0
Fees for research students and early career researchers who apply for reduced registration rates, should not be paid until a place at the Research School is offered, and will be due by June 14th 2022.
Financial Aid
Financial Aid (towards travel costs and/or registration fees): Research students who have successfully secured a place on the Research School following the instructions above, and who would otherwise be unable to attend, can apply for financial aid by filling in the appropriate section in the registration form here.
We anticipate that we will be able to cover full local expenses (that is, provide accommodation and all meals, and waive the registration fees) for around 30 research students who have successfully secured a place. We also have some funds available towards the travel costs of research students and early career researchers.
Photo: NY Times, 25 Aug 2009
Local Information
Maps
The summer school was held at:
Lecture Theatre rooms G12, G13 in 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB
The Lecture Theatre G13 will be used between the 27th June -29th June, and the Lecture Theatre G12 will be used on the 30th June and on the 1st July.
The main (security-manned) entrance is on the eastern side of the 1-19 Torrington Place building. Directions to the building.
Photo: Hedley &Betaud, J. Protozool. 9(1), p.83, 1962