Research Focus Groups RFGs from Previous Years

RFGs for the 2007-2008 Academic Year

• Geometry and Topology of 3-Manifolds and Geometric Group Theory, Lucas Sabalka
• Combinatorics in Algebra and Geometry, Alexander Woo
• Quantum Information, Operator Spaces, and Quantum Spin Systems, Bruno Nachtergaele
• Probability, Janko Gravner

RFGs for the 2006-2007 Academic Year

• Spectral properties of random operators, Alexander Soshnikov
• Geometric group theory, Moon Duchin
• Applications of quantum algebra, Greg Kuperberg
• Water waves, fluid interface motion, and mass transport, Steve Shkoller

RFGs for the 2005-2006 Academic Year

• Optimization and Control, Jesus De Loera
• Hyperbolic Geometry, Michael Kapovich
• Quantum Dynamics, Bruno Nachtergaele
• Band-limited methods and Fast Algorithms, Hong Xiao

RFGs for 2004-2005 Academic Year

• Quantitative Biology, Alex Mogilner
• Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Albert Fannjiang
• Probabilistic Aspects of Convexity and Combinatorics, Roman Vershynin
• Hecke Algebras and Orthogonal Polynomials, Monica Vazirani

RFGs for 2003-2004 Academic Year

• Combinatorial Methods in Representation Theory, Anne Schilling
• Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Thomas Strohmer
• String Theory and Geometry, Andrew Waldron
• Random Matrices and Statistical Mechanics, Alexander Soshnikov

RFGs for 2002-2003 Academic Year

• RFG in Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (RFGa), Thomas Strohmer
• RFG in Combinatorics (RFGc), Jesus Deloera
• RFG in Geometric Topology (RFGt), Joel Hass
• RFG in Quantum Dynamics (RFGq), Bruno Nachtergaele