The International Congress of Mathematicians is held every four years. It was due to be held this summer in St Petersburg, but has been cancelled and replaced by an online event. An invitation to give a section lecture at the ICM is a significant honour and four Oxford mathematicians were selected this time around. To celebrate their achievements we are hosting a local event at which the four speakers will give their ICM talks in person, to a local audience. The talks should be accessible to a wide range of members of the Mathematical Institute. This event will take place in L2 on Friday May 6th (week 2), taking the place of the usual Fridays at 4, and the schedule is as below.
In addition Brigitte Stenhouse will be speking at ICMN as the winner of the Montucla Prize 2021. The prize is awarded by the Executive Committee of the International Commission for the History of Mathematics every four years to the author of the best article by a early career scholar published in Historia Mathematica in the four years preceding the International Congress of History of Science and Technology.
Brigitte is a DL appointed to cover teaching in History of Maths while Chris Hollings is on sabbatical leave. She's also an Associate Lecturer at the Open University.
1.40pm Stuart White "Classification of simple amenable operator algebras" (chair: Charles Batty)
2.35pm Alex Scott "Graphs of large chromatic number" (chair: Oliver Riordan)
3.30pm Coralia Cartis "Evaluation complexity of algorithms for non convex optimisation" (chair: Patrick Farrell)
4.25pm Alison Etheridge TBA
