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AIM Math Fair

  • June 28, 2025

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Piano: An All-Woman Show

  • February 28, at 8 p.m.

In person: Dabney Lounge

This evening of music and stories, co-sponsored by Caltech Performing & Visual Arts and the Richard N. Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics, celebrates women composers for the piano over a 250-year period. You'll get to know Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, a musician in the court of Louis XIV of France; Marianna Martines, a favorite duet partner of Mozart's; Florence Price, the first African-American woman to gain widespread recognition as a composer; and other composers representing a variety of time periods, from when Bach was two years old to the early 20th century. Like women today, these composers struggled with sexism, with imposter syndrome, with being mothers who were also artists, and with gaining professional recognition. Most of them wondered if they were really amateurs underneath it all. Yet they composed anyway. Prepare to be inspired!

An audience favorite and quarter-finalist at the 2016 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, pianist and storyteller Brianna Conrey has appeared recently at Freight & Salvage (Berkeley), Santa Clara University, KMFA Austin's Draylen Mason Music Studio, and on the radio program "Women Hold Up Half the Sky." This performance features a duet with Caltech Visiting Artist and award-winning flutist Dr. Hyesung Park.

FREE and open to the public. RSVPs strongly encouraged.

Winter School on Enumerative Geometry and Mirror Symmetry

  • January 22-24, 2025: Registration
  • Organizers: Tony Yue Yu, Thorgal Hinault, Weihong Xu, Shaowu Zhang

Minicourses by Zihong Chen (MIT), Alexander Givental (Berkeley), Daniel Pomerleano (UMass), Constantin Teleman (Berkeley).

Mini workshop on AI and MPS

  • January 5-7, 2025
  • Organizer: Sergei Gukov (Caltech)

The goal of this informal workshop is to bring together researchers to discuss and share ideas at the intersection of machine learning and mathematical and physical sciences. The focus is on problem solving and hands-on sessions.

Idea Incubator

A series of recurring events (held on Saturdays, roughly every quarter) that can be best described as "fireside chats" or "corporate retreats," devoted to topics at the interface of geometry, representation theory, and physics.https://burkeinstitute.caltech.edu/

Los Angeles Joyful Mathematics Symposium

  • November 16, 2024

This event is hosted by AIM and is sponsored by the Broad Foundation.

Burke Institute Fall Assembly

  • November 5, 2024
  • Organizer: Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech)

American Institute of Mathematics 30th Birthday Celebration Fair

  • June 29, 2024, 10am - 2pm, on the lawn outside Caltech Hall

Registration form: We have exceeded capacity and are no longer accepting RSVPs.

Come celebrate 30 years of the American Institute of Mathematics at our special math fair! We'll have games, puzzles, and other mathematical delights for all ages, along with giveaways, raffle prizes, and delicious treats to enjoy. You'll also have a chance to go on a tour of our beautiful facility located in Caltech Hall's Merkin Center.

Mathematical Models of Generative Linguistics (Part 2)

  • June 8-9, 2024
  • Organizer: Robert C. Berwick (MIT) and Matilde Marcolli (Caltech)

The workshop is dedicated to discussions between mathematicians and linguists on generative linguistics and especially the Merge model of syntax, syntactic parameters, and computational aspects of Chomsky's Minimalism. Thanks to Caltech Center for Evolutionary Science for support.

SoCal Math Teachers' Circles Leadership Meeting

  • June 8, 2024
  • Organizer: David Crombecque (AIM)

Leaders and organizers of Math Teachers Circles in Southern California share their experiences, goals, successes, and challenges. For new leaders, this event can be an opportunity to learn from the existing circles. This meeting will also facilitate collaboration and coordination between the different circles in the area (exchange of facilitators, activities, a summer immersion MTC).

Inaugural Conference

Registration required: click here

  • April 19-20, 2024, see schedule here
  • Organizers: Jaksa Cvitanic, Sergei Gukov, Denise Lu, Nikolai Makarov, Elena Mantovan

This extraordinary occasion will commemorate the inauguration of the Merkin Center with a series of engaging public lectures and talks tailored for a diverse audience, showcasing the elegance of pure and applied mathematics.

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