2024 Clay Research Conference and Workshops
The 2024 Clay Research Conference was held on Wednesday, 2 October. Videos of the plenary talks can be viewed in our Video Library.
The Clay Mathematics Institute is a global organisation dedicated to furthering the beauty, power and universality of mathematical thought.
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Supported by much experimental evidence, this conjecture relates the number of points on an elliptic curve mod p to the rank of the group of rational points. Elliptic curves, defined by cubic equations in two variables, are fundamental mathematical objects that arise in many areas: Wiles’ proof of the Fermat Conjecture, factorization of numbers into primes, and cryptography, to name three.
Yang-Mills & The Mass Gap
Experiment and computer simulations suggest the existence of a “mass gap” in the solution to the quantum versions of the Yang-Mills equations. But no proof of this property is known.
P vs NP
If it is easy to check that a solution to a problem is correct, is it also easy to solve the problem? This is the essence of the P vs NP question. Typical of the NP problems is that of the Hamiltonian Path Problem: given N cities to visit, how can one do this without visiting a city twice? If you give me a solution, I can easily check that it is correct. But I cannot so easily find a solution.
RGAS Summer School on Perfectoid Techniques
La Cristalera, UAM
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A CMI event
Formalizing Class Field Theory
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
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Geometric Problems in Linear and Nonlinear PDEs
Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Isle of Skye
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Representation Theory and Noncommutative Geometry
CIRM and IHP
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