(above) INI's Christmas tree decorations in the building's central foyer.

INI NEWS BULLETIN
December 2019

Dear friends, associates and supporters of INI,

Festive greetings and warm Christmas wishes to all of you receiving this message, coming as it does at the end of another thrilling year of collaborative mathematics here at the Institute. This will be a briefer dispatch than usual (thus allowing the reader more time to enjoy their hard-earned winter repose), but we trust that it contains some stimulating updates.

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Fittingly, the latest edition of our Annual Report is now available to download. This issue covers the period from July 2018 to August 2019, detailing the outcomes from each of the seven programmes held, two follow-on workshops and myriad other Institute activities undertaken in that time. Accompanying statistics and financials are also to be found within.

This month the Institute was thrilled to welcome Professor Chuz Sanz-Serna (Madrid) for his Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellowship keynote talk "Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and geometric integration" (Friday 6 December). Delivered to a crowded Seminar Room 1, his lecture examined the renowned algorithm and some of its applications, touching upon ideas from statistical physics to geometric integration of differential equations, and from Bayesian statistics to Hamiltonian dynamics. For those that missed this fascinating seminar, it is available to view online here.

The Institute would like to extend sincere thanks to all those donors and other supporters that were able to attend our annual Christmas Dinner at the Royal Society on Wednesday 4 December. This event provides an excellent opportunity to celebrate the work undertaken at INI throughout the year, and to look ahead to ambitious future developments for which ongoing support - financial and otherwise - is key. Particular thanks go to Professor Reidun Twarock (York) for delivering the fascinating and provocative talk "Viral tiling and beyond: Using geometry as a key to the virosphere".

We bid farewell to two major programmes this month, with both the three-month "Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations" and the six-month "Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations" programmes having concluded yesterday (Thursday 19 December). Each hosted three workshops as part of its academic schedule, with the vast majority of talks delivered - as well as those given by programme participants in between such events - now being available to stream online. We hope that these talks continue to provide insight and inspiration to our online audience both current and future.

We bid welcome to two major programmes this month, with the two six-month programmes K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory and Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives due to begin on Monday 6 January. Full details of the themes, research aims and workshop schedules of each are available via the clickable links above. And, on this subject...

Spaces are still available for two workshops within the K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory programme, and their deadlines are soon approaching. Further details follow below.

> KAHW02 | Algebraic K-theory, motivic cohomology and motivic homotopy theory | 23rd March 2020 to 27th March 2020 [APPLY BY 29 DECEMBER 2019 ]
 

> KAHW03 | Arithmetic geometry, cycles, Hodge theory, regulators, periods and heights | 30th March 2020 to 3rd April 2020 [APPLY BY 5 JANUARY 2020]

We trust that you have been enjoying our #AdventBlackboards initiative, which can be found not only via the preceding link but also on our Twitter and Facebook feeds. The response to these posts - each of which contain a favoured theorem, law, equation or conjecture suggested by INI's staff, participants and online audience - has been inspirational. Thank-you for enjoying the wonder of mathematics with us in yet another format.

And finally, may we take the opportunity (once again) to wish Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all,

Kind regards,

- INI Communications Team

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(above) a clickable link to INI's latest Annual Report.

(below) Professor Reidun Twarock speaking at INI's Christmas Dinner at the Royal Society.

Images for the programmes Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives (above) and K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory (below).

(above) Professor Chus Sanz-Serna delivering his Rothschild lecture.

(below) Examples of INI's #AdventBlackboards posts throughout December.