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New perspectives in complex analysis
4 Feb 2025
This workshop surveys recent tools and developments in complex analysis, including harmonic functions, the heat equation, Brownian motion, Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE), conformal field theory and quantization.
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Orientation Week (O-Week) College activities
13 Feb 2025
Get ready to start your semester with our College O-Week activities!
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Summer of heat: a workshop on geometric diffusion
17 Feb 2025
Join us for a workshop with Mat Langford on geometric diffusion being held at the Mathematical Sciences Institute.