On August 18 and 20, 2018, the Center of Mathematic Sciences and Applications and the Harvard University Mathematics Department hosted a conference on From Algebraic Geometry to Vision and AI: A Symposium Celebrating the Mathematical Work of David Mumford. The talks took place in Science Center, Hall B.

Saturday, August 18th:  A day of talks on Vision, AI and brain sciences

Monday, August 20th: a day of talks on Math

Speakers:

• Stuart Geman, Brown
• Janos Kollar, Princeton
• Tai Sing Lee, CMU
• Emanuele Macri, Northeastern
• Jitendra Malik, Berkeley / FAIR
• Peter Michor, University of Vienna
• Michael Miller, Johns Hopkins
• Aaron Pixton, MIT
• Jayant Shah, Northeastern
• Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
• Burt Totaro, UCLA
• Avi Wigderson, IAS
• Ying Nian Wu, UCLA
• Laurent Younes, Johns Hopkins
• Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA

Organizers:

• Ching-Li Chai, University of Pennsylvania
• David Gu, Stony Brook University
• Amnon Neeman, Australian National University
• Mark Nitzberg, University of California at Berkeley
• Yang Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
• Song-Chun Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles

Publication:

Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly

Special Issue: In Honor of David Mumford
Guest Editors: Ching-Li Chai, Amnon Neeman