DETAILS
www.fields.utoronto.ca/activit...
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
V. Kumar Murty, Director, Fields Institute
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada
His Excellency Claudio Taffuri, Ambassor of Italy to Canada
Mona Nemer, Chief Science Advisor of Canada
Alejandro Adem, President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Carlos E. Kenig, President, International Mathematical Union
Feridun Hamdullahpur, President, University of Waterloo
Greg Kelly, Executive Producer, CBC Radio IDEAS
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to the work of Alessio Figalli
Francesco Maggi, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
INTERVIEW
Interview of Alessio Figalli, Professor, ETH Zürich
Interviewer: Hannah Fry, Associate Professor, University College London
PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator: Hannah Fry
Panellists:
Maria Colombo, Assistant Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ingrid Daubechies, Professor, Duke University
Alessio Figalli, Professor, ETH Zürich
Robert McCann, Professor, University of Toronto
Cédric Villani (Fields Medal 2010), Member of Parliament, French National Assembly
TIME AND LOCATION
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:40 pm EDT, Monday, October 19, 2020
Location: Online at • 2020 Fields Medal Symp...
This event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
Register through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-op... .
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
Government of Ontario
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS
Elsevier
Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life
SILVER LEVEL SPONSOR
James Stewart
BRONZE LEVEL SPONSORS
Edward Bierstone, George Elliott, John R. Gardner, Dan Rosen, Phillip Siller
WITH SUPPORT FROM
Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto
Embassy of Italy Ottawa