Opening Remarks
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Conference opening gives concrete details: the Simons Institute, founded 2012 with ongoing Simons Foundation support, runs semester-long programs that convene top theoreticians and mathematicians; upcoming programs include complexity and linear algebra and a program on spectra beyond graphs. The honoree’s concrete contributions listed include the h‑cobordism theorem (generalized Poincaré for n≥5), the horseshoe map in dynamics, work on complexity of real computation and learning theory, ongoing study of the Kuramoto synchronization model.
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