The inaugural Fields Medal Symposium will take place at the Fields Institute, October 15-18, 2012. The symposium will be held each year in the research area of one of the most recent recipients of the Fields Medal.

The inaugural Fields Medal Symposium of 2012 will honour Ngô Bao Châu, one of the 2010 Fields Medalists. The symposium is entitled Fundamentals of the Langlands Program’ and is aimed at a general scientific audience.

Notable speakers include James Arthur, Gerard Laumon, Edward Frenkel, Richard Taylor, Edward Witten, Diana Shelstad, Laurent Lafforgue, Nigel Hitchin, who are among a much longer list of very distinguished mathematicians in Number Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Geometry. The complete list can be found here,

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/fieldsmedalsym/12-13/

All events in the symposium will be streamed live online and below are the links for virtual participation.

Live link for Scientific Lectures

Oct 15 – Fields Medal Symposium Public Opening

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/fieldsmedalsym/12-13/opening.html

Oct 16 – Special Program for High-school and Undergraduate Students

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/fieldsmedalsym/12-13/studentprgm.html

Please take note of the time difference. All events listed above are scheduled in Eastern Daylight Time, UTC/GMT -4 hours.