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Time tables for plenary lectures and special sessions
Note that times may vary from one special session to another. |
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Time tables for plenary lectures and special sessions
Note that times may vary from one special session to another. |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Plenary Lectures
Lecture Hall U 45 |
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|---|---|
| Tuesday, June 13. Chairperson: Uffe Haagerup | |
| 13.45-14.45 | Johan Håstad (Stockholm) On efficient approximability of NP-hard optimization problems: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-16.00 | Karen K. Uhlenbeck (Austin) The Geometric Non-Linear Schroedinger Equation: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.30-17.30 | Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (Berkeley) The analogue of entropy in free probability theory: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Wednesday, June 14. Chairperson: William Browder | |
| 9.30-10.30 | Alexei Rudakov (Trondheim) Representations of E(3,6) and the related structures: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 10.45-11.45 | Elliott Lieb (Princeton) The quantum mechanical many-body problem and quantum electrodynamics: A highly successful but still incomplete theory: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15. Chairperson: John Milnor | |
| 9.30-10.30 | Curtis McMullen (Harvard) The shape of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 10.45-11.45 | Nigel J. Hitchin (Oxford) The geometry of three-forms: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Friday, June 16. Chairperson: Nigel J. Hitchin | |
| 9.30-10.30 | Pertti Mattila (Jyväskylä) What has Menger curvature given to complex and harmonic analysis?: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 10.45-11.45 | Tobias Colding (New York) Embedded minimal surfaces and applications to 3-manifold topology: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 1:
Algebraic Groups/Representation Theory Lecture Hall U 43 |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.15-14.00 | W. Fulton (Michigan)
Eigenvalues of sums of Hermitian matrices, and tensor products of representations: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.10-14.40 | S. Kumar (North Carolina): Algebraization of Frobenius splitting via quantum groups |
| 14.50-15.20 | E. Sommers (Harvard)
Vector bundles on the cotangent bundle of a partial flag variety: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.30-16.00 | P. Polo (Paris)
Construction of arbitrary Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials in symmetric groups: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.00 | S. Arkhipov (Moscow)
Modules over the quantum group at a root of unity and coherent sheaves on the Springer variety: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.15-18.00 | G. Lusztig (MIT)
Quiver varieties and Weyl group actions: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.15-14.00 | C. DeConcini (Rome)
Complexes computing the Cohomology of Braid and Coxeter group: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.10-14.40 | J. Funch Thomsen (Aarhus)
Frobenius splitting of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.50-15.20 | R. Bøgvad
(Stockholm)
Differential operators in positive characteristics and homogeneous coordinate rings on Schubert varieties: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.30-16.00 | U. Kulkarni (Amherst)
Ext groups and Jantzen's sum formula: dvi, ps, pdf: |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.00 | T. Suzuki (Kyoto)
Representations of affine Hecke algebra and Lie algebra of type A: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.15-18.00 | M. Kashiwara (Kyoto)
Finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 2:
Complex Analysis in Higher Dimensions Lecture Hall U 45 |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | Peter Ebenfelt (Stockholm)
Finite jet determination of holomorphic mappings at the boundary: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | László
Lempert (West Lafayette)
Extension of holomorphic functions in infinite dimension: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Franc Forstneric (Ljubljana
& Madison)
Extending holomorphic mappings and applications: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | Mats Andersson (Göteborg)
Holomorphic and nonholomorphic functional calculus for commuting operators: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-18.15 | Sergei Ivashkovich
(Lille)
Existence of complete hyperbolic neighborhoods in almost-complex surfaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | Berit Stensønes
(Ann Arbor)
Embeddings and Hamiltonian vector fields: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | Jón I. Magnússon
(Reykjavik)
Transference Of Ampleness From A Subvariety To Its Incidence Divisor: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Frank Wikström (Umeå) Jensen measures and pluripotential theory: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | Bo Berndtsson (Göteborg)
Complex analysis and $\bar\partial$-equations on positive currents: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-18.15 | Sergey Pinchuk (Bloomington)
Reflection Principle in Higher Dimensions: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 3:
Differential Geometry Lecture Hall U 46 |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14. Chairpersons: Claude leBrun and Henrik Pedersen | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Gilles Courtois (Palaiseau)
Entropy pinching of hyperbolic manifolds: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.15-15.00 | Christoph Böhm
(Kiel)
On compact homogeneous Einstein manifolds: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.15-16.00 | Dominic Joyce (Oxford)
Singularities of special Lagrangian 3-folds: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-16.50 | Vestislav Apostolov
(IHES)
Self-dual Einstein Hermitian four manifolds: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.00-17.20 | Charles Boyer
(Albuquerque)
Sasakian Geometry and Links of Hypersurface Singularities: dvi,ps,pdf |
| 17.30-17.50 | Chad Sprouse (NYU) Eigenvalue Pinching on Vector Bundles: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15. Chairpersons: Karsten Grove and Tobias Colding | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Olivier Biquard (Palaiseau) Selfdual metrics on the 4-ball: dvi,ps, pdf |
| 14.15-15.00 | Xiaochun
Rong (New Brunswick)
Convergence and finiteness theorems for the collapsed manifolds with bounded curvature: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.15-16.00 | Roger Bielawski (Edinburgh)
Hyperkähler metrics with large symmetry: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-16.50 | Patrick B. Eberlein
(Chapel Hill)
Geometry of compact 2-step nilmanifolds: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.00-17.20 | Christina Sormani (Lehman
College, CUNY)
Ricci Curvature and the Existence of Souls: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-17.50 | Fred Wilhelm (UCR)
Examples of manifolds with positve curvature almost everywhere: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 4:
Discrete Mathematics Lecture Hall U 49C |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | J. Nesetril (Prague) Combinatorics of Mappings: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | S. Amghibech (Rouen) The non-linear Wiener criterion for trees: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Y. Zhao (Florida) A lower bound of the size of edge chromatic critical graphs: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | J.E. Goodman (CUNY) Some recent results in geometric transversal theory: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-18.15 | S. Huggett (Plymouth) Euler Characteristics and Chromatic Polynomials: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | B.K. Dass (Delhi) Various burst error detecting codes: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | C. Ding (Singapore) Cyclotomy and Optical Orthogonal Codes: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | G. McGuire (Maynooth) On The Existence of Quasi-3 Designs: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | K. Meer (Odense) Polynomials of bounded tree-width: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 5:
Dynamical Systems Lecture Hall U 49D (U55 in case of overflow) |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | X. Buff (Toulouse) A Holomorphic Fixed Point Formula for Polynomial-Like Mappings: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | C. Henriksen (Lyngby) Julia sets in parameter spaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | K. Pilgrim (Missouri) Canonical Thurston obstructions: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | H. Thunberg (Eskilstuna) Unfolding of chaotic unimodal maps and parameter dependence of natural measures: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | M.P. Wojtkowski (Tucson) W-flows on Weyl manifolds and Gaussian thermostats: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | J. Milnor (Stony Brook) Periodic Orbits and External Rays for Polynomial Maps: |
| 15.00-15.45 | A. Douady (Orsay) One-sided diophantine condition, after Gamaliel Ble.: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | J. Graczyk (Orsay) |
| 17.30-18.15 | H. Eliasson (Stockholm) |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | Lars Hörmander
(Lund)
A centennial report on the uniqueness of the Cauchy problem: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | Andrea D'Agnolo
(Paris)
D-modules and integral geometry: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Anton Savin (Moskva)
The Eta Invariant and Index of Elliptic Operators in Subspaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | Nils Dencker (Lund)
The Nirenberg--Treves Conjecture: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-18.15 | Wenxiong Chen (Missouri)
Method of Moving Planes and Prescribing Curvature: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.00-13.45 | Elmar Schrohe (Potsdam)
Hochschild homology of Boutet de Monvel's algebra: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.45 | Thomas
Branson (Iowa)
Spectral asymptotics and a discrete leading symbol for natural differential operators: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Anders Holst (Lund) |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | Paul Loya (Boston)
The Resolvent and the Heat Kernel on Manifolds with Corners: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 7:
Joint EWM and AWM session Lecture Hall U 47 |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 14.30-15.15 | Karen Uhlenbeck (Austin) Women in Mathematics: Progress and Disappointment: dvi,ps, pdf |
| 15.30-15.45 | Video presentation.
Excerpts from a video about Julia Robinson which is currently being made by George Csicsery. www.ams.org/index/ams/julia.html |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30- ?? | Round table.
The situation for women in mathematics in Scandinavia and the USA. What are the differences? Can we learn from each other? Participants: Karen Uhlenbeck, Austin; Laura Fainsilber, Göteborg; Berit Stensønes, Ann Arbor; Christina Wiis Tønnesen-Friedman, Århus. Moderator: Ragni Piene, Oslo. |
| 19.00 | Dinner.
The participants of this special session go out to dinner together. |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.00-14.30 | Ragni Piene (Oslo)
Singular algebraic plane curves: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Dorthe Sølvason
(Odense)
Report from a woman in applied mathematics: |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.00 | Video presentation.
The EWM-video: Women and Mathematics across Cultures. Interviews with women mathematicians. |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 8:
K-theory and Operator Algebras Lecture Hall U 49E (U1 in case of overflow) |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 14.00-14.45 | Vladimir Manuilov (Moscow)
The Connes-Higson map is an isomorphism: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Kenneth Dykema (Texas
A&M)
Topological entropy of free products of automorphisms: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | Nigel Higson (PennState)
Counterexamples to the Baum-Connes conjectures: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-18.15 | Alex Kumjian (Reno)
C*-algebras of higher rank graphs: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 14.00-14.45 | Mikael Rørdam
(København)
Purely infinite C*-algebras: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.45 | Marius
Dadarlat (Purdue)
Embeddings of exact C*-algebras: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | Alexander Gorokhovsky
(Michigan)
Secondary Characteristic Classes and Cyclic Cohomology of Hopf Algebras: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-18.15 | Uffe Haagerup (Odense)
Applications of Random Matrices in C*-algebra Theory: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 9:
Linear Spaces of Holomorphic Functions Lecture Hall U 48 |
|
|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.15-13.40 | J. Shapiro (East Lansing) The Numerical Range of a Composition Operator: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 13.45-14.10 | C. Sundberg (Knoxville) Zero sets of Dirichlet functions: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.15-14.40 | H. Hedenmalm (Lund) The Hele-Shaw Exponential Mapping dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.45-15.10 | D. Khavinson (Fayetteville and NSF) Uniform Approximation by Analytic and Harmonic Functions: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.15-15.40 | D. Girela (Malaga) Univalent functions in some Möbius invariant spaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-16.55 | S. Richter (Knoxville) The structure of inner multipliers on spaces with complete Nevanlinna Pick kernels: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.00-17.25 | W. Ross (Richmond) The majorization function in the Dirichlet space: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-17.55 | R. Mortini (Metz) Prime ideals in the algebra of bounded analytic functions: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 18.00-18.25 | T. Lance (Albany) Projective Generators in Hardy and Bergman Spaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 18.30-18.55 | S. Jakobsson (Lund) The Bergman kernel, the Friedrichs operator and the biharmonic Green function: dvi , ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.15-13.40 | A. Nicolau (Barcelona) Inner functions and hyperbolic area function: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 13.45-14.10 | A. Aleman (Lund) Primitives, integral operators and a theorem of Hardy and Littlewood: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.15-14.40 | J. Cima (Chapel Hill) An Example of a Theorem of Lee and Wermer: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.45-15.10 | J. Ortega-Cerda (Barcelona) Non harmonic Fourier series: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.15-15.40 | A. Stray (Bergen) Simultaneous approximation in the Dirichlet space: dvi, ps, pdf. |
| 15.45-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-16.55 | R. Weir (Ann Arbor) Canonical Divisors in Weighted Bergman Spaces: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.00-17.25 | I. Videnskii (St. Petersburg) On the zeros of the derivative of a rational function and invariant subspaces for the backward shift operator on the Bergman space: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 10:
Mathematical Physics Lecture Hall U 42 |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Philippe Di Francesco
(Saclay and NC)
Meanders: Exact asymptotics: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.10-14.40 | Charlotte Kristjansen (København) The Three-colour Problem on a Random Lattice: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.50-15.20 | Edwin Langmann (Stockholm)
The elliptic Calogero-Sutherland model and finite temperature anyons: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.30-16.00 | Ari Laptev (Stockholm)
Eigenvalue inequalities for partial differential operators: dvi,ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | (June 6: Change of lecturer. Title and abstract unchanged) |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Jens Hoppe (Potsdam)
Zero Energy States in Supersymmetric Matrix Models: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.10-14.40 | Volker Schomerus (Hamburg) 2D critical systems and non-commutative geometry: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.50-15.20 | Klaus Fredenhagen
(Hamburg)
Deformation quantization of classical algebraic field theory: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.30-16.00 | Helge Holden (Trondheim)
Algebro-geometric solutions of the Szegö-Baxter hierarchy: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.15 | Krysztof Gawedski (Paris)
Mathematics of turbulent transport: dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 11:
Mathematics Education Lecture Hall U 49 |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Mogens Niss (Roskilde)Justification and goals of mathematics education: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-15.00 | Ole Bjørkqvist
(Åbo)
A Sampler of Research Problems in Nordic Mathematics Education Research: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-16.00 | Liv Sissel Grønmo
(Oslo)
Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS): dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.00 | Juha Oikkonen (Helsinki)
First year students behaving like researchers: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.00-17.30 | Manya Raman (UCLA)
Definitions in secondary school and university level mathematics: Student difficulties and textbook messages: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.30-18.00 | Bo Rosen (Oslo)
Diagnostic teaching and results from the KIM project: dvi, ps, pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.00-14.00 | Mathias Kawski (Arizona)
A new era of interactive visualization: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.00-14.30 | Robert
Sinclair (DTU)
Interactive Mathematics Textbooks: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.30-15.00 | Heikki Apiola (Helsinki)
Computer lab as a mathematics classroom: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.00-15.30 | Kjeld Bagger Laursen
(København)
How to help beginning students of mathematics acquire good study habits?: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.30-16.00 | Rasmus Hedegaard Nielsen
(København)
Cognition in Mathematical Analysis: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.00 | Miroslav Lovric (McMaster)
"Teaching Mathematics" Course at McMaster University - an Innovative Attempt at Improving Quality of Teaching: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.00-17.30 | Manya Raman (Berkeley)
The Association for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Eduation (ARUME): dvi, ps, pdf |
| AMS
Scand 2000, Special Session 12:
Stochastic DE and Financial Mathematics Lecture Hall U 49B (U45 in case of overflow) |
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|---|---|
| Wednesday, June 14: | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Agnès Sulem
(Paris)
Numerical methods for Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations arising in portfolio dynamic optimisation: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.10-14.40 | Wolfgang Stummer (Ulm)
On Generalized Relative Entropies in a Generalized Samuelson-Merton-Black-Scholes World: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.50-15.20 | Yana Belopolskaya
(St. Petersburg)
Continuos models of GARCH - type in option pricing: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.30-16.00 | Camilla Landen (Stockholm) Spot price realizations of futures price term structures: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.00 | Rolf Poulsen (København) Transition Densities of Diffusion Processes: A Review and Numerical Comparison of Approximation Techniques: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.10-17.40 | Ismail Elsanosi (Oslo)
Some solvable stochastic control problems with delay: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.50-18.20 | Petter Brunvold (Bergen) The Fourier Transform: Applications to Finance: dvi, ps,pdf |
| Thursday, June 15: | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Yuri Kabanov (Besancon) Models with transaction costs: criteria of no-arbitrage: dvi,ps,pdf |
| 14.10-14.40 | Martin Leitz-Martini
(Tübingen)
A discrete Clark-Ocone formula: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 14.50-15.20 | Rimas Norvaisa (Vilnius) When a stock price can be modelled by an integral equation?: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 15.30-16.00 | Francesca Biagini (Bologna)
Mean-Variance Hedging for Interest Rates Models with Stochastic Volatility: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30-17.00 | Yousef El-Khatib & Nicolas Privault (La Rochelle) Explicit computations of hedging strategies via the Clark formula: dvi, ps, pdf |
| 17.10-17.40 | Steen Thorbjørnsen (Odense) Self-decomposability in Free Probability: dvi,ps,pdf |