NEWS
2000/2001
Issue No 10
2001 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
Instructional Conference
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
8–18 January 2001
Organising Committee: John Ball (Oxford), Maria Esteban (Paris), John Toland (Bath)
The aim of this 10-day course is to instruct young mathematicians on modern methods for nonlinear PDE theory, where the motivation comes from important new areas in applied science, including image processing, materials science, gas and fluid dynamics, and quantum mechanics of atoms and molecules. Although this set of topics has been selected for detailed analysis, the methods are universal in their scope.
Talks will be presented at three levels. Around one-third of the total time will be spent presenting basic methods and applying them to prototypical examples which illustrate both their power and their limitations. This material will be suitable for students at the start of their postgraduate studies. Talks at the intermediate level will be devoted to refining these basic methods to cover more subtle and complex situations. The series of more advanced lectures will review recent developments and current research.
The meeting is supported by the EC (Framework 5), the EPSRC and the LMS.
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Workshop
Statistical Mixtures and Latent Structure Modelling
28–30 March 2001
Organising Committee: Christian Robert (Paris) and Mike Titterington (Glasgow)
The motivation for this three-day Workshop is the awareness that the topic of mixture modelling and the wider versions that constitute latent structure analysis are currently of major interest to an increasingly wide range of scientific disciplines. The meeting will be supported by the EPSRC and the Royal Statistical Society.
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Associated Meeting
16th British Topology Meeting
7–9 April 2001
Organising Committee: Paul Turner (Heriot-Watt), Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh), Simon Willerton (Heriot-Watt)
This annual meeting was timed to take place immediately before the BMC to be held in Galsgow. The invited speakers will be Cameron Gordon (University of Texas) and Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins University). The meeting is supported by the London Mathematical Society.
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Workshop
CMI Symposium and EuroWorkshop on Hamiltonian Systems
23 May to 1 June 2001
Organising Committee: Dario Bambusi (Milan), Walter Craig (McMaster), Sergei Kuksin (Heriot-Watt), Eugene Wayne (Boston)
The field of Hamiltonian systems has seen rapid advances in recent years. This workshop will focus on analytic techniques of Hamiltonian systems and their extension to partial differential equations and other infinite dimensional settings. This meeting is in part a sequel to the successful conference on a similar topic held at the ICMS in May 1999.
Friday 25th May is planned as a memorial tribute to Juergen Moser and Michel Herman. This will take the form of a series of colloquium lectures on the subject of work related to their mathematical legacy.
The meeting is supported by the Clay Mathematical Foundation and the EC (Framework V)
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Workshop/Seminar
Modelling Council House Allocation 19 June 2001
Organisers: Jack Carr & Andrew Lacey (Heriot-Watt)
This afternoon informal seminar will bring together a group of practitioners, policy-makers and mathematicians to discuss the mathematical modelling of housing allocation and related areas where waiting times and allocation methods are significant issues. It is hoped that this will be the first of a series of such meetings.
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Conference
Progress in PDE
9–13 July 2001
Organising Committee: John Ball (Oxford), Alexander Grigoryan (Imperial College), Sergei Kuksin (Heiot-Watt)
The main purpose of the meeting is to bring together leading experts in this broad and fast-moving area with the objective of highlighting recent important developments. Particular attention will be paid to developments in PDEs that relate to the sciences and other areas of mathematics such as geometry, the calculus of variations, dynamical systems and stochastic analysis.
One of the sessions of the meeting, on Tuesday 10 July, will be dedicated to the memory of E. M. Landis and will address qualitative theory of second order elliptic and parabolic PDEs.
Key speakers will include: A. Bressan, B. Engquist, G. Forni, Em. Grenier, C. Kenig, V. A. Kondratiev , N. Krylov , A. Kupiainen, S. Müller, N. Nadirashvili, F. Otto, V. Šverák, N. Trudinger, M. I. Vishik and S.T. Yau.
The meeting is supported by the EPSRC and the EC (Framework V).
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Workshop
Algebraic Graph Theory
9–13 July 2001
Organising Committee: Dragos Cvetkovic (Belgrade), Willem Haemers (Tilburg), Peter Rowlinson (Stirling).
The general themeof this second workshop on Algebraic Graph Theory is the geometric representation of graphs and on this occasion the chosen area of application is discrete mathematical chemistry. The workshop provides an opportunity for the scattered communities of algebraic graph theorists and mathematical chemists to discuss recent developments of mutual interest.
The main topics are seen as: the new fullerenes; eigenspace techniques; generalizations from distance-regular graphs; and topological considerations.
The meeting is supported by the EC (Framework V), the LMS and the BCC.
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Workshop
Circuit and Proof Complexity
1–6 October 2001
Organising Committee: Jan Krajicek (Prague), Alexander Razborov (Princeton/Moscow) Alex Wilkie (Oxford)
The emphasis of this Workshop will be on lower bounds in circuit and propositional proof complexity - a topic of basic importance in theoretical computer science and in mathematical logic.
The main themes of the Workshop will be circuit complexity, proof complexity, cryptography, communication complexity and bounded arithmetic.
The meeting is supported by the EPSRC.
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Workshop
Classical and Quantum Integrable Systems and their Symmetries
2–8 December 2001
Organising Committee: Ed Corrigan (York), Chris Eilbeck (Heriot-Watt), Tetsuji Miwa (Kyoto), Robert Weston (Heriot-Watt)
The meeting is a satellite workshop of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences programme on Integrable Systems (July to December 2001). The emphasis of the ICMS Workshop will be on quantum Integrable Systems and the symmetry approach, where recent progress has been rapid and intense. The aim is to analyse current developments and to encourage the exchange of ideas between researchers in the field of Integrable Systems and those working in representation theory, string theory and other areas of modern mathematics and physics.
The meeting is supported by the EPSRC and the Isaac Newton Institute.
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