NEWS
2001/2002
Issue No 11
2002 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
Euro Summer School and ICMS Instructional Conference
Combinatorial Aspects of Mathematical Analysis
26 March to 4 April 2002
Organising committee:Tony Carbery (Edinburgh), Mihael Christ (UC Berkeley), Tim Gowers (Cambridge) - Chair, Vitali Milman (Tel Aviv), Terence Tao (UCLA)
Speakers:
Keith Ball (UCL)
Francke Barthe (Marne-la-Vallée)
William Beckner (Austin, Texas)
Bela Bollobás (Cambridge & Memphis)
Tony Carbery (Edinburgh)
Michael Christ (UC Berkeley)
Apostolos Giannopoulos (Crete)
Ben Green (Cambridge)
Gil Kalai (HUJ)
Michel Ledoux (Toulouse)
Ted Odell (Texas A & M)
Gideon Schechtmann (Weizmann Institute)
Terence Tao (UCLA)
The aim of this 10-day course is to instruct young mathematicians in topics involving combinatorial ideas in mathematical analysis. The conference takes the form of a series of courses (each course being made up of between 2 and 4 one-hour lectures), the courses being structured so that the more basic material is presented during the first week, leading to more advanced lectures in the second week.
The following themes will be addressed: Combinatorial Number Theory; Combinatorial Methods in Convexity; Combinatorial Methods in Harmonic Analysis; Concentration of Measure; Geometric Inequalities; Ramsey Methods in Banach Spaces.
The meeting is supported by the European Commission, DG XII, Human Potential Programme, High Level Scientific Conferences HPCF-CT-1999-00213 and by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK. The Organisers hope to provide financial support for the majority of younger participants.
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ICMS Associated Meeting
Workshop on Noncommutative Localization in Algebra and Topology
Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 April 2002
Organised by: Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh)
The aim of this two-day meeting is to bring together mathematicians working on various aspects of noncommutative localization in algebra and topology. The Meeting is an activity of the TMR Network ERB FMRX CT-97-0107 ‘Algebraic K-Theory, Linear Algebraic Groups and Related Structures’. It is also supported by the London Mathematical Society.
Speakers:
P M Cohn, FRS (UC London)
A Neeman (ANU, Canberra)
A A Ranicki (Edinburgh)
H Reich (Muenster)
A Schofield (Bristol)
D Sheiham (UC, Riverside).
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Workshop
Analyzable Functions and Applications
17-21 June 2002
Organised by: M Kruskal (Rutgers), O Costin (Rutgers) and A J Macintyre (Edinburgh)
The workshop intends to stimulate discussions and collaborations between experts in different fields who are using related ideas and techniques. The themes of the workshop will include:
- Advances in the general theory of analyzable functions, formal representations of functions, and generalized Borel summability.
- Applications of analyzable functions and formal representations of functions to logic, ordinary and partial differential equations, difference equations, dynamical systems, and surreal numbers.
- Understanding the deeper connections between transseries, LE series, and surreal towers, analyzable functions, exponential asymptotics and hyperasymptotics.
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ICMS Associated Meeting
EDGE mid-term meeting
22 July to 4 August 2002
Scientific Organising Committee: Henrik Pedersen (Odense) (Chair), Michael Singer (Edinburgh) (Local Co-ordinator), Gerard Besson (Grenoble), Roger Bielawski (Glasgow), Fran Burstall (Bath), David Calderbank (Edinburgh), Birte Feix (Cambridge), Oscar Garcia-Prada (Madrid), Mark Gross (Warwick), Richard Thomas (Imperial), Mario Micallef (Warwick).
The European Differential Geometry Endeavour (EDGE) is a Research Network funded by the European Commission under Framework 5. Please see http://edge.imada.sdu.dk for more information about this network. This meeting will survey the activities of all researchers in EDGE and will provide training for young researchers in key areas of current interest. The training will take place in the Summer School, which will run from the morning of Tuesday 23rd to lunchtime on Saturday 27th. The second part of the meeting will be an open Conference and will run for five days, from Monday 29th July to the afternoon of Friday 2 August.
Summer School Speakers:
Denis Auroux (Ecole Polytechnique & MIT)
Approximately holomorphic methods in symplectic topology
Robert Bryant (Duke)
Exterior differential systems in differential geometry
William Goldman (Maryland)
Geometric structures and representations of fundamental groups of surfaces
Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)
The special geometry of dimensions 6, 7 and 8
Claude LeBrun (SUNY)
Einstein metrics, Seiberg-Witten theory and 4-dimensional differential topology
In addition to EC funding under Framework 5, this meeting is supported by the London Mathematical Society.
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Workshop
Modern Problems in Applied Probability: Large Deviations, Long-Range Dependence and Simulation, with Applications to Stochastic Networks and to Risk
21-29 August 2002
Organisers: Serguei Foss, Stan Zachary
Advisory committee: Soeren Asmussen (Lund), Francois Baccelli (INRIA), Onno Boxma (Eindhoven TU)
The theme of the workshop is the study of rare events in probability theory, and the applications of this theory. Major areas of application are to the occurrence of congestion in telecommunication and computer networks, e.g. the Internet, and risk processes in insurance and in the study of extremes of the environment.
Two areas of probability theory, each with their own methodology, contribute to the study of rare events. The first is that of classical large deviations theory. The second area is that of the study of long-range dependence and of heavy-tailed distributions. The workshop will bring together leading mathematicians from both these fields for a period of intensive presentation and discussion of the most recent and important results, and to advance knowledge and research in this important field.
Supported by the London Mathematical Society
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