SPEAKING INVITATIONS AND OTHER
NOTABLE ACTIVITIES
Professor Douglas Arnold was
recently elected to a three-year
term on the Council of the Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM), SIAM's main policy-making
body. He is also a member of
a number of scientific advisory
boards. As many of our readers
are aware, since September 2001,
he is serving as the Director
of the Institute for Mathematics
and its Applications which is
associated with our department.
In October 2003, Professor Arnold
was a ncm2 Distinguished Lecturer
(ncm2 is the Network for Computing
and Mathematical Modeling, a
Canadian initiative based in
Montreal). The title of his
lecture was "From Exact
Sequences to Colliding Black
Holes: Differential Complexes
in Numerical Analysis".
In January 2004 he spoke at
the Oxford University Colloquium
on "Stable and Unstable
Discretization of Partial Differential
Equations".
His other recent invited talks
include a keynote address at
the opening of the Applied Mathematics
Program at University of Illinois
in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),
titled "Mathematics in
a Dangerous Time", as well
as a commencement address for
the mathematics and statistics
graduation at UIUC, titled "Doing
the Math and Making an Impact".
Both of these talks were given
in May 2003.
The first of these talks deals
with applications of mathematics
to problems connected with homeland
security and antiterrorism.
Some of the topics addressed
include cryptography, mathematical
epidemiology with emphasis on
special problems posed by bio-terrorism,
data mining for counter-terrorism,
and face and voice detection
and recognition. Both history
as well as current efforts are
discussed. Slides can be found
online at http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/talks/danger.pdf
The second address covers topics
that may be of wide interest,
so we include some of the highlights
below in the Newsletter in a
note titled "Why is mathematics
important".
Professor Maury Bramson gave
an invited one-hour address
at a Conference on Interacting
Particle Systems held in Santiago,
Chile in January 2004.
Professor Paul Garrett's book
"Making and Breaking Codes:
an Introduction to Cryptology"
(Prentice-Hall, 2001), has been
translated into Chinese. He
wrote this book as a text for
the popular course Cryptology
(Math 5248) since no existing
text met the needs of that course.
His text "Mathematics of
Coding Theory: Information,
Compression, Error Correction"
for the companion course Coding
Theory (Math 5251) was published
in 2003, also by Prentice-Hall.
During January 2004, Professor
Dihua Jiang delivered invited
lectures at Fudan University
and East China Normal University
in Shanghai, and at the Center
of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang
University in Hangzhou. He will
give an invited 90 minute lecture
on his work, with David Ginzburg
(Tel Aviv University) and Stephen
Rallis (Ohio State), on the
Gross-Prasad conjecture, at
the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU
Number Theory Seminar, March
24, 2004. During the coming
June, he will be an invited
speaker at a conference celebrating
the 10th anniversary of the
founding of the Mathematics
Institute at East China Normal
University.
Professor Dennis Hejhal gave
an invited series of lectures
on "Maass Waveforms and
Computational Spectral Theory"
at the International Summer
School on "Mathematical
Aspects of Quantum Chaos",
October 4-11, 2003, sponsored
by the E.U. (i.e. European Union).
The meeting was held at Schloss
Reisensburg, a castle located
near Ulm, Germany. Professor
Hejhal will give a similar series
of lectures this coming May
at the Centre de Recherches
Mathematiques in Montreal, Canada.
Professor Mark Keel was an invited
speaker at the conference "Frontiers
of PDE and Dynamical Systems"
at Rutgers University in May
2003 and at the conference "Partial
Differential Equations and Applications"
at the University of Notre Dame
in August 2003. Also, at the
invitation of the Instituto
Superior Tecnico in Lisbon,
Portugal, he delivered a series
of lectures to the mathematics
department there in December
2003.
In October 2003, Professor Tian-Jun
Li was an invited speaker at
the Peking University Symposium
commemorating the 90-th anniversary
of the opening of the Faculty
of Mathematics. During the current
academic year, he is teaching
a new, year long graduate level
course on symplectic topology.
The topic of the course is classification
of symplectic structures on
smooth manifolds. Professor
Li received an invitation from
the World Scientific Publishing
Company to write a book on the
subject and the lecture notes
of his course will be the basis
for the book, titled "Moduli
space of symplectic structures".
Professor Mitchell Luskin currently
serves on the Scientific Advisory
Committee for the Centre de
Recherches Mathematiques (CRM),
Universite de Montreal. Professor
Luskin served on the Organizing
Committee for the Fall 2002
program of the UCLA Institute
for Pure and Applied Mathematics
(IPAM) on Mathematics in Nanoscale
Science and Engineering, and
was the chair of the Organizing
Committee for the IPAM workshop
on Modeling and Simulation for
Materials held November 19-22,
2002. He also served on the
Organizing Committee for the
Caltech-IPAM Workshop on Molecular
Modelling and Computation: Perspectives
and Challenges held November
15-16, 2002 and the US/EU Meeting
on Phase Transitions in Crystals
at the University of Minnesota
held April 11-12, 2003.
In April 2003, Professor Luskin
delivered the Distinguished
Lecture Series at the University
of Iowa. He was an Invited Lecturer
for a Spitalfield Day of the
London Mathematical Society
at the Newton Institute, University
of Cambridge, May 13, 2003,
as well as an Invited Lecturer
at the following conferences:
The 20th Biennial Conference
on Numerical Analysis, University
of Dundee, June 24, 2003; the
Conference on Nonlinear Analysis
and Numerics, Bonn, October
28, 2003; the Workshop on Hierarchical
Modeling and Multiscale Simulation
of Materials Interfaces, University
of Maryland, October 30, 2003.
A
note on Professor Luskin's reseach
and teaching program entitled
"Infinitesimal Machines
Designed by the Mathematics
of Shape" appears below
in the Newsletter.
Professor Gennady Lyubeznik
was a co-organizer, together
with Luis Narvaez-Macarro from
Universidad de Sevilla, of a
special session on Differential
Structures and Homological Methods
in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic
Geometry at the joint meeting
of the AMS and the Spanish Mathematical
Society. The meeting took place
June 18 - 21, 2003 in Seville,
Spain.
Professors Ezra Miller will
be a principal speaker at the
"Third Duke Mathematical
Journal Conference", to
be held on April 23--25, 2004
at Duke University. He is also
a co-organizer, with Professor
Victor Reiner and with Bernd
Sturmfels from the University
of California at Berkeley, for
the Graduate Summer School and
Research Program components
of the upcoming Park City Math
Institute (PCMI) on Geometric
Combinatorics. This annual event,
which this year will take place
from July 11 through July 31,
is planned, funded, and coordinated
through the Institute for Advanced
Study (IAS). The Summer School
Lecturers will be Alexander
Barvinok, University of Michigan;
Sergey Fomin, University of
Michigan; Robin Forman, Rice
University; Mark Haiman, University
of California at Berkeley; Robert
MacPherson, Institute for Advanced
Study; Richard Stanley, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Michelle
Wachs, University of Miami;
and Guenter Ziegler, Technical
University-Berlin. More information
and further links can be found
at http://www.admin.ias.edu/ma/program/index.html
Professor Duane Nykamp will
be an invited speaker at the
AIMS Fifth International Conference
on Dynamical Systems and Differential
Equations, session on "Computational
Neuroscience: From Physiology
to Mathematical Modelling".
The conference will be held
this coming June in Pomona.
Professor Peter Olver will be
an invited plenary speaker at
the following conferences: 6th
International Workshop on Mathematics
Mechanization, Shanghai, China,
May, 2004; Joint Canadian Math
Society and Canadian Applied
and Industrial Mathematics Society,
Halifax, Canada, June 2004;
Ninth Meeting on Computer Algebra
and Applications, Santander,
Spain, July 2004. 13th School
of Differential Geometry, Sao
Paulo, Brazil, July, 2004. Red
Raider Symposium, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX, November,
2004. He was, or is, a member
of organizing committees of
the following conferences and
workshops: Differential Invariants
and Invariant Differential Equations,
Banff Institute, Canada, 2003;
IEEE Workshop on Variational,
Geometric and Level Set Methods
in Computer Vision, Nice, France,
2003; Geometry, Integrable Systems
and Quantization, Varna, Bulgaria,
2004; Symmetry and Perturbation
Theory, Cala Gonone, Sardinia,
2004; Integrable and Near-integrable
Hamiltonian PDE, Fields Institute,
Toronto, Canada, 2004; and Foundations
of Computational Mathematics,
Santander, Spain, 2005.
Professor Peter Polacik was
a plenary speaker at Equadiff
2003, Hasselt, Belgium, July
22-26, 2003. This conference
was a part of a series of conferences
on differential equations organized
every four years in Western
Europe. Professor Polacik also
was an invited speaker at the
conference Singularities in
PDEs, Bratislava, Slovakia,
May 25-28, 2003, and at the
Canadian Mathematical Society
Summer Meeting, June 14-16,
2003.
Professor Emerita Marian Pour-El
was a member of the Scientific
Program Committee of CCA 2003
International Conference on
Computability and Complexity
in Analysis held in Cincinnati,
August 28-30, 2003. She also
gave an invited talk at the
conference on her joint work
with Ning Zhong on "Boundary
Regularity and Computability".
Professor George Sell was a
co-organizer, together with
Russell Johnson, Rafael Obaya,
and Yingfei Yi, of a Mini-Symposium
on Non-autonomous Dynamics,
which was held at the Equadiff
2003 International Conference
in Belgium in July 2003. He
is also a member of the Scientific
Organizing Committees both for
the International Conference
on Difference Equations (ICEDA),
which is scheduled for the University
of Southern California Los Angeles
in August 2004, as well as the
ICEDA conference to be held
in Munich Germany in July 2005.
A special issue of the Journal
of Difference Equations and
Applications was dedicated in
honor of Professor Sell's 65th
birthday in 2003.
Regent's Professor Emeritus
James Serrin has recently published
an extensive review article
in the Journal of Differential
Equations, vol 196, pp 1-66,
with title "The Strong
Maximum Principle Revisited"
(with P. Pucci, University of
Perugia). He is also organizing
a workshop at the University
of Minnesota, June 23 -June
25, on the subject "New
Developments in Nonlinear Elliptic
Equations", with speakers
from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands
and the United States. Serrin
will also be a principal speaker
at a conference in Gaeta this
summer in honor of the 60th
birthday of Haim Brezis, and
will be the principal speaker
at a meeting of the Mathematical
Association of America at Ball
State University in April. He
is on the scientific committee
for the Gaeta conference, and
also on the scientific committee
for a second conference in honor
of Brezis to be held in Paris
this summer.
Professor Alexander Voronov
was a plenary speaker at the
3rd International Symposium
on Quantum Theory and Symmetries
held at the University of Cincinnati,
September 10-14, 2003. Then,
September 16-20, he delivered
a mini-course on "String
Topology and Beyond" at
the Summer School on String
Topology and Hochschild Homology,
University of Almeria, Spain.
During the Spring 2004 semester
he is serving as a Stone Professor
at Northeastern University,
Boston, Massachusetts, where
he is teaching a graduate course
on Operad Theory. He is organizing
a special session on Homotopical
Physics at the American Mathematical
Society meeting in Lawrenceville,
NJ, April 17-18, 2004. And he
is serving on the Advisory Committee
for the XXIII workshop on Geometric
Methods in Physics, Bialowieza,
Poland, June-July, 2004.
Professor Peter Webb was an
invited lecturer at a workshop
on Group Representations and
Cohomology at Australian National
University, Canberra, June 30
- July 4, 2003.
Professor Ofer Zeitouni was
a co-organizer and a speaker
at the 29-th Conference on Stochastic
Processes and their Applications,
held August 3-9, 2003, at Rio
de Janeiro.
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