KTGU-IMU Mathematics Colloquia and Seminars


On occasion of visits of IMU (International Mathematical Union) Executive Committee members to Kyoto, Kyoto University Top Global University Project plans the following program:

Dates
March 28 - April 1, & April 4, 2016
Venue
RIMS Lecture Hall 420 (and others)

Special talks & panel discussions on Women in Mathematics
March 29 (Tue.)
    13:20-14:10
  • Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University,IMU)
    Taking Stock

    14:20-14:50
  • Shihoko Ishii (The University of Tokyo)
    数学は『数』の『学』？
    Is Mathematics ``study" of ``numbers"?

    15:10-15:40
  • Senjo Shimizu (Kyoto University)
    微分方程式が語ること
    What differential equations tell us

    16:00-16:30
  • Makiko Sasada (The University of Tokyo)　
    確率の不思議と研究生活の魅力
    Wonders of probability and my happy life as a mathematician

    16:30-17:00
  • Asuka Takatsu (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
    感覚と数学
    Feeling and Mathematics

    17:10-18:00
  • Panel Discussion
    Moderator　John Toland (University of Cambridge, IMU)
    Ingrid Daubechies, Jill Mesirov(UCSD), Shihoko Ishii, Senjo Shimizu, Makiko Sasada, Asuka Takatsu, Shigefumi Mori

Colloquia
March 30 (Wed.), 31 (Thu.) & April 1 (Fri.)
All the colloquia will be presented in Lecture Hall of RIMS

March 30
March 31
  • 14:00--15:00
    Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich)
    Randomly exploring (random) fractals, and related questions

  • 15:30--16:30
    Alexander Mielke (WIAS Berlin)
    On a model for the evolution of microstructures in solids

  • 16:45--17:45
    Helge Holden (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
    The Camassa-Holm Equation --- A Survey
    Abstract

April 1
  • 09:30--10:30
    Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University)
    Thoughts on subfactors and quantum spin chains

  • 10:45--11:45
    Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University,IMU)
    Mathematicians Helping Art Historians and Art Conservators
    Abstract


Seminars
March 28 (Mon.), April 1 (Fri.), 4 (Mon.)
Seminars: time-table and venues to be announced
  • Vijaylaxmi Trivedi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
    March 28, 17:30-18:30. @RIMS seminar room #110 (first floor)
    Hilbert-Kunz density function and Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity

  • Marcelo Viana (IMPA)
    March 28, 15:00-- @Dept. Mathematics, Bldg. No.6, #609 （理学部６号館南棟６階 609号室 ）
    Lyapunov exponents of random matrices


  • John Toland (University of Cambridge)
    April 1st, 16:00--17:00. @Dept. Mathematics, #110
    The Fourier Coefficients of Stokes waves and analytic continuation to Riemann surfaces

  • Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich)
    April 1st, 16:00-17:00. @Dept. Mathematics, Bldg. No.3, #108
    The continuous Edwards-Sokal correspondence for conformal loop ensembles

  • Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires)
    April 4th, 13:30--15:00. @RIMS Lecture Hall (4th floor)
    Toric varieties, higher duals and lattice polytopes
    Abstract

  • Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University)
    April 4th, 10:00--11:00. @Dept. Mathematics, Bldg. No.3, #127
    Thoughts on subfactors and quantum spin chains,II

  • Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
    April 4th, 11:15--12:15. @Dept. Mathematics, Bldg. No.3, #127
    The arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves

  • Vasudevan Srinivas (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
    April 4th, 15:30--16:30. @RIMS Lecture Hall (4th floor)
    Stratified vector bundles on simply connected varieties in positive characteristic

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Supported by Kyoto University Top Global University Project & RIMS.