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.)
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13:00- Opening
- Kayo Inaba, Executive Vice President (Gender Equality, International Affairs, and Public Relations)
- Shigefumi Mori, President of the International Mathematical Union
- Motoko Kotani, President of the Mathematical Society of Japan
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13:20-14:10
- Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University,IMU)
Taking Stock
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14:20-14:50
- Shihoko Ishii (The University of Tokyo)
数学は『数』の『学』?
Is Mathematics ``study" of ``numbers"?
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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
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16:30-17:00
- Asuka Takatsu (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
感覚と数学
Feeling and Mathematics
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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
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March 30 (Wed.), 31 (Thu.) & April 1 (Fri.)
All the colloquia will be presented in Lecture Hall of RIMS -
March 30
- 09:30--10:30
Benedict Gross (Harvard University)
The rank of elliptic curves - 10:45--11:45
Vasudevan Srinivas (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
What are the Bloch-Beilinson Conjectures?
Abstract - 13:30--14:30
Marcelo Viana (IMPA)
A stochastic view of deterministic dynamics - 14:45--15:45
Christiane Rousseau (University of Montreal)
What can we learn from divergent series? - 16:15--17:15
John Toland (University of Cambridge)
Mathematical Aspects of Classical Water-wave Theory
- a fascination with what's complicated -
- 09:30--10:30
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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
- 14:00--15:00
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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
- 09:30--10:30
- 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
- Helge Holden (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
April 1st, 14:30--15:30. @Dept. Mathematics, #110
Operator splitting and convergent schemes for the KdV and Benjamin-Ono equations
Abstract
- 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
- Vijaylaxmi Trivedi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
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Supported by Kyoto University Top Global University Project & RIMS.