The Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Edmund Landau Minerva Center for Research in Mathematical Analysis and Related Areas
The Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Edmund Landau Minerva Center for Research in Mathematical Analysis and Related Areas
| Program | General information | Abstracts |
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| Sunday, April 3rd | |||
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| Arrival | |||
| Monday, April 4th | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Greetings | ||
| 10:30-11:10 | Coffee | ||
| 11:10-12:00 | Heinrich Wefelscheid (Duisburg University) | A survey of the highlights of Landau's work | |
| 12:10-13:00 | Shaul Katz (Hebrew University): | From Göttingen to Jerusalem and back: Edmund Landau, the Berlin Tradition of reine mathematik and the establishment of The Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30-15:20 | Gerhard Dziuk (Freiburg University) | Numerical analysis for transient geometric PDEs | |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee | ||
| 15:40-16:30 | Matania Ben-Artzi (Hebrew University) | Nonlinear parabolic equations: From Hamilton-Jacobi to Navier-Stokes | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Welcome party | ||
| Tuesday, April 5th | |||
| 10:00-10:50 | Bertold Fiedler (Free University, Berlin) | ||
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee | ||
| 11:10-12:00 | Manfred Denker (Göttingen University) | Laws of Probability and Their Counterparts in Dynamics | |
| 12:10-13:00 | Jean-Dominique Deuschel (Technical University, Berlin) | On estimating the derivatives of symmetric diffusions in stationary random environment, with applications to ∇φ interface model (joint work with T. Delmotte, Toulouse) | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30-15:20 | Benjamin Weiss (Hebrew University) | A new characterization of the Shannon entropy | |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee | ||
| 15:40-16:30 | Gil Kalai (Hebrew University) | Isoperimetry, noise sensitivity and Fourier Analysis of Boolean functions | |
| Wednesday, April 6th | |||
| 10:00-10:50 | Barry Simon (Caltech) | The lost proof of Loewner's Theorem | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee | ||
| 11:10-12:00 | Dietmar Salamon (ETH, Zürich) | Pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectic topology | |
| 12:10-13:00 | Ruth Lawrence-Naimark (Hebrew University) | Formal differential geometry on graph algebras | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30-15:20 | Werner Ballmann (Bonn University) | Geometry and fundamental group | |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee | ||
| 15:40-16:30 | David Kazhdan (Hebrew University) | Integration over valued fields | |
| 19:30-22:00 | Dinner | ||
| Thursday, April 7th | |||
| 10:00-10:50 | Fritz Grunewald (Düsseldorf University) | Cohomology of the Bianchi groups | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee | ||
| 11:10-12:00 | Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University) | Finite Groups and Hyperbolic Manifolds | |
| 12:10-13:00 | Peter Schneider (Münster University) | The structure of p-adic distribution algebras | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30-15:20 | Hershel Farkas (Hebrew University) | The Theta Function in Complex Analysis and Number Theory | |
| 15:20-16:00 | Coffee | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Matthias Kreck (Heidelberg University) | Colloquium: What is typical: symmetric or asymmetric manifolds? | |
| Friday, April 8th | |||
| 10:00-10:50 | Martin Groetschel (Technical University, Berlin) | Transportation and Integer Programming | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee | ||
| 11:10-12:00 | Vitali Milman (Tel-Aviv University) | Applications to Convex Geometry of the Chernoff probabilistic bound (joint works with S. Artstein and O. Friedland) | |
| 12:10-13:00 | Friedrich Hirzebruch (MPI, Bonn) | Some aspects of Schubert calculus | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | ||
| Saturday, April 9th | |||
| Excursion to the area of the Beit Govrin National Park and the stalactite cave at the Avshalom reserve. | |||
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