Program - Thursday

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Book Exhibitions: Springer and AMS; Eurospan; Princeton.

General program - Monday, June 16th
Bar-Ilan University, buildings 901 (main lectures) and 507 (sessions)
  No activity today



General program - Tuesday, June 17th
Bar-Ilan University, buildings 901 (main lectures) and 507 (sessions)
  No activity today



General program - Wednesday, June 18th
Tel-Aviv University, Shenkar building, Lev Auditorium
  No activity today



General program - Thursday, June 19th
Tel-Aviv University, Shenkar building, Lev Auditorium
  Thu, 9:20-11:45   Special sessions (6)
  Thu, 11:45-14:10   Lunch
  Thu, 14:10-15:10   Ian Agol 3-manifolds and cube complexes
  Thu, 15:20-16:20   Mihalis Dafermos The mathematics of black hole spacetimes in general relativity
  Thu, 16:20-16:40   Closing and tea



Special Sessions


Geometry and Dynamics
Contact person: Yaron Ostrover, ostrover@post.tau.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 102
  Thu, 9:20-10:00   Vladimir Rovenski Total mixed scalar curvature of foliated Riemannian manifolds
  Thu, 10:10-10:50   Marc McLean Minimal Discrepancy of Isolated Singularities and Reeb Orbits
  Thu, 11:00-11:40   Frol Zapolsky Multiplicity of orbits of contact flows



Dynamics and Number Theory
Contact person: Alex Kontorovich, alex.kontorovich@yale.edu
BIU, Building 507, Room 101
  No activity today



Combinatorics
Contact person: Gil Kalai, gil.kalai@gmail.com
TAU, Dan David building, Room 103
  Thu, 10:10-10:50   Irit Dinur Lifting locally consistent solutions to global solutions



Financial Mathematics
Contact person: Jean-Pierre Fouque, fouque@pstat.ucsb.edu
BIU, Building 507, Room 102
  No activity today



Mirror Symmetry and Representation Theory
Contact person: Roman Bezrukavnikov, bezrukav@math.mit.edu
Mon: BIU, Bldg 507, Room 103  ||  Wed: TAU, Dan David bldg, Room 104
  No activity today



Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization
Contact person: Simeon Reich, sreich@tx.technion.ac.il
Mon, Tue: BIU, Bldg 507, Room 104  ||  Wed: TAU, Dan David bldg, Room 105
  No activity today



Qualitative and Analytic Theory of ODE's
Contact person: Yosef Yomdin, Yosef.Yomdin@weizmann.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 106
  Thu, 9:20-10:00   Vladimir Shikhman Algorithmic models of market equilibrium
  Thu, 10:10-10:50   Dmitry Batenkov On the polynomial moment vanishing problem
  Thu, 11:00-11:40   Alex Brudnyi On Characterization of Universal Centers of ODEs with Analytic Coefficients



Quasigroups, Loops and applications
Contact person: Tuval Foguel, tsfoguel@wcu.edu
BIU, Building 507, Room 2
  No activity today



Algebraic Groups, Division Algebras and Galois Cohomology
Contact person: Andrei Rapinchuk, asrapinchuk@gmail.com
Mon, Tue: BIU, Bldg 507, Room 1  ||  Wed: TAU, Dan David bldg, Room 109
  No activity today



Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
Contact person: Boaz Klar'tag, klartagb@post.tau.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 202
  Thu, 9:20-10:00   Artem Zvavitch On Isomorphic version of the Busemann-Petty problem for the class of arbitrary measures
  Thu, 10:10-10:50   Boaz Slomka Functional covering numbers
  Thu, 11:00-11:40   Vitali Milman Extension of Minkowski's polarization result to quasi-concave functions and characterization of summations of convex sets



Recent trends in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Contact person: Misha Katz, katzmik@macs.biu.ac.il
BIU, Building 507, Auditorium 7
  No activity today



History of Mathematics
Contact person: Leo Corry, corry@post.tau.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 209
  Thu, 9:20-9:50   Ido Yavetz Trigonometry, straight-edge and compass, and the applied mathematics of the Almagest
  Thu, 9:55-10:25   Jesper Lützen Impossibility of the classical problems: algebraization equals mathematization
  Thu, 10:30-11:00   Tinne Kjeldsen Whose History? Minkowski's development of geometry of numbers and the concept of convex sets
  Thu, 11:05-11:35   Michael Fried Otto Toeplitz's "The problem of university infinitesimal calculus courses and their demarcation from infinitesimal calculus in high schools" (1927)



Random Matrix Theory
Contact person: Ofer Zeitouni, zeitouni@math.umn.edu
BIU, Building 507, Room 3
  No activity today



Field Arithmetic
Contact person: Moshe Jarden, jarden@post.tau.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 210
  Thu, 9:20-10:00   Andrew Obus Toward a Generalization of the Oort Conjecture
  Thu, 10:10-10:50   Florian Pop Evidence for pro-l birational phenomena
  Thu, 11:00-11:40   Danny Neftin The Sylow subgroups of the absolute Galois group of $Q$



Additive Number Theory
Contact person: Yonutz V. Stanchescu, yonis@afeka.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 105
  Thu, 9:20-9:40   David J. Grynkiewicz The Index of Minimal Zero-Sum Sequences and Kummer Subspaces
  Thu, 9:45-10:05   Yonutz V. Stanchescu Discrete and continuous Bonnesen-Minkowski type inequalities
  Thu, 10:10-10:30   Oriol Serra On Sumsets and Convex Hull
  Thu, 10:35-10:55   Vsevolod F. Lev Approximate Convexity and an Edge-Isoperimetric Estimate
  Thu, 11:00-11:20   Melvyn B. Nathanson A problem of Rankin on sets without geometric progressions
  Thu, 11:25-11:45   Gregory A. Freiman An exact volume estimate for sets of integers with a given doubling constant



Teaching with Mathematical Habits in Mind
Contact person: Jennifer Lewis, jmlewis@wayne.edu
TAU, Dan David building, Room 211
  Thu, 9:20-10:00   Boris Koichu On developing habits of mind associated with mathematical problem solving: Lessons from a series of (relatively) long-term intervention studies with middle and high school students
  Thu, 10:10-10:50   Jennifer Lewis Defining and measuring Proclivities for Teaching Mathematics
  Thu, 11:00-11:40   Theodore Eisenberg Concluding remarks about the Special Session on Habits of Mind



Combinatorial Games
Contact person: Aviezri Fraenkel, Aviezri.fraenkel@weizmann.ac.il
BIU, Building 507, Room 4
  No activity today



Applications of Algebra to Cryptography
Contact person: Delaram Kahrobaei, dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
TAU, Dan David building, Room 109
  Thu, 9:20-9:40   Delaram Kahrobaei A CCA secure cryptosystem using matrices over group rings
  Thu, 9:45-10:05   David Garber Analyzing the length-based attack on polycyclic groups
  Thu, 10:15-10:55   Andrzej Zuk Random walks on symmetric groups
  Thu, 11:05-11:45   Inna Bumagin Conjugacy problem in relatively hyperbolic groups



Topological Graph Theory and Map Symmetries
Contact person: Jonathan Gross, gross@cs.columbia.edu, Toufik Mansour, tmansour@univ.haifa.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 212
  Thu, 9:20-9:40   Eunice Mphako-Banda The link component number of vertex-joins of certain graphs
  Thu, 9:45-10:05   Eli Berger The algebraic and topological properties of claw-free graphs
  Thu, 10:10-10:30   Tomaž Pisanski An interplay between topological graph theory and synthetic biology
  Thu, 10:35-10:55   Lowell Abrams Freely $\Z_n$-symmetric graphs, $\Z_n$-actions on the sphere, and excluded orbit minors
  Thu, 11:00-11:20   Yuval Roichman Flip graphs and group actions
  Thu, 11:25-11:45   Eran Nevo On graphs embedded in surfaces



The Mathematics of Menahem M. Schiffer
Contact person: Lawrence Zalcman, zalcman@math.biu.ac.il
BIU, Building 507, Room 5
  No activity today



PDEs: Modeling Theory and Numerics
Contact person: Edriss S. Titi, etiti@math.uci.edu
Mon, Tue: BIU, Bldg 507, Room 105  ||  Wed: TAU, Dan David bldg, Room 201
  No activity today



Contributed Papers Session
Contact person: Gidi Amir, amirgi@math.biu.ac.il
Tue: BIU, Bldg 507, Room 106  ||  Thu: TAU, Dan David bldg, Room 104
  Thu, 9:20-9:45   Avram Sidi Recent Asymptotic Expansions for the Trapezoidal Rule, Gauss--Legendre Quadrature, and Legendre Polynomial Expansions
  Thu, 9:50-10:15   Anahit Chubaryan and Armine Chubaryan Comparison of proof complexity for strongly equal tautologies in some proof systems
  Thu, 10:20-10:45   Iddo Ben-Ari Diffusion with redistribution
  Thu, 10:50-11:15   Moshe Klein Dialogue in mathematics