Program - Wednesday

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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
  Wed, 8:50-9:20   IMU Business meeting
  Wed, 9:20-9:30   Prize ceremonies (Erdos and Nessyahu)
  Wed, 9:30-10:20   Eran Nevo (Erdos prize recipient) Around the g-conjecture (IMU Erdos Prize lecture)
  Wed, 10:20-10:50   Coffee break
  Wed, 10:50-13:15   Special sessions (4)
  Wed, 13:15-14:45   Lunch
  Wed, 14:45-15:45   Leonid Polterovich Symplectic topology: from dynamics to quantization
  Wed, 16:00-18:25   Special sessions (5)
  Wed, 19:00   Banquet (for registrants)



General program - Thursday, June 19th
Tel-Aviv University, Shenkar building, Lev Auditorium
  No activity today



Special Sessions


Geometry and Dynamics
Contact person: Yaron Ostrover, ostrover@post.tau.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 102
  Wed, 10:50-11:30   Michael Brandenbursky Concordance group and stable commutator length in braid groups
  Wed, 11:40-12:20   Alden Walker Schottky semigroups
  Wed, 12:30-13:10   Sheel Ganatra S^1-equivariant symplectic homology and cyclic homology
  Wed, 16:00-16:40   Rafal Komendarczyk Knot and link invariants for vector fields
  Wed, 16:50-17:30   Yoel Groman Open Gromov Witten invariants of toric Calabi Yau manifolds



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:30   Van Vu Real roots of random polynomials
  Wed, 11:40-12:20   Oriol Serra Arithmetic Removal Lemmas
  Wed, 12:30-13:10   Tali Kaufman-Halman Bounded degree high dimensional expanders
  Wed, 16:00-16:40   Rom Pinchasi On the union of arithmetic progressions
  Wed, 16:50-17:30   Isabella Novik Face numbers of balanced spheres, manifolds, and pseudomanifolds
  Wed, 17:40-18:20   Edward Scheinerman, On Vertex, Edge, and Vertex-Edge Random Graphs



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:30   Ivan Loseu Representation theory of quantized quiver varieties
  Wed, 11:45-12:15   Inna Entova-Aizenbud Schur-Weyl duality in complex rank
  Wed, 12:30-13:10   Rami Aizenbud Representation count, rational singularities of deformation varieties, and pushforward of smooth measures
  Wed, 16:00-16:40   Ran Tessler Intersection Theory on the Moduli of Disks and an Open Analogue for Witten's KdV Conjecture
  Wed, 17:00-17:30   Andrei Negut The elliptic Hall algebra and stable basis of the Hilbert scheme
  Wed, 17:50-18:20   Galyna Dobrovolska Finite local systems in the Drinfeld-Laumon construction



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:15   Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy Feasibility Problems: from Alternating Projections to Matrix Completions
  Wed, 11:20-11:45   Alexander Ioffe Variational Analysis and Necessary Optimality Conditions
  Wed, 11:50-12:15   Aharon Ben-Tal Tractable Solutions to Some Challenging Optimization Problems
  Wed, 12:20-12:45   Marc Teboulle Proximal Alternating Linearized Minimization for Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Problems
  Wed, 12:50-13:15   Itai Shafrir Asymptotics of Eigenstates of Elliptic Problems with Mixed Boundary Data Set on Domains Tending to Infinity



Qualitative and Analytic Theory of ODE's
Contact person: Yosef Yomdin, Yosef.Yomdin@weizmann.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 106
  Wed, 10:50-11:30   F. Pakovich Mixed moment problem and parametric center problem for Abel differential equation
  Wed, 11:40-12:20   D. Novikov Multiplicity Operators and Effective bounds on multiplicities of non-isolated intersections of Noetherian functions
  Wed, 12:30-13:10   Antonio Lerario Topology of intersections of random quadrics
  Wed, 16:00-16:40   G. Binyamini Multiplicity estimates for solutions of ordinary differential equations
  Wed, 16:50-17:30   M. Zhitomirskii Completely Symmetric Centers
  Wed, 17:40-18:00   Vladimir Rovenski The mixed scalar curvature flow on a foliated manifold



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:20   Mikhail Borovoi Stably Cayley semisimple groups
  Wed, 11:25-11:55   Rony A. Bitan A building-theoretic approach to relative Tamagawa numbers of quasi-split semisimple groups over global function fields
  Wed, 12:00-12:30   Uriya First From systems of quadratic forms to single hermitian forms
  Wed, 12:35-13:05   Stefan Gille On Brauer group of products of certain schemes with a form of a torus
  Wed, 13:10-13:40   Eric Brussel Computations in the Brauer group of Q_p(t)



Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
Contact person: Boaz Klar'tag, klartagb@post.tau.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 202
  Wed, 10:50-11:30   Radoslaw Adamczak The circular law for two models of non-Hermitian random matrices with dependent entries
  Wed, 11:40-12:20   Mark Rudelson Small ball probabilities for linear images of high dimensional distributions
  Wed, 12:30-13:10   Ronen Eldan Applications of stochastic calculus to problems in Geometry and Analysis
  Wed, 16:00-16:40   Apostolos Giannopoulos Mean-width and mean-norm of isotropic convex bodies
  Wed, 16:50-17:30   Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou Geometry of the L_q-centroid bodies of isotropic log-concave measures
  Wed, 17:40-18:20   Elijah Liflyand Fourier transform versus Hilbert transform



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:20   Jean Christianidis The historiography of Diophantus, reconsidered
  Wed, 11:25-11:55   Jeff Oaks Polynomials and equations in Arabic algebra
  Wed, 12:00-12:30   Luis Puig Proofs and systems of signs in pre-symbolic algebra
  Wed, 12:35-13:05   Veronica Gavagna Euclid in the Renaissance: the reworking of Frencesco Maurolico from an arithmetical viewpoint
  Wed, 16:00-16:30   Tony Levy The Medieval Hebrew mathematics culture (XIIth-XVIth centuries): A general assessment
  Wed, 16:35-17:05   Tzvi Langermann Pythagoreanism in the Medieval Jewish Tradition
  Wed, 17:10-17:40   Roy Wagner Citrabhanu's Twenty-One Algebraic Problems in Malayalam and Sanskrit
  Wed, 17:45-18:15   Karine Chemla Practices of abstraction in ancient China



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:30   Yuri Zarhin Finiteness theorems for Brauer groups of K3 surfaces over finitely generated fields
  Wed, 11:40-12:20   Sebastian Petersen Independence of l-adic Galois representations
  Wed, 12:30-13:10   Ido Efrat Filtrations of absolute Galois groups
  Wed, 16:00-16:40   Michael Larsen Diophantine properties of fields with finitely generated Galois group
  Wed, 16:50-17:30   David Harbater Quadratic forms in field arithmetic
  Wed, 17:40-18:20   Alena Pirutka Stable invariants and quartic threefolds



Additive Number Theory
Contact person: Yonutz V. Stanchescu, yonis@afeka.ac.il
TAU, Dan David building, Room 105
  Wed, 16:00-16:20   Alfred Geroldinger Zero-Sum Sequences and their sets of lengths
  Wed, 16:25-16:45   Julia Wolf Towards a Sidorenko-type conjecture for sets
  Wed, 16:50-17:10   Patrizia Longobardi Sums of dilates and small doubling problems in Baumslag-Solitar groups
  Wed, 17:15-17:35   Mercede Maj Some results on small doubling in ordered groups
  Wed, 17:40-18:00   Sergei Konyagin Beurling-Helson theorem and Fourier transform of characteristic functions of subsets of $\Bbb Z_p$
  Wed, 18:05-18:25   Van H. Vu Random walks and sumsets: Getting drunk is more dangerous than you may think



Teaching with Mathematical Habits in Mind
Contact person: Jennifer Lewis, jmlewis@wayne.edu
TAU, Dan David building, Room 211
  Wed, 10:50-11:30   Davida Fischman An overview and synthesis of the Habits of Mind literature for mathematics education
  Wed, 11:40-12:20   Paul Goldenberg Building the disposition to seek mathematical structure and to puzzle through problems
  Wed, 12:30-13:10   Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar Is an expository lecture bound to jeopardize the development of habits of mind?
  Wed, 16:00-16:40   Avraham Arcavi Teaching mathematics having in mind habits of mind
  Wed, 16:50-17:30   Ruhama Even Factors involved in shaping students' opportunities to develop habits of mind in the context of school mathematics
  Wed, 17:40-18:20   Gerald A. Goldin Affective structures, engagement, and mathematical 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
  Wed, 16:00-16:20   Tali Kaufman High Dimensional Expanders and Property Testing
  Wed, 16:25-17:05   Enric Ventura Commuting degree of infinite groups
  Wed, 17:10-17:45   Arkadius Kalka Simultaneous conjugacy and double coset problem in braid and Garside groups
  Wed, 17:50-18:25   Boaz Tsaban Polynomial time solutions of the main problems of noncommutative algebraic cryptography



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:10   Martin Škoviera Hamilton cycles in truncated triangulations of closed surfaces
  Wed, 11:15-11:35   Roman Nedela, Matej Cycles in truncated triangulations missing at most two vertices
  Wed, 11:40-12:00   Jozef Širáň Chiral regular maps of a given type
  Wed, 12:05-12:25   Gareth A. Jones Chirality of hypermaps and dessins
  Wed, 12:30-12:50   Gadi Moran The conjugacy semigroups of the symmetric groups and maps on orientable surfaces
  Wed, 12:55-13:15   Mark E. Watkins Graphical Frobenius representations of abstract groups
  Wed, 16:00-16:20   Jonathan L. Gross Interpolation for partial genus distributions
  Wed, 16:25-16:45   Toufik Mansour Log-concavity of the genus polynomials for a sequence of cubic Halin graphs
  Wed, 16:50-17:10   Thomas W. Tucker The imbedding-type module for the genus distribution of a graph
  Wed, 17:15-17:35   David G.L. Wang The root geometry of polynomials from recurrences of order two
  Wed, 17:40-18:00   Chen Yichao On the mode of the genus distribution and the average genus for some types of graphs
  Wed, 18:05-18:25   Jin Ho Kwak Genera of Cayley maps



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
  Wed, 10:50-11:20   Peter Constantin Long time behavior for forced 2D SQG
  Wed, 11:20-11:50   Guy Katriel Equilibrium distributions of some kinetic exchange models
  Wed, 11:50-12:20   Vered Rom-Kedar New Lagrangian diagnostics for characterizing fluid flow mixing
  Wed, 12:20-12:50   Eitan Tadmor On the two-dimensional pressure-less Euler equations
  Wed, 16:00-16:30   László Székelyhidi The h-principle and turbulence
  Wed, 16:30-17:00   Raz Kupferman Weizenbock manifolds as a homogenization limit of Riemannian manifolds with defects
  Wed, 17:00-17:30   Marshall Slemrod An Analysis of Thermal Creep via Korteweg Theory
  Wed, 17:30-18:00   Edriss S. Titi On the regularization mechanism for periodic dispersive equations: The Majida-Biello coupled KdV system paradigm



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
  No activity today