Book Exhibitions: Springer and AMS; Eurospan; Princeton.
| General program - Monday, June 16th Bar-Ilan University, buildings 901 (main lectures) and 507 (sessions) Mon, 9:00-9:30 | Reception | Mon, 9:30 | Opening | Mon, 9:45-10:45 | Michael Larsen | Borel's Theorem on word maps and some recent variants | Mon, 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break | Mon, 11:15-13:15 | Special sessions (1) | Mon, 13:15-14:45 | Lunch | Mon, 14:45-15:45 | Tamar Ziegler | Patterns in primes and dynamics on nilmanifolds | Mon, 16:00-19:10 | Special sessions (2) | Mon, 20:00 | Concert (for registrants) | | ||||||||||||
| General program - Tuesday, June 17th Bar-Ilan University, buildings 901 (main lectures) and 507 (sessions) Tue, 9:00-10:00 | Andrei Okounkov | The M-theory index | Tue, 10:10-11:10 | Gil Kalai | Influence, thresholds, and noise sensitivity | Tue, 11:10-11:30 | Coffee break | Tue, 11:30-13:30 | Special sessions (3) | Tue, 13:30 | Lunch / Excursion (for registrants) | | ||||||||
| 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 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 | | ||||||||
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:55 | Zeev Rudnick | Some problems in analytic number theory for polynomials over a finite field |
| Mon, 12:25-13:05 | Dubi Kelmer | Equidistribution of translated unbounded geodesics and counting integer points |
| Mon, 16:00-16:40 | Andreas Strömbergsson | Effective Ratner equidistribution for SL(2,R) ⋉ (R^2)^k and applications to quadratic forms |
| Mon, 16:50-17:30 | Mike Hochman | Self-similar sets with overlaps, in R and R^d |
| Mon, 17:40-18:20 | Andre Reznikov | On the conformal type of the Dirichlet's unit lattice of a number field |
| Mon, 18:30-19:10 | Jeremy Kahn | Surface Subgroups for Subgroups of PSL_2(C) |
| Tue, 11:30-12:10 | Emmanuel Breuillard | Uniform spectral gaps and random matrix products |
| Tue, 12:15-12:55 | Nicolas De Saxce | Expansion in simple Lie groups |
| Tue, 13:00-13:40 | Barak Weiss | Badly approximable vectors on fractals and random walks |
| 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 |
| Thu 9:20 - 10:00 | Yael Tauman Kalai | The Evolution of Proofs in Computer Science |
| Thu, 10:10-10:50 | Irit Dinur | Lifting locally consistent solutions to global solutions |
| Thu 11:00 - 11:40 | Benny Sudakov | The minimum number of nonnegative edges in hypergraphs |
| Financial Mathematics Contact person: Jean-Pierre Fouque, fouque@pstat.ucsb.edu | ||
BIU, Building 507, Room 102 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:45 | Jean-Pierre Fouque | Mean Field Games and Systemic Risk |
| Mon, 11:55-12:25 | Andreaa Minca | Systemic Risk with Central Counterparty Clearing |
| Mon, 12:35-13:05 | Mete Soner | Rebalancing the portfolio |
| Mon, 16:00-16:30 | Alexander Schied | A hot-potato game under transient price impact |
| Mon, 16:40-17:10 | Mathieu Rosenbaum | Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes |
| Mon, 17:20-17:50 | Michael Ludkovski | Optimal Execution under Dynamic Order Flow Imbalance |
| Mon, 18:00-18:30 | Yan Dolinsky | Martingale Optimal Transport in the Skorokhod Space |
| Mon, 18:40-19:10 | Mathias Beiglbock | Model-Independent Finance, Optimal Transport and Skorokhod Embedding |
| Tue, 11:30-11:55 | Antoine Jacquier | Small-maturity asymptotics for the forward implied volatility |
| Tue, 12:00-12:25 | Ariel Neufeld | Superreplication under Volatility Uncertainty for Measurable Claims |
| Tue, 12:30-12:55 | Eilon Solan | Equilibria in Stopping Games with Stopping Rates |
| Tue, 13:00-13:25 | Gadi Fibich | Is Heterogeneity Important? |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:55 | Jake Solomon, | Open Gromov-Witten theory in dimensions 0, 2 and 3 |
| Mon, 12:15-12:55 | Yuval Flicker | Counting local systems with principal local monodromy |
| Mon, 16:00-16:30 | Michael McBreen | Hypertoric Mirror Symmetry |
| Mon, 16:50-17:20 | Andrea Appel | Quasi-Coxeter Categories for Kac-Moody Algebras |
| Mon, 17:50-18:30 | Mikhail Mazin | Combinatorics of Affine Springer Fibers |
| Mon, 18:40-19:10 | Oren Ben-Bassat | Shifted Symplectic Geometry |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:55 | Adi Ben-Israel | Inverse Dynamic Programming |
| Mon, 12:05-12:25 | Simeon Reich | A Denjoy-Wolff Theorem for Compact Holomorphic Mappings in Complex Banach Spaces |
| Mon, 12:30-12:50 | Edriss Titi | Finite Number of Determining Parameters for the Navier-Stokes Equations with Applications into Feedback Control and Data Assimilations |
| Mon, 12:55-13:15 | Roman Polyak | Nonlinear Input-Output Equilibrium |
| Mon, 16:00-16:40 | Roger Nussbaum | Analyticity and Nonanalyticity of Solutions of Delay-Differential Equations |
| Mon, 16:50-17:30 | Hector Sussmann | A Very Weak Regularity Result for Minimizers of Real Analytic Subriemannian Metrics |
| Mon, 17:35-17:55 | Cyril Tintarev | A notion of Weak Convergence in Metric Spaces |
| Mon, 18:00-18:20 | Igor Zelenko | Jacobi Equations and Comparison Theorems in Optimal Control Problems |
| Mon, 18:25-18:45 | Gershon Wolansky | Projection of Gradient Flow of Entropy Like Functionals on a Space of Empirical Measures |
| Mon, 18:50-19:10 | Alexander J. Zaslavski | Structure of Approximate Solutions of Optimal Control Problems |
| Tue, 11:20-12:00 | Haim Brezis | New approximations of the total variation and filters in Image Processing |
| Tue, 12:10-12:50 | Jong-Shi Pang | Differential Variational Systems: A New Paradigm of Constrained Dynamical Systems |
| Tue, 13:00-13:40 | Boris Mordukhovich | Optimal Control of the Sweeping Process over Moving Sets |
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:55 | Luise-Charlotte Kappe | Finite coverings: a journey through groups, loops, rings and semigroups |
| Mon, 12:05-12:25 | Risto Atasanov | Loops that are partitioned by groups |
| Mon, 12:30-12:50 | Tuval Foguel | Subloop Lattices |
| Mon, 12:55-13:15 | Stephen Gagola III | The existence of a nontrivial nucleus |
| Mon, 16:00-16:40 | Jonathan Smith | Directional quasigroups and their quasigroup replicas |
| Mon, 16:45-17:05 | Maria de Lourdes Merlini Giulian | Some Automorphic Loops and their automorphism group |
| Mon, 17:10-17:30 | Izabella Stuhl | Steiner Loops |
| Mon, 17:35-17:55 | Ales Drapal | The semidirect product in Moufang loops and its implications |
| Mon, 18:00-18:20 | Piroska Csorgo | On Moufang loops of odd order |
| Mon, 18:25-18:45 | Peter Plaumann | The Cayley graph and the Growth of Steiner loops |
| Mon, 18:50-19:10 | Liudmila Sabinina | Coverings of automorphic Moufang loops |
| Tue, 9:20-10:00 | Jonathan Hall | Axial algebras of Jordan type |
| Tue, 10:05-10:25 | J.D. Phillips | On finite Bruck loops |
| Tue, 10:30-10:50 | Markku Niemenmaa | Some solvability criteria for finite loops |
| Tue, 10:55-11:15 | Petr Vojtechovsky | Abelian extensions and solvable loops |
| Tue, 11:20-11:40 | Mikhail Klin | Prolific construction of directed strongly regular graphs with the aid of loops |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:45 | Gopal Prasad | Weakly commensurable groups and locally symmetric spaces |
| Mon, 11:55-12:25 | Alena Pirutka | Classifying spaces and counterexamples to the integral Tate conjecture |
| Mon, 12:35-13:05 | Yoav Segev | On graphs and valuations |
| Mon, 16:00-16:30 | Eva Bayer-Fluckiger | Embeddings of maximal tori in classical groups and algebras with involution |
| Mon, 16:40-17:10 | Igor Rapinchuk | The genus of a division algebra |
| Mon, 17:20-17:50 | Danny Neftin | Galois subfields of tame division algebras |
| Mon, 18:00-18:30 | Eli Matzri | Diophantine and cohomological dimensions |
| Mon, 18:40-19:10 | Vladimir Chernousov | Lower bounds for essential dimension of "adjoint" groups in characteristic 2 |
| Tue, 11:30-12:00 | David Harbater | Period-index bounds for competions of p-adic function fields |
| Tue, 12:10-12:40 | Adam Chapman | Symplectic Groups, Quadratic Forms and Tensor Products of Quaternion Algebras |
| Tue, 12:50-13:20 | Boris Kunyavski | Local-global properties of equations in simple matrix groups and algebras |
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:50 | Tiziana Bascelli | Geometric structures at the foundations of dynamics: Galileo's and Torricelli's science of motion |
| Mon, 11:55-12:30 | Piotr Błaszczyk | Continuum versus continuity. Zeno and his modern rivals revisited |
| Mon, 12:35-13:15 | Philip Ehrlich | Cantorian and non-Cantorian Theories of Finite, Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers and the Unification Thereof |
| Mon, 16:00-16:40 | Frederik Herzberg | Epistemic justification, formally: Alternatives to foundationalism and an exercise in mathematical philosophy |
| Mon, 16:50-17:30 | Emily R. Grosholz | Ampliative Reasoning in Number Theory: Integers and the Complex Plane |
| Mon, 17:40-16:20 | Eberhard Knobloch | From Archimedes to Kepler: Analogies and the dignity of mathematics |
| Mon, 18:30-19:10 | Jean-Pierre Marquis | The Evolution of the Idea of Pure Mathematics |
| Tue, 11:30-12:05 | Patrick Reeder | Locating success and failure in applying Nonstandard Analysis to Euler's Introductio |
| Tue, 12:10-12:45 | David Sherry | Leibniz and the Syncategorematic Infinite |
| Tue, 12:50-13:30 | Mark Jay Steiner | The Silent Revolution in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1937 |
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:55 | Sasha Sodin | Eigenvalue distribution of random matrices depending on an auxiliary variable, and a family of Airy-type random processes |
| Mon, 12:05-12:45 | Gerard Ben Arous | Smallest singular values for perturbations of random permutation matrices |
| Mon, 12:55-13:15 | Doron Lubinsky | Universality limits via orthogonal polynomial techniques |
| Mon, 16:00-16:40 | Alan Edelman | The singular values of the GUE: surprises that we missed |
| Mon, 16:50-17:30 | Paul Bourgade | Local quantum unique ergodicity for random matrices |
| Mon, 17:40-18:20 | Alice Guionnet | Transport maps and universality |
| Mon, 18:30-19:10 | Boaz Nadler | Roy's Test, Rank-One Alternatives and Random Matrix Theory |
| Tue, 11:30-12:05 | Shahar Mendelson | The quadratic empirical process and the extremal singular values of random matrices with iid rows |
| Tue, 12:10-12:45 | Roman Vershynin | Delocalization of eigenvectors of random matrices with independent entries |
| Tue, 12:50-13:30 | Van Vu | Random matrices: Law of the determinant |
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-11:50 | Thane Plambeck | Misere Quotients for Beginners |
| Mon, 11:55-12:30 | Lowell Abrams | Almost-symmetry for a family of Nim-like arrays |
| Mon, 12:35-13:10 | Aviezri S. Fraenkel | Games, Numeration Systems and Data Structures |
| Mon, 16:00-16:30 | Alex Fink | The generating function method for impartial games |
| Mon, 16:35-17:05 | Urban Larsson | Scoring Combinatorial Game Theory, A Useful Universe: Part I |
| Mon, 17:10-17:40 | Carlos Santos | Advances on Scoring Combinatorial Game Theory |
| Mon, 17:45-18:15 | Solomon Golomb | Tic-Tac-Toe in N Dimensions |
| Mon, 18:20-18:50 | Matthieu Dufour | Circular Nim games |
| Tue, 11:30-12:05 | Eric Duchene | Invariant games |
| Tue, 12:10-12:45 | Urban Larsson | Combinatorial Number Theory and Wythoff Nim Extensions |
| Tue, 12:50-13:25 | Silvia Heubach | Building Nim |
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 11:15-12:00 | Peter L. Duren | Max Schiffer and his Variational Methods |
| Mon, 12:20-13:05 | Dov Aharonov | The Lebedev-Milin Inequalities |
| Mon, 16:00-16:40 | Stephen J. Gardiner | Potatoes and Potentials |
| Mon, 16:50-17:30 | Dmitry Khavinson | "Isoperimetric Sandwiches" and Function Theory |
| Mon, 17:40-18:20 | Nir Lev | Equidistribution Estimates for Fekete Points on Complex Manifolds |
| Mon, 18:30-19:10 | Shahar Nevo | Differential Polynomials and Shared Values |
| 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 | ||
| Mon, 16:00-16:30 | Steve Schochet | Singular Limits Involving Variable-Coefficient Large Operators |
| Mon, 16:30-17:00 | Boris Ettinger | Local well-posedness for the equation of minimal hypersurface in Minkowski space |
| Mon, 17:00-17:30 | Yehuda Pinchover | Optimal Hardy-type inequality for nonnegative second-order elliptic operator: an answer to a problem of Shmuel Agmon |
| Mon, 17:30-18:00 | Eduard Feireisl | Weak solutions to quantum hydrodynamics equations |
| Mon, 18:00-18:30 | Dan Mangoubi | Harmonic functions on the lattice: Absolute monotonicity, three circles theorems, construction |
| Mon, 18:30-19:00 | Ram Band | Neumann Nodal Domains |
| Tue, 11:30-12:00 | Gadi Fibich | Continuations of the NLS beyond the singularity |
| Tue, 12:00-12:30 | Alina Chertock | Convergence of a Particle Method and Global Weak Solutions for a Family of Evolutionary Pdes |
| Tue, 12:30-13:00 | Yoel Shkolnisky | A class of Laplacian mutiwavelets bases for high-dimensional data |
| Tue, 13:00-13:30 | Ariel Gil | Parareal methods for highly oscillatory ordinary differential equations |
| 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 | ||
| Tue, 12:00-12:25 | Dong Hyun Cho | Analogues of Wiener integrals with drift and initial distribution on a function space |
| Tue, 12:30-12:55 | Alejandro Velez-Santiago | Quasi-linear variable exponent elliptic and parabolic problems with Wentzell boundary conditions |
| Tue, 13:00-13:25 | David Fajman | The Einstein-flow in 2+1 dimensions |
| 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 |