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1. Equipment:

      All lecture halls are equipped whiteboards and presentation projectors connected to computers. (If you require a slide overhead projector, please let us know in advance).
   

2. Time slots for the special sessions:

      The special sessions will take place in 6 designated time slots within THE GENERAL PROGRAM.
      

   Time slots
   1	2	3	4	5	6	7
   Mon. 11:15-13:15	Mon. 16:00-19:10	Tue. 11:30-13:30	Wed. 10:50-13:15	Wed. 16:00-18:25	Thu. 9:20-11:45	Thu. 16:40-18:25

3. Special sessions:
   
       Each special session will be active in some of the time slots, according to the following table.
   
     

   Session				Time slot
   No.	Title	Contact person	Email address	1	2	3	4	5	6
   1	Geometry and Dynamics	Yaron Ostrover	ostrover@post.tau.ac.il				X	X	X
   2	Dynamics and Number Theory	Alex Kontorovich	alex.kontorovich@yale.edu	X	X	X
   3	Combinatorics	Gil Kalai	gil.kalai@gmail.com				X	X	X
   4	Financial Mathematics	Jean-Pierre Fouque	fouque@pstat.ucsb.edu	X	X	X
   5	Mirror Symmetry and Representation Theory	Roman Bezrukavnikov	bezrukav@math.mit.edu	X	X		X	X
   6	Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization	Simeon Reich	sreich@tx.technion.ac.il	X	X	X	X
   7	Qualitative and Analytic Theory of ODE's	Yosef Yomdin	Yosef.Yomdin@weizmann.ac.il				X	X	X
   8	Quasigroups, Loops and applications	Tuval Foguel	tsfoguel@wcu.edu	X	X	X
   9	Algebraic Groups, Division Algebras and Galois Cohomology	Andrei Rapinchuk	asrapinchuk@gmail.com	X	X	X	X
   10	Asymptotic Geometric Analysis	Boaz Klartag	klartagb@post.tau.ac.il				X	X	X
   11	Recent trends in History and Philosophy of Mathematics	Misha Katz	katzmik@macs.biu.ac.il	X	X	X
   12	History of Mathematics	Leo Corry	corry@post.tau.ac.il				X	X	X
   13	Random Matrix Theory	Ofer Zeitouni	zeitouni@math.umn.edu	X	X	X
   14	Field Arithmetic	Moshe Jarden	jarden@post.tau.ac.il				X	X	X
   15	Additive Number Theory	Yonutz V. Stanchescu	yonis@afeka.ac.il					X	X
   16	Teaching with Mathematical Habits in Mind	Jennifer Lewis	jmlewis@wayne.edu				X	X	X
   17	Combinatorial Games	Aviezri Fraenkel	Aviezri.fraenkel@weizmann.ac.il	X	X	X
   19	Applications of Algebra to Cryptography	Delaram Kahrobaei	dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu					X	X
   20	Topological Graph Theory and Map Symmetries	Jonathan Gross	gross@cs.columbia.edu				X	X	X
   21	The Mathematics of Menahem M. Schiffer	Lawrence Zalcman	zalcman@math.biu.ac.il	X	X
   22	PDEs: Modeling, Theory and Numerics	Edriss S. Titi	etiti@math.uci.edu		X	X	X	X
   23	Contributed Papers session	Gidi Amir	amirgi@macs.biu.ac.il			X			X

Organizers: requests for a change of schedule should be addressed to the Local Organizing Committee.

4. Organizers of the special sessions:
   
   

   No.	Session	Organizers
   1	Geometry and Dynamics	Yaron Ostrover (Tel Aviv U);   Michael Usher (U of Georgia, Athens)
   2	Dynamics and Number Theory	Alex Kontorovich (Yale U);   Tamar Ziegler (Hebrew U & Technion);   Uri Shapira (Technion)
   3	Combinatorics	Gil Kalai (Hebrew U)
   4	Financial Mathematics	Jean-Pierre Fouque (U California);   Eli Merzbach (Bar-Ilan);   Malka Schaps (Bar-Ilan)
   5	Mirror Symmetry and Representation Theory	Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT);   David Kazhdan (Hebrew U);   Yuval Flicker (Ohio State U and Ariel U)
   6	Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization	Simeon Reich (Technion);   Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State);   Alexander Zaslavski (Technion)
   7	Qualitative and Analytic Theory of ODE's	Yosef Yomdin (Weizmann);   Andrei Gabrielov (Purdue)
   8	Quasigroups, Loops and applications	Tuval Foguel (West. Carolina U)
   9	Algebraic Groups, Division Algebras and Galois Cohomology	Andrei Rapinchuk (U Virginia);   Louis H. Rowen (Bar-Ilan);   Uzi Vishne (Bar-Ilan)
   10	Asymptotic Geometric Analysis	Boaz Klartag (Tel Aviv U);   Shiri Artstein (Tel Aviv U);   Sasha Sodin (Princeton)
   11	Recent trends in History and Philosophy of Mathematics	Misha Katz (Bar-Ilan);   David Sherry (Northern Arizona U)
   12	History of Mathematics	Leo Corry (Tel Aviv);   Michael N. Fried (Ben Gurion U);   Victor Katz (U of Disctrict of Columbia)
   13	Random Matrix Theory	Ofer ZeitoU (Weizmann);   Brendan Farrell (California Inst Tech);   Mark Rudelson (U of Michigan)
   14	Field Arithmetic	Moshe Jarden (Tel Aviv U);   David Harbater (U Pennsylvania)
   15	Additive Number Theory	Yonutz V. Stanchescu (Afeka Acad College);   Melvyn B. Nathanson (City U of NY)
   16	Teaching with Mathematical Habits in Mind	Jennifer Lewis (Wayne State U);   Davida Fishman (CSU, San Bernardino);   Theodore Eisenberg (Ben Gurion U)
   17	Combinatorial Games	Aviezri Fraenkel (Weizmann);   R. Nowakowski (Dalhousie U, Can.);   Thane Plambeck (Counterwave Inc.);   A. Siegel (Twitter)
   19	Applications of Algebra to Cryptography	Delaram Kahrobaei (CUNY Graduate Center);   David Garber (Holon Inst Tech)
   20	Topological Graph Theory and Map Symmetries	Jonathan Gross (Columbia);   Toufik Mansour (U of Haifa)
   21	The Mathematics of Menahem M. Schiffer	Lawrence Zalcman (Bar-Ilan);   Peter L. Duren (U of Michigan)
   22	PDEs: Modeling, Theory and Numerics	Koby Rubinstein (Technion), Eitan Tadmor (U Maryland) and Edriss Titi (UC Irvine)
   23	Contributed Papers session	Uzi Vishne (Bar-Ilan) and Gidi Amir (Bar-Ilan)

5. Financial support for special sessions:
   
   The organizers thank the following for their support in special sessions:

   The Gelbart Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences: Sessions 4, 9, 11 and 21.
   The European Research Council: Session 10.
   The Weizmann Institute of Science: Session 17.
   The Financial Mathematics Program of the Department of Mathematics in Bar-Ilan: Session 4.
   Bar-Ilan Faculty of Exact Sciences: Session 4.
   Bar-Ilan Research Authority: Session 4.

    Program Committee (Israel): David Kazhdan (chair), Noga Alon, Mia Cohen, Louis Rowen, Alexander Vainshtein.

    Program Committee (US): Robert Guralnick (chair), Daniel Freed, Sergiu Klainerman, Michel Lapidus.

    Local Organizing Committee: Louis Rowen (chair), Shiri Artstein, Michael Krivelevich, Uzi Vishne.

    AMS Associate Secretary for the meeting: Michel Lapidus (lapidus@math.ucr.edu)

    Contact person (Israel): Louis Rowen (rowen@math.biu.ac.il) or Uzi Vishne (vishne@math.biu.ac.il)

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