Subject: Mededelingen van het KWG, 2007, nr. 2 From: Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:57:37 +0100 (CET) ********************************************************************** MEDEDELINGEN VAN HET KONINKLIJK WISKUNDIG GENOOTSCHAP, 2007 nr. 2 (elektronische aflevering) De eerstvolgende aflevering verschijnt omstreeks 16 februari 2007. Kopij kan worden gestuurd naar medwg@cwi.nl; agenda-items kunnen ook worden aangeboden via de website www.wiskgenoot.nl . ********************************************************************** 1. Agenda 2. Colleges, voordrachtenseries, cursussen e.d. 3. Personalia 4. Promoties 5. Examens in 2006 6. Vacatures ********************************************************************** 1. Agenda Van de in onderstaande opsommingen met * aangeduide activiteiten treft men bijzonderheden aan in de rubriek 2. Colleges, voordrachtenseries, cursussen e.d. 2-2 UvA: Dubbeloratie dr. M.R.H. Mandjes, benoemd tot hoogleraar toegepaste kansrekening, en dr. J.J.O.O. Wiegerinck, benoemd tot hoogleraar analyse, 14.30 uur, Aula Universiteit, Singel 411 http://www.science.uva.nl/math/home.cfm 2/3-2 Noordwijkerhout: Nationale Wiskunde Dagen Thema's voor de parallelsessies zijn o.a. wiskunde en film, Huygens en rampen en risico's http://www.fi.uu.nl/nwd 6-2 RUG: Colloquium S. Plantinga (RUG) Certified Algorithms for Implicit Surfaces 16.15 u., zaal BB 217 6-2 TUE: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Francesco Guerra (Univ. of Rome) Aspects of the scientific and academic activity of Ettore Majorana 16.30-17.30 u., Aud 11 7-2 UvA: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Jaap Korevaar (UvA) Prime pairs and the zeta function 11.15-12.15 u., zaal P.016 http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/ 8-2 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium K. Slooten (UU) Combinatorial representation theory for Hecke algebras 15.30-16.30 u., zaal K11, Math. Inst. voorafgegaan door een half uurtje koffie en thee in De Eigenruimte http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol/ 8-2 UL: Stafcolloquium Wiskunde prof. Richard Gill (UL): Perfect passion at a distance (how to win at Polish poker with quantum dice) 16-17 u., zaal 174, Snellius http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~evertse/colloquium.shtml 9-2 RU: Bimonthly colloquium of the NWO Cluster `Geometry and Quantum Theory' 11-12 u. (HG00.307): Matilde Marcolli (MPI, Bonn) Titel nog niet bekend 13.30-14.30 u. (HG00.023): Ralf Meyer (Univ. Goettingen) From non-commutative topology to non-commutative algebraic geometry 14.45-15.45 (HG00.307): Ulrich Bunke (Univ. Goettingen) Duality of locally compact abelian groups stacks Location: Huygens building (FNWI) http://www.gqt.nl/events.php 13/14-2 Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics, Bonn: Exponential Diophantine equations Seven lectures will be given on classical and modular approaches to exponential Diophantine equations. Lecturers: Bugeaud, Dabrowski, Mignotte, and Siksek For details, see http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/index.html Organizers: A. Dabrowski & P. Moree 15-2 UT: Aansluiting Wiskunde: Probleem opgelost? http://www.utwente.nl/itbe/ictoo/nieuws/Eindconferentie.doc/ Inschrijving: http://www.utwente.nl/itbe/ictoo/nieuws/Aanmelding.doc/ 15-2 UL: UL: Highlights of Mathematical Biology prof.dr. Ellen Baake (Univ. Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany), Kloostermanprofessor 2006 The Gordian DNA knot (enzymatic scissors and differential geometry) 11-12.30 u., room 409, Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden 15-2 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium T. Lange (TUE) Cryptographic applications of curves over finite fields 15.30-16.30 u., zaal K11, Math. Inst. voorafgegaan door een half uurtje koffie en thee in De Eigenruimte http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol/ 21-2 UvA: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Arnoud van Rooij (RU) P-adic analysis 11.15-12.15 u., zaal P.016 http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/ 21/24-2 KNAW Trippenhuis, Amsterdam: TCC2007 Fourth Theory of Cryptography Conference Organised by CWI and sponsored by the International Association of Cryptographic Research http://www.cwi.nl/projects/crypto/tcc07/ 22-2 UL: Highlights of Mathematical Biology prof.dr. Ellen Baake (Univ. Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany), Kloostermanprofessor 2006 Adam and Eve or our evolutionary history (the coalescent process) 13.45-14.30 and 14.45-15.30 u., room 409, Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden 22-2 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium A. Kiselev Pre-Hamiltonian formalism for integrable nonlinear systems 15.30-16.30 u., zaal K11, Math. Inst. voorafgegaan door een half uurtje koffie en thee in De Eigenruimte http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol/ 27-2 UL: Kloostermanlezing prof.dr. Ellen Baake (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany) Are mutations spontaneous or directed? (the Luria-Delbrueck experiment) 16-17 u., collegezaal 412, Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden Na afloop is er een receptie. 1-3 UL: Highlights of Mathematical Biology prof.dr. Ellen Baake (Univ. Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany), Kloostermanprofessor 2006 Genetic mixing (dynamics of recombination) 13.45-14.30 and 14.45-15.30 u., room 409, Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden 8-3 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium M. Moeller (Essen) Billiards and the SL_2(R)-action on the Hodge bundle over the moduli space of curves 15.30-16.30 u., zaal K11, Math. Inst. voorafgegaan door een half uurtje koffie en thee in De Eigenruimte http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol/ 8-3 UL: Highlights of Mathematical Biology prof.dr. Ellen Baake (Univ. Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany), Kloostermanprofessor 2006 Genetic mixing (dynamics of recombination) 13.45-14.30 and 14.45-15.30 u., room 409, Snellius Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden 12/16-3 TUE: 5-day EIDMA/DIAMANT minicourse Gibbs Sampling, Alternating Projections, and Orthogonal Polynomials by Prof. Persi Diaconis, Stanford University, USA. http://www.win.tue.nl/wsk/eidma/courses/minicourses/diaconis/diaconis.html 20/23-3 TUE: 4-day minicourse Games, Networks, and Algorithms by Prof. Christos Papadimitriou (Univ. of Berkeley, USA) Registration deadline: March 2, 2007 23-3 *EURANDOM: Stieltjes afternoon 26/30-3 UU: Dynamics and Hamiltonian Systems Conference in Honour of Richard Cushman for his 65-th Birthday http://www.math.uu.nl/people/hansmann/confer/rcweek/rcweek.html 29-3 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium part of Richard Cushman's 65th birthday conference Titel nog niet bekend 15.30 u., zaal K11, Math. Inst. voorafgegaan door een half uurtje koffie en thee in De Eigenruimte http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol/ 11/13-4 *Universiteit Gent: Linear Systems and Subschemes 12/13-4 UL: 43ste Nederlands Mathematisch Congres Gorlaeuscomplex, Leiden Onder auspicien van het Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap, gezamenlijk georganiseerd door UL en TUD. Op dit congres zal o.a. de Ostrowskiprijs worden uitgereikt aan Ben Green (Univ. of Cambridge, UK), en aan Terence Tao (Univ. of California at Los Angeles, winnaar Fieldsmedaille 2006), die beiden een hoofdvoordracht zullen geven. Verdere hoofdsprekers zijn: Mike Bennett (Univ. of British Columbia), Hester Bijl (TUD) en Thomas Bruss (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles). Voor het volledige programma en overige informatie, zie de website: www.nmc2007.nl 19-4 VUA: Verleden, heden en toekomst van de Beta-disciplines Symposium, georganiseerd door de Sectie Algemene Vorming van de Faculteit Exacte Wetenschappen Over ontstaan en aard van wetenschappelijke disciplines en het ontstaan van nieuwe specialiteiten die wellicht een herschikking van de huidige disciplines nodig maken, met een publiekslezing door prof.dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf (UvA). Verder zijn er acht sprekers, onder wie de wiskundigen Danny Beckers en Teun Koetsier. Aanmelding: stuur uiterlijk 29 maart 2007 een email aan H.J.Zuidervaart@few.vu.nl . Website: www.few.vu.nl/av/symposium2007-nl.html 7/11-5 UL: Stieltjes/Diamant onderwijsweek http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/lc/web/2007/231/info.php3?wsid=231 8/11-5 *Turku, Finland: Algorithmic Number Theory 14/16-5 UL: Workshop Solvability of Diophantine equations Place: Lorentz Center, Leiden. Organizers: Frits Beukers (UU), Jan-Hendrik Evertse, Rob Tijdeman (UL) http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/lc/web/2007/230/info.php3?wsid=230 25-5 Utrecht: LIMO 2007 Informatie: http://www.limo.a-eskwadraat.nl/ 31-5/1-6 Heeze: DIAMANT/EIDMA Symposium Lokatie: Conferentiehotel Kapellerput http://www.win.tue.nl/diamant/symposium0705/ 31-5/2-6 RU: Geometry Days http://www.ru.nl/science/math/conference 7-6 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch colloquium A. Cohen (Paris VI) Titel nog niet bekend Monna-lecture 15.30, zaal K11, Math. Inst. voorafgegaan door een half uurtje koffie en thee in De Eigenruimte http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol/ 21-6 WUR: Oratie J. Molenaar (hoogleraar Toegepaste Wiskunde) De kracht van wiskundig modelleren 16 u., Aula, Generaal Foulkesweg 1a, Wageningen 25/29-6 TUE: 5-day minicourse Algebraic Statistics by Dr. Seth Sullivant (Harvard Univ. USA) Registration deadline: June 8, 2007 http://www.win.tue.nl/wsk/eidma/courses/minicourses/sullivant/sullivant.html 2/6-7 Edinburgh, UK: XXVth Journees Arithmetiques Organised by the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and by The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh Registration will be open in January 2007 Pre-registration enquiries to: enquiries@icms.org.uk http://www.icms.org.uk/ 16/20-7 Zuerich, Switzerland: ICIAM 07 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics http://www.iciam07.ch 24/25-8 TUE: Vakantiecursus 2007 Onderwerp: Wiskunde in beweging Informatie: http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/VC2007/ 31-8/1-9 CWI: Vakantiecursus 2007 Onderwerp: Wiskunde in beweging Informatie: http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/VC2007/ 3/5-10 Woudschoten: Pre-Announcement 2007 Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Numerical Analysis Communities Themes of the conference will be: 1. Coupled heterogeneous problems 2. Numerical optimization techniques A full announcement will be available on the conference web page in the Spring of 2007 http://www.cwi.nl/projects/wnw/conf2007/ 8/12-10 TUE: 5-day minicourse Cryptography by Prof. Ueli Maurer (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland) and Dr. Renato Renner (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) Registration deadline: September 21, 2007 ************************************************************************* 2. Colleges, voordrachtenseries, cursussen e.d. Universiteit Gent Linear Systems and Subschemes Date/location: 11-13 April, Krijgslaan 281, Ghent, Belgium Aim of the workshop Many different research topics, such as linear systems defined by subschemes, linear systems induced on subschemes and subschemes with special assumptions, can be seen as part of `Linear Systems and Subschemes'. By discussing a wide variety of recent results and by bringing together the different approaches us used, we aim to get a better global picture and to induce new ideas for handling this type of topics. Speakers: Ciro Ciliberto (Univ. degli Studi di Roma `Tor Vergata', Italy) Lawrence Ein (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, USA) Brain Harbourne (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Andreas Knutsen (Univ. degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) Antonio Laface (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) Emilia Mezzetti (Univ. di Trieste, Italy), Francesco Russo (Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil), Tomasz Szemberg (Pedagogical Univ. Cracow, Poland), Fyodor Zak (to be confirmed, Independent Univ. of Moscow, Russia). Contact and registration: Cindy De Volder (Ghent Univ., Belgium), e-mail: cdv@cage.ugent.be To register just send an e-mail with your name, institution and adress to the above e-mail adress. We can make hotel reservations for you (prices etc. will be communicated via e-mail). Website: http://cage.ugent.be/linsyssub/ Organizers: Luca Chiantini (Univ. degli Studi di Siena, Italy), Marc Coppens (KHKempen, Assoc. KULeuven, Belgium), Cindy De Volder (Ghent Univ., Belgium), Jan Van Geel (Ghent Univ., Belgium) Turku, Finland Algorithmic Number Theory Date/location: 8-11 may, 2007; Turku, Finland A major goal of this conference is to add algorithmic aspects to strong scientific traditions of the Finnish number theory community. Topics cover all aspects of algorithmic and computational number theory. In particular connections to cryptography are sought. Invited speakers: Eric Bach (Wisconsin), Henri Cohen (Bordeaux), Joachim von zur Gathen (Paderborn), Tanja Lange (Eindhoven), Yuri Matiyasevich (St. Petersburg), Alf van der Poorten (Sydney), Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College) [Tentatively], Tanguy Rivoal (CNRS / Grenoble), Nitin Saxena (CWI / Amsterdam, IIT / Kanpur), Paul Zimmermann (Loria) Organizers: Matti Jutila and Juhani Karhumaki http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/ant/ EURANDOM Stieltjes afternoon Date/location: Friday March 23, 2007; TUE, Eindhoven Stieltjes afternoon (http://www.stieltjes.org/) on the work of two Fields medal 2006 winners. A lecture afternoon for an audience of general mathematical background will be held at EURANDOM, concerning the work of two of the winners of the 2006 Fields medals: Wendelin Werner and Andrei Okounkov. Werner received the prize for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory, and Okounkov for his contributions bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry. The aim of this afternoon is to give a broad impression of some key aspects, ideas and consequences of the above works. Speakers are Vincent Beffara (Lyon), Federico Camia (VU) and Alexander Gnedin (Utrecht). More information, including abstracts and detailed schedule, will be announced on short notice. Registration: http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/abstracts_seminars/23_march_stieltjes_afternoon.htm ************************************************************************** 3. Personalia UU Gast: van 1 februari tot 1 april 2007 dr. Arthemy Kiselev, gast van dr. Johan van de Leur, Mathematisch Instituut. RUG Gast: van 31 januari 2007 t/m 6 februari 2007 prof. D. Alpay, gast van prof. Dijksma. UvA In dienst: per 1 december 2006 tot 1 december 2010 drs. M.C. Hoeve, aio in de groep Algebra and Geometry bij prof.dr. G.B.M. van der Geer, tot 1 december 2010. per 1 februari 2007 tot 1 februari 2009 dr. K. Malakpoor, postdoc in de groep Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis bij prof. dr. A. Doelman en dr. J.H. Brandts; per 1 februari 2007 tot 1 februari 2011 drs. E. Veerman, aio in de groep Stochastics bij dr. A.J. van Es. Uit dienst: per 1 januari 2007 drs. F. Geurts, aio in de groep Numerical Analysis bij dr. J.H. Brandts. Gast: van 6 t/m 26 januari 2007 prof.dr. A. N. Shiryaev, honorair hoogleraar aan de UvA en verbonden aan het V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), bij prof.dr. C.A.J. Klaassen in de groep Stochastics. ************************************************************************** 4. Promoties UvA 6-3 drs. M.S. Solleveld, Periodic cyclic homology of affine Hecke algebras, promotor: prof.dr. E.M. Opdam, co-promotor: prof.dr. N.P. Landsman, Aula Universiteit, 12 u. ************************************************************************* 5. Examens in 2006 UvA Overzicht masters en doctoraal examens 2006 doctoraal stochastiek 1 doctoraal bedrijfsindustriele statistiek 1 doctoraal mathematische fysica 2 doctoraal Mathematics 2 doctoraal Stochastical and Financial Mathematics 1 master Mathematics 1 master Mathematics and Science Education 2 master Stochastics and Financial Mathematics 1 master Mathematical Physics 2 VUA Doctoraal- en Masterexamens Wiskunde: 10 Wiskunde: dhr P. Jeczynski, dhr T. Kulaga, dhr K. Lukosz, mw B. Madurkayova, mw P. Rymanowska, mw K. Valkenburg, mw I. Verburg SFM: dhr G. Farkas, dhr D. Kun, dhr S. Prazmovsky Math Life Sciences: mw B. Raven. Bedrijfswiskunde en Informatica: 20 dhr O. Ibrahim, dhr E. Jonker, dhr R. Visser, dhr S. Reijmers, mw L. Roos, mw J. Veldhuis, dhr V. Vijfwinkel, dhr D. Roubos, mw M. Nolte, mw A. van den Berg, dhr E. Niesten, dhr K. Munniksma, dhr G. Kaandorp, dhr F. Wattimena, mw L. Klomparends, mw A. van Dongen, dhr/mw H. Changer, dhr W. Koomen, dhr A. de Wilde, dhr/mw Hong-Vu Dang. ************************************************************************* 6. Vacatures UU Assistent professor position The Mathematical Institute of Utrecht University is responsible for teaching mathematics and computational science to approximately 220 students. The institute holds a prominent position both nationally and internationally, and has an extensive research programme that is known for its strong interaction between fundamental research and applications. The research programme of the department covers parts of algebra, analysis, geometry, number theory, mathematical physics, mathematical biology, mathematical economics, stochastics/statistics, numerical analysis and the history of mathematics. More information can be found on www.math.uu.nl . The Department of mathematics is also the hub of the national cluster Geometry and Quantum Theory (see www.gqt.nl). It is in this context that we look for candidates for a full-time position, immediately available of Assistant professor ('Universitair Docent') (Position number 62701). For more information, see: http://www.math.uu.nl/Main/Department/Positions/index.html . Institute for Experimental Mathemtics, Essen, Germany PhD position The research team at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics at Essen (Gerhard Frey and Gabor Wiese), supported by the Arithmetic Geometry Group of the University Duisburg-Essen, is looking for a strong candidate for a PhD position within the European Research Training Network "Galois Theory and Explicit Methods" (GTEM). See the webpage: http://websites.math.leidenuniv.nl/gtem/ . The candidate should be willing to perform research in the area of "Effective Cohomology Computations". Connections of the research to other areas withing the GTEM project are possible and desired, such as "Galois Representations" or "Constructive Galois Theory". For example, theoretical and explicit questions concerning modular forms (classical, Hilbert, over imaginary quadratic fields, etc.) can be envisaged. The candidate is also invited to present his/her own ideas. The salary paid by the European Union is very competitive and is complemented by travel allowances. The position is available from 1st of April 2007, but other starting dates can be agreed on. It is open to non-German European nationals (see the precise requirements on the website), but, exceptionally, also non-Europeans can be taken into consideration. Anyone interested is invited to contact Gabor Wiese (gabor@pratum.net) informally with any questions. The official application must be submitted by 1st of March 2007 following the procedure described on the GTEM website. University of Louvain, Belgium Two Post-Doctoral positions Two Post-Doctoral positions are opening in the Mathematics and Physics departments at UCL (Univ. of Louvain) for the academic year 2007-2008 (one year renewable). Among the topics we are interested in are integrable systems, orthogonal polynomials and random matrix theory. On the mathematical side of our team, there is also interest in symplectic and Poisson geometry, deformation quantization and some aspects of string theory. Details: Luc Haine, Department of Mathematics, University of Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron, 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, phone: +3210473162, email: haine@math.ucl.ac.be, website: http://www.nosy.ucl.ac.be . ************************************************************************* (einde mededelingen)