Subject: Mededelingen van het KWG, 2007, nr. 4 From: Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:31:04 +0100 (CET) ********************************************************************** MEDEDELINGEN VAN HET KONINKLIJK WISKUNDIG GENOOTSCHAP, 2007 nr. 4 (elektronische aflevering) De eerstvolgende aflevering verschijnt omstreeks 16 maart 2007. Kopij kan worden gestuurd naar medwg@cwi.nl; agenda-items kunnen ook worden aangeboden via de website www.wiskgenoot.nl . Mededeling van het bestuur ========================== Van de nieuwe voorzitter van de European Mathematical Society, Ari Laptev, ontving het bestuur onderstaand email-bericht. Het eerstvolgende, in dit bericht vermelde, quadrennial European Congress of Mathematics wordt van 14-18 juli 2008 in Amsterdam gehouden. KWG-leden kunnen voor 20 euro per jaar lid worden van de EMS. Men kan zich via de secretaris (Herman.te.Riele@cwi.nl) van het KWG hiervoor opgeven. Van harte aanbevolen! Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:27:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: European Mathematical Society From: "Ari Laptev" To: broer@math.rug.nl Dear Professor Broer, President of the Royal (Dutch) Mathematical Society, Let me introduce myself. My name is Ari Laptev and I am Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London and at KTH in Stockholm. I have been elected as the President of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) for the period January 2007 - December 2010. EMS is a relatively new Society which still needs to attract many more individual members, by providing a service which will meet the needs of every European mathematician. Many important aims have already been achieved. Among them is the establishment of the EMS Publishing House, a non-profit organization, to which six journals and several book series are already contracted. It has been responsible for all the publications related to this year's International Congress of Mathematics in Madrid. The EMS plays an increasingly important role in relation to the governing bodies of the European Union. In particular, it is able to act as an intermediary for all European mathematicians, in contrast to the more limited possibilities of National Mathematical Societies. The EMS promotes the quadrennial European Congress of Mathematics which awards ten prizes to young European Mathematicians. It also runs a series of mathematical weekends and supports European Summer Schools. Many EMS Committees are involved in a large spectrum of activities. The EMS Newsletter continues to improve in content and is now a valuable source of information concerning job opportunities, new publications, European Conferences, etc. It regularly publishes interviews with prominent mathematicians as well as articles of general interest. Among our ambitions today is the encouragement of a closer collaboration between Pure and Applied Mathematics. We also plan to actively draw the attention of the younger generation of mathematicians to the beauty, diversity and importance of Mathematics. Our concern is to make the EMS more visible and more efficient in its promotion of Mathematics within Europe. We must highlight the significance of Mathematics as a field of competence which is absolutely crucial to almost all areas of future Science and Engineering. The creation of the European Research Council is an important step forward for Science in Europe and we all hope that the ERC will ultimately be financially self-sufficient and independent of Brussels' bureaucratic structure. Please pay attention to the web page: http://erc.europa.eu. There is a call for grant applications to young mathematicians, see documents http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/ and http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html It could be also useful to look at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ideas/home_en.html and click on "ERC Starting Independent Research Grant" [PDF] As far as I understand the most important site for us is: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm click on: Ideas: 2006-12-22: ERC-2007-StG I would like to use this opportunity to advertise Zentralblatt (ZB). EMS is one of the three owners of ZB. It recently became clear that ZB is about to launch an Author Data base of high quality which could be a good alternative to MathSciNet. We have agreed with Springer that this data base will be available, free of charge, to all users for three months starting from April 2007. Moreover, it also has been agreed that all EMS individual members will have free access to this Data Base for at least two years. All members will be provided with a password and be able to log-in from any computer. It is my strong wish to have a closer contact with your Society members and I would be very grateful if you forward this letter to them. Finally, I wish you a very Happy New Year. Yours sincerely, Ari Laptev ********************************************************************** 1. Agenda 2. Colleges, voordrachtenseries, cursussen e.d. 3. Personalia 4. Promoties 5. Vacature ********************************************************************** 1. Agenda Van de in onderstaande opsommingen met * aangeduide activiteiten treft men bijzonderheden aan in de rubriek 2. Colleges, voordrachtenseries, cursussen e.d. 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 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: 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 9-3 Amsterdam: Slotsymposium Mathematische Fysica Sprekers: Sir Michael Atiyah, Sir Roger Penrose, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz en Wendelin Werner 10-17.30 u., Keizersgrachtkerk Amsterdam Aanmelding verplicht http://www.fom.nl/live/agenda/agendaitem.pag?objectnumber=54703 9-3 UA, Belgie: Numerical Analysis Seminar Prof. Marc Spijker (UL) Monotonicity in the numerical solution of initial value problems 14-15 hrs room G005, Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci., Middelheimcampus, Univ. of Antwerp 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 13-3 TUE: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Henk van der Kooij (Freudenthal Instituut) Wiskunde in het voortgezet onderwijs: leren ze nog wel wat? 16.30-17.30 u., Aud 11 14-3 TUE: CASA Colloquium Elias Jarlebring (TU Braunschweig) Spectrum Based Analysis of Delay Differential Equations 11-11.45 u., HG 6.96, voorafgegaan door een half uurtje koffie en thee in kantine HG 8.40 14-3 UvA: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Thomas Quella (UvA) Supersymmetry, supergeometry and physics 11.15-12.15 u., zaal P.016 http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/ 15-3 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium Y.Kuznetsov (UU) Numerical continuation and normal form analysis of limit cycle bifurcations without computing Poincare maps 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/ 19/23-3 *EURANDOM: Workshop on Random Graphs and Complex Networks YEP 2007 Young European Probabilists) workshop 20/23-3 TUE: 4-day minicourse Games, Networks, and Algorithms by Prof. Christos Papadimitriou (Univ. of Berkeley, USA) Registration deadline: March 2, 2007 22-3 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium R. Iemhoff (UU Philosophy) On the proof of theory of constructive mathematics 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/ 23-3 UvA: GQT colloquium Speakers: S. Kato, E. Looijenga, B. Nienhuis 11.15-16 u., zaal P.017, Plantage Muidergracht 24 http://www.gqt.nl 23-3 *EURANDOM: Stieltjes afternoon Information/registration: http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/abstracts_seminars/23_march_stieltjes_afternoon.htm 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 28-3 UvA: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Antonios Zagaris (UvA/CWI) Attracting invariant manifolds for systems with multicale dynamics 11.15 - 12.15 u., zaal P.016 http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/ 29-3 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium part of Richard Cushman's 65th birthday conference J. Sniatycki (Calgary) Algebraic and singular reduction of symmetries 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/ 30-3 TUD: DCSE Symposium 2007 The theme of the Symposium is: Multiphysics Computations http://www.cse.tudelft.nl/events 4-4 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium Mikhail Belolipetsky (Durham) Titel nog niet bekend 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/ 11/13-4 Universiteit Gent: Linear Systems and Subschemes Informatie: http://cage.ugent.be/linsyssub/ 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 16/18-4 *EURANDOM: The Fourteenth Applied Probability Society of INFORMS Conference 16/20-4 RUG: MariusFest Internationaal symposium ter ere van het emeritaat van Marius van der Put Het namiddagprogramma van vrijdag 20 april zal toegankelijk zijn voor een breder wiskundig (academisch) publiek. Informatie: http://www.math.rug.nl/~lenny/mariusfest/ 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 25-4 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium S. Hurder (Chicago) Titel nog niet bekend 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/ 26/27-4 UT: Symposium on Dynamics of Patterns ttp://www.cwi.nl/events/regular/DoP-Days/26-27April2007.html 3-5 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch Colloquium T. Springer (UU) The compactification of a semisimple group, a review 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/ 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 Informatie: http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/ant/ 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/ 29/31-5 UT: Cologne/Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization 2007 http://www.math.utwente.nl/~ctw/ 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 6-6 TUD: Farewell symposium Pieter Wesseling Please register before May 15 Organising committee: Barry Koren, Kees Oosterlee, Kees Vuik and Diana Droog http://www.cse.tudelft.nl/wesseling 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/ 14-6 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch colloquium V. Nistor (Penn State) 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 Information: biometris@wur.nl or http://www.biometris.nl 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. EURANDOM 1. Stieltjes afternoon on the work of two Fields medal 2006 winners Date/location: March 23rd, 2007; Eindhoven, EURANDOM 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. Programme: 13.45-14.45 h. Alexander Gnedin (Utrecht) On the work of Andrei Okounkov on random partitions 14.45-15.10 h. Break 15.10-16.00 h. Frederico Camia (VU) An introduction to Werner's work on conformally invariant systems (I) 16.00-16.10 h. Break 16.10-17.00 h. Vincent Beffara (Lyon) An introduction to Werner's work on conformally invariant systems (II) 17.00 h. Drinks Location: Green lecture room, LG 1.105, EURANDOM Please register: http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/abstracts_seminars/23_march_stieltjes_afternoon.htm 2. Workshop on Random Graphs and Complex Networks YEP 2007 (Young European Probabilists workshop) Date/location: 19-23 March, 2007; Eindhoven, EURANDOM This workshop is the fourth in a successful series of YEP meetings at Eurandom in the years 2004-2006. The workshop offers two mini-courses: one on preferential attachment models by Oliver Riordan (Cambridge University) and one on sexual networks by Fredrik Liljeros (Stockholm University). There will also be talks by some of the participants, as well as some talks by more senior people. http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/workshops/2007/YEP07/Yep1.htm 3. Workshop Mathematical Methodologies for Operational Risk Date/location: 16-18 April, 2007; Eindhoven, EURANDOM This is the second workshop on risk and related methods. The first had the title `Risk Measures & Risk Management for High-Frequency Data' and was held on March 6-8, 2006. Both workshops are funded under the MATHFSS which is a funded project under the wider NEST programme of the EU Sixth Framework. The MATHFSS is of considerable interest because it is one of the few programmes in which mathematical centres in the EU have a joint funded project. This workshop deliberately brings together scientists from overall risk methodology, financial risk, general reliability and software reliability. The overall theme is risk metrics and measurement. http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/workshops/2007/Operational_Risk/OperationalRisk_main.htm 4. The Fourteenth Applied Probability Society of INFORMS Conference Keynote speakers: Peter Glynn (Stanford University, USA), Frank Kelly (Cambridge Univ., UK) and Alain-Sol Sznitman (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Tutorial speakers: Maury Bramson (Univ. of Minnesota, USA), Paul Glasserman (Columbia Univ., USA) and Philippe Robert (INRIA, France) The conference aims to cover all aspects of applied probability and stochastic models. http://appliedprob.society.informs.org/INFORMS2007/Index.html ************************************************************************* 3. Personalia UvA Gast: van 1 maart tot 1 juni 2007 dr.B. Schapira (gast bij prof.dr. E.M. Opdam (Algebraic Groups). Wijziging aanstelling per 1 maart 2007 drs. S. Ketelaars, van een aanstelling van 16 u. p/w als docent naar 38 u., als docent en aio, bij dr. G.M. Hek (Applied Analysis and Dynamical Systems) voor 4 jaar. ************************************************************************* 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, Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231, 12 u. 29-3 drs. D. Echeverria Ciaurri, Multi-level Optimization: Space Mapping and Manifold Mapping, promotor: prof. dr. P.W. Hemker, Agnietenkapel, 12 u. ************************************************************************* 5. Vacature Universiteit Gent Aan de Universiteit Gent bestaat een vacature voor docent of hoofddocent in het vakgebied algebra, in het bijzonder in een van de volgende deeldomeinen: permutatiegroepen; lineaire algebraische groepen. De deadline voor sollicitatie is 30 maart 2007. Zie https://webster.ugent.be/vacatures/ZAP/WE01.html . ************************************************************************* (einde mededelingen)