Subject: Mededelingen van het KWG, 2008, nr. 3 From: Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:20:17 +0100 (CET) *********************************************************************** MEDEDELINGEN VAN HET KONINKLIJK WISKUNDIG GENOOTSCHAP, 2008 nr. 3 (elektronische aflevering) De eerstvolgende aflevering verschijnt omstreeks 29 februari 2008. 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. Promoties ********************************************************************** 1. Agenda 15-2 TUD: Oratie prof.dr.ir. C. Vuik Hoogleraar Numerieke Wiskunde "Berekend in Delft" 15 u., in de Aula, Mekelweg 5 te Delft 15-2 UvA: Colloquium on Mathematical Logic Organizers: R. Iemhoff, J. Vaananen and J. van Oosten. Speaker: Samson Abramsky Full Completeness Time/location: 16-17 hrs, gebouw Euclides http://www.math.uu.nl/people/jvoosten/seminar.html 20-2 UvA: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Jochen Heinloth (UvA) Titel nog niet bekend 11.15-12.15 u., zaal P.017 http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/ 20-2 *UU: Mini-Symposium 'Application Inspired Dynamical Systems' 21-2 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch colloquium Max Karoubi (Univ. Paris 7 - Denis Diderot) Titel nog niet bekend 15.30-16.30 u., zaal 611, voorafgegaan door een half uurtje thee en koffie http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol 22-2 UU: Colloquium on Mathematical Logig Organizers: R. Iemhoff, J. Vaananen and J. van Oosten. Dag Westerstahl: Quantifiers, Freezing, Possessives and Compositionality Time/location: 16-17 hrs, Bestuursgebouw van de UU http://www.math.uu.nl/people/jvoosten/seminar.html 28-2 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch colloquium Nicolai Reshetikhin (UvA and UC Berkeley) Titel nog niet bekend 15.30-16.30 u., zaal 611, voorafgegaan door een half uurtje thee en koffie http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol 29-2 TUD: Gene Golub Memorial Symposium To honour Gene Golub's memory, a special DCSE symposium will be held. No registration is required and the attendance is free. http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/nw/users/tang/genegolub 29-2 VUA: Oratie prof.dr. R.C.A.M. van der Vorst Hoogleraar Dynamische systemen De dynamische variatierekening 15.45 u., precies, Aula, De Boelelaan 1105 5-3 UvA: Algemeen Wiskunde Colloquium Hicham Zmarrou (Deloitte) Dynamics and bifurcations of random circle diffeomorphisms 11.15 - 12.15 u.. zaal P.017 http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Calendar/colloq/ 6-3 UT: Oratie prof.dr. A.A. Stoorvogel Hoogleraar Wiskundige Systeemtheorie Aanvang/locatie: 16 u., Amphitheater van het gebouw de Vrijhof Informatie: Marja Langkamp M.Langkamp@ewi.utwente.nl 10/14-3 EURANDOM: YEP-V workshop: 'Statistical Mechanics on Random Structures' This workshop is the fifth in a successful series of YEP meetings at EURANDOM in the years 2004-2007. The main focus of the workshop will be the investigation of the large scale behaviour of systems whose 'interaction network' is modelled by random graphs. http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/workshops/2008/YEPV/YepVmain.htm 10/14-3 TUE: Minicourse by Henry Cohn 'Packing energy minimization and exceptional structures' Registration: at least two weeks before the course starts to mrs. Rianne van Lieshout / mrs. Anita Klooster at eidma@tue.nl http://www.win.tue.nl/math/eidma/index.html 12-3 Utrecht: Middagconferentie: Het voortbestaan van de wiskunde in het HBO http://www.nvvw.nl/page.php?id=7479#programma 13-3 UU: Algemeen Mathematisch colloquium Ezra Getzler (Northwestern Univ.) Lie theory for differential graded algebras 15.30-16.30 u., zaal 611, voorafgegaan door een half uurtje thee en koffie http://www.math.uu.nl/announcements/stafcol 18-3 RUG: 17de Johann Bernoullilezing The Earth: an icy planet Hans Oerlemans (IMAU) Locatie: Aula van het Academiegebouw te Groningen http://bernoulli.math.rug.nl/ 20-3 *KU Leuven, Belgie: Bcrypt ECC workshop 28-3 RU Nijmegen: Geometry and Quantum Theory colloquium (GQT) http://gqt.nl/seminar 21/22-4 TUE: Preliminary Announcement of the Grand opening of Eipsy Participation free, but registration required Prof.dr.ir. Henk van Tilborg (H.C.A.v.Tilborg@tue.nl) http://www.win.tue.nl/eipsi/ 22-4 NWO: NWO-Talent Classes http://www.nwo-talentclasses.nl 20-5 NWO: NWO-Talent Classes http://www.nwo-talentclasses.nl 29/30-5 Oegstgeest: DIAMANT/EIDMA Symposium 2-day symposium in Kasteel Oud-Poelgeest. Speakers include Mai Gehrke (RU Nijmegen), Thomas Hales (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Nicole Immorlica (CWI, Amsterdam)*, Dietrich Notbohm (VUA) (* to be confirmed)" http://websites.math.leidenuniv.nl/diamant/index.php?pid=calendar 30-5 UvA: Geometry and Quantum Theory colloquium (GQT) Location: KdV Institute for Mathematics, room P.227 Plantage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam http://gqt.nl/seminar 9/13-6 UL: Educational Week on Noncommutative Integration Stieltjes Educational Week main lecturers: Fyodor Sukochev (Flinders Univ.), Ben de Pagter (TU Delft). http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~mdejeu/NoncomIntWeek_2008 17-6 NWO: NWO-Talent Classes http://www.nwo-talentclasses.nl 23-6/18-7 ETH-Zurich: Summer school on 'Evolution Equations' Information/application form: http://www.claymath.org/programs/summer_school/2008/ or e-mail: summerschool@claymath.org Deadline for applications: February 15, 2008 24/26-6 Seville, Spain: Fifth Advanced Course in Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Speakers: K. Seip (NTNU Trondheim, Norway), J. Sjostrand (Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, France), C. Sundberg (Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA), N. Young (Univ. of Leeds, UK). http://www.congreso.us.es/ceacyto/2008 30/6-4/7 Lorentz Center, Leiden: Workshop Algebraic Geometry This workshop is a satellite of 5ECM, where the Dutch algebraic geometry community can interact in a fruitful way with the international experts. http://www.lc.leidenuniv.nl/lc/web/2008/297/info.php3?wsid=297 13/7-18/7 Amsterdam RAI: Fifth European Congress of Mathematics including the 44th Nederlands Mathematisch Congres, under auspices of the European Mathematical Society and the Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap, organised by CWI and the two Amsterdam universities htpp://www.5ecm.nl/ 21/25-7 Lorentz Center: Operator Structures and Dynamical Systems The theme of this workshop is the relationship between dynamical systems and associated operator structures in a broad sense. It is a satellite conference of 5ecm. http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2008/288/info.php3?wsid=288 27/28-8 EURANDOM: 10 jaar EURANDOM http://www.eurandom.tue.nl 8/10-10 Woudschoten: Vooraankondiging Woudschoten-conferentie 2008 De complete aankondiging zal in het voorjaar beschikbaar zijn. http://wsc.project.cwi.nl/woudschoten.php 3/7-11 TUE: EIDMA/DIAMANT minicursus lambdacalculus 5 daagse minicursus door Henk Barendregt en Jan Willem Klop ************************************************************************* 2. Colleges, voordrachtenseries, cursussen e.d. UU Mini-Symposium 'Application Inspired Dynamical Systems' Date/time/location: February 20, 2008; 9.30-17.30 hrs, Buys Ballot Laboratory, Princetonplein 5, room 105b Organized by the NWO-cluster Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Systems and at the occasion of a visit of Josef Hofbauer to the Mathematics Institute of Utrecht University. Programme 09.30 - 10.00 Coffee (and Tea) 10.00 - 10.40 Josef Hofbauer (Vienna), Evolutionary Game Dynamics 10.50 - 11.30 Bob Planque (VU, Amsterdam), Evolution of defence portfolios in exploiter-victim systems 11.40 - 12.20 Daan Crommelin (CWI, Amsterdam), Stochastic modeling of unresolved dynamical processes 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 14.40 Martin Krupa (Nijmegen), Mixed mode oscillations in a model of the dopamine neuron 14.50 - 15.30 Geertje Hek (Geneva), A slow-fast invitation 15.30 - 16.00 Tea (and Coffee) 16.00 - 16.40 Sander Hille (Leiden), Long-term dynamics of kinetic chemotaxis models: Motivation, first results and long-term perspectives 16.50 - 17.30 Thijs Ruijgrok (Utrecht), How to share a million. Replicator dynamics applied to the Nash bargaining game. Followed by a dinner in town. Information: Odo Diekmann (diekmann@math.uu.nl) or Stephan van Gils (s.a.vangils@math.utwente.nl) KU Leuven Bcrypt ECC workshop Date/location: March 20, 2008; Wolfspoort Auditorium, Huis Bethlehem, Schapenstraat 34, Leuven We would like to announce a Bcrypt one-day workshop on Eliptic Curves Cryptography that will take place on 20th of March, 2008 in K.U. Leuven. There will be three lectures on theoretical aspects of elliptic curves and three lectures on practical aspects of curve-based cryptography. Programme 09.30-10.00 Welcome coffee/thee 10.00-10.30 Frederik Vercauteren, KU Leuven: 'Pairings on Elliptic Curves' 10.35-11.05 Wouter Castryck, KU Leuven: 'Forms of Elliptic Curves' 11.05-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-12.15 Invited talk: Steven Galbraith, Royal Holloway Univ. of London: 'The Frobenius Expansion DLP' 12.15-13.30 sandwich lunch 13.30-14.15 Invited talk: Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Graz Univ. of Technology: 'Requirements, Algorithms, Architectures -- The design space of ECC hardware' 14.15-14.45 coffee break 14.45-15.15 Lejla Batina, Benedikt Gierlichs, KU Leuven: Power Analysis on Curve-based Cryptography' 15.20-15.50 Junfeng Fan, KU Leuven: 'Efficient implementation of ECC on multi-core systems' 16.00 concluding remarks Registration is free but if you intend to participate, please, send an e-mail to pela.noe@esat.kuleuven.be before 15 March 2008. Organizers: Lejla Batina, Svetla Nikova, Frederik Vercauteren. ************************************************************************* 3. Promoties VUA 18-3 Anne Fey-den Boer, Sandpile models: The infinite volume model, Zhang's model and limiting shapes, promotor: prof.dr. R.W.J. Meester, copromotor: dr. F. Redig, Aula, De Boelelaan 1105, 15.45 u. ************************************************************************* (einde mededelingen)