Plenary speakers
	and
	Special sessions

 

Plenary speakers(abstracts)
 

Tobias Colding, New York Friday, June 16, 10:45	Embedded minimal surfaces and  applications to 3-manifold topology
Nigel J. Hitchin, Oxford Thursday, June 15, 10:45	The geometry of three-forms
Johan Håstad, Stockholm Tuesday, June 13, 13:45	On efficient approximability of NP-hard  optimization problems
Elliott Lieb, Princeton Wednesday, June 14, 10:45	The quantum mechanical many-body problem and quantum electrodynamics: A highly successful but still incomplete theory
Pertti Mattila, Jyväskylä Friday, June 16, 09:30	What has Menger curvature given  to complex and harmonic analysis?
Curtis McMullen, Harvard Thursday, June 15, 09:30	The shape of the moduli space of  Riemann surfaces
Alexei Rudakov, Trondheim Wednesday, June 14, 09:30	Representations of E(3,6) and  the related structures
Karen K. Uhlenbeck, Austin Tuesday, June 13, 15:00	Integrable Systems in Geometry
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, Berkeley Tuesday, June 13, 16:30	The analogue of entropy in free probability theory

 

Special Sessions (with organizers) (programs and  abstracts)
To run in parallel, in the afternoons of June 14 and June 15.
 

1. Algebraic Groups/Representation Theory (Henning Haahr Andersen, Århus; and Niels Lauritzen, Århus)

2. Complex Analysis in Higher Dimensions (Finnur Larusson,  London, Ontario; and Ragnar Sigurdsson, Reykjavik, Iceland.)

3. Differential Geometry (Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook; and Peter Petersen, UCLA. Local anchor: Henrik Pedersen, Odense)

4. Discrete Mathematics (Iiro Honkala, Turku; and Carsten Thomassen, Lyngby. Local anchor: Bjarne Toft, Odense.)

5. Dynamical Systems (Michael Benedicks, <michaelb@math.kth.se>, Stockholm; and Carsten Lunde Petersen, <lunde@ruc.dk>, Roskilde)

6. Geometric Analysis/PDE (Gerd Grubb, København; and Bent Ørsted, Odense.)

7. Joint EWM and AWM session (Lisbeth Fajstrup, Ålborg; Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen, <thk@ruc.dk>, Roskilde; and Christina Wiis Tønnesen-Friedman, <toennes@imf.au.dk>, Århus. Local anchor: Ellen S. Munkholm,  <ellen@imada.sdu.dk>, Odense.)

8. K-theory and Operator Algebras (Søren Eilers, København; and Nigel Higson, Penn State)

9. Linear Spaces of Holomorphic Functions (Peter Duren, Michigan; Michael Stessin, Albany; Harold Shapiro <shapiro@math.kth.se>, Stockholm)

10. Mathematical Physics (Bergfinnur Durhuus, København, and Kurt Johansson, Stockholm. Local anchor: Henrik Pedersen, Odense)

11. Mathematics Education (Claus Michelsen, Odense, and   Martti E. Pesonen, Joensuu)

12. Stochastic DE and Financial Mathematics (Tomas Björk, Stockholm, and Bernt Øksendal, Oslo.Local anchor: Kristian R. Miltersen, Odense)