Forthcoming activities

ICTP-ESF School and Conference in Dynamical Systems (smr2340)

Organisers: S. Luzzatto (ICTP), M. Viana, J-C Yoccoz

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Contact E-Mail: smr2340%at%ictp.it

Deadline: 29 February 2012 - Deadline extended if NOT requesting financial support NOR visa assistance

TOPICS:
- Chaotic dynamics: homoclinic bifurcations, attractors, generic systems, partial hyperbolicity and dominated splitting, Lorenz attractors.

- Conservative dynamics: KAM and Aubry-Mather theories, diffusion in Hamiltonian systems, billiards, infinite dimensional systems, celestial mechanics.

- Ergodic Theory: Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures, stochastic stability, Lyapunov exponents, linear cocycles, spectral theory of Schrodinger operators, recurrence and applications to Number Theory.

- Geometric, algebraic, and topological aspects of Dynamics: smooth group actions, knots and braids, commutators.

- One-dimensional dynamics: density of hyperbolicity, parametrized families of transformations, stochastic versus regular behavior.

Invited Speakers:
Jose Alves (Porto), Artur Avila (Paris-Jussieu/IMPA), Jairo Bochi (PUC-Rio), Viviane Baladi (Paris-ENS), Christian Bonatti (Dijon), Alexander Bufetov (Steklov-IITP-HSE), Sylvain Crovisier (Paris-Orsay), Lorenzo J. Diaz (PUC-Rio), Hakan Eliasson (Paris-Jussieu), Vadim Kaloshin (Maryland), Carlangelo Liverani (Rome), Mikhail Lyubich (Stony Brook), Stefano Marmi (Pisa), Marco Martens (Stony Brook), Carlos Matheus (Paris-Villetaneuse), Andres Navas (USACH-Chile), Carlos Gustavo Moreira (IMPA), Maria Jose Pacifico (UFRJ-Rio de Janeiro), Yakov Pesin (Penn State), Vilton Pinheiro (Bahia), Enrique Pujals (IMPA), Juan Rivera-Letelier (PUC-Chile), Sebastian van Strien (Warwick), Masato Tsujii (Kyushu), Dmitry Turaev (Imperial College), Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern).

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ICTP-ESF School and Conference on Geometric Analysis (smr2345)

C. Arezzo (ICTP), F. Pacard, R. Schoen, Gang Tian

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Contact E-Mail: smr2345%at%ictp.it

Deadline: 31 January 2012

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is organizing a School and Conference on Geometric Analysis within the framework of the ICTP-ESF Series of High Level Conferences on Geometry and Dynamics. The activity will be held from 11 to 29 June 2012, in Trieste, Italy. It will be directed by C. Arezzo (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), F. Pacard (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) and R. Schoen (Stanford University, USA).

MAIN TOPICS

- EVOLUTION EQUATIONS ON REAL AND COMPLEX MANIFOLDS
- RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY AND GENERAL RELATIVITY
- EXTREMAL KAEHLER METRICS

The first two weeks (11 - 22 June) will be an Advanced School with six mini-courses of high level on the main topics above given by the following lecturers:

S. Brendle (Stanford)
F. Pacard (Ecole Polytechnique)
T. Riviere (ETH)
R. Schoen (Stanford)
G. Tian (Princeton and Beijing)
P. Topping (Warwick)

The third week (25 - 29 June) will be an International Conference on Geometric Analysis . Its primary aim is to promote interaction among the leaders in Geometric Analysis and to introduce and discuss front-line research with young participants from all over the world.

The tentative list of speakers of the third week's Conference (24-29 June), includes: R. Berman, Jingyi Chen, J. Corvino, J. Fine, R. Gicquaud, V. Guedj, J. Isenberg, G. La Nave, C. Le Brun, Chi Li, Jiayu Li, A. Malchiodi, F. Marques, D. Pollack, Song Sun, J. Viaclovsky, Xiaohua Zhu.


PARTICIPATION
Mathematicians from all countries which are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the activity.

Scientific background on the area of the School and Conference is essential.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2012

HOW TO APPLY FOR PARTICIPATION

Applicants located in ESF member countries (link: http://www.esf.org/about-esf/what-is-the-european-science-foundation/78-member-organisations.html) or non-developing countries should apply at the "ESF Online Application".

All other applicants should apply at the "ICTP Online Application".


ACTIVITY SECRETARIAT:
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
(SMR 2345)
Strada Costiera 11
I-34151 Trieste, Italy

Telefax: +39-040-2240-7490 - E-mail: smr2345@ictp.it

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School and Workshop on Computational Algebra and Number Theory (smr2346)

H. Cohen, G. Tornaria, W. Stein, F. Rodriguez Villegas; Local Organiser: R. Ramakrishnan

Contact E-Mail: smr2346%at%ictp.it

TOPIC
The aim of the School and Workshop is to introduce the problems and methods of computational algebra and number theory. Recently, enormous progress has been made in this area, both as a consequence of the increased computing capabilities and the development of powerful algorithms and their associated mathematics. The workshop will focus on the interplay between high level theoretical mathematics and the challenges and successes of its computational counterpart.

During the second week of this activity, an AIM workshop, co-sponsored by the NSF and ICTP, will be held from June 25 - 29, 2012. This workshop entitled Hypergeometric Motives will be an intense and focused research activity centered around the L-functions that arise from hypergeometric data. The goal is to deepen the theoretical and computational understanding of these L-functions. More information can be found at:

http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/hypermotives.html

At the end of the first week, the organizers will invite some of the school participants to join the more focused AIM workshop. The school will continue into the second week, which may be more in the style of a conference.

PARTICIPATION
Scientists from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Workshop. As the activity will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. There is no registration fee. Travel and subsistence expenses of participants should be borne by their home institutions. Limited funds are available for some participants who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, to be selected by the Organizers. However, every effort should be made by candidates to secure at least partial support for their travel expenses.

Deadline for applications
28 February 2012

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ICTP-IPM Workshop and Conference in Combinatorics and Graph Theory (smr2364)

R. A. Brualdi and G.B Khosrovshahi. Local Organiser: S. Luzzatto. Associate Director: Saieed Akbari

Contact E-Mail: smr2364%at%ictp.it

Deadline: 30 May 2012

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in conjunction with the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) in Tehran, Iran is organizing a "Workshop and Conference on Combinatorics and Graph Theory", to be held from 3 September to 14 September, 2012 in Trieste, Italy. The purpose of these activities is:

Workshop - the first week, 3 - 8 September
To broaden and deepen the knowledge and techniques of those working in combinatorics and graph theory, especially young researchers, and to afford an opportunity for interaction with established researchers. There will be six mini-courses given by distinguished scholars.

Conference - the second week, 10 - 14 September
To explore further and expand on the ideas developed in the Workshop and to learn about the latest directions in research. In addition to plenary lectures given by leading researchers, there will be sessions in which participants can present their work.

Main Topics
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- Graphs and Hypergraphs,

- Spectral Graph Theory,

- Combinatorial Designs and Matrices,

- Algebraic Combinatorics and Permutations,

- Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics and Random Combinatorics,

- Extremal and Quantum Combinatorics,

- Latin Squares and Hadamard Matrices,

- Combinatorial Enumeration.


WORKSHOP LECTURERS:
Chris Godsil (Canada), Willem Haemers (The Netherlands), Bruce Sagan (USA), Joel Spencer (USA), Adrian Bondy (France), Richard M. Wilson (USA).

CONFERENCE INVITED SPEAKERS:
Saieed Akbari (Iran), Ravi Bapat (India), Aart Blokhuis (The Netherlands), Adrian Bondy (France), Francesco Brenti (Italy), Maria Chudnovsky (USA), Penny Haxell (Canada), Gyula Katona (Hungary), Hadi Kharaghani (Canada), Michael Krivelevich (Israel), Brendan McKay (Australia), Dhruv Mubayi (USA), Patric Ostergard (Finland), Shahriar Shahriari (USA), Behruz Tayfeh-Rezaie (Iran), Ian Wanless (Australia), Avi Wigderson (USA)*, Catherine Yan (USA).

* to be confirmed

PARTICIPATION
Mathematicians from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Activity. As it will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help researchers from developing nations through a programme of training activities within the framework of international cooperation, students and scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare). However, limited funds are available for some participants who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire activity. There is no registration fee.

Scientific background on the area of the Workshop & Conference is essential.

Activity Secretariat:
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Strada Costiera 11,
I-34151 Trieste,
Italy
Telefax: +39-040-2240-7455
E-mail: smr2364@ictp.it

DEADLINE: 30 MAY 2012

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