Conferences and Seminars in Dynamical Systems – 2012

• Séminaire Nicolas BOURBAKI

Institut Henri Poincaré (Amphithéâtre Hermite)

11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5e.

21 January, 2012

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• Inaugural Conference of the Laboratory Fibonacci

5 March 2012 – 8 March 2012

          

 The Laboratory Fibonacci is a new research unit in mathematics hosted by the Centro De Giorgi in Pisa, fruit of an agreement between the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. To celebrate its birth, a meeting will take place at the Centro de Giorgi, from the afternoon of March 5 to March 8. The first afternoon will be devoted to contributions from Italian and French authorities and two general talks. The rest of the meeting will cover three topics where the Italy-France mathematical cooperation is particularly successful and developed, namely dynamical systems, linear and nonlinear wave equations and optimal mass transportation.

      Speakers: Thomas Alazard,  Sylvain Arlot,  Patrick Bernard,  Jérôme Bertrand, Giuseppe Buttazzo, Guillaume Carlier, Alain Chenciner, Scipio Cuccagna, Jacopo De Simoi, Daniele Del Santo, Luca Fanelli, Albert Fathi, Jacques Féjoz, Nicola Gigli, David Lannes, Luca Marchese, Carlos Matheus, Guy Métivier, Laure Saint-Raymond, Yannick Sire, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz.

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• A workshop in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

  March 22-March 25, 2012

The Keynote speakers:
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

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• Spring 2012 Meeting of the Workshop on Dynamical Systems and Related Topics 

March 31- April 3 , 2012

(Saturday-Tuesday)

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• Ergodic geometry and dynamics in the moduli space: a crossview.

   Marseille (Luminy)  -  April 10-14, 2012

   Lecture series of A. Eskin, E. Lanneau, J.-F. Quint, O. Sarig

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• School and Conference in Dynamical Systems

Trieste – Italy (Main Lecture Hall) ,    21 May 2012 – 8 June 2012

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

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• Dynamics of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow

American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California

June 18 – 22, 2012

Organized by: Keith Burns, Howard Masur,

Amie Wilkinson, and Scott Wolpert

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• First Balzan Symposium in Dynamical Systems

IMPA, Rio de Janeiro —  June 26-29, 2012

TWAS-ROLAC Prize for Young Scientists 2011

The TWAS Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean is happy to announce the winners of the TWAS-ROLAC Prize for Young Scientists 2011.

A total 6 talented young candidates were nominated by fellow scientists across Latin America. Based on the evaluations expressed by TWAS Fellows in the region, the Executive Council of TWAS-ROLAC has decided to award:

Irasema Alcántara Ayala – Mexico – Earth Sciences

Fernando Coda Marques – Brazil – Mathematics    Congratulations!!!

Aimé Peláis Barranco – Cuba – Physics

The 2011 Prize for Young Scientists will be delivered during the 10th TWAS-ROLAC Conference for Young Scientists, to be held  from December 7^th  to 9th, 2011 in Trinidad Tobago. On the occasion the awardees will make a presentation of their works.

Conference Dynamics and Geometry

Paris, 20th - 24th June 2011

Institut Henri Poincaré, Amphithéâtre Hermite

Program

The conference will consist in lectures (3 lessons), each by:

• Yves Benoist (Université Paris 11) –  Stationary measures on finite volume homogeneous spaces

• Jean-Pierre Demailly (Université Grenoble 1) - Holomorphic Morse inequalities and the Green-Griffiths conjecture

• Ngaiming Mok (University of Hong Kong) – Techniques of Analytic Continuation in Complex Geometry related to bounded symmetric domains (abstract)

• Yakov Pesin (Pennsylvania State University) - Stable Ergodicity of Partially Hyperbolic Systems

• Nessim Sibony (Université Paris 11) - Analysis on laminations by Riemann Surfaces (abstract)

• Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard University) - (to be announced)

• Anton Zorich (Université Rennes 1) - Lyapunov exponents of the hodge bundle with respect to the Teichmuller geodesic flow

There will be also a session on open problems.

Fermat Prize – Award 2011

The FERMAT PRIZE rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de FERMAT have been decisive :

* Statements of Variational Principles (and PDE’s)
* Foundations of Probability and Analytical Geometry
* Number theory.

Download the rules governing the award here

The spirit of the prize is focused on rewarding the results of researches accessible to the greatest number of professional mathematicians within these fields.

The amount of the Fermat prize has been fixed at 20 000 Euros. The FERMAT prize is awarded once every two years in Toulouse.

Winners of the preceding editions:

A. Bahri, K.A. Ribet (1989) – J.-L. Colliot-Thélène (1991) – J.-M. Coron (1993) – A.J. Wiles (1995) – M. Talagrand (1997) – F. Bethuel, F. Hélein (1999) – R. L. Taylor, W. Werner (2001) – L. Ambrosio (2003) – P. Colmez, J.F. Le Gall (2005) – C. Khare (2007) – E. Lindenstrauss, C. Villani (2009).

Candidacy formalities 2011

The application file can be completed and submitted by the candidate him/herself or by a mathematician wishing to “sponsor” the candidacy of another, and who would complete the application on his/her behalf (without the candidate necessarily being aware of it).Application :

1. Detailed curriculum vitae and academic record of the candidate
2. List of publications, including works not connected with application to the Prize
3. A summary of research work which would justify the award of the Prize
4. A handwritten statement by the candidate or sponsor attesting to the truthfulness of the material supplied, and to the authenticity of the documents and other information provided.

To back up this presentation, the following could also be appended:
- copies of work published in international journals;
- confidential opinions of personalities from the world of Mathematics as to the content, range and usefulness of the results presented by the candidate.

These documents are non-returnable.

Applications are to be sent to the organising secretariat of the Fermat Prize :

• by email at : Prix.Fermat@math.univ-toulouse.fr

• by mail at :   Prix Fermat de Recherche en Mathématiques

Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse 3)
31062 Toulouse cedex 9
France

Closing date for application forms : 30 June 2011

Banach Center Conferences

Modern Dynamics and its Interaction with Analysis,
Geometry and Number Theory

27 June, 2011 – 24 July, 2011

Będlewo – Polska

WEEK 1: Tutorial preparatory courses, Jun 27 -July 2
Audience: about 30-35 Ph.D students from all over the world with significant Polish participation

WEEKS 2-3: Advanced summer school, July 4-16
Audience: about 60-70 participants including those from week 1, plus advanced graduate students, recent Ph.D’s and mathematicians of various ages interested in various aspects of the subject

WEEK 4: Workshop for 100 participants, July 18-23

The main aim of the summer school is to provide to participants modern methods of dynamical systems oriented to applications in analysis, geometry and number theory. This area is one of best developing in modern mathematics; one of the leaders of this area, Elon Lindenstrauss, was awarded Fields Medal during the last ICM (India, Hydebarad). The concluding workshop will sum up the current scientific knowledge of the subject.

First week courses are aimed at the beginning and middle years Ph.D. students who have good knowledge of real analysis and basic topology but may not have sufficient familiarity with basics of dynamics and the theory of Lie groups. The goal is to bring participants at the level necessary to participate in the advanced courses.

In addition to the participants of week 1 advanced courses are aimed at advanced graduate students, your researchers working in dynamical systems and related areas as well as to mathematicians of all ages interested in various aspects of the subjects. There is no requirement to take all advanced courses simultaneously. In fact it is expected that each participant will participated on the average in four courses out of six.

Financial support toward local expenses for a restricted number of participants will be available (REGISTRATION FORM). If you need any additional information contact one of organizers.

Principal subjects for the school courses:

TUTORIALS, Week 1

Omri Sarig:
Introduction to ergodic theory,

Francois Ledrappier: (to be confirmed)
Introduction to smooth ergodic theory,

Alexander Gorodnik:
Basics of Lie groups, Discrete subgroups and arithmetic groups for dynamicists,

Each course is expected to run daily with a double lecture: two parts 45-50 minutes with a break.
It is planned a seminar run by A. Katok in the evenings during the first week to help tying loose ends.

ADVANCED COURSES

Livio Flaminio:
Introduction to the theory of unitary group representations and its applications to dynamics
Weeks 2-3

Giovanni Forni and Carlos Matheus:
Introduction to Teichmuller theory and its applications to dynamics of interval exchange transformations, flows on surfaces and billiards.
Weeks 2-3

Federico Rodriguez Hertz:
Measure rigidity for group actions
Weeks 2-3

Anatole Katok and Zhenqi Jenny Wang:
Introduction to KAM (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) method and its applications to rigidity of group actions
Weeks 2-3

Manfred Einsiedler:
Dynamical methods in uniform distribution and group representations
Week 2

Michael Hochman:
Interactions between ergodic theory and fractal geometry
Weeks 2-3

Prêmio Clay 2011

Clay Research Award

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The Clay Mathematics Institute presents the Clay Research Award annually to recognize major breakthroughs in mathematical research. Awardees receive the bronze sculpture “Figureight Knot Complement VII/CMI” by sculptor Helaman Ferguson.

Yves Benoist and Jean-François Quint

For their spectacular work on stationary measures and orbit closures for actions of non-abelian groups on homogeneous spaces. This work is a major breakthrough in homogeneous dynamics and related areas of mathematics. In particular, Benoist and Quint proved the following conjecture of Furstenberg. Let H be a Zariski dense semisimple subgroup of a Lie group which acts by left translations on the quotient of G by a discrete subgroup with finite covolume. Consider a probability measure m on H whose support generates H. Then any m-stationary probability measure for such an action is H-invariant.

Jonathan Pila

For his resolution of the André-Oort Conjecture in the case of products of modular curves. This work gives the first unconditional proof of fundamental cases of these general conjectures beyond the original theorem of André concerning the product of two such curves. The foundational techniques that Pila developed to achieve this breakthrough range from results in real analytic geometry which give sharp upper bounds for the number of rational points of bounded height on certain analytic sets, to the use of O-minimal structures in mathematical logic.

Clay Conference

Clay Research Conference, May 16-17

Harvard Science Center
Lecture Hall A
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Schedule

Monday, May 16

9:15-9:45	Coffee
9:45-10:45	Jean-François Quint Stationary measures on homogeneous spaces (I)
11:00-12:00	Yves Benoist Stationary measures on homogeneous spaces (II)
12:00-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:30	Presentation of Clay Research Awards
2:30-3:30	Alex Eskin The SL(2,R) action on moduli space
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-4:45	Alex Wilkie The relevance of logic to transcendental number theory: a motivated account
5:00-6:30	Reception at the Clay Mathematics Institute, Hilbert Space

Tuesday, May 17

9:15-9:45	Coffee
9:45-10:45	Jonathan PilaDiophantine geometry via o-minimality
11:00-12:00	Mihalis Dafermos Recent progress in mathematical general relativity
12:00-1:45	Lunch
1:45-2:45	Peter Sarnak TBA
3:00-4:00	Manjul Bhargava TBA

Conferences

Rice University, Houston

March 24-27, 2011

This conference is the fifth in a series of triennial colloquia devoted to the mathematical legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. The core heritage is in geometric function theory, quasiconformal mapping, Teichmüller theory and Kleinian groups, hyperbolic manifolds, and partial differential equations including Schramm/Stochastic-Loewner-Evolution/Equations. Today we see the influence of Ahlfors and Bers on algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, dynamics, probability, geometric group theory, number theory and topology.

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Organised by the Platon GDR 3341 of the CNRS

May 23-27,2011
University Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
Small amphi – Building 425

Themes:

* Discrete subgroups of Lie groups;
* Flows on homogeneous and moduli space;
* Equidistribution of integer points and of submanifolds;
* Random walks on Lie groups;
* Diophantine approximation,Higher Teichmüller theory.

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Beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity 2011

This conference on Dynamical Systems will be held at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (C.I.R.M.) in Marseilles in June 2011 (from 5th to 17th).

In keeping with the previous meetings on global dynamics beyond uniform hyperbolicity (Beijing 2009, Chicago 2006, Buzios 2003, Chicago 2001), the focus will be on the global qualitative study (topological and ergodic) of differentiable dynamical systems, especially diffeomorphisms and vector fields, that are not uniformly hyperbolic. Among the main topics to be covered are:

1. Hyperbolicity:
   1. Partial hyperbolicity    (Classification, rigidity, )
   2. Nonuniform hyperbolicity
   3. Singular hyperbolicity
   4. Lyapunov exponents
   5. Dimension
   6. Statistical properties
2. Global & Semi Local Properties:
   1. The C1‐topology
   2. Bifurcations
3. Other topics:
   1. Symbolic extensions
   2. Teichmuller space dynamics
   3. Actions of discrete groups on manifolds

   Our aim is to form a group of 80 mathematicians including of the main international actors in these subjects, as well as young mathematicians and students. We plan to have a few mini-courses and plenary lectures, so that a large part of the time will be devoted to informal discussions. A number of lecture rooms will be available to the participants for more specialized sessions. The CIRM is located in a wonderful place that offers many possibilities for discussing math during a walk in the famous “calanques”. It also features a research library and computer services (see the CIRM web site here).

A Week in the Life of a Mathematician (Math poem)

The poem below appeared in The London Mathematical Society Newsletter, September 2009.

The description is perfect !!!

A Week in the Life of a Mathematician

‘Twas on a Monday morning I had a bright idea,
I was lying in the bath tub and the strategy seemed clear,
For a problem posed by Erdös back in nineteen forty nine,
On sequences dilated into subsets of the line

‘Twas on a Tuesday morning I jotted down my thoughts,
I covered backs of envelopes with surds and aleph noughts.
After several cups of coffee I began to feel inspired,
And a lengthy calculation gave the answer I desired.

‘Twas on a Wednesday morning I wrote the details out.
My lemmas and corollaries left little room for doubt.
I filled up many pages just to get the logic right,
And with epsilons and deltas I made it watertight.

‘Twas on a Thursday morning I typed the paper up,
With “slash subset” and “slash mapsto” to say nothing of “slash cup”.
My LaTeXing was perfect, printed out it looked so good,
Should I send it to the Annals? I rather thought I would!

‘Twas on a Friday morning I read the paper through,
I checked out every detail as good authors ought to do.
At the bottom of page twenty in an integral I found,
I’d divided through by zero and the proof crashed to the ground.

On Saturday and Sunday I was too depressed to care,
So ’twas on a Monday morning that I had my next idea.

KJF

Pisa 2007 lectures notes of J. C. Yoccoz

In 2007, the Clay Math. Institute sponsored a Summer School on Homogenous Flows, Moduli Spaces and Arithmetic. A nice feature of this summer school was the fact that the speakers were invited to provide lecture notes of their mini-courses. In particular, a few days ago, J. C. Yoccoz made his lectures notes publicly available at his website (see here) because he also plans to use them for his forthcoming 2009-2010 course at College de France (see Yoccoz homepage or this previous post).