International Congress of Mathematicians

Hyderabad, India

August 19 - 27, 2010

Schedule of Invited Talks

(Sectionwise)

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1 Logic and Foundations

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Room No. 1.06Chair: R. Ramanujam

15:00 - 15:451.1 A. Nies, University of Auckland, New ZealandInteractions of computability and randomness16:00 - 16:451.2 Y. Peterzil, University of Haifa, Israel/ S. Starchenko, University ofNotre Dame, USATame complex analysis and o-minimality

Friday, August 27, 2010 Room No. 1.06Chair: H. Woodin

15:00 - 15:451.3 J. T. Moore, Cornell University, USAThe proper forcing axiom

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2 Algebra

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Hall 4Chair: R. Parimala

15:00 - 15:452.1 P. Balmer, University of California, Los Angeles, USATensor triangular geometry16:00 - 16:452.2 V. Suresh, University of Hyderabad, IndiaQuadratic forms,Galois cohomology and function fields of p-adic curves

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Hall 4Chair: I. Reiten

15:00 - 15:452.3 D. J. Benson, University of Aberdeen, UKModules for elementary abelian p-groups16:00 - 16:452.4 S. Fomin, University of Michigan, USATotal positivity and cluster algebras

Thursday, August 26, 2010 Hall 4Chair: I. B. S. Passi

15:00 - 15:452.5 N. Karpenko, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FranceCanonical dimension16:00 - 16:452.6 Z. Reichstein, University of British Columbia, CanadaEssential dimension

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3 Number Theory

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. 1.02Chair: Kumar Murty

15:00 - 15:453.1 R. Heath-Brown, University of Oxford, UKArtin’s conjecture on zeros of p-adic forms16:00 - 16:453.2 C. Breuil, IHES, FranceThe emerging p-adic Langlands programme17:00 - 17:453.3 K. S. Kedlaya, MIT, USARelative p-adic Hodge Theory and Rapoport-Zink period domains

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Hall 4Chair: R. Balasubramanian

15:00 - 15:453.4 M. Kisin, Harvard University, USAThe structure of potentially semi-stable deformation rings16:00 - 16:453.5 K. Soundararajan, Stanford University, USAQuantum unique ergodicity and number theory17:00 - 17:453.6 R. Greenberg, University of Washington, USASelmer groups and congruences18:00 - 18:453.7 C. B. Khare, University of California, Los Angeles, USASerre’s modularity conjecture, I

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Hall 4Chair: R. Heath-Brown

16:00 - 16:453.8 J-P. Wintenberger, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, FranceSerre’s modularity conjecture, II

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Friday, August 27, 2010 Hall 4Chair: M. Waldschmidt

15:00 - 15:453.9 A. Venkatesh, Stanford University, USAStatistics of number fields and function fields16:00 - 16:453.10 T. Saito, University of Tokyo, JapanWild ramification of schemes and sheaves17:00 - 17:453.11 S. Morel, Harvard University, USAThe intersection complex as a weight truncation and an application to Shimuravarieties

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4 Algebraic and Complex Geometry

Friday, August 20, 2010Chair: V. Lakshmibai

15:00-15:454.1 R. Thomas, Imperial College, London, UKAn exercise in mirror symmetry16:00-16:454.2 C. Hacon, University of Utah, USABoundedness results in birational geometry17:00-17:454.3 S. Saito, University of Tokyo, JapanCohomological Hasse principle and motivic cohomology

Sunday, August 22, 2010Chair: V. Srinivas

15:00-15:454.4 J. McKernan, MIT, USAFlips and flops16:00-16:454.5 M. Paun, Universte Henri PoincareQuantitative extensions of twisted pluricanonical forms and non-vanishing17:00-17:454.6 D. Huybrechts, University of Bonn, GermanyHyperkahler manifolds and sheaves18:00-18:454.7 D. Kaledin, Independent University of Moscow, RussiaMotivic structures in non-commutative geometry

Wednesday, August 25, 2010Chair: R. Piene

15:00-15:454.8 P. Belkale, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USAThe tangent space to an enumerative problem16:00-16:454.9 J-Y. Welschinger, Universite Lyon 1, FranceIntegral invariants in real enumerative geometry

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Friday, August 27Chair: C. Voisin

15:00-15:454.10 F-O. Shreyer, Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, GermanyBetti numbers of syzygies and cohomologies of coherent sheaves16:00-16:454.11 C-C. M. Liu, Columbia University, USAGromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau 3-folds17:00-17:454.12 V. Srinivas, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IndiaAlgebraic cycles on singular varieties

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5 Geometry

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. 2.03Chair: T. R. Ramadas

15:00 - 15:455.1 F. C. Marques, IMPA, BrazilScalar curvature, conformal geometry and the Ricci flow with surgery16:00 - 16:455.2 F. Pacard, Universite de Paris-Est, Creteil, FranceConstant scalar curvature and extremal Kahler metrics on blow-ups17:00 - 17:455.3 J. Fu, Fudan University, P. R. of ChinaOn non-Kahler Calabi-Yau three folds with balanced metrics

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. 2.03Chair: R. Kulkarni

15:00 - 15:455.4 A. Erschler, Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France(Talk delivered by A. Eskin)Poisson-Furstenberg boundaries, large scale geometry and growth of groups16:00 - 16:455.5 W. Goldman, University of Maryland, USALocally homogeneous geometric manifolds17:00 - 17:455.6 L. Guth, University of Toronto, CanadaMetaphors in systolic geometry

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. 2.03Chair: W. Goldman

17:00 - 17:455.7 I. Fernandez, University of Seville, Spain/P. Mira, Universidad Politecnicade Cartagena, SpainConstant mean curvature surfaces in 3-dimensional Thurston geometries

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Thursday, August 26, 2010 Room No. 2.03Chair R. Schoen

15:00 - 15:4515:00 - 15:455.8 X. Ma, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris, FranceGeometric quantization on Kahler and symplectic manifolds16:00 - 16:455.9 S. Ivanov, St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Insti-tute, RussiaVolume comparison via boundary distances17:00 - 17:455.10 A. Nabutovsky, University of Toronto, CanadaMorse landscapes of Riemannian functionals and related topics

Friday, August 27, 2010 Room No. 2.03Chair: S. Ivanov

15:00 - 15:455.11 T. Januszkiewicz, Ohio State University, USASimplicial nonpositive curvature16:00 - 16:455.12 T. Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba, JapanReconstruction of collapsed manifolds

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6 Topology

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. 1.01Chair: R. Thomas

15:00 - 15:456.1 D. Auroux, University of California, Berkeley, USAFukaya categories and bordered Heegard-Floer homology16:00 - 16:456.2 D. Gabai, Princeton University, USAHyperbolic geometry in the 2000s17:00 - 17:456.3 J. Lurie, Harvard University, USAModuli problems for ring spectra

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. 1.01Chair: M. Mirzakhani

15:00 - 15:456.4 W. Luck, Westphalische Wilhelms Universitat, Munster, GermanyK and L theory of group rings16:00 - 16:456.5 J. Grodal, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkThe classification of p-compact groups and homotopical group theory17:00 - 17:456.6 U. Hamenstadt, University of Bonn, GermanyActions of the mapping class group

Thursday, August 26, 2010 Room No. 1.01Chair: J-Y. Welschinger

15:00 - 15:456.7 K. Costello, Northwestern University, USAA geometric construction of the Witten genus I16:00 - 16:456.8 M. Mirzakhani, Stanford University, USAOn Weil-Petersson volumes and geometry of random hyperbolic surfaces17:00 - 17:456.9 M. Hutchings, University of California, Berkeley, USAEmbedded contact homology and its applications

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Friday, August 27, 2010 Room No. 1.01Chair: M. Hutchings

15:00 - 15:456.10 M. Lackenby, Oxford University, UKFinite covering spaces of 3-manifolds16:00 - 16:456.11 J. Park, Seoul National University, Republic of KoreaA new family of complex surfaces of general type with pg = 017:00 - 17:456.12 A. Stipsicz, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, HungaryOzsvath-Szabo invariants and 3-dimensional contact topology

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7 Lie Theory and Generalizations

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. G05Chair: R. Parthasarathy

15:00 - 15:457.1 C. Stroppel, University of Bonn, GermanySchur-Weyl dualities and link homologies16:00 - 16:457.2 T. N. Venkataramana, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IndiaCohomology of arithmetic groups and representations17:00 - 17:457.3 H. Oh, Brown University, USADynamics on geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with applications toApollonian circle packings and beyond18:00-18:457.4 A. Eskin, University of Chicago, USAQuasi-isometric rigidity of solvable groups

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. G05Chair: T. N. Venkataramana

15:00 - 15:457.5 I. Gordon, University of Edinburgh, UKRational Cherednik algebras16:00 - 16:457.6 I. Losev, MIT, USAFinite W -algebras17:00 - 17:457.7 Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USATensor product decomposition

Thursday, August 26, 2010 Room No. G05Chair: Shrawan Kumar

15:00 - 15:457.8 N. A. Shah, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IndiaEquidistribution of translates of curves on homogeneous spaces and Dirich-let’s approximation16:00 - 16:457.9 E. Lapid, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelSome applications of the trace formula and the relative trace formula

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8 Analysis

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: G. Pisier

15:00 - 15:458.1 M. Csornyei, University College, London, UKDifferentiability of Lipschitz functions, structure of null sets and other prob-lems16:00 - 16:458.2 A. Kuijlaars, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, BelgiumMultiple orthogonal polynomials in random matrix theory17:00 - 17:458.3 A. R. Its, IUPUI, Indianapolis, USAAsymptotic analysis of the Toeplitz and Hankel determinants via the Riemann-Hilbert method

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: A. Sitaram

15:00 - 15:458.4 T. Toro, University of Washington, USAPotential theory meets geometric measure theory16:00 - 16:458.5 M. Sodin, Tel Aviv University, IsraelNodal lines of random waves17:00 - 17:458.6 F. Nazarov, University of Wisconsin, USARandom complex zeroes

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: S. Bagchi

15:00 - 15:458.7 P. Koskela, University of Jyvaskyla, FinlandRegularity of the inverse of a Sobolev homeomorphism16:00 - 16:458.8 G. Martin, Massey University, New ZealandQuasiregular mappings, curvature and dynamics

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9 Functional Analysis and Applications

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. 1.05Chair: V. S. Sunder

15:00 - 15:459.1 M. Izumi, Kyoto University, JapanGroup actions on operator algebras16:00 - 16:459.2 S. Vaes, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, BelgiumRigidity for von Neumann algebras and their invariants17:00 - 17:459.3 D. Shlyakhtenko, University of California, Los Angeles, USAFree probability, planar algebras, subfactors and random matrices

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Room No. 1.05Chair: R. Bhatia

15:00 - 15:459.4 A. Naor, New York University, USAL1 embeddings of the Heisenberg group and fast estimation of graph isoperime-try16:00 - 16:459.5 M. Rudelson, University of Missouri, USA/R. Vershynin, University ofMichigan, USANon-asymptotic theory of random matrices: extreme singular values17:00 - 17:459.6 D. Gaboriau, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, FranceOrbit equivalence and measured group theory

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10 Dynamical Systems and

Ordinary Differential Equations

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. G05Chair: M. Viana

15:00 - 15:4510.1 M-C. Arnaud, Universite d’ Avignon et des Pays de VaucluseGreen bundles and related topics16:00 - 16:4510.2 G. Contreras, CIMAT, MexicoGeneric dynamics of geodesic flows17:00 - 17:4510.3 D. Turaev, Imperial College, London, UKRichness of chaos in the absolute Newhouse domain

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Room No. G05Chair: S. G. Dani

15:00 - 15:4510.4 P. Bernard, Universite de Paris-Dauphine, FranceArnold’s diffusion: from the a priori unstable to the a priori stable case16:00 - 16:4510.5 M. L. Einsiedler, ETH, Zurich, SwitzerlandApplications of measure rigidity of diagonal actions17:00 - 17:4510.6 A. Wilkinson, Northwestern University, USAConservative partially hyperbolic dynamics

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. G05Chair: V. Kannan

15:00 - 15:4510.7 X. Buff/ A. Cheritat, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, FranceQuadratic Julia sets with positive area16:00 - 16:4510.8 F. Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL, UruguayMeasure theory and geometric topology in dynamics

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Friday, August 27, 2010 Room No. G05Chair: W. de Melo

15:00 - 15:4510.9 C-Q. Cheng, Nanjing University, P. R. of ChinaVariational construction of diffusion orbits for positive definite Lagrangians16:00 - 16:4510.10 O. Sarig, Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelUnique ergodicity for infinite measures

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11 Partial Differential Equations

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. G03Chair: C. Kenig

15:00 - 15:4511.1 S. Chen, Fudan University, P. R. of ChinaStudy of multidimensional systems of conservation laws: problems, difficul-ties and progress16:00 - 16:4511.2 N. Dencker, University of Lund, SwedenThe solvability of differential equations17:00 - 17:4511.3 N. Burq, Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, FranceRandom data Cauchy theory for dispersive partial differential equations

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Room No. G03Chair: E. N. Dancer

15:00 - 15:4511.4 M. del Pino, University of Chile, ChileNew entire solutions to some classical semilinear elliptic problems16:00 - 16:4511.5 N. Nadirashvili, Universite de Provence, FranceWeak solutions of nonvariational elliptic equations11.617:00 - 17:45 A. Schnirelman, Concordia University, CanadaLong-time behaviour of fluid flows

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. G03Chair: M. J. Esteban

15:00 - 15:4511.7 E. N. Dancer, University of Sydney, AustraliaFinite Morse index and linearized stable solutions on bounded and unboundeddomains16:00 - 16:4511.8 C. De Lellis, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandAlmgren’s Q-valued functions revisited

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Friday, August 27, 2010 Room No. G03Chair: M. Vanninathan

16:00 - 16:4511.9 N. Fusco, Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, ItalyEquilibrium configurations of epitaxially strained elastic films: existence, reg-ularity and qualitative properties of solutions

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12 Mathematical Physics

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. G03Chair: M. Marcolli

15:00 - 15:4512.1 A. Kupiainen, Helsinki University, FinlandOrigins of diffusion16:00 - 16:4512.2 K. Wendland, Augsburg University, GermanyOn the geometry of singularities in quantum field theory17:00 - 17:4512.3 H. Spohn, TU, Munich, GermanyWeakly nonlinear wave equations with random initial data

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. G03Chair: K. B. Sinha

15:00 - 15:4512.4 A. Kapustin, California Institute of Technology, USATopological field theory, higher categories and their applications16:00 - 16:4512.5 M. Marcolli, California Institute of Technology, USANoncommutative geometry and arithmetic

Thursday, August 26, 2010 Room No. G03Chair: N. Reshetikhin

15:00 - 15:4512.6 Y. Last, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelStability of absolutely continuous spectrum under decaying perturbations: areview of recent developments16:00 - 16:4512.7 G. Seregin, Oxford University, UKWeak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations with bounded scale-invariantquantities17:00 - 17:4512.8 V. Mastropietro, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Tor Vergata, ItalyUniversality, phase transitions and extended scaling relations

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13 Probability and Statistics

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: D. Aldous

15:00 - 15:4513.1 I. Benjamini, Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelRandom planar metrics16:00 - 16:4513.2 C. Neuhauser, University of Minnesota, USACoevolution in spatial habitats17:00 - 17:4513.3 Q-M. Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HongKong, ChinaStein’s method, self-normalized limit theory and applications

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: S. Peng

15:00 - 15:4513.4 A. Borodin, California Institute of Technology, USAGrowth of random surfaces16:00 - 16:4513.5 F. den Hollander, University of Leiden, The NetherlandsA key large deviation principle for interacting stochastic systems17:00 - 17:4513.6 S. Van de Geer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland`1-regularization in high dimensional statistical models

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: B. L. S. Prakasa Rao

17:00 - 17:4513.7 A. Van der Vaart, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsBayesian regularization

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Thursday, August 26, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: S. N. Evans

15:00 - 15:4513.8 J. Quastel, University of Toronto, CanadaWeakly asymmetric exclusion and KPZ16:00 - 16:4513.9 P. Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, IndiaOn quantiles in finite and infinite dimensional spaces17:00 - 17:4513.10 S. Sheffield, MIT, USAHow do you divide your (two-dimensional) time? SLE, CLE, the GFF andLiouville quantum gravity zippers/necklaces, and also congratulations to Stas

Friday, August 27, 2010 Room No. 1.03Chair: B. V. Rao

15:00 - 15:4513.11 S. N. Evans, University of California, Berkeley, USATime and chance happeneth to them all: mutation, selection and recombina-tion16:00 - 16:4513.12 A. Bose, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, IndiaPatterned random matrices and the method of moments

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14 Combinatorics

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. G01Chair: C. Praeger

15:00 - 15:4514.1 L. J. Billera, Cornell University, USAFlag enumeration in polytopes, Eulerian partially ordered sets and Coxetergroups16:00 - 16:4514.2 B. Leclerc, Universite de Caen, FranceCluster algebras and representation theory17:00 - 17:4514.3 J. Nesetril, Charles University, Czech RepublicSparse combinatorial structures: classification and applications

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Room No. G01Chair: B. Leclerc

15:00 - 15:4514.4 H. Cohn, Microsoft Research, New England, USAOrder and disorder in energy minimization16:00 - 16:4514.5 B. D. McKay, Australian National University, AustraliaSubgraphs of random graphs with specified degrees17:00 - 17:4514.6 B. Sudakov, University of California, Los Angeles, USARecent developments in extremal combinatorics: Ramsey and Turlan typeproblems

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. G01Chair: N. M. Singhi

15:00 - 15:4514.7 S. Lando, State University Higher School of Economics, Russian Feder-ationHurwitz numbers: on the edge between combinatorics and geometry16:00 - 16:4514.8 E. Rains, California Institute of Technology, USAElliptic analogues of the Macdonald and Koornwinder polynomials17:00 - 17:4514.9 O. Riordan, Oxford University, UKPercolation on sequences of graphs

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15 Mathematical Aspects of

Computer Science

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. G01Chair: I. Dinur

15:00 - 15:4515.1 V. Guruswami, Carnegie-Mellon University, USABridging Shannon and Hamming: list error-correction with optimal rate16:00 - 16:4515.2 C. Dwork, Microsoft Research, USAPrivacy against many arbitrary low-sensitivity queries17:00 - 17:4515.3 D. A. Spielman, Yale University, USAAlgorithms, graph theory, and linear equations in Laplacian matrices

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. G01Chair: Satya Lokam

15:00 - 15:4515.4 P. Burgisser, University of Paderborn, GermanySmoothed analysis of condition numbers16:00 - 16:4515.5 D. Aharonov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelQuantum computation and mathematics

Thursday, August 26, 2010 Room No. G01Chair: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

15:00 - 15:4515.6 S. Khot, New York University, USAInapproximability of NP-complete problems, discrete Fourier analysis and ge-ometry16:00 - 16:4515.7 S. Vadhan, Harvard University, USAThe unified theory of pseudorandomness

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16 Numerical Analysis and

Scientific Computing

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. 1.05Chair: S. J. Osher

15:00 - 15:4516.1 B. Cockburn, University of Minnesota, USAThe hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin Methods16:00 - 16:4516.2 R. H. Nochetto, University of Maryland, USAWhy adaptive FEM outperform classical ones17:00 - 17:4516.3 Z. Shen, National University of Singapore, SingaporeWavelet frames and image restorations

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. 1.05Chair: B. Cockburn

15:00 - 15:4516.4 M. F. Wheeler, University of Texas, Austin, USARole of computational science in protecting the environment: geological stor-age of CO2

16:00 - 16:4516.5 P. A. Markowich, University of Cambridge, UK and University of Vi-enna, AustriaNumerical analysis of Schrodinger equations in the highly oscillatory regime17:00 - 17:4516.6 J. Xu, Pennsylvania State University, USAFast Poisson based solvers for linear and nonlinear PDEs

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17 Control Theory and Optimization

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. 1.06Chair: J-M. Coron

15:00 - 15:4517.1 H. Frankowska, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FranceOptimal control under state constraints16:00 - 16:4517.2 X. Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. of ChinaA unified controllability/observability theory for some stochastic and deter-ministic partial differential equations17:00 - 17:4517.3 P. A. Parrilo, MIT, USASemidefinite programming and complex algebraic geometry

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Room No. 1.06Chair: V. S. Borkar

15:00 - 15:4517.4 S. Iwata, Kyoto University, JapanSubmodular functions: optimization and approximation16:00 - 16:4517.5 A. Shapiro, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAComputational complexity of stochastic programming: Monte Carlo sampling

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. 1.06Chair: M. Groetschel

15:00 - 15:4517.6 Y. Nesterov, Universite Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumRecent advances in structural optimization16:00 - 16:4517.7 R. Weismantel, ETH, Zurich, SwitzerlandA cutting plane theory for mixed integer optimization

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18 Mathematics in Science and Technology

Friday, August 20, 2010 Room No. 1.01Chair: H. P. Dikshit

15:00 - 15:4518.1 P. K. Maini, Oxford University, UKModelling aspects of tumour metabolism16:00 - 16:4518.2 E. Baake, Bielefeld University, GermanyDeterministic and stochastic aspects of single-crossover recombination17:00 - 17:4518.3 K. Kunisch, University of Graz, AustriaNovel concepts for nonsmooth optimization and their impact on science andtechnology

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Room No. 1.01Chair: R. L. Karandikar

15:00 - 15:4518.4 F. Delbaen, ETH, Zurich, SwitzerlandBSDE and risk measures16:00 - 16:4518.5 N. Touzi, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, FranceSecond order backward SDEs, fully nonlinear PDEs and applications in fi-nance17:00 - 17:4518.6 X. Zhou, Oxford University, UKMathematicalising behavioural finance

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Room No. 1.01Chair: F. Delbaen

15:00 - 15:4518.7 C. Schuette, Frei Universitat, Berlin, GermanyOn Markov state models for metastable processes16:00 - 16:4518.8 Z. Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. of ChinaData modelling: visual psychology approach and L1/2 regularization theory

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19 Mathematics Education and

Popularization of Mathematics

Friday, August 20, 2010 Hall 2

15:00 - 17:00 Panel DiscussionRelation between the discipline and school mathematicsChair: T. Gowers, University of Cambridge, UKSpeakers: C. Bosch, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico, MexicoW. McCallum, University of Arizona, USAR. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, IndiaH. Steinbring, University of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyI. Yashchenko, Moscow Centre for Continuous Mathematical Education, Rus-sia

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Room No. 1.06Chair: S. Shirali

15:00 - 15:4519.1 J. Adler, University of The Witwatersrand, South Africa, and King’sCollege, London, UKProfessional knowledge matters in mathematics teaching

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Hall 2

15:00 - 17:00 Panel DiscussionEthnomathematics, language and socio-cultural issuesChair: O. Skovsmose, Aalborg University, DenmarkSpeakers: M. Salett, Universidade Regional de Blumenau - FURB, BrazilA. Halai, Aga Khan University, Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Hall 2

15:00 - 17:00 Panel DiscussionCommunicating mathematics to society at largeChair: G. M. Ziegler, Technische Universitat, Berlin, GermanySpeakers: M. Freiberger, University of Cambridge, UKI. Peterson, Mathematical Association of America, USAR. Ramachandran, ‘The Hindu’, New Delhi, IndiaC. Rousseau, University of Montreal, Canada

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20 History of Mathematics

Thursday, August 26, 2010 Room No. 1.06Chair: K. Plofker

15:00 - 15:4520.1 T. H. Kjeldsen, Roskilde University, DenmarkHistory of convexity and mathematical programming: connections and rela-tionships in two episodes of research in pure and applied mathematics of the20th Century16:00 - 16:4520.2 N. Schappacher, IRMA, FranceRewriting points17:00 - 17:4520.3 B. Van Dalen, Ludwig Maximilians University, GermanyIslamic astronomical handbooks and their transmission to India and China

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