The 2012 Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union

28/05/2012 - 09:00Add To Calendar 2012-05-28 09:00:00 2012-05-28 09:00:00 The 2012 Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union http://imu.org.il/Meetings/IMUmeeting2012/index.html Program General session Nagel building (bldg. 507), entrance floor 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-10:00 Business Meeting 10:00-10:50 David Kazhdan (Hebrew University) The Classical Master Equation 10:50-11:10 Coffee break 11:10-12:00 Jonathan Wahl, first Sackler Lecture (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Topology versus geometry of a complex singularity 12:00-12:10 Prize Ceremony 12:10-13:00 Ran Raz The PCP theorem 13:00-14:30 Lunch (Building 1004)     Special Sessions   Algebra and Number Theory Organizer: Shlomo Gelaki Building 507, room 1 14:30-15:20 Louis Rowen (Bar Ilan University) Representability of algebras 15:25-16:15 Dmitry Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute) Derivatives for smooth representations of GL(n,R) and GL(n,C) 16:35-17:25 Lior Bary-Soroker (Tel Aviv University) Hilbertian fields and Galois representations 17:30-18:20 Uri Onn (Ben Gurion University) Arithmetic groups and their representation zeta functions       Analysis Organizer: Semyon Alesker, Shahar Nevo Building 507, room 6 14:30-15:00 Dmitry Faifman (Tel Aviv University) Some characterizations of the Fourier transform 15:10-15:40 Shahar Nevo (Bar Ilan University) Differential inequalities, normality, and quasi-normality. 15:40-16:10 Coffee break 16:10-16:40 Yonutz V. Stanchescu (Afeka Academic College and Open University of Israel) Inverse Additive Problems for Minkowski sumsets 16:50-17:20 Ronen Eldan (Tel Aviv University) On the connection between Thin-Shell concentration and the isoperimetric inequality on convex bodies.       Discrete Math and Computer Science Organizer: Nathan Keller Building 507, room 6 14:30-15:00 Asaf Shapira (Tel Aviv University) Testing Linear-Invariant Properties of Boolean Functions 15:00-15:30 Tali Kaufman (Bar Ilan University) Symmetry and Locally Testable Codes 15:30-16:00 Shakhar Smorodinsky (Ben Gurion University) Hitting Sets Online and Vertex Ranking 16:00-16:30 Coffee break 16:30-17:00 Doron Puder (Hebrew University) Uniform Words are Primitive 17:00-17:30 Gil Cohen (Weizmann Institute) Non-Malleable Extractors and Applications to Privacy Amplification 17:30-18:00 Ohad Noy Feldheim (Tel Aviv University) Three Edge Lengths Suffice for Drawing Outerplanar Graphs       Dynamics and Ergodic Theory Organizer: Yair Glasner Building 507, room 105 14:30-15:15 Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt) Complicated residually finite groups 15:20-16:10 Izhar Openheim (Technion) Local criteria for Kazhdan property (T) 16:10-16:40 Coffee break 16:40-17:30 Uri Shapira (ETH Zurich and Technion) Grids with dense values and applications.       Mathematical Education Organizer: Tahl Nowik Building 507, room 7 14:30 - 15:15 Ornit Spektor-Levy (Da-Gan Center, School of Education, Bar Ilan University) Mathematical Literacy in Pre-school - Concrete and Experiential Learning 15:15 - 16:00 Ravit Tal-Shir (Central district, Matia Rishon-Lezion, Ministry of Education) Mathematics special education 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 17:15 Moshe Rein (Clusters of Knowledge - Skill Training and Developing Ltd) Mathematics of a Different Nature, Project Teenagers Teaching Children Math 17:15 - 18:00 Hagar Gal (David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem) Problematic Learning Situations in Geometry       Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization Organizer: Simeon Reich and Alex Zaslavski Building 507, room 4 14:30-15:30 Alexander D. Ioffe (Technion) Semi-algebraic geometry, metric regularity and tame optimization 15:00-15:30 Luba Tetruashvili (University of Haifa) A Sequential Ascending Parameter Method for Solving Constrained Minimization Problems 15:30-16:00 Gershon Wolansky (Technion) On optimal partitions 16:00-16:15 Coffee break 16:15-16:45 Simeon Reich (Technion) Bregman Strongly Nonexpansive Operators in Reflexive Banach Spaces 16:45-17:15 Yaniv Almog (Louisiana State University) A Rigorous Proof of the Maxwell-Claussius-Mossotti Formula 17:15-17:45 Elza Farkhi (Tel Aviv University) The Metric Derivative of Set-Valued Functions 17:45-17:55 Coffee break 17:55-18:25 Shoham Sabach (Technion) A First Order Method for Finding Minimal Norm-Like Solutions of Convex Optimization Problems 18:25-18:55 Alexander J. Zaslavski (Technion) Stability of a Turnpike Phenomenon for a Discrete-time Optimal Control System       Philosophy and History of Mathematics Organizer: Misha Katz Building 507, room 3 14:30-15:10 Leo Corry (Tel Aviv University) Axiomatics Between Hilbert and the New Math: Diverging Views on Mathematical Research and Their Consequences on Education 15:15-15:55 Alexandre Borovik (University of Manchester) Protomathematics, metamathematics, and some challenges in philosophy of mathematics 16:00-16:30 Coffee break 16:30-17:10 Carl Posy (Hebrew University) Category Theory and Mathematical Intuition 17:15-17:55 Michael Fried (Ben Gurion University) Opposite and Conjugate Sections in Apollonius' Conica       Probability Organizer: Ariel Yadin Building 507, room 2 14:30-15:15 Loren Coquille (University of Geneva) On the Gibbs measures of the 2d Ising and Potts models 15:25-16:10 Amir Yehudayoff (Technion) Reconstruction under known noise 16:10-16:30 Coffee break 16:30-17:15 Ron Rosenthal (Hebrew University) Random walks on simplicial complexes       Topology and Geometry Organizer: Dan Mangoubi Building 507, room 5 14:30-15:10 Bruno Duchesne (Hebrew University) Rigidity properties for action on infinite dimensional symmetric spaces of finite rank. 15:15-15:55 Nir Lazarovich (Technion) Uniqueness of homogeneous CAT(0) polygonal complexes 15:55-16:30 Coffee break 16:30-17:10 Yaron Ostrover (Tel Aviv University) Convex billiards - a symplectic geometry point of view. 17:15-17:55 Egor Shelukhin (Tel Aviv University) On quasimorphisms for the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms.     המחלקה למתמטיקה mathoffice@math.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
http://imu.org.il/Meetings/IMUmeeting2012/index.html Program

General session

Nagel building (bldg. 507), entrance floor

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-10:00

Business Meeting

10:00-10:50

David Kazhdan (Hebrew University)

The Classical Master Equation

10:50-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00

Jonathan Wahl, first Sackler Lecture (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Topology versus geometry of a complex singularity

12:00-12:10

Prize Ceremony

12:10-13:00

Ran Raz

The PCP theorem

13:00-14:30

Lunch (Building 1004)

 

 

Special Sessions

 

Algebra and Number Theory
Organizer: Shlomo Gelaki

Building 507, room 1

14:30-15:20

Louis Rowen (Bar Ilan University)

Representability of algebras

15:25-16:15

Dmitry Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute)

Derivatives for smooth representations of GL(n,R) and GL(n,C)

16:35-17:25

Lior Bary-Soroker (Tel Aviv University)

Hilbertian fields and Galois representations

17:30-18:20

Uri Onn (Ben Gurion University)

Arithmetic groups and their representation zeta functions

 

 

 

Analysis
Organizer: Semyon Alesker, Shahar Nevo

Building 507, room 6

14:30-15:00

Dmitry Faifman (Tel Aviv University)

Some characterizations of the Fourier transform

15:10-15:40

Shahar Nevo (Bar Ilan University)

Differential inequalities, normality, and quasi-normality.

15:40-16:10

Coffee break

16:10-16:40

Yonutz V. Stanchescu (Afeka Academic College and Open University of Israel)

Inverse Additive Problems for Minkowski sumsets

16:50-17:20

Ronen Eldan (Tel Aviv University)

On the connection between Thin-Shell concentration and the isoperimetric inequality on convex bodies.

 

 

 

Discrete Math and Computer Science
Organizer: Nathan Keller

Building 507, room 6

14:30-15:00

Asaf Shapira (Tel Aviv University)

Testing Linear-Invariant Properties of Boolean Functions

15:00-15:30

Tali Kaufman (Bar Ilan University)

Symmetry and Locally Testable Codes

15:30-16:00

Shakhar Smorodinsky (Ben Gurion University)

Hitting Sets Online and Vertex Ranking

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:00

Doron Puder (Hebrew University)

Uniform Words are Primitive

17:00-17:30

Gil Cohen (Weizmann Institute)

Non-Malleable Extractors and Applications to Privacy Amplification

17:30-18:00

Ohad Noy Feldheim (Tel Aviv University)

Three Edge Lengths Suffice for Drawing Outerplanar Graphs

 

 

 

Dynamics and Ergodic Theory
Organizer: Yair Glasner

Building 507, room 105

14:30-15:15

Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt)

Complicated residually finite groups

15:20-16:10

Izhar Openheim (Technion)

Local criteria for Kazhdan property (T)

16:10-16:40

Coffee break

16:40-17:30

Uri Shapira (ETH Zurich and Technion)

Grids with dense values and applications.

 

 

 

Mathematical Education
Organizer: Tahl Nowik

Building 507, room 7

14:30 - 15:15

Ornit Spektor-Levy (Da-Gan Center, School of Education, Bar Ilan University)

Mathematical Literacy in Pre-school - Concrete and Experiential Learning

15:15 - 16:00

Ravit Tal-Shir (Central district, Matia Rishon-Lezion, Ministry of Education)

Mathematics special education

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:15

Moshe Rein (Clusters of Knowledge - Skill Training and Developing Ltd)

Mathematics of a Different Nature, Project Teenagers Teaching Children Math

17:15 - 18:00

Hagar Gal (David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem)

Problematic Learning Situations in Geometry

 

 

 

Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization
Organizer: Simeon Reich and Alex Zaslavski

Building 507, room 4

14:30-15:30

Alexander D. Ioffe (Technion)

Semi-algebraic geometry, metric regularity and tame optimization

15:00-15:30

Luba Tetruashvili (University of Haifa)

A Sequential Ascending Parameter Method for Solving Constrained Minimization Problems

15:30-16:00

Gershon Wolansky (Technion)

On optimal partitions

16:00-16:15

Coffee break

16:15-16:45

Simeon Reich (Technion)

Bregman Strongly Nonexpansive Operators in Reflexive Banach Spaces

16:45-17:15

Yaniv Almog (Louisiana State University)

A Rigorous Proof of the Maxwell-Claussius-Mossotti Formula

17:15-17:45

Elza Farkhi (Tel Aviv University)

The Metric Derivative of Set-Valued Functions

17:45-17:55

Coffee break

17:55-18:25

Shoham Sabach (Technion)

A First Order Method for Finding Minimal Norm-Like Solutions of Convex Optimization Problems

18:25-18:55

Alexander J. Zaslavski (Technion)

Stability of a Turnpike Phenomenon for a Discrete-time Optimal Control System

 

 

 

Philosophy and History of Mathematics
Organizer: Misha Katz

Building 507, room 3

14:30-15:10

Leo Corry (Tel Aviv University)

Axiomatics Between Hilbert and the New Math: Diverging Views on Mathematical Research and Their Consequences on Education

15:15-15:55

Alexandre Borovik (University of Manchester)

Protomathematics, metamathematics, and some challenges in philosophy of mathematics

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:10

Carl Posy (Hebrew University)

Category Theory and Mathematical Intuition

17:15-17:55

Michael Fried (Ben Gurion University)

Opposite and Conjugate Sections in Apollonius' Conica

 

 

 

Probability
Organizer: Ariel Yadin

Building 507, room 2

14:30-15:15

Loren Coquille (University of Geneva)

On the Gibbs measures of the 2d Ising and Potts models

15:25-16:10

Amir Yehudayoff (Technion)

Reconstruction under known noise

16:10-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:15

Ron Rosenthal (Hebrew University)

Random walks on simplicial complexes

 

 

 

Topology and Geometry
Organizer: Dan Mangoubi

Building 507, room 5

14:30-15:10

Bruno Duchesne (Hebrew University)

Rigidity properties for action on infinite dimensional symmetric spaces of finite rank.

15:15-15:55

Nir Lazarovich (Technion)

Uniqueness of homogeneous CAT(0) polygonal complexes

15:55-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:10

Yaron Ostrover (Tel Aviv University)

Convex billiards - a symplectic geometry point of view.

17:15-17:55

Egor Shelukhin (Tel Aviv University)

On quasimorphisms for the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms.

 


 

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