The 2012 Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union
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 | ||
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 | ||
Building 507, room 6 | ||
14:30-15:00 | Dmitry Faifman (Tel Aviv University) | Some characterizations of the Fourier transform |
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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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