The 2012 Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union
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General session |
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Nagel building (bldg. 507), entrance floor |
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9:00-9:30 |
Registration |
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9:30-10:00 |
Business Meeting |
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10:00-10:50 |
David Kazhdan (Hebrew University) |
The Classical Master Equation |
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10:50-11:10 |
Coffee break |
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11:10-12:00 |
Jonathan Wahl, first Sackler Lecture (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
Topology versus geometry of a complex singularity |
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12:00-12:10 |
Prize Ceremony |
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12:10-13:00 |
Ran Raz |
The PCP theorem |
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13:00-14:30 |
Lunch (Building 1004) |
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Special Sessions
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Algebra and Number Theory |
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Building 507, room 1 |
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14:30-15:20 |
Louis Rowen (Bar Ilan University) |
Representability of algebras |
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15:25-16:15 |
Dmitry Gourevitch (Weizmann Institute) |
Derivatives for smooth representations of GL(n,R) and GL(n,C) |
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16:35-17:25 |
Lior Bary-Soroker (Tel Aviv University) |
Hilbertian fields and Galois representations |
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17:30-18:20 |
Uri Onn (Ben Gurion University) |
Arithmetic groups and their representation zeta functions |
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Analysis |
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Building 507, room 6 |
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14:30-15:00 |
Dmitry Faifman (Tel Aviv University) |
Some characterizations of the Fourier transform |
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15:10-15:40 |
Shahar Nevo (Bar Ilan University) |
Differential inequalities, normality, and quasi-normality. |
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15:40-16:10 |
Coffee break |
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16:10-16:40 |
Yonutz V. Stanchescu (Afeka Academic College and Open University of Israel) |
Inverse Additive Problems for Minkowski sumsets |
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16:50-17:20 |
Ronen Eldan (Tel Aviv University) |
On the connection between Thin-Shell concentration and the isoperimetric inequality on convex bodies. |
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Discrete Math and Computer Science |
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Building 507, room 6 |
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14:30-15:00 |
Asaf Shapira (Tel Aviv University) |
Testing Linear-Invariant Properties of Boolean Functions |
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15:00-15:30 |
Tali Kaufman (Bar Ilan University) |
Symmetry and Locally Testable Codes |
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15:30-16:00 |
Shakhar Smorodinsky (Ben Gurion University) |
Hitting Sets Online and Vertex Ranking |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30-17:00 |
Doron Puder (Hebrew University) |
Uniform Words are Primitive |
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17:00-17:30 |
Gil Cohen (Weizmann Institute) |
Non-Malleable Extractors and Applications to Privacy Amplification |
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17:30-18:00 |
Ohad Noy Feldheim (Tel Aviv University) |
Three Edge Lengths Suffice for Drawing Outerplanar Graphs |
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Dynamics and Ergodic Theory |
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Building 507, room 105 |
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14:30-15:15 |
Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt) |
Complicated residually finite groups |
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15:20-16:10 |
Izhar Openheim (Technion) |
Local criteria for Kazhdan property (T) |
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16:10-16:40 |
Coffee break |
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16:40-17:30 |
Uri Shapira (ETH Zurich and Technion) |
Grids with dense values and applications. |
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Mathematical Education |
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Building 507, room 7 |
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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 |
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15:15 - 16:00 |
Ravit Tal-Shir (Central district, Matia Rishon-Lezion, Ministry of Education) |
Mathematics special education |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 - 17:15 |
Moshe Rein (Clusters of Knowledge - Skill Training and Developing Ltd) |
Mathematics of a Different Nature, Project Teenagers Teaching Children Math |
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17:15 - 18:00 |
Hagar Gal (David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem) |
Problematic Learning Situations in Geometry |
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Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization |
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Building 507, room 4 |
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14:30-15:30 |
Alexander D. Ioffe (Technion) |
Semi-algebraic geometry, metric regularity and tame optimization |
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15:00-15:30 |
Luba Tetruashvili (University of Haifa) |
A Sequential Ascending Parameter Method for Solving Constrained Minimization Problems |
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15:30-16:00 |
Gershon Wolansky (Technion) |
On optimal partitions |
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16:00-16:15 |
Coffee break |
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16:15-16:45 |
Simeon Reich (Technion) |
Bregman Strongly Nonexpansive Operators in Reflexive Banach Spaces |
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16:45-17:15 |
Yaniv Almog (Louisiana State University) |
A Rigorous Proof of the Maxwell-Claussius-Mossotti Formula |
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17:15-17:45 |
Elza Farkhi (Tel Aviv University) |
The Metric Derivative of Set-Valued Functions |
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17:45-17:55 |
Coffee break |
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17:55-18:25 |
Shoham Sabach (Technion) |
A First Order Method for Finding Minimal Norm-Like Solutions of Convex Optimization Problems |
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18:25-18:55 |
Alexander J. Zaslavski (Technion) |
Stability of a Turnpike Phenomenon for a Discrete-time Optimal Control System |
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Philosophy and History of Mathematics |
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Building 507, room 3 |
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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 |
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15:15-15:55 |
Alexandre Borovik (University of Manchester) |
Protomathematics, metamathematics, and some challenges in philosophy of mathematics |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30-17:10 |
Carl Posy (Hebrew University) |
Category Theory and Mathematical Intuition |
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17:15-17:55 |
Michael Fried (Ben Gurion University) |
Opposite and Conjugate Sections in Apollonius' Conica |
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Probability |
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Building 507, room 2 |
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14:30-15:15 |
Loren Coquille (University of Geneva) |
On the Gibbs measures of the 2d Ising and Potts models |
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15:25-16:10 |
Amir Yehudayoff (Technion) |
Reconstruction under known noise |
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16:10-16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30-17:15 |
Ron Rosenthal (Hebrew University) |
Random walks on simplicial complexes |
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Topology and Geometry |
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Building 507, room 5 |
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14:30-15:10 |
Bruno Duchesne (Hebrew University) |
Rigidity properties for action on infinite dimensional symmetric spaces of finite rank. |
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15:15-15:55 |
Nir Lazarovich (Technion) |
Uniqueness of homogeneous CAT(0) polygonal complexes |
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15:55-16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30-17:10 |
Yaron Ostrover (Tel Aviv University) |
Convex billiards - a symplectic geometry point of view. |
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17:15-17:55 |
Egor Shelukhin (Tel Aviv University) |
On quasimorphisms for the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms. |
תאריך עדכון אחרון : 09/06/2016
