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Events
Interdisciplinary symposium: "Mathematics in the Sciences"

Universität Leipzig

University n.n.

conference

19/06/1998 23/06/1998

Interdisciplinary symposium: "Mathematics in the Sciences"

The Andrejewski Foundation and the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MIS) announce an outstanding interdisciplinary symposium

Mathematics in the Sciences

from June 19 until June 23, 1998 in Leipzig. The goal of this symposium is to promote the flow of ideas between mathematics and the sciences in both directions and to open new perspectives for the future.
The symposium will be opened by Friedrich Hirzebruch (MPI for Mathematics Bonn).
The organizing committee consists of Jürgen Jost, Stefan Müller, Eberhard Zeidler (MIS Leipzig), and representing the Andrejewski Foundation, Bodo Geyer (Leipzig University) and Dieter Lüst (Humboldt University Berlin).

Program

10:30 - 11:30	Yakov Sinai (Princeton University) Transport in quasi-periodic media
14:00 - 15:00	Arthur Jaffe (Harvard University) Mathematics and Quantum Field Theory
15:30 - 16:30	Luc Tartar (Carnegie Mellon University / MIS Leipzig) A "new" point of view on physics

10:00 - 11:00	Sir Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) Complex numbers: their curiously fundamental role in modern physics
11:30 - 12:30	Sir Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh) Solitons and symmetries in three dimensions
14:00 - 15:00	Manfred Eigen (Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen) Molecular Darwinian evolution information:space and multidimensional fitness landscapes
15:30 - 16:30	Bernard de Wit (Utrecht University) Special geometry
17:00 - 18:00	Julius Wess (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics Werner Heisenberg, Munich) Non-commutative space-time based on quantum groups

10:00 - 11:00	Alain Connes (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette) Non-commutative geometry
11:30 - 12:30	Elliot Lieb (Princeton University) The stability of matter and quantum electrodynamics: to the edge of quantum mechanics !
14:00 - 15:00	Mikhail Gromov (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette) Geometry in large dimensions
15:30 - 16:30	Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State University) Quantum geometry and its physical applications

10:00 - 11:00	Srinivasa Varadhan (Courant Institute) Hydrodynamic scaling
11:30 - 12:30	Randolph Bank (University of San Diego) The many faces of the multigrid method
14:00 - 15:00	Richard James (University of Minnesota) Deformable thin films: from macroscale to microscale and from nanoscale to microscale
15:30 - 16:30	John Ball (Oxford University) Local minimizers and quasiconvexity

10:00 - 11:00	David Ruelle (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette) New theoretical ideas in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
11:30 - 12:30	Bernard Frederik Schutz (Max-Planck-Institute Albert Einstein for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam) Colliding black holes: challenges of large-scale computer simulations
14:00 - 15:00	Helmut Hofer (Courant Institute) Contact geometry, holomorphic curves and rotational steady Euler flows
15:30 - 16:30	Anatole Katok (Penn State University) Complexity and periodic motions in classical dynamical systems

Scientific Organizers

Jürgen Jost

Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

Stefan Müller

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Eberhard Zeidler

Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften