Celebration of WMY 2000,

the 50th anniversary of the Rényi Institute,

and presentation of the Bolyai Prize


PROGRAMME

November 1, 2000.

(Wednesday)

Rényi Institute, Great Hall

   
       

9.00

Opening by Norbert Kroó, secretary general of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

   

9.15

Greetings by Gyula Katona

   

9.30

lecture

Bernhard Korte

 

10.10

coffee-break

   

10.35

lecture

Fred S. Roberts

L(2,1) colourings and the channel assignment problem

11.20

lecture

Karel Segeth

A posteriori error estimates for a non-linear parabolic equation

       

12.00

lunch-break

   
       

14.00

lecture

Serban Basarab

Arboreal structures on groups and fields

14.45

lecture

Kalle Kaarli

TBA

15.30

coffee-break

   

15.45

lecture

Bogdan Bojarski

Measure and Sobolev Spaces

16.30

lecture

Jaroslav Kurzweil

The revival of the Riemann approach to integration



November 2, 2000.

(Thursday)

Main Building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

   
       

9.45

lecture

Christian Kassel

Recent developments for Artin's braid groups

10.25

coffee-break

   

10.40

lecture

Łukasz Stettner

Stochastic control and mathematics of finance

11.25

lecture

Peter Michor

Eigenvalues of matrices as Riemannian orbit space

       

12.00

lunch-break

   
       

14.00

lecture

Stefan Dodunekov

Kissing numbers: bounds and constructions

14.45

lecture

Anatolij Dvurečenskij

Slovak-Hungarian mathematical contacts

15.30

coffee-break

   

15.45

lecture

Ko-Wei Lih

Chip-firing, Orientation, and the Circular Chromatic Number

16.30

lecture

Peter Deuflhard

Mathematics in Medicine: cancer therapy planning by virtual patients

 

November 3, 2000.

(Friday)

     
       

morning

Celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the Main Building

   

afternoon

Excursion to the Danube Bend

   

 

November 4, 2000.

(Saturday)

Main Building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

   
       

10.00

Opening by Kálmán Győry, President of the Section of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

   

10.10

Greetings by Rolf Jeltsch, the President of the European Mathematical Society

   

10.25

Miklós Laczkovich, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, describes the main achievements of the recipient of the Bolyai Prize

   

10.35

Ferenc Glatz, the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences presents the International Bolyai Prize in Mathematics

   

10.45

coffee-break

   

11.00

lecture

Saharon Shelah (the recipient of the Bolyai Prize)

You Can Enter Cantor's Paradise

12.00

break

 

12.10

lecture

Martin Grötschel

Mathematics and Computers

       

13.00

lunch-break

   
       

14.00

lecture

Jaroslav Nešetril

Some partitions and colourings (On the Road from Prague to Budapest)

15.00

lecture

Rolf Jeltsch

On the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy Condition equipped with order for hyperbolic differential equations

16.00

coffee-break

   

16.15

lecture

Alexander Vinogradov

Observability in Mathematics: non-linear PDE's and QFT

17.15

lecture

Flemming Topsoe

How to find the optimum - methods and fallacies with examples from information theory