24th Nordic and 1st Franco-Nordic Congress of Mathematicians

Sessions

  1. Arithmetic theory of differential equations and q-difference equations

    Yves André (France) On p-adic differential equations, q-difference equations, and Galois representations
    Jacques Sauloy (France) Monodromy and Galois group for complex linear q-difference equations [view lecture]
    Keijo Väänänen (Finland) On arithmetic properties of the values of q-series
    Sergei Silvestrov (Sweden) Algebraic structure and applications of linear and non-linear q-difference type equations
    Tapani Matala-aho (Finland) On analogues of Siegel's determinant
  2. Combinatorics

    Einar Steingrímsson (Iceland/Sweden) Permutation patterns, classical and generalized
    Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (France) Are algebraic generating functions ordinary?
    Svante Linusson (Sweden) Trees in mathematics and biology
    Petter Brändén (Sweden) Recent development on the Neggers-Stanley conjecture
  3. Geometric topology

    Johan L. Dupont (Denmark) Prism complexes in topology and differential geometry
    Kasper K. S. Andersen (Denmark) Finite loop spaces and p-compact groups -- A progress report
    Michelle Bucher (Switzerland) Finiteness properties of characteristic classes of flat bundles
    Shicheng Wang (China) Embedding infinite cyclic covers of knot spaces into 3-space
    Jean-Louis Cathelineau (France) Scissors congruences, homology of orthogonal groups and Milnor K-theory
    Kári Ragnarsson (Iceland/UK) p-local structure of finite groups [view lecture]
  4. Group theory

    Rögnvaldur G. Möller (Iceland) Cayley graphs and totally disconnected locally compact groups [view lecture]
    Anders Karlsson (Sweden) Dynamics of isometries
    Frédéric Paulin (France) Group actions on trees and non-archimedean Diophantine approximation
    Gunnar Traustason (Iceland/Sweden) Milnor groups and (virtual) nilpotence
    Christin Borge (Norway) On p-groups and modular group algebras
  5. Homological methods in algebra and topology

    Bjørn Dundas (Norway) Trying to ascend the chromatic tower
    Idun Reiten (Norway) Cluster categories and cluster tilted algebras
    Bernhard Keller (France) On triangulated orbit categories
    François-Xavier Dehon (France) Division functors and the cohomology of mapping spaces
  6. Lie groups and harmonic analysis

    François Rouvière (France) Geodesic Radon transforms on symmetric spaces
    Mogens Flensted-Jensen (Denmark) Harish-Chandra's characterisation of the discrete series using cusp forms: can it be generalized from semisimple Lie groups to reductive symmetric spaces?
    Gestur Ólafsson (Iceland/USA) The heat kernel transform on Riemannian Symmetric Spaces
    Patrick Delorme (France) Paley-Wiener theorem for real reductive groups
    Charles Torossian (France) Kontsevich's quantization and applications to Lie theory
    Oleg K. Sheinman, (Russia) Krichever-Novikov algebras and their representations
  7. Mathematical physics

    Antti Kupiainen (Finland) Fourier law
    Krzysztof Gawedzki(France) Gerbes and branes
    Jakob Yngvason (Iceland/Austria) Bose-Einstein condensation [view lecture]
    Þórður Jónsson(Iceland) Noncommutative nonlinear waves
    Bergfinnur Durhuus (Denmark) Volume growth in random trees and surfaces
    Raouf Chouikha (France) On metrics with harmonic curvature and non trivial Ricci tensor [view lecture]
  8. Nonlinear partial differential equations

    Kenneth H. Karlsen (Norway) Recent progress on a theory of entropy solutions for quasilinear degenerate parabolic equations
    Cédric Villani (France) Hypocoercivity [view lecture]
    Anders Szepessy (Sweden) Approximation of optimal controls
    Snorre H. Christiansen (Norway) On numerical simulation of Yang-Mills equations
    Peter Lindqvist (Norway) Supersolutions of a quasilinear parabolic equation
    Mostafa Bendahmane (Norway) Renormalized and entropy solutions of an anisotropic reaction-diffusion-advection system with L1 data modeling the propagation of an epidemic disease
    Robert Magnus (Iceland) A scaling approach to bumps and multibumps for non-linear partial differential equations [view lecture]
  9. Real algebraic geometry and applications (theme: Algebraic Geometry)

    Marie-Françoise Roy (France) Some recent algorithms in real algebraic geometry
    Oleg Viro (Sweden) Enumeration problems of real algebraic geometry
    Frédéric Mangolte (France) Seifert manifolds, lens spaces and real components of a uniruled algebraic 3-fold
    Audun Holme (Norway) An application of real algebraic geometry to macroeconomics
  10. Singularities (theme: Algebraic Geometry)

    Bernard Teissier (France) Valuation theory from a toric viewpoint [view lecture]
    Trond Stølen Gustavsen (Norway) Deformations of reflexive modules on rational surface singularities [view lecture]
    Georges Comte (France) On some invariants in real equisingularity
    Michel Vaquie (France) Extension of a valuation, admissible family and defect
  11. Foliations in algebraic and arithmetical geometry (theme: Algebraic Geometry)

    Torsten Ekedahl (Sweden) Foliations in algebraic and arithmetic geometry [view lecture]
    Pär Kurlberg (Sweden) Equidistribution and scarring for eigenfunctions of quantized cat maps
  12. Moduli spaces (theme: Algebraic Geometry)

    Carel Faber (Sweden) Cohomology of local systems on moduli spaces of curves and of abelian varieties
    Bertrand Toen (France) Some examples of higher algebraic stacks
    Roy Skjelnes (Sweden) The Hilbert scheme compactification of the configuration space of points
    Oleg Sheinman (Russia) Flat connections and Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations for positive genera
  13. Complex geometry (theme: Geometric Analysis)

    August Tsikh (Russia/Sweden) Multidimensional residues and discriminants of polynomial mappings
    Alain Yger (France) About the ubiquity of Briançon-Skoda theorem in multivariate residue calculus
    Frank Kutzschebauch (Sweden) Complex manifolds with big symmetry group
  14. Quasiconformal techniques in analysis (theme: Geometric Analysis)

    Michel Zinsmeister (France) Boundary values of quasiconformal homeomorphisms
    Hervé Pajot (France) Conformal dimension: Recent progress and open problems
    Carsten Lunde Petersen (Denmark) On the modulispace of attracting dynamics
    Peter Haissinsky (France) Coarse conformal dynamical systems
    Romain Dujardin (France) An approximation theorem on laminations by holomorphic disks
    Antti Käenmäki (Finland/France) Nonsymmetric conical upper density and k-porosity
  15. Spectral geometry (theme: Geometric Analysis)

    Ryszard Nest (Denmark) The geometry of the calculus of Fourier integral operators
    Bertrand Monthubert (France) An Atiyah-Singer-type index theorem for manifolds with corners
    Bent Ørsted (Denmark) Sobolev estimates in parabolic geometries
    Gerd Grubb (Denmark) The log component in trace defect formulas
  16. Analysis on metric spaces (theme: Geometric Analysis)

    Juha Kinnunen (Finland) Recent advances in analysis on metric spaces
    Ilkka Holopainen (Finland) Liouville-type results for p-harmonic functions on manifolds and on metric spaces
    Björn Bennewitz (Iceland/USA) Some properties of p-harmonic functions and their corresponding measures
    Heli Tuominen (Finland) Orlicz-Sobolev spaces on metric measure spaces
    Mika Koskenoja (Finland) The Dirichlet energy integral in variable exponent Sobolev spaces
    Steve Buckley (Ireland) Ends of metric measure spaces and Sobolev inequalities
    Irina Asekritova (Sweden) Vector-valued interpolation and smooth spaces with dominated mixed smoothness
    Natan Kruglyak (Sweden) Calderon-Zygmund type decompositions, Covering theorems and Applications
    Pekka Pankka (Finland) Quasiregular mappings from a punctured ball into closed manifolds and cohomology
  17. Percolation and spatial interaction (theme: Probability)

    Olle Häggström (Sweden) An introduction to correlation inequalities in percolation and related stochastic systems
    Régine Marchand (France) Coexistence in two-types first-passage percolation models
    Timo Seppäläinen (Finland/USA) Invariance principles for random walk in random environment
    Richard Gill (Netherlands) Large deviations and tests of quantum nonlocality
    Alexander Holroyd (Canada) From cellular automata to integer partitions
    Malwina Luczak (England) The phase transition in the cluster-scaled model of a random graph
  18. Applied probability and stochastic networks (theme: Probability)

    François Baccelli (France) Signal-to-interference-ratio cells of a spatial point process
    Eva Vedel Jensen (Denmark) Spatio-temporal modelling and Lévy processes
    Pierre Bremaud (France) Spatial linear birth and death processes
    Ilkka Norros (Finland) Emergence of hierarchy in some random graph models with highly variable degrees of nodes
    Dmitrii Silvestrov (Sweden) Stochastic Modelling of Insurance Business
    Henrik Jönsson (Sweden) Optimal Stopping Strategies for American Type Options
    Paavo Salminen (Sweden) On Tanaka's formula for symmetric Lévy processes
  19. Branching processes (theme: Probability)

    Peter Jagers (Sweden) Exponential growth or death [view lecture]
    Thomas Duquesne (France) Probabilistic and fractal aspects of Levy trees
    Göran Högnäs (Finland) Quasi-stationarity in some stochastic branching models
    Marek Kimmel (USA) Alternatives to the Wright-Fisher model and robustness of mitochondrial eve dating
  20. Large random matrices (theme: Probability)

    Alice Guionnet (France) Matrix models, combinatorics and free probability
    Steen Thorbjørnsen (Denmark) Applications of Random Matrices to C*-algebras
    Sandrine Péché (France) The largest eigenvalue of complex Gaussian sample covariance matrices
    Jamal Najim (France) Asymptotic distribution of the Eigenvalues of a Gram Matrix [view lecture]