Trends and Perspectives in Mathematics

International conference held on the occasion of the opening of the international exhibition

Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture

Tel Aviv, 14-15 November 2011

Beit Hatfutsot
The Museum of the Jewish People
Tel Aviv University
Klausner Street
Ramat Aviv


Conference organizers:

Wolfgang Lück (The University of Bonn)
Tsachik Gelander (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)


Access is free. Please register by contacting Yulia Golshmid, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: yulia_g@math.huji.ac.il

Young researchers can apply for travel funding for participating in the conference. Please contact Yulia Golshmid before 22 October 2011.

On the day following the conference a meeting of PhD students from Israel and Germany will be organized. For details, please contact one of the conference organizers or Yulia Golshmid.

Program


Abstracts of the talks can be found here.

Monday, 14 November 2011

9:30 - 10:00
Registration

10:00
Welcome

10:10 - 11:10
Alex Lubotzky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Arithmetic Quotients of Automorphism Groups

Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:45
Elon Lindenstrauss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)  
Dynamics and Geometry of Numbers

Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:30
Uri Bader (The Technion, Haifa)   
Warum Weyl?

15:45 - 16:45
Roman Sauer (The University of Regensburg)  
From quasi-Isometry to Measure Equivalence of Groups: Some Rigidity Questions

Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:30
Katrin Tent (The University of Münster)  
On the Isometry Group of the Urysohn Space

19:00
Opening of the Exhibition and Reception for all Conference Participants 


Tuesday, 15 November 2011

10:00 - 11:00
Peter Teichner (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn) 
Field Theories and Algebraic Topology

Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:45
Katrin Wendland  (The University of Freiburg)  
Kummer K3 Surfaces and Automorphisms of the Golay Code

Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:30
Christian Baer (The University of Potsdam)
Path and Functional Integrals on Manifolds

15:45 - 16:45
Noam Berger (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 
Wolfgang Doeblin and Chains with Unbounded Memory

Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:30
Leo Corry (Tel-Aviv University)
Landau’s Hebrew List of 23 Problems: Higher Mathematics Makes ‘Aliyah’ in 1925

19:00
Conference Dinner 


Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Meeting of PhD students


Sponsored by

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
Leibniz Award of the German Science Foundation for Wolfgang Lück


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