Sessions & Speakers
Abstracts
Algebraic Geometry
Session Organizer: Shigeru Mukai (RIMS Kyoto University)
Plenary Speaker: Shigeru Mukai (RIMS Kyoto University)
“Enriques surfaces and root systems”
Invited Speakers
- Jungkai Alfred Chen (National Taiwan University)
“Birational maps in dimension three”
- Christopher Hacon (University of Utah)
“Boundedness results in birational algebraic geometry”
- Masayuki Kawakita (RIMS Kyoto University)
“Singularities in the minimal model program”
- Bumsig Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
“Stable Quasimaps to Holomorphic Symplectic Quotients”
- Ichiro Shimada (Hiroshima University)
“Lattices of algebraic cycles in positive characteristics”
- Yu-jong Tzeng (Stanford University & Harvard University)
“Universal Formulas for Counting Nodal Curves on Surfaces”
Combinatorics
Session Organizer: Xuding Zhu (National Sun Yat-sen University)
Plenary Speaker: Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
“Adding numbers, shuffling cards, and an amazing matrix”
Invited Speakers
- Pavol Hell (Simon Fraser University)
“List Homomorphism Problems”
- Alexandr Kostochka (University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign)
“List Coloring of Simple Hypergraphs”
- Jarik Nešetřil (Charles University)
“Homomorphism Dualities in Optimization, Logic, and Algorithms”
- Zhi-Wei Sun (Nanjing University)
“Super Congruences involving Binomial Coefficients and New Series for Famous Constants”
- Gerard J. Chang (National Taiwan University)
“On the number of subsequences with a given sum in a finite abelian group”
- Xingxing Yu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
“K5-subdivisions in 5-connected nonplanar graphs”
Differential Geometry
Session Organizer: Seiki Nishikawa (Tohoku University)
Plenary Speaker: Seiki Nishikawa (Tohoku University)
“Harmonic maps into complex Finsler manifolds”
Invited Speakers
- Kazuo Akutagawa (Tohoku University)
“The Yamabe invariant of cylindrical manifolds and computations of the orbifold Yamabe invariant”
- Ben Andrews (Australian National University)
“The fundamental gap on manifolds and on convex domains”
- Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
“Sharp eigenvalue estimates and area bounds for stationary submanifolds and varifolds in Euclidean space”
- Akito Futaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
“Kähler geometry and asymptotic Chow semistability”
- Ko Honda (University of Southern California)
“HF=ECH via open book decompositions”
- Lei Ni (UC–San Diego)
“Ancient solutions to the Ricci flow”
Electromagnetic Waves
Session Organizer: Ya Yan Lu (City University of Hong Kong)
Plenary Speaker: Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)
“Transformation Optics and Cloaking”
Invited Speakers
- Gang Bao (Michigan State University)
“Inverse Problems for Maxwell’s Equations”
- Hyeonbae Kang (Inha University)
“Electromagnetic Reconstruction of Targets Using Fine Properties of Multistatic Response Matrices”
- Hongyu Liu (University of Washington)
“Approximate acoustic and electromagnetic cloaking”
- Xudong Chen (University of Singapore)
“Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems Involving Small Scatterers”
- Ya Yan Lu (City University of Hong Kong)
“Efficient Method for Analyzing Woodpile Structures”
- Ting Zhou (University of Washington)
“Reconstructing Electromagnetic Obstacles by the Enclosure Method”
Junshan Lin (Michigan State University)
“Near-field imaging of the surface displacement on an infinite ground plane”
Functional Analysis
Session Organizer: Xiaoman Chen (Fudan University)
Plenary Speaker: Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University)
“Geometric complexity and topological rigidity”
Invited Speakers
- Boo Rim Choe (Korea University)
“Survey on the finite-rank product conjecture for Toeplitz operators”
- Kunyu Guo (Fudan University)
“Multiplication operators defined by covering maps on the Bergman space: the connection between operator theory
and von Neumann algebras”
- Tsuyoshi Kato (Kyoto University)
“Growth of Casson handles and Yang-Mills gauge theory”
Kinetic Equations and Gas Dynamics
Session Organizer: Seung Yeal Ha (Seoul National University)
Plenary Speaker: Tai-Ping Liu (Academia Sinica & Stanford University)
“Hilbert’s Sixth Problem”
Invited Speakers
- Seung Yeal Ha (Seoul National University)
“Complete synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators”
- Kazuo Aoki (Kyoto University)
“Stokes fluid dynamics for a vapor-gas mixture derived from kinetic theory”
- Russel Caflisch (UCLA)
“Monte Carlo Simulation for Coulomb Collisions”
- Dongho Chae (Sungkyunkwan University)
“On the pressure of the incompressible fluids and the axisymmetric flows”
- Shinya Nishibata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
“Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Euler-Poisson equation in plasma physics”
- I-Kun Chen (Academia Sinica)
“Maxwellian Bound for thermal transpiration problem and the singularity near the boundary”
Mathematical Imaging
Session Organizer: Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)
Plenary Speaker: Emmanuel Candès (Stanford University)
“Advances in low-rank matrix modeling: some theory and some computer vision applications”
Invited Speakers
- Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore)
“Frame-Based Image Restoration”
- Bin Dong (UC-San Diego)
“Some Mathematical Models in Biomedical Shape Processing and Analysis”
- Ji Hui (National University of Singapore)
“Sparse approximation and blind image de-convolution”
- Charles Chui (University of Missouri & Stanford University)
“Dimensionality Reduction for Hyperspectral Imaging”
- Joseph Teran (UCLA)
“Math in the Movies”
- Hongkai Zhao (UC–Irvine)
“A phase space method for recovering index of refraction from travel times”
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Session Organizer: Xu-Jia Wang (Australian National University)
Plenary Speaker: Xu-Jia Wang (Australian National University)
“The Affine Maximal Surface Equation”
Invited Speakers
- Juncheng Wei (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“On the De Giorgi Conjecture and Beyond”
- Bo Guan (Ohio State University)
“Complete hypersurfaces of constant curvature in hyperbolic space with asymptotic boundary at infinity”
- Hitoshi Ishii (Waseda University)
“The Neumann problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in view of weak KAM”
- Huaiyu Jian (Tsinghua University)
“A Bernstein theorem for the Monge-Ampere equation and applications”
- Yng-Ing Lee (National Taiwan University)
“Self-similar solutions and translating solutions for Lagrangian mean curvature flow”
- Yu Yuan (University of Washington)
“Singular solutions to special Lagrangian equations with subcritical phase and minimal surface system”
Number Theory
Session Organizer: Brian Conrad (Stanford University)
Plenary Speaker: James Borger (Australian National University)
“Geometry—from algebraic to arithmetic to absolute”
Invited Speakers
- Samit Dasgupta (UC–Santa Cruz)
“An integral Eisenstein-Sczech cocycle on SLn(Z) and p-adic L-functions of totally real fields”
- Cristian Popescu (UC–San Diego)
“Tate modules of Picard 1-motives and applications”
- James Borger (Australian National University)
“Witt vectors, lambda-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry”
- Karl Rubin (UC–Irvine)
“Twists of elliptic curves and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem”
- Vinayak Vatsal (University of British Columbia)
“Period integrals of modular forms”
- Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University)
“Torsion in the homology of arithmetic groups”
Random Systems and PDEs
Session Organizer: Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (UC–Berkeley)
Plenary Speaker: S.R.S. Varadhan (New York University)
“Large Deviations”
Invited Speakers
- Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (UC–Berkeley)
“Gelation for the Marcus-Lushinkov Process”
- Tadahisa Funaki (University of Tokyo)
“Hydrodynamic limit for a dynamic model of 2D Young diagrams”
- Atilla Yilmaz (UC–Berkeley)
“Large deviations for random walk in a random environment”
- Stefano Olla (CEREMADE, Université Paris–Dauphine & INRIA, France)
“From Hamiltonian dynamics to heat equation: the hydrodynamic limit approach by energy conserving stochastic perturbations”
- Sunder Sethuraman (Iowa State University)
“A scaling limit for a tagged particle in bounded one dimensional zero-range systems”
- Alejandro F. Ramírez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
“Ballisticity conditions for random walk in random environment”
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General Schedule
Detailed Schedule
Accommodations
We have arranged conference accommodations at two of our local hotels:
We have a number rooms at the charming and historic Cardinal Hotel, approximately 1 mile from the Stanford campus.
Situated in downtown Palo Alto, the Cardinal is within walking distance of shopping and many fine dining establishments.
To reserve your room at the Cardinal Hotel, please go to our special reservations Web page.
For driving directions to the Cardinal Hotel from the San Francisco and San Jose airports,
visit the Cardinal Hotel’s “Map & Directions” page.
There, in addition to directions and a map, you will also find a list of shuttle bus companies that serve both airports. Phone numbers and estimated
transportation charges are also listed.
We are fortunate to also have a block rooms at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel. Considered one of the most beautifully landscaped hotels in Silicon Valley, it is also close to downtown Palo Alto, Stanford University, and the unique Stanford Shopping Center. The Cal Train station, providing easy access into downtown San Francisco and San Jose, is just a block away.
For driving directions to the Sheraton Palo Alto,
visit their “Driving Directions” page.
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The conference banquet will be held on Wednesday, June 30, at the Palo Alto Sheraton hotel.