Abelforelesningene 2005
Peter D. Lax holdt sin Abelforelesning på Universitetet i Oslo. I tillegg foreleste tre andre fremstående matematikere: Sebastian Noelle, CMA Oslo/RWTH Aachen, Peter Sarnak, Princeton University og Stephanos Venakides, Duke University.
Dato: 25. mai
Tid: 9.15 - 16.00
Sted: Universitetet i Oslo, Georg Sverdrups hus
Program:
09.15 Welcoming address by Professor Knut Fægri, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo
Chair: Professor Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University
09.30 Abstract Phragmen-Lindelöf theorem Saint Venant's principle
Peter D. Lax, Abel Laureate 2005, New York University
10.30 Coffee break
10:45 "Systems of conservation laws"
Professor Sebastian Noelle, CMA Oslo/RWTH Aachen
11.45 Lunch
Chair: Professor Don Zagier, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
13.45 "Hyperbolic equations and spectral geometry"
Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton University
14.45 Coffee break
15.00 "Rigourous semiclassical asymptotics for integrable systems: The KdV and focusing NLS cases"
Professor Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
Abelforelesningene 2005 med fra venstre Sebastian Noelle, Abelprisvinner Peter D. Lax, Stephanos Venakides og Peter Sarnak. Foto: Terje Bendiksby/Scanpix