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International Mathematical
Summer School for Students 2011
Tentative Program
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Saturday 2 |
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Arrival |
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Sunday 3 |
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Opening in the Campus
Center 10:00-12:00 |
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Afternoon |
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14:00-15:15 |
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15:45-17:00 |
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17:30-18:45 |
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until 20:00 |
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Research II |
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Conway |
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Hubbard |
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Tabachnikov |
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Dinner extended |
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Monday 4 |
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9:30-10:45 |
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11:15-12:30 |
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15:00-16:15 |
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16:45-18:00 |
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19:30-21:30 |
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Research II |
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Ghys |
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Conway |
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Hubbard |
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Tokieda |
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The Free Will |
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Tuesday 5 |
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9:30-10:45 |
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11:15-12:30 |
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15:00-16:15 |
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depart 16:40 |
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depart 19:30 |
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Research II |
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Matveev |
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Schleicher |
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Conway |
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Downtown |
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Cruise Ship |
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Research III |
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Tabachnikov |
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Bremen |
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from ``Schlachte'' |
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Wednesday 6 |
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9:30-10:45 |
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11:15-12:30 |
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15:00-16:15 |
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16:45-18:00 |
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Research II |
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Andler |
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Conway |
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Hubbard |
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Ghys |
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Research III |
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Tabachnikov |
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Matveev |
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Tokieda |
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Thursday 7 |
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9:30-10:45 |
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11:15-12:30 |
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15:00-16:15 |
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16:45-18:00 |
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from 19:30 |
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Research II |
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Kleptsyn |
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Ghys |
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Hubbard |
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Fuchs |
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Mathematics of tides |
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Research III |
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Tokieda |
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Matveev |
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Friday 8 |
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Excursion to Wangerooge - Busses
leave 6:00! |
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Saturday 9 |
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9:30-10:45 |
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11:15-12:30 |
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15:00-16:15 |
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16:45-18:00 |
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Research II |
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Werner |
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Fuchs |
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Werner |
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Ziegler |
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Research III |
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Schleicher |
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Sunday 10 |
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9:30-10:45 |
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11:15-12:30 |
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15:00-16:15 |
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16:45-18:00 |
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Research II |
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Werner |
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Andler |
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Werner |
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Zagier |
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Monday 11 |
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9:30-10:45 |
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11:15-12:30 |
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15:00-16:15 |
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16:45-18:00 |
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Research II |
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Zagier |
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Bonk |
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Bonk |
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Closing |
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Research III |
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Kleptsyn |
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Tuesday 12 |
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Departure |
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- Daily announcements will be made at beginning of first
plenary talk every morning.
- Meals: Breakfast 8:00-9:30, Lunch 12:00-13:30, Dinner
18:00-19:00 in College Nordmetall.
- Lecture Halls: All plenary talks will take place in the
Research II Lecture Hall. Parallel talks will take place in the
Research II Lecture Hall and the Research III Lecture Hall as
indicated.
- Discussion: We encourage discussion and questions to any
of the lecturers. Each lecture is additionally supported by a
designated graduate teaching assistant who will be available
afterwards during the days and typically in the evening to answer
background questions.
- Emergencies: In case of any problems, especially medical
ones, please contact the organizers immediately: at the help desk
(see below), or by phone (campus extension 3210, cell phone
+49-421-2003210 for the conference organizers). If you do not reach
any of the organizers, contact the porters at campus extension
4800, cell phone +49-421-2004800.
- Help Desk 9:10-18:00: For any type of day-time
assistance, tea, coffee, printing, sign-out in case of leaving
campus, etc., there is a help desk in the Research II Tea
Room.
- Help Desk 19:00-24:00: located in the College Common
Room. There is no printing available at this time.
- Departure at 16:40 latest from the Jacobs Porters' lodge, then
walk to Bremen-Schönebeck Station and trip to Bremen-Hauptbahnhof
by train.
- Train tickets will be provided to you.
- You can explore the city center in small groups.
- The trip back to Bremen is by boat. Meeting point at 19:30 from
Martinianleger (Schlachte) Bremen, boxed dinners will be provided
there.
- Busses leave at 6:00 in front of College Nordmetall.
- Breakfast will be provided on the busses.
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10:00-12:00 |
Opening |
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Campus Center West Wing |
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14:00-15:15 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Conway (Princeton University, USA) |
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The game of life and a life of games |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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15:45-17:00 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Hubbard Cornell University, USA;
Université Aix-Marseilles, France) |
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Dynamics and chaos |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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17:30-18:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Sergei Tabachnikov (Pennsylvania State University,
USA) |
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Flavors of ``Bicycle Mathematics'' |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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9:30-10:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Étienne Ghys (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
France) |
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Surfaces and geometry |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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11:15-12:30 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Conway (Princeton University, USA) |
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The game of life and a life of games |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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15:00-16:15 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Hubbard (Cornell University; Université
Aix-Marseilles) |
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Dynamics and chaos |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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16:45-18:00 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge, UK) |
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Geometry and physics |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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19:30-21:30 |
Interdisciplinary Debate: The free
will (Research II Lecture Hall) |
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Gerhard Roth (Universität Bremen) |
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Free will and determinism from a philosophical
and neurobiological point of view |
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Peter Schupp (Jacobs University) |
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Determinism and quantum mechanics |
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John H. Conway (Princeton University) |
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The Free Will theorem |
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Plenary Discussion, moderator: Étienne Ghys |
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9:30-10:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Rostislav Matveev (Universität Leipzig,
Germany) |
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Surfaces with polyhedral metrics |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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11:15-12:30 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Dierk Schleicher (Jacobs University) |
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On useless and useful mathematics: |
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Newton's method, chaos, and the Mandelbrot
set |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Sergei Tabachnikov (Pennsylvania State University,
USA) |
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Around four vortices |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Conway (Princeton University, USA) |
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The game of life and a life of games |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Nikita
Selinger |
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16:30 |
Depart for trip to downtown Bremen
(Porters' lodge) |
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Note: We take the train from Bremen-Schönebeck to
Bremen Hauptbahnhof |
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Train tickets will be provided. |
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You can explore the city center in small
groups. |
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19:30 |
Return to Jacobs University by
boat |
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Meet at Martinianleger (Schlachte) in the center
of Bremen |
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Boxed dinners will be provided, departure
20:00. |
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9:30-10:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Martin Andler (Université
Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France) |
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The Heisenberg group |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Sergei Tabachnikov (Pennsylvania State University,
USA) |
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Odds and ends |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Conway (Princeton University, USA) |
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The game of life and a life of games |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Rostislav Matveev (Universität Leipzig,
Germany) |
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Surfaces with polyhedral metrics |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Hubbard (Cornell University; Université
Aix-Marseilles) |
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Dynamics and chaos |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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16:45-18:00 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge, UK) |
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Geometry and physics |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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16:45-18:00 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Étienne Ghys (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
France) |
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Conformal maps |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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from 19:00 |
(College Nordmetall Study Area) |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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9:30-10:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Victor Kleptsyn (Université de Rennes,
France) |
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Lattices, codes and sphere packings in
high-dimensional spaces |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge, UK) |
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Geometry and physics |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Étienne Ghys (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
France) |
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How to dress a ball, according to
Chebychev |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Rostislav Matveev (Universität Leipzig,
Germany) |
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Surfaces with polyhedral metrics |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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John H. Hubbard (Cornell University; Université
Aix-Marseilles) |
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Dynamics and chaos |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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16:45-18:00 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Dmitry Fuchs (University of California, Davis,
USA) |
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Geodesics on regular polyhedra |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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19:30-20:30 |
Mathematics of Tides (Research II
Lecture Hall) |
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from 21:30 |
(College Nordmetall Study Area) |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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9:30-10:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay,
France) |
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Harmonic functions, random walks, and Brownian
motion |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Dierk Schleicher (Jacobs University) |
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Hausdorff dimension, its intution, and some
reasons and surprises |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Dmitry Fuchs (University of California, Davis,
USA) |
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Geodesics on regular polyhedra |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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15:00-16:15 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay,
France) |
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Harmonic functions, random walks, and Brownian
motion |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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16:45-18:00 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Günter M. Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany) |
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The many facets of the 24-cell |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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from 19:00 |
(College Nordmetall Study Area) |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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9:30-10:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay,
France) |
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Harmonic functions, random walks, and Brownian
motion |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Martin Andler (Université
Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France) |
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The Heisenberg group |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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11:15-12:30 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Günter M. Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany) |
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The many facets of the 24-cell |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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15:00-16:15 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay,
France) |
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Harmonic functions, random walks, and Brownian
motion |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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16:45-18:00 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Don Zagier (Max Planck Institute Bonn, Germany;
Collège de France) |
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Number theory |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Dzmitry
Dudko |
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from 19:00 |
(College Nordmetall Study Area) |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Maxim
Rauwald |
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19:30-20:30 |
Film from the 2009 International
Mathematical Olympiad |
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(Research II Lecture Hall) |
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9:30-10:45 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Don Zagier (Max Planck Institute Bonn, Germany;
Collège de France) |
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Number theory |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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11:15-12:30 |
Plenary lecture (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Mario Bonk (University of California, Los Angeles,
USA) |
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Analysis without smoothness |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research III Lecture
Hall) |
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Victor Kleptsyn (Université de Rennes,
France) |
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Lattices, codes and sphere packings in
high-dimensional spaces |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Goran
Drazic |
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15:00-16:15 |
Session talk (Research II Lecture
Hall) |
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Mario Bonk (University of California, Los Angeles,
USA) |
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Analysis without smoothness |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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16:45 |
Closing Session (Research II) |
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17:30 |
Studying at Jacobs (Research
II) |
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Daniel Meyer, Marcel Oliver |
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from 19:00 |
Barbeque |
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(In front of College Nordmetall) |
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Graduate teaching assistant on duty: Yauhen
Mikulich |
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