International Conference
Mathematics in the Twentieth Century:
In Commemoration of the Birth Centenary of André
Weil
January 2-5,2006
Programme |
| Monday,
January 2, 2006 |
Time
|
Session |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 9:00 |
AM |
-
9:30 |
AM |
Registration |
|
|
| 9:30 |
AM |
-
10:00 |
AM |
Inauguration
by Prof Deepak Pental, Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi
|
| 10:00 |
AM |
-
10:30 |
AM |
TEA |
|
|
| 10:30 |
AM |
-
11:30 |
AM |
Lecture
1 |
Prof
Norbert Schlomiuk |
André
Weil: Remembrances |
| 11:30 |
AM |
-
1:00 |
PM |
Symposia |
Prof
Michael Skeide
Prof V S Sunder
Prof Rajaram Bhat
Prof M Krishna |
Topic:From
Hilbert Spaces to Operator Algebras |
| 1:00 |
PM |
-
2:00 |
PM |
LUNCH |
|
|
| 2:00 |
PM |
-
3:00 |
PM |
Lecture
2 |
Prof
Pascal Chossat |
The
Mathematics of Pattern Formation and the Emergence of Complexity
|
| 3:00 |
PM |
-
3:30 |
PM |
TEA |
|
|
| 3:30 |
PM |
-
4:30 |
PM |
Lecture 3 |
Prof S.G. Dani |
Impact of Ergodic Theory
on Problems in Diophantine Approximation |
| 4:30 |
PM |
-
5:15 |
PM
|
Lecture
4 |
Prof Xiangyu Zhou |
Several Complex Variables in China |
| Tuesday,
January 3, 2006 |
|
Time |
|
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:00 |
AM |
-
10:00 |
AM |
Lecture
5 |
Prof
J.P. Kahane |
André
Weil and the History and Philosophy of Science |
| 10:00 |
AM |
-
11:00 |
AM |
Lecture
6 |
Prof
K.B. Sinha |
Quantum
Mechanics - A Different way to Look at Functions |
| 11:00 |
AM |
-
11:30 |
AM |
TEA |
|
|
| 11:30 |
AM |
-
12:30 |
PM |
Lecture
7 |
Prof
John Hubbard |
The
Weil Conjectures and the Etale Topology |
| 12:30 |
PM |
-
1:30 |
PM |
Lecture
8 |
Prof
Marie-Francois Roy |
Three
Problems of Hilbert in Real Algebraic Geometry |
| 1:30 |
PM |
-
2:30 |
PM |
LUNCH |
|
|
| 2:30 |
PM |
-
3:30 |
PM |
Lecture
9 |
Prof
Ram Murty |
Shuffle
Algebras and Zeta Functions |
| 3:30 |
PM |
-
4:00 |
PM |
TEA |
|
|
| 4:00 |
PM |
-
5:00 |
PM |
Lecture
10 |
Prof
J.P. Pier |
André
Weil - Founder of Harmonic Analysis? |
| Wednesday,
January 4, 2006 |
|
Time |
|
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:00 |
AM |
-10:00
|
AM |
Lecture
11 |
Prof
John Stillwell |
Weil's
Work in the History of Mathematics - Number Theory |
| 10:00 |
AM |
-
11:00 |
AM |
Lecture
12 |
Prof
S Ramanan |
Geometry
- A Historical Introduction |
| 11:00 |
AM |
-
11:30 |
AM |
TEA |
|
|
| 11:30 |
AM |
-
1:00 |
PM |
Symposia |
Prof
Marie-Francoise Roy
Prof Dana Schlomiuk
Dr Geetha Venkatraman
Dr Radha Mohan |
Women
and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century |
| 1:00 |
PM |
-
2:00 |
PM |
LUNCH |
|
|
| 2:00 |
PM |
-
3:00 |
PM |
Lecture
13 |
Prof
Rajendra Bhatia |
Eigen
Values of Sums of Matrices: One Century of Progress |
| 3:00 |
PM |
-
3:30 |
PM |
TEA |
|
|
| 3:30 |
PM |
-
4:30 |
PM |
Lecture
14 |
Prof
George Willis |
The
Structure of Totally Disconnected locally Compact Groups |
| Thursday,
January 5, 2006 |
|
Time |
|
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:00 |
AM |
-
10:00 |
AM |
Lecture
15 |
Prof
Jean-Marc Deshouillers |
Additive
Number Theory: Classical Problems and Inverse Theory |
| 10:00 |
AM |
-
11:00 |
AM |
Lecture
16 |
Prof
Dana Schlomiuk |
The
Hilbert's 16th Problem |
| 11:00 |
AM |
-
11:30 |
AM |
TEA |
|
|
| 11:30 |
AM |
-
12:30 |
PM |
Lecture
17 |
Prof
K R Parthasarathy |
Entropy,
Information and Communication |
| 12:30 |
PM |
-
1:30 |
PM |
Lecture
18 |
Prof
Roddam Narasimha |
Wrestling
with Nonlinearity: Fluid Dynamics in the 20th Century |
| 1:30 |
PM |
-
2:30 |
PM |
LUNCH |
|
|
| 2:30 |
PM |
-
4:00 |
PM |
Symposium |
Prof
Bhaskar Bagchi
Prof Kapil H Paranjape
Prof Dinesh Singh |
Topic:
The Evolution of Commutative Harmonic Analysis |
