Brown University
The Division of Applied Mathematics
Wednesday, May 28th | |
| 5-7p.m.: Wine and cheese reception | The Division of Applied Mathematics |
The lectures will be held in Salomon Center, Main Green | |
The dinner and lunches will be held in Sayles Hall, Main Green (next to the Salomon Center) | |
Session I: Thursday, May 29, 9a.m. | |
| Welcome on behalf of the University: Dr. James Pomerantz | Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Science, Provost of the University |
| Welcome on behalf of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Dr. Hirsh Cohen | Ph.D. '50 (Applied Mathematics) |
| Welcome on behalf of the Division: Phillip J. Davis | Professor of Applied Mathematics, Emeritus |
Session Chairman: Donald Marsh |
Frank L. Day Professor of Biology and Professor of Medical Science, Dean of Biological and Medical Sciences, Brown University |
Peter Lax, Professor of Mathematics NYU-Courant Institute | "Weak convergence of solutions of dispersive systems: an aspect of turbulence" |
Ulf Grenander, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor, Emeritus, Brown University and Michael Miller, Director, Center for Imaging Science, Washington University, St. Louis | "Image Analysis in Neuro-Anatomy" |
LUNCH: Sayles Hall, Main Green (next to the Salomon Center, the venue for the lectures) | |
Session II: Thursday, May 29, 1:30p.m. |
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Session Chairman: Leon Cooper | J. Thomas Watson, Sr. Prof. of Science and Director, Institute for Brain and Neural Systems, Brown University, Nobel Laureate |
Stephen A. Ross, Sterling Professor of Economics and Finance, Yale University | "Mathematical Results in Finance" |
Peter W. Shor, Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories | "Quantum Computing" |
Nancy Kopell, Professor of Mathematics, Boston University | "Networks of neurons as dynamical systems: from biophysics to geometry" |
6:30p.m.: Symposium Dinner: Sayles Hall, Main Green |
Reminiscences of the early days of the Division Moderator: Herbert Greenberg, Ph.D. '46 (Applied Mathematics), Professor and Chair of Mathematics, Emeritus, University of Denver; with Jim Infante, lately Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota, On the LaSalle and Lefschetz years of the Division |
Session III: Friday, May 30, 8:30a.m. |
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Session Chairman: Wendell Fleming | University Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Emeritus, Brown University |
Robert Azencott, Professor and Director, Department of Mathematics, Ecole Normale Sup. de Cachan | "Neural Networks and complexity theory: the impact of stochastic models for learning tasks" |
John Ball, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University | "Calculus of Variation and Materials Science" |
James Glimm, Professor of Applied Mathematics, SUNY, Stony Brook | "A renormalization group fixed point for multiphase flow" |
LUNCH: Sayles Hall, Main Green (next to the Salomon Center, the venue for the lectures) | |
Session IV: Friday, May 30, 1:30p.m. |
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Session Chairman: George Carrier | T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, Emeritus, Harvard University |
Pierre-Louis Lions, Professor of Mathematics, Ceremade, University of Paris | "On compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations" |
Alexandre Chorin, Professor of Mathematics, University of California | "New perspectives in turbulence" |
J. Trevor Stuart, F.R.S., Professor of Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | "Mathematics applied in fluid motion" |
Session V: Saturday, May 31, 9:00a.m. |
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Session Chairman: David Mumford | University Professor and Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, |
Prof. Persi Diaconis, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University | "A place for Philosophy? The rise and now fall of 'modelling' in statistics" |
Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, O.M., F.R.S., Master, Trinity College, Cambridge, Immediate Past President, Royal Society | "Mathematics in the Real World" |