ICM98-CL19 (97/12/10): List and Schedule of the Plenary Speakers
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Nineteenth Circular Letter
Subject: ICM98-CL19: List and Schedule of the Plenary Speakers
Dear colleague:
The one-hour Plenary Lectures and the forty-five-minute Invited
Lectures form the core of every ICM. By means of a lengthy and
complicated process, leading researchers from all areas of mathematics
are selected by the IMU appointed Program Committee (PC) to present
lectures covering recent developments in the major areas of
mathematics. The decisions of the PC are based, in the case of ICM'98,
on suggestions from nineteen section panels. The "IMU terms of
reference" state, e.g., the following about the Plenary Lectures:
> ONE-HOUR LECTURES
>
> The preparation of the list of one-hour lectures is one of the primary
> tasks of the PC. They may or may not seek the advice of the Panels
> as they think fit. When choosing the speaker, the P.C. should take
> into account that diversity of themes is much desirable. If two
> lectures are likely to have a partial overlap, it is the duty of the
> P.C. to bring this to the attention of the lecturers concerned. The
> lectures should be broad surveys of some recent major developments,
> aimed at the entire mathematical community. Invited one-hour speakers
> should be given a precise indication by the P.C. of what is expected
> from them. They should be outstanding mathematicians and good
> lecturers. The P.C.should consider encouraging them to write up
> their lectures in advance to be distributed at the congress; such a
> suggestion would appear in the letters of invitation to the speakers.
> In all cases, at least summaries of the lectures should be prepared
> beforehand.
The IMU rules also say:
> The privilege of sending the invitations belongs to the Organizing
> Committee of the Congress.
This invitation process for Plenary Speakers is now over. Twenty-one top
mathematicians have accepted the invitation to give one-hour addresses.
Here is the list of speakers together with their affiliations and their
fields of research interests. The titles of the presentations are due by
May 1, 1998. Many of the names and addresses have umlauts or carry
accents. To provide correct spelling, the list below is in LATEX style.
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\item[\bfseries Jean-Michel Bismut] (Universit\'{e} Paris-Sud, Orsay, France):
Differential Geometry and Global Analysis
\item[\bfseries Christopher Deninger] (Universit\"at M\"unster, Germany):
Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, L-Functions of Motives
\item[\bfseries Persi Diaconis] (Mathematics and ORIE, Cornell University,
Ithaca, USA): Statistics, Probability, Algebraic Combinatorics
\item[\bfseries Giovanni Gallavotti] (Universit\'a La Sapienza, Roma, Italy):
Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability
\item[\bfseries Wolfgang Hackbusch] (Universit\"at Kiel, Germany):
Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing
\item[\bfseries Helmut H. W. Hofer] (Courant Institute,
New York University, USA): Global Analysis, Dynamical Systems
\item[\bfseries Ehud Hrushovski] (Hebrew University of Jeru\-sa\-lem,
Israel): Logic
\item[\bfseries I.~G.~Macdonald] (Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London, England): Lie Groups, Algebraic Combinatorics
\item[\bfseries St\'ephane Mallat] (\'{E}cole Polytechnique, CMAP,
Palaiseau, France): Applied Mathematics, Signal Processing
\item[\bfseries Dusa McDuff] (SUNY Stony Brook, USA):
Symplectic Topology
\item[\bfseries Tetsuji Miwa] (RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan):
Integrable Systems, Infinite Dimensional Algebras
\item[\bfseries J\"urgen Moser] (ETH Z\"urich, Switzerland):
Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations
\item[\bfseries George C. Papanicolaou] (Stanford University, USA):
Applied Mathematics, Probability
\item[\bfseries Gilles Pisier] (Universit\'{e} Paris VI, France and
Texas A\&M University, College Station, USA): Functional Analysis
\item[\bfseries Peter Sarnak] (Princeton University, USA):
Number Theory
\item[\bfseries Peter W. Shor] (AT\&T Labs, Florham Park, USA):
Computer Science
\item[\bfseries Karl Sigmund] (University of Vienna, Austria):
Mathematical Ecology, Evolutionary Game Theory
\item[\bfseries Michel Talagrand] (C.N.R.S., Universit\'e Paris VI, France):
Probability, Statistical Mechanics, Functional Analysis, Measure Theory
\item[\bfseries Cumrun Vafa] (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and
Tehran, Iran): String Theory, Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity
\item[\bfseries Marcelo Viana] (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil):
Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory
\item[\bfseries Vladimir Voevodsky] (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA):
Algebraic Cycles and Motives
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Moreover, the Organizing Committee has made a schedule of the Plenary
Lectures. This schedule is final (but, of course, you never know what
will happen in the next eight months).
The Plenary Addresses will be presented in the morning sessions - with two
exceptions. There will be no talks parallel to a Plenary Lecture!
One Plenary Lecture is scheduled for the afternoon of the first day
(August 18, 1998). It will be given by Juergen Moser. Another Plenary Talk
(by Persi Diaconis) will be presented in the afternoon of the last day
(August 27). It will start at 2 p.m.
There are two Plenary Lectures in each morning session of the first week
(Wednesday to Saturday). The schedule is as follows:
First lecture: 9:30 - 10:30 coffee break
Second Lecture: 11:00 - 12:00 lunch break
In the second week (Monday to Thursday) we will have three Plenary
Lectures each morning with the following schedule:
First lecture: 9:00 - 10:00 break
Second Lecture: 10:15 - 11:15 coffee break
Third lecture: 11:45 - 12:45 lunch break
The speaker schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, August 18: Moser (afternoon)
Wednesday, August 19: Shor, Hrushovski
Thursday, August 20: McDuff, Macdonald
Friday, August 21: Hofer, Voevodsky
Saturday, August 22: Hackbusch, Noether Lecture
Monday, August 24: Sigmund, Talagrand, Vafa
Tuesday, August 25: Papanicolaou, Miwa, Pisier
Wednesday, August 26: Deninger, Gallavotti, Bismut
Thursday, August 27: Viana, Mallat, Sarnak
afternoon: Diaconis
The Noether Lecture on August 22 belongs to the "Section of Special
Activities". It was suggested by a group representing "Women in
Mathematics" and was approved by IMU and the ICM'98 Organizing
Committee. The Noether Lecture will be presented by Cathleen S.
Morawetz (New York).
The first Plenary Lecture (by J. Moser) will be delivered in the
afternoon of the opening day at the International Congress Center
(ICC). The other addresses will be given in the Auditorium Maximum
(lecture hall H 105) of the TU Berlin. The Auditorium Maximum has a
capacity of 1200 seats. The talks will also be shown in an adjoining
lecture hall via closed-circuit television, so that an audience of
more than 2000 people can be reached.
Sincerely
Martin Groetschel
President of the
ICM'98 Organizing Committee
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