Program of C.I.R.M.
for the year 1999

 

The Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Matematica (C.I.R.M.) of Trento organized during the year 1999 the following Conferences and Schools:

·  "Epistemology of Mathematics for Didactics",

from February 7 to February 12 1999, at the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico Terme (Trento).
Scientific Organizer: F. Arzarello (Torino).
This event was supported also by M.U.R.S.T. project "Ricerche di Matematica ed Informatica per la Didattica".
The school included the following courses:

A. Arcavi (Rehovot): "Didactical issues and quandaries with epistemological connections",
G. Arsac (Lyon I): "Interplay between didactics and epistemology, an example: the question of evidence",
N. Balacheff (Grenoble): "Learning in mathematics, a pragmatic answer to a theoretical problem",
G. Lolli (Torino): "Truth and proofs".

·  "Infinite Dimensional Analysis and Quantum Probability",

from February 18 to February 23 1999, at the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico Terme (Trento).
Scientific Organizers: L. Accardi (Roma II) and F. Fagnola (Genova).

Lecturers: L. Accardi (Roma II), I.Ya. Aref'eva (Moscow), S. Attal (Grenoble I), F. Bagarello (Palermo), V. Belavkin (Nottingham), A. Boukas (Athens), M. Bozejko (Wroclaw), R. Carbone (Milano), G. Cassinelli (Genova), C. Cecchini (Udine), A. Chebotarev (Moscow), D.M. Chung (Seoul), F. Cipriani (Milano), A. Coquio (Grenoble I), G. D'Ariano (Pavia), P. Facchi (Bari), F. Fagnola (Genova), U. Franz (Greifswald), W. Freudenberg (Cottbus), H. Fujita Yashima (Torino), S. Furuichi (Yamaguchi), R. Gill (Eindhoven), M. Grothaus (Bonn), K. Hasegawa (Tokyo), A. Kossakowski (Torun), C. Köstler (Stuttgart), I. Krolak (Wroclaw), R. Lenczewski (Wroclaw), V. Liebscher (Neuherberg), W.A. Majewski (Gdansk), M. Mancino (Firenze), T. Matsuoka (Torun), O. Melsheimer (Marburg), W. Mlotkowski (Wroclaw), A.M. Paganoni (Milano), Y.M. Park (Seoul), S. Paycha (Aubiere), D. Petz (Budapest), S. Pullmannova (Bratislava), R. Rebolledo (Santiago), M. Skeide (Cottbus), O.G. Smolyanov (Moscow), S. Tasaki (Nara), G. Tessitore (Genova), I. Volovich (Moscow), W. von Waldenfels (Heidelberg), J. Wysoczanski (Wroclaw).
The Centro Matematico Vito Volterra in Rome co-sponsored this conference.

·  "Calculus of Variations: Geometric Measure Theory, Relaxation and Gamma-Convergence",

from February 28 to March 5 1999, at the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico Terme (Trento).
Scientific Organizers: G. Anzellotti (Trento) and I. Tamanini (Trento).
The Department of Mathematics of the University of Trento and the MURST Project "Equazioni Differenziali e Calcolo delle Variazioni" also sponsored this meeting.

Schedule

 

·  Age-Europroj Advanced School on "Geometry of complex 3-folds",

from May 3 to May 8 1999, at the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico Terme (Trento).
Scientific Organizer: G. Bolondi (Milano).
This school was co-sponsored by the European Commission under the TMR-program.
The following courses were held:

A. Corti (Cambridge): "Birational geometry of 3 folds",

M. Gross (Warwick): "Calabi-Yau 3-folds and mirror symmetry",

M. Reid (Warwick): "Quotient singularities and McKay correspondence".

·  "Mathematical Methods and Models in Biology",

from May 10 to May 12 1999, at the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico Terme (Trento).
Local Organizing Committee: F. Arrigoni, M. Iannelli, A. Pugliese and L. Tonetto (Trento).
The conference was part of CNR Strategic Project "Mathematical methods and models in biology". Sponsors were the Department of Mathematics of the University of Trento and C.I.R.I.T.A. (Milano Politecnico).
Plenary Lectures:

J. Bassingthwaighte (University of Washington): "REGIONAL MYOCARDIAL METABOLISM: Modeling its relationships to flows, transport, and contraction locally".

H. Byrne (University of Nottingham): "Current Trends in Modelling Solid Tumour Growth".

E. D'Angelo (Università di Pavia): "Mathematical simulation of excitability in neuronal models".

K. Dietz (Universität Tübingen): "Mathematical Models for parasite populations".

S. Gavrilets (University of Tennessee at Knoxville): "Evolution and speciation on holey adaptive landscapes".

G. Israel (Università La Sapienza di Roma): "The legacy of Vito Volterra and Alfred J. Lotka in biomathematics".

Moreover, many short communications were held.

·  Analysis and Geometry on Metric Spaces

from May 24 to May 28 1999, at the Istituto Trentino di Cultura in Povo (Trento).
Scientific Organizers: L. Ambrosio (Pisa), B. Franchi (Bologna), N. Garofalo (Purdue), R. Serapioni (Milano) and F. Serra Cassano (Trento).
The school was also sponsored by M.U.R.S.T. project "Equazioni differenziali e Calcolo delle Variazioni".
Lecturers: T. Coulhon (Cergy-Pontoise), G. David (Paris XI), P. Koskela (Jyväskylä), S. Semmes (Rice Univ.), R.L. Wheeden (Rutgers Univ.).

·  "Complex Analysis and Geometry - XIV",

from June 8 to June 12 1999, at the Grand Hotel Bellavista in Levico Terme (Trento).
Scientific Organizers: V. Ancona (Firenze) and A. Silva (Roma I).

·  School on "White Noise Approach to Classical and Quantum Stochastic Calculi",

from July 19 to July 24 1999, at the Istituto Trentino di Cultura in Povo (Trento).
Scientific Organizers: L. Accardi (Roma II) and I.V. Volovich (Moscow).
Courses: L. Accardi, T. Hida (Meijo), H.-H. Kuo (Louisiana), Y.G. Lu (Bari), N. Obata (Nagoya), I.V. Volovich.
Additional seminars: V. Belavkin (Nottingham), A. Boukas (Athens), A. Chebotarev (Moscow), K. Saito (Nagoya), Si Si (Kumabari), W. von Waldenfels (Heidelberg).

·  "Computational Methods for Oceanic, Atmospheric and Groundwater Flows",

from September 13 to September 17 1999, at the Istituto Trentino di Cultura in Povo (Trento).
Scientific Organizers: L. Bonaventura (Trento) and V. Casulli (Trento).

Speakers: F.L. Bastos Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro, BR), M. Bell (Bracknell, UK), A. Bellin (Trento, I), M.F. Carfora (Napoli, I), V. Casulli (Trento, I), G. Doms (Offenbach, D), J. Douglas, Jr. (Purdue, IN), M. Falcone (Roma, I), R. Ferretti (Roma II, I), O. Fringer (Stanford, CA), A.C. Galeao (Petropolis), E. Gross (Montvale, NJ), H. Kapitza (Geesthacht, D), G. Lang (Hamburg, D), J.J. Leendertse (Mesa, CO), D. Le Roux (Boulder, CO), P. Lionello (Padova, I), S. Malta (Petropolis, BR), D. Marchesin (Rio de Janeiro, BR), A.M. Mazzia (Padova, I), A. Nachbin (Rio de Janeiro, BR), L.F. Pereira (Nova Friburgo, BR), Y.P. Sheng (Gainesville, FL), A. Staniforth (Bracknell, UK), G.S. Stelling (Delft, NL), J. Steppeler (Offenbach, D), E.F. Toro (Manchester, UK, R.A. Walters (Lakewood, CO), P. Zanolli (Trento, I).

Schedule

 

·    "WEB Conference on Riemann Surfaces and Algebraic Curves”,

from December 6 to December 10, 1999.
Scientific Organizer: E. Ballico (Trento).

 

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