Irish Mathematical Society
Cumann Matamaitice na hÉireann

15th September Meeting

National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC), Friday & Saturday, September 6-7, 2002

Programme

All talks will take place in Aras na Laoi 8 (AL8)

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Friday 6 September


10.30 Registration and Coffee
11.00 Welcome address by Dr Gerard Wrixon, President, University College Cork

Session 1

Chair: Eugene Gath, President IMS

11.10 Alexei Pokrovskii, University College Cork
Equations with hysteresis nonlinearities: what does it mean, and why bother?
12.00 Tom Brady, Dublin City University
The linearity of the braid groups
12.30 James Gleeson, University College Cork
Microscale fluid mixing
1.00LUNCH in Staff Restaurant

Session 2

Chair: Richard Timoney

2.30 Albert Baernstein, University of Washington, St. Louis
The stretch conjecture for Lipschitz functions in the plane
3.20 Stephen Wills, University College Cork
Matrices versus tensor products: an application of operator spaces
3.50COFFEE BREAK

Session 3

Chair: Martin Mathieu

4.10 Imre Leader, University of Cambridge
Partition regularity
5.00 Maria Meehan, University College Dublin
Mathematics by Example
6.00RECEPTION



Saturday 7 September

Session 4

Chair: David Armitage

9.30 Stephen Gardiner, University College Dublin
Poisson kernels, sets of determination, and approximation on the boundary
10.20 COFFEE BREAK
10.45 Peter Kennedy, University College Cork
Emerging applications of Mathematics in Microelectronics
11.35 John Lewis, Communications Network Research Institute, Dublin Institute of Technology
Large deviation theory in perspective
12.25 LUNCH

1.00 to 1.45 Annual General Meeting of Irish Mathematical Society


Session 5 - Tribute To Professor Finbarr Holland

Part A: Mathematics

Chair: Gerard Murphy

2.00 Albert Baernstein, University of Washington, St. Louis
Recent work related to the Bloch and Landau covering constants
2.40 Pat McCarthy, NUI Maynooth
The geometry of reproducing kernels
3.10 David Walsh, NUI Maynooth
Criteria for membership of the mean Lipschitz classes
3.40 COFFEE BREAK

Part B: Mathematical Competitions and Problem Solving

Chair: Gordon Lessells

4.00 Tom Laffey, University College Dublin
4.15 Imre Leader, University of Cambridge
4.30 Dave Flannery, Cork Institute of Technology
4.45 Des MacHale, University College Cork
5.00 Discussion
5.20 Close of meeting

For further information on the programme, and any other queries please contact either

Tom Carroll (tc@ucc.ie) or Donal Hurley (djh@ucc.ie)


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