7th European Congress of Mathematics, July 18 - 22, 2016
The quadrennial Congress of the European Mathematical Society
The quadrennial Congress of the European Mathematical Society
7ECM Invited Talks
The Invited Speaker were selected by the 7ECM Scientific Committee.
IL1-IL4 - July 18th, 2016 - 16:00-16:45
Anton Baranov (Saint Petersburg State University)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Spectral synthesis in Hilbert spaces of entire functions
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H1012
Chairperson: B. Berndtsson
Elisabetta Rocca (University of Pavia)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Diffuse interface models in Biology and Mechanics
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H1058
Chairperson: T. Roubicek
Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute, St.Petersburg; Geneva University)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: 2D Ising model: correlations via boundary value problems
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H2032
Chairperson: W. König
Fabio Nobile (EPFL)
Section: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Title of the talk: Numerical approximation of random PDEs: advances and challenges
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H1028
Chairperson: R. Schneider
IL5-IL9 - July 19th, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Tristan Rivière (ETH Zürich)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: How much does it cost to evert the sphere?
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: C. Beattie
Radha Kessar (City University London)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Blocks of finite reductive groups and local-global conjectures in modular representation theory
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: G. Farkas
Nicolas Bergeron (UPMC)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Torsion homology growth in arithmetic groups
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: H. Reich
Anna Wienhard (Heidelberg University)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Positivity and higher Teichmüller theory
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: H. Esnault
Giuseppe Savaré (Universita' di Pavia)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Diffusion, optimal transport, and Ricci curvature
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: G. Mingione
IL10-IL14 - July 20th, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université catholique de Louvain)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Non-discrete simple locally compact groups
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: P. Bürgisser
Kaisa Matomäki (University of Turku)
Section: Number Theory
Title of the talk: Around the Möbius function
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: D. Zagier
Leonor Godinho (Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa)
Silvia Sabatini (Universität zu Köln)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Circle actions in symplectic geometry
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: C. Bär
Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà (Universitat de Barcelona)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Sampling real polynomials
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: A. Baranov
Christian Bonatti (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Weak hyperbolic structures and robust properties of diffeomorphisms and flows.
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: D. Chelkak
IL15-IL19 - July 21st, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Roman Mikhailov (St. Petersburg State University)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Derived functors in group theory and homotopy theory
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: H. Esnault
Bertrand Maury (Université Paris-Sud)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Congested transport at microscopic and macroscopic scales
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: R. Jeltsch
Bo Berndtsson (Chalmers University of Technology)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Complex Brunn-Minkowski theory and its applications in geometry.
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: J. Ortega-Cerdà
Moti Gitik (Tel Aviv University)
Section: Logic and Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science
Title of the talk: Around powers of singular cardinals.
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: B. Löwe
Peter Keevash (University of Oxford)
Section: Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics
Title of the talk: The existence of designs
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: S. Felsner
IL20-IL24 - July 21st, 2016 - 11:45-12:30
Stefaan Vaes (KU Leuven)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Classification of von Neumann algebras and their quantum symmetries
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H0104
Chairperson: D. Kreimer
Giuseppe Mingione (University of Parma)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Recent progresses in Nonlinear Potential Theory
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H1012
Chairperson: S. Conti
Sylvie Méléard (Ecole polytechnique)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: Stochastic dynamics for adaptation and evolution of microorganisms
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H1058
Chairperson: M. Sanz-Solé
Massimo Fornasier (Technische Universität München)
Section: Optimization and Control
Title of the talk: Learning and Sparse Control of Multiagent Systems
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H2032
Chairperson: R. Schneider
H. Mete Soner (ETH Zurich)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: Martingale Optimal Transport
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H1028
Chairperson: P. Bank
IL25-IL31 - July 22nd, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Sergio Conti (Universität Bonn)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Variational modeling of dislocation structures in crystals
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: A. Mielke
Amin Coja-Oghlan (Goethe University)
Section: Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics
Title of the talk: Phase transitions in discrete structures
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: M. Skutella
Nikolay Tzvetkov (University Cergy-Pontoise)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Transverse stability issues in Hamiltonian partial differential equations
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: C. Mouhot
Christophe Garban (Université Lyon 1)
Gabor Pete (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and Budapest University of Technology & Economics)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: Near-critical percolation and minimal spanning tree in the plane
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: J.-D. Deuschel
Spiros Argyros (NTUA)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Banach spaces with the "scalar-plus-compact" and "invariant subspace" properties.
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: K. Seip
James Maynard (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
Section: Number Theory
Title of the talk: Primes in thin sets
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1036
Chairperson: J. Pintz
Geordie Williamson (Max Planck Institute)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Shadows of Hodge theory in representation theory
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2036
Chairperson: V. Mehrmann
Anton Baranov (Saint Petersburg State University)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Spectral synthesis in Hilbert spaces of entire functions
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H1012
Chairperson: B. Berndtsson
Elisabetta Rocca (University of Pavia)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Diffuse interface models in Biology and Mechanics
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H1058
Chairperson: T. Roubicek
Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute, St.Petersburg; Geneva University)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: 2D Ising model: correlations via boundary value problems
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H2032
Chairperson: W. König
Fabio Nobile (EPFL)
Section: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Title of the talk: Numerical approximation of random PDEs: advances and challenges
Date, Time & Location: Monday, 18th July from 16:00 till 16:45 at H1028
Chairperson: R. Schneider
IL5-IL9 - July 19th, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Tristan Rivière (ETH Zürich)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: How much does it cost to evert the sphere?
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: C. Beattie
Radha Kessar (City University London)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Blocks of finite reductive groups and local-global conjectures in modular representation theory
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: G. Farkas
Nicolas Bergeron (UPMC)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Torsion homology growth in arithmetic groups
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: H. Reich
Anna Wienhard (Heidelberg University)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Positivity and higher Teichmüller theory
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: H. Esnault
Giuseppe Savaré (Universita' di Pavia)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Diffusion, optimal transport, and Ricci curvature
Date, Time & Location: Tuesday, 19th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: G. Mingione
IL10-IL14 - July 20th, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace (Université catholique de Louvain)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Non-discrete simple locally compact groups
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: P. Bürgisser
Kaisa Matomäki (University of Turku)
Section: Number Theory
Title of the talk: Around the Möbius function
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: D. Zagier
Leonor Godinho (Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa)
Silvia Sabatini (Universität zu Köln)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Circle actions in symplectic geometry
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: C. Bär
Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà (Universitat de Barcelona)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Sampling real polynomials
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: A. Baranov
Christian Bonatti (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon)
Section: Topology
Title of the talk: Weak hyperbolic structures and robust properties of diffeomorphisms and flows.
Date, Time & Location: Wednesday, 20th July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: D. Chelkak
IL15-IL19 - July 21st, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Roman Mikhailov (St. Petersburg State University)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Derived functors in group theory and homotopy theory
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: H. Esnault
Bertrand Maury (Université Paris-Sud)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Congested transport at microscopic and macroscopic scales
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: R. Jeltsch
Bo Berndtsson (Chalmers University of Technology)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Complex Brunn-Minkowski theory and its applications in geometry.
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: J. Ortega-Cerdà
Moti Gitik (Tel Aviv University)
Section: Logic and Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science
Title of the talk: Around powers of singular cardinals.
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: B. Löwe
Peter Keevash (University of Oxford)
Section: Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics
Title of the talk: The existence of designs
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: S. Felsner
IL20-IL24 - July 21st, 2016 - 11:45-12:30
Stefaan Vaes (KU Leuven)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Classification of von Neumann algebras and their quantum symmetries
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H0104
Chairperson: D. Kreimer
Giuseppe Mingione (University of Parma)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Recent progresses in Nonlinear Potential Theory
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H1012
Chairperson: S. Conti
Sylvie Méléard (Ecole polytechnique)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: Stochastic dynamics for adaptation and evolution of microorganisms
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H1058
Chairperson: M. Sanz-Solé
Massimo Fornasier (Technische Universität München)
Section: Optimization and Control
Title of the talk: Learning and Sparse Control of Multiagent Systems
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H2032
Chairperson: R. Schneider
H. Mete Soner (ETH Zurich)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: Martingale Optimal Transport
Date, Time & Location: Thursday, 21st July from 11:45 till 12:30 at H1028
Chairperson: P. Bank
IL25-IL31 - July 22nd, 2016 - 09:00-09:45
Sergio Conti (Universität Bonn)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Variational modeling of dislocation structures in crystals
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H0104
Chairperson: A. Mielke
Amin Coja-Oghlan (Goethe University)
Section: Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics
Title of the talk: Phase transitions in discrete structures
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1012
Chairperson: M. Skutella
Nikolay Tzvetkov (University Cergy-Pontoise)
Section: Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Title of the talk: Transverse stability issues in Hamiltonian partial differential equations
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1058
Chairperson: C. Mouhot
Christophe Garban (Université Lyon 1)
Gabor Pete (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and Budapest University of Technology & Economics)
Section: Probability, Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Title of the talk: Near-critical percolation and minimal spanning tree in the plane
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2032
Chairperson: J.-D. Deuschel
Spiros Argyros (NTUA)
Section: Analysis and its Applications
Title of the talk: Banach spaces with the "scalar-plus-compact" and "invariant subspace" properties.
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1028
Chairperson: K. Seip
James Maynard (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
Section: Number Theory
Title of the talk: Primes in thin sets
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H1036
Chairperson: J. Pintz
Geordie Williamson (Max Planck Institute)
Section: Algebra
Title of the talk: Shadows of Hodge theory in representation theory
Date, Time & Location: Friday, 22nd July from 09:00 till 09:45 at H2036
Chairperson: V. Mehrmann
