Mathematical Institute Newsletter
January 2004
 
 
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Agenda and announcements
 

  • New Year's coffee on Monday January 5
     
    The board of the LION (Institute for Physics) cordially invites all personnel of the Mathematical Institute and the LIACS for a New Year's coffee on Monday January 5 at 10:00 am in the central hall of the Huygens Laboratory.

  • New Year's reception on Monday January 5
     
    On January 5 from 4:00-6:00 pm there will be a New Year's reception in the hall of the Gorlaeus laboratories.
    During this reception, there will be a presentation of the C.J. Kok prizes for the 'discoverer of the year 2003'. The institute directors of the Faculty of Sciences have nominated eight candidates for the C.J. Kok prizes. You may cast your vote on any of these candidates before January 5 at 12:00 on the website http://www.science.leidenuniv.nl/ontdekkingvanhetjaar.

  • Inaugural lecture by Prof. Bas Edixhoven on Friday January 9
     
    Prof. Bas Edixhoven will give his 'Oratio' on Friday January 9 at 4:00 pm in the 'Groot Auditorium' of the Academy building at the Rapenburg. Further information will follow.

  • General Colloquium on Thursday January 29
     
    Dr. Wim Couwenberg (Universiteit van Amsterdam): TBA
    Time/place: 4:00-5:00 pm, room 174.
    Further information: http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~evertse/colloquium.shtml

  • Kloosterman Lecture by Prof. Noriko Yui on Thursday February 5
     
    Prof. Noriko Yui (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) has been appointed as the 2003(!) Kloosterman Professor. She will visit our institute from January 15-March 15. On February 5 she will deliver her Kloosterman lecture.
    Title: TBA
    Time/place: 4:00-5:00 pm, room 174.

  • General Colloquium on Thursday February 19
     
    Dr. Peter Grunwald (CWI, Amsterdam): TBA
    Time/place: 4:00-5:00 pm, room 174.
    Further information: http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~evertse/colloquium.shtml

Personal notes
 

  • New employees (Ph-D students):
     
    - drs. H.J. Hupkes per January 1, 2004 (Prof.dr. Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel)
    - drs. S.W. Rosema per January 1, 2004 (Prof.dr. Rob Tijdeman)

  • New employees (Postdocs):
     
    - Dr. J.F. Williams per September 1, 2003 (CWI/UL, Analysis)

  • New employees (student assistants for education from January 1, 2004- June 1, 2004):
     
    - P. Bruin
    - M. van der Schans
    - P. Tibboel
    - A. Stolk
    - A. Veldman
    - D. Worm

Guests
 

  • Kloosterman Professor
    - Prof. Noriko Yui (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) is the Kloosterman Professor 2003. She will visit our institute from January 15-March 15. She will give a Kloosterman lecture on February 5 (see above) and several lectures at the Intercity Number Theory seminar.

  • Guest of G. van Dijk:
    - Prof. V.F. Molchanov (Tambov, Russia) in January and February.

Visits/lectures outside our institute

- J.-H. Evertse: From January 7-January 13 he will visit the university of Udine (Italy). On January 12 he will give a lecture titled "On the number of equivalence classes of binary forms of given degree and given discriminant."
- L. Kallenberg: From January 13 - 15, the 29th Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research will be held in Lunteren, including a Seminar on On-line Methods. Both the Conference and the Seminar are organized by Lodewijk Kallenberg.
See http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~lnmb/conferences/lunteren2004

Technical reports

MI 2003-18   L.A. Peletier and J.A. Rodriguez: The discrete Swift-Hohenberg equation.
MI 2003-19   A. Bérczes, J.-H. Evertse and K. Györy: On the number of equivalence classes of binary forms of given degree and given discriminant.
MI 2003-20   J.-H. Evertse: Linear equations with unknowns from a multiplicative group whose solutions lie in a small number of subspaces.
MI 2003-21   P. Stevenhagen and R. Bröker: Elliptic curves with a given number of points.

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