About

The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, on the recommendation of the Abel Committee. It is financed by the Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund, which was established in 2002 by the Norwegian Parliament.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and Leiden University present Abel in Holland: mathematical lectures by the members of the 2011 Abel Prize Committee, intended for a general mathematical audience.

Registration

This event is open to everybody. However, if you want to take part in the free lunch, please register by sending an email to lenny@math.leidenuniv.nl before February 17.

Programme

Lectures take place in the De Sitterzaal of the Oort building at Leiden University. Here is a map.

10.45-11.15 Welcome (coffee and tea)
11.15-11.30 Opening
Øyvind Østerud, president of DNVA
Paul van der Heijden, rector of Leiden University
11.30-12.15 Ragni Piene (Oslo)
Generating functions and enumerative geometry
12.15-13.15 Lunch
13.15-14.00 Hendrik Lenstra (Leiden)
Modelling finite fields
14.00-14.45 Björn Engquist (University of Texas)
Numerical approximation of high frequency wave propagation
14.45-15.15 Coffee and tea
15.15-16.00 M. S. Raghunathan (Tata Institute)
On the first Betti number of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
16.00-16.45 David Donoho (Stanford)
Compressed Sensing and Combinatorial Geometry
16.45-17.30 Drinks