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.
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.
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 |
