XVIII Nevanlinna Colloquium

Lecture Program

Tuesday August 8 - Wednesday August 9 - Thursday August 10 - Friday August 11 - Saturday August 12


Tuesday August 8

9.30-10.00Opening Ceremonies (Porthania II)
Opening addresses by
Rector Kari Raivio, University of Helsinki
Prof. Kurt Strebel, University of Zürich
Prof. Pekka Tukia, Organizing Committee
Plenary talks
10.00-10.50Lennart Carleson (Porthania II)
100 years of complex analysis
Coffee
11.20-12.10Catherine Bandle (Porthania II)
Sobolev inequalities in spaces of constant positive curvature
Talks in parallel sections
14.00-14.30Dimitrios Betsakos (Porthania II)
Some problems for capacity
Norbert Steinmetz (Porthania III)
Zalcman functions and rational dynamics
Robert Penner (Math Department SI)
Hilbert, Fourier and wavelet transforms from lambda lengths
14.45-15.15Uri Srebro (Porthania II)
On BMO-quasiconformal mappings
Aimo Hinkkanen (Porthania III)
On Painlevé's third equation
Li Zhong (Math Department SI)
Teichmüller distances and the length spectrum of Riemann surfaces
Coffee
15.45-16.15Glen Anderson (Porthania II)
Conformal invariants, quasiconformal mappings, and special functions
Joseph Miles (Porthania III)
On the growth of entire functions with zero sets having infinite exponent of convergence
Shigeyasu Kamiya (Math Department SI)
Discrete subgroups of PU(1,2;C) with Heisenberg translations
16.30-17.00Ilkka Holopainen (Porthania II)
Parabolicity of metric measure spaces
Mihai Cristea (Porthania III)
Local injectivity and openness of weakly differentiable mappings having constant Jacobian sign
Lotfi A. Zadeh (Math Department SI)
Fundamental limitations on precision in mathematical analysis


Wednesday August 9

Plenary talks
10.00-10.50Oded Schramm (Porthania II)
Loewner's equation, critical percolation, and Brownian motion
Coffee
11.20-12.10Walter Bergweiler (Porthania II)
Rescaling principles in function theory
Talks in parallel sections
14.00-14.30Jang-Mei Wu (Porthania II)
Boundary Harnack principle for symmetric stable processes
Gary G. Gundersen (Porthania III)
Meromorphic solutions of certain functional equations
Richard D. Canary (Math Department SI)
Cusps in boundaries of deformations spaces of Kleinian groups
14.45-15.15Juan Manfredi (Porthania II)
Viscosity solutions of the p-Laplace equation
Linda R. Sons (Porthania II)
Values assumed by solutions of complex differential equations in the unit disk
Boris Apanasov (Math Department SI)
Rigidity and quasiconformal stability in symmetric rank one spaces
Coffee
15.45-16.15Juha Kinnunen (Porthania II)
Regularity of p-harmonic functions on a metric measure space
John Rossi (Porthania III)
Computing invariant subspaces of matrices: An application of classical potential theory
James W. Anderson (Math Department SI)
Commensurability criteria for Kleinian groups
16.30-17.00Tero Kilpeläinen (Porthania II)
Equations of p-Laplacian type involving measures
James K. Langley (Porthania III)
Bank-Laine functions and a question of Rubel
Toshiyuki Sugawa (Math Department SI)
The Bers embedding of one-dimensional Teichmüller spaces


Thursday August 10

Plenary talks
10.00-10.50Curt McMullen (Porthania II)
Local connectivity of limit sets of Kleinian groups
Coffee
11.20-12.10Albert Baernstein (Porthania II)
Developments related to area distortion by quasiconformal mappings


Friday August 11

Plenary talks
10.00-10.50Tadeusz Iwaniec (Porthania II)
The Beltrami equation for the new Millennium
Coffee
11.20-12.10Brian H. Bowditch (Porthania II)
The topology of limit sets
Talks in parallel sections
14.00-14.30Juha Heinonen (Porthania II)
Quasiregular mappings and cohomology
Thierry Coulhon (Porthania III)
Large time behaviour of heat kernels on non-compact manifolds: fast and slow decays
A. Yu. Solynin (Math Department SI)
Minimal area problems for conformal mappings
14.45-15.15Vladimir Gutlyanskii (Porthania II)
Rotation of bilipschitz maps
Eero Saksman (Porthania III)
Carleson a.e. convergence theorem for Dircihlet series
Masahiko Taniguchi (Math Department SI)
Maskit surgery and structural finiteness of entire functions
Coffee
15.45-16.15Samuel Krushkal (Porthania II)
Quasiconformal homeomorphisms and Hardy functions
Thomas Kappeler (Porthania III)
Perturbations of the harmonic map equation
Matts Essén (Math Department SI)
Repulsive fix-points of analytic functions with applications to complex dynamics
16.30-17.00Pekka Koskela (Porthania II)
Mappings of finite distortion
John Lewis (Porthania III)
Symmetry problems, PDE's and David-Semmes rectifiability
Jouni Parkkonen (Math Department SI)
Kleinian groups close to a cusp


Saturday August 12

10.00-10.50Alan F. Beardon (Porthania II)
Variations on Schwarz' lemma
11.20-12.10Pertti Mattila (Porthania II)
BMO for non-doubling measure
12.10Closing of the Colloquium


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