2ND LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS Cancun, Mexico, June 20-26, 2004 www.matmor.unam.mx/eventos/latino/default.html The Latin American Congress of Mathematicians is organized every 4 years by UMALCA, the Mathematical Union of Latin America and the Caribbean. This message contains updated information on the second edition of the Congress, which will be held in Cancun, Mexico, June 20-26, 2004. Consult also the web page which is updated continuously. CONTENTS 1a. Brief history 1b. Scientific Committee 1c. Local Organizers 1d. Sponsors 1e. Contacts 2. Practical Information 2a. Venue and accomodations 2b. (Pre)registration 2c. Transportation 2d. Grants for students 2e. The web page of the congress 3. Scientific Program 3a. Plenary Lectures 3b. UMALCA Award in Mathematics 3c. Mini-Courses 3d. Main Invited Lectures 3e. Thematic Sessions 3f. Short Communications & Poster Sessions ====================================================================== 1. GENERAL INFORMATION 1a. Brief History UMALCA, the Mathematical Union of Latin America and the Caribbean, was founded in July of 1995. As a focus for its activities, UMALCA has decided to launch the Latin American Congress of Mathematicians, to be held every fourth year in some country in the region. The first edition of the Congress took place from July 31 to August 4 of 2000, at the Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (www.impa.br/Conferencias/Umalca_2000/index.html). The second edition of the Latin American Congress of Mathematicians will be held from June 20 to 26 of 2004 at Cancun, Mexico, with the Instituto de Matematicas of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and the Sociedad Matematica Mexicana as hosts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1b. Scientific Committee Appointed by UMALCA, is responsible for the scientific program of the Congress: Jose Seade, IM-UNAM Mexico (coordinator) jseade@matem.unam.mx Marcelo Viana, IMPA, Brazil (coordinator) viana@impa.br Cesar Camacho (IMPA, Brazil) Gustavo Corach (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Jose Antonio de la Pena (UNAM, Mexico) David Eisenbud (MSRI, USA) Eduardo Friedman (Santiago, Chile) Le Dung Trang (ICTP,Italy), S.R.S. Varadhan (NYU, USA) Mario Wschebor (Montevideo,Uruguay) Jean-Cristophe Yoccoz (College de France). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1c. Local Organizers Emilio Lluis-Puebla, Coordinator, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM lluisp@servidor.unam.mx Marcelo Aguilar, IM-UNAM Jose Luis Cisneros, IM-UNAM Eugenio Garnica, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM Christof Geiss, IM-UNAM Renato Iturriaga, CIMAT, Guanajuato Jesus Mucino, IM-UNAM Jose Matias Navarro, UADY Ernesto Rosales, IM-UNAM Carlos Signoret, UAM-I Miguel Angel Xicotencatl, CINVESTAV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1d. Sponsors The Second Latin American Congress of Matehmaticians is sponsored by UMALCA - Mathematical Union of Latin America and the Caribbean IM-UNAM - Instituto de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico SMM - Sociedad Mexicana de Matematicas IMU - International Mathematical Union ICTP - International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Universidad del Caribe, Cancun, Mexico ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1e. Contacts About the academic program: Jose Seade (IM-UNAM, Mexico), jseade@matem.unam.mx or Marcelo Viana (IMPA, Brazil), viana@impa.br For general information: Emilio Lluis-Puebla (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico) lluisp@servidor.unam.mx or Jose Luis Cisneros (Instituto de Matematicas-Cuernavaca, UNAM, Mexico) jlcm@matcuer.unam.mx ====================================================================== 2. PRACTICAL INFORMATION 2a. Venue and accomodations The Congress will take place at the 5-star Continental Plaza Hotel, in Cancun, Mexico, located in Boulevard Kukulcan by the beach. Congress participants will benefit from a special "all-inclusive" price, that is, comprising all meals, in any of the several restaurants the hotel has. The cost per day, per person, will be: $ 95 US in single room $ 72 US in double room $ 64 US in triple room In order to get the discount prices offered for the congress, all participants must book their accomodation through an agency hired for this purpose. This is: American Express Co. Mexico Patriotismo 635 Col. Cd. de los Deportes Mexico, D.F. Tel. (52) 55 5169 7650 Fax. (52) 55 5611 1113 and the contact person is Mr. Ricardo Jaime Serrano, . To make your reservation, you can either look at the "Hotel Reservation" option in Congress' web page www.matmor.unam.mx/eventos/latino, or else send the following form to Mr. Ricardo Jaime Serrano in American Express, either by fax or by e-mail: /////////////////////////////////////////////////// HOTEL RESERVATION FORMAT 2ND LATINOAMERICAN MATHEMATICS CONGRESS CANCUN, QUINTANA ROO. MEXICO 20-26 JUNE, 2004 Name: Phone: () ()_____________ Single: Double: Triple: Fax: () ()_____________ Mail:___________________ I would like share room with:_________________________ Arrival Date: (dd/mm/yy): ____________ Departure Date: (dd/mm/yy): ______________ Credit Card Type: American Express () Visa ( ) Master Card ( ) Number: American Express security code: _______ Exp. Date: Credit Cardholder:__________________________ Type of room: Smoking Section: Non Smoking Section:_____________ Confirmation Code : ( Please do not use this space ) __________________________________________ Confirmed by : ( Please do not use this space ) __________________________________________ In case of non- arrival, the first night's room rate will be charged to your credit card, unless the reservation has been cancelled before June 7. ////////////////////////////////////////// 2b. (Pre)registration We ask all participants planning to attend the Congress to pre-register through the web page as soon as possible, and no later than May 10 if they want their names to be in the list of participants that will be distributed at the meeting. This will also allow us to have ready your the name tags and welcome packages at the Registration Desk of the congress in Cancun. We also ask invited speakers to please fill out the form in the web page providing the title and abstract of their talks. The arrival day for the Congress is Sunday 20 of June. The Registration Desk will be open all day long on Sunday at the Office of the Congress located in the Continental Hotel. There will be a Welcome Cocktail from 19:00 to 20:00 on Sunday, also at the Continental Hotel. Registration can also be made during the week, but we strongly advise participants to do it on Sunday, whenever possible, since academic activities will start early on Monday morning, and there will be a very rich scientific program. The Registration fee for the congress will be of US$100 (US$50 for students), payable upon registration, either in US dollars or Mexican Pesos. 2c. Transportation The airport in Cancun has many international and domestic connections, so we strongly advise participants to fly directly here. The airport is located some 20 km away from the hotel. Transportation to and from the hotel, at a reasonable price, will be provided by the same travel agency in charge of hotel reservations; please ask them to do so if you want this service. They can also help you with travel reservations and plane tickets. Participants are aslo invited to check the Congress web page for tourist and weather information about Cancun. 2d. Grants for students There will be a limited amount of grants for graduate students. The registration form must be filled electronically through the web page before April 1st. The decision concerning these applications will be made by the Scientific Committee and will be notified to the applicants by May 10th. 2e. The web page of the congress is www.matmor.unam.mx/eventos/latino/default.html You can also access to this page either through www.matmor.unam.mx, where you will see the congress in the column of "Noticias", or through www.matem.unam.mx and then choosing "Actividades" followed by "Congresos". ====================================================================== 3. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Includes - Plenary Lectures - UMALCA Medal Lecture - Main Invited Lectures - Mini Courses - Thematic Sessions - Short Communications - Poster Sessions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3a. Plenary Speakers David Eisenbud (MSRI, US) The smallest algebraic sets in projective space Etienne Ghys (ENS-Lyon, France) Braids and signatures Nigel Hitchin (Oxford, UK) Geometry with B-fields Jacob Palis (IMPA, Brazil) A global scenario for non-conservative dynamics S.R.S. Varadhan (Courant, NYU, US) TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3b. UMALCA Medal Lecture THE UMALCA Award in Mathematics was created in 2000 to distinguish the most brilliant mathematicians working permanently in the region, as well as to acknowledge and stimulate their contributions to Mathematics. In 2004 the prize includes - Invitation to deliver an UMALCA Medal Lecture at the Latin American Congress of Mathematicians - Monetary prize equivalent to US$ 5,000, through a special donation to UMALCA by IMPA-Rio de Janeiro and Instituto de Matematicas de la UNAM-Mexico. The prize will be atributed by the Scientific Committee of the Congress, among mathematicians working permanently in Latin America and being less than 45 years old at the day of the beginning of the Congress. The period for nominations closed on March 1, and a decision by the Committee is expected soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3c. Main Invited Lectures Alejandro Adem (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Periodic complexes and group actions Rafael Benguria (Catholic University, Chile) TBA Christian Bonatti (Dijon, France) TBA Xavier Gomez-Mont (CIMAT, Mexico) Computing topological numbers with homological algebra Alcides Lins Neto (IMPA, Brazil) TBA Dan Marchesin (IMPA, Brazil) TBA Gabriel Paternain (Montevideo, Uruguay & Cambridge, UK) TBA J. Tirao TBA Mike Todd (Cornell, USA) Conic linear optimization Alberto Verjovsky (Cuernavaca, Mexico) TBA Le Dung Trang (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) TBA Richard Schoen (Stanford, U.S.A.) TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3d. Mini Courses Djairo Figueiredo (Unicamp, Brazil) Nonlinear elliptic systems Felipe Cucker(Hong Kong, China) Complexity, numerical analysis, and algebraic topology Joel Spencer (NYU, US) Random structures and Erdos magic Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (College de France) Non uniformly hyperbolic horseshoes Bernard Teissier (Jussieu, France) Local polar varieties in the geometric study of singularities Michel Talagrand (Ohio State, USA & Jussieu, France) Upper and lower bounds for stochastic processes Graeme Segal (Oxford, UK) TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3e. Thematic Sessions : themes, coordinators, invited speakers 1 - Algebra/Lie Groups Coordinators: Raymundo Bautista (Mexico) Juan Alfredo Tirao (Argentina) Speakers: Christoff Geiss (UNAM, Mexico) Carlos Moreno (New York, USA) Gerardo Gonzalez_Sprinberg (Grenoble, Francia) Flavio Coelho (Sao Paulo, Brasil) Jorge Vargas (Cordoba, Argentina) Roger Howe (Yale U., U.S.A.) 2- Algebraic Geometry/Number Theory Coordinators: Eduardo Friedman (Chile) Aron Simis (Brazil) Speakers: Eduardo Esteves (IMPA, Brazil) Alicia Dickenstein (Buenos Aires) Jose Felipe Voloch (Texas Austin, USA) Dinakar Ramakrishnan (Caltech, USA) Jurgen Herzog (Essen, Germany) 3- Analysis/PDEs Coordinators: Carlos Segovia (Argentina) Patricio Felmer (Chile) Mario Zuluaga (Colombia) Speakers: Monica Clapp (UNAM, Mexico) Yunguang Lu (Bogota, Colombia) Hugo Aimar (Santa Fe, Argentina) Felipe Linares (IMPA, Brazil) Constantine Dafermos (Brown, USA) Esteban Tabak (NYU, USA) 4- Applied Mathematics/Numerical Analysis Coordinators: Anton Maria Minzoni (Mexico) Rolf Jeltsch Zuerich (Switzerland) Speakers: Gabriel Gatica (U. de Concepcion, Chile) Mari Carmen Jorge (IIMAS, UNAM, Mexico) Orlando Lopes (UNICAMP, Brazil) Paul Milewski (Wisconsin, US) Aparecido de Souza (Paraiba, Brazil) 5 - Differential Geometry (Dedicated to the memory of Jose Escobar) Coordinator: Marcos Dajczer (Brazil) Speakers: Paolo Piccione (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Roberto Miatello (Cordoba, Argentina) Jimmy Petean (CIMAT, Mexico) Peter Li (UC Irvine, USA) Greg Galloway (Miami, USA) Gudlaugur Thorbergsson (Koln, Germany) 6 - Discrete Mathematics/Combinatorics Coordinators: Jorge Urrutia (Mexico) Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (Brazil) Speakers: Gelasio Salazar (UASLP, Mexico) Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi (UNICAMP, brazil) Endre Szemeredi (Rutgers, USA) Van Vu (San Diego, USA) Miklos Simonovits (RENYI, Hungary) 7 - Dynamical Systems/Ergodic Theory Coordinators: Maria Jose Pacifico (Brazil), Roberto Markarian (Uruguay), Leonardo Mora (Venezuela) Speakers: Lorenzo Diaz (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Carlos Gustavo Moreira (IMPA, Brazil) Martin Sambarino (Montevideo, Uruguay) Nikolai Chernov (Birmingham, US) Francois Ledrappier (Notre Dame, US & CNRS, France) Patrice Le Calvez (Paris, Fance) 8 - Holomorphic Dynamics/Foliations Coordinators: Marcio Soares (Brazil) Xavier Gomez-Mont (Mexico) Speakers: Adolfo Guillot (Cuernavaca, Mexico) Gamaliel Ble Gonzalez (Tabasco, Mexico) Jorge Vitorio Pereira (IMPA, Brazil) Julio Cesar Rebelo (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Michael McQuillan (IHES, France) Marco Brunella (Dijon, France) 9 - Optimization/Operational Research Coordinators: Roberto Cominetti (Chile) Jose Mario Martinez (Brazil) Speakers: Jayme Szwarcfiter (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Marcos Raydan (Caracas, Venezuela) Clovis Gonzaga (Florianopolis, Brazil) (*) Alejandro Jofre (Santiago, Chile) Renato Monteiro (Georgiatech, USA) Claudia Sagastizabal (INRIA, France) 10 - Probability/Statistics Coordinators: Mario Wschebor (Uruguay) Pablo Ferrari (Brasil) Speakers: Victor de la Pe~na (Columbia, New York, USA) Wenbo Li (Delaware, USA) Pierre del Moral (Toulouse, France) Jaime San Martin (Santiago, Chile) Claudio Landim (IMPA, Brazil) (*) Ernesto Mordecki (Montevideo, Uruguay) 11 - Singularities/Complex Geometry Coordinator: Le Dung Trang (ICTP, Italy) Speakers: Marcelo Saia (Sao Carlos, Brazil) David Massey (Northeastern, USA) Steve Kleiman (MIT, USA) Pedro Luis Del Angel (CIMAT, Mexico) Ricardo Uribe (UNAM, Mexico & College de France) Felipe Cano (Valladolid, Espana) 12 - Topology Coordinator: Alejandro Adem (Madison, USA) Speakers: Mario Eudave (UNAM,Mexico) Nikolay Gusevskii (Minas Gerais, Brazil) Jesus Gonzalez (CINVESTAV, Mexico) Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins, US) Yongbin Ruan (Wisconsin, US) Paulo Lima-Filho (Texas A & M University, US) Special Invited Lectures Aron Simis (Pernambuco, Brazil) Jorge Urrutia (UNAM, Mexico) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3f. Short Communications and Poster Sessions Applications to present a short communication or a poster at the Congress should be sent electronically through the web page. The deadline for sending the applications has been extended to April 16. They must include 1) Name & Affiliation & Email Address 2) Indication of corresponding thematic session (see 3e) 3) Title & Abstract (about 1 page) The decision concerning these applications will be made by the Scientific Committee, upon recommendation by the session coordinators, and will be communicated by May 1st. ----------------------------------------------------------------------