Institute for Mathematical Sciences                                        Programs & Activities

 

Past Activities (2005)


 Programs

 

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Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Dynamics and Control (15 Aug - 9 Oct 2005) 

 

... Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NUS) and Regional Emerging Diseases Intervention (REDI) Centre, Singapore

 

Organizing Committee:

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Bryan T. Grenfell (Pennsylvania State University) (Chair)

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Stefan Ma (Ministry of Health, Singapore) (Co-chairs)

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Yingcun Xia (National University of Singapore) (Co-chairs)

 

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Computational Prospects of Infinity (20 Jun - 15 Aug 2005)

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Chi Tat Chong (National University of Singapore)

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Qi Feng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and National University of Singapore)

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Theodore A. Slaman (University of California at Berkeley)

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W. Hugh Woodin (University of California at Berkeley)

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Yue Yang (National University of Singapore)

 

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Uncertainty and Information in Economics (9 May - 3 Jul 2005) 

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Robert Anderson (University of California at Berkeley)

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Parkash Chander (National University of Singapore)

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Peter Hammond (Stanford University)

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Yeneng Sun (National University of Singapore)

 

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Semi-parametric Methods for Survival and Longitudinal Data (26 Feb - 24 Apr 2005) 

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Zhiliang Ying (Columbia University)

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Yougan Wang (National University of Singapore)

 

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Nanoscale Material Interfaces: Experiment, Theory and Simulation (24 Nov 2004 - 23 Jan 2005) 

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Weizhu Bao (National University of Singapore)

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Bo Li (University of California at San Diego)

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Ping Lin (National University of Singapore)

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Jian-Guo Liu (University of Maryland)

 

 Workshops and Conferences

 

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Figuring out Life: NUS - Karolinska Joint Symposium on Application of Mathematics in Biomedicine (28 - 29 Nov 2005)  

 

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Workshop on Genomics (14 - 17 Nov 2005)

 

Chair of Organizing Committee:

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David Siegmund (Stanford University and National University of Singapore)

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Louis Chen (National University of Singapore)

    -

Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore)

 

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Workshop on Computational Finance (29 - 30 Aug 2005)

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Kian-Guan Lim (Singapore Management University)

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Yeneng Sun (National University of Singapore)

 

Keynote Speaker:

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A.N. Shiryaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)

 

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Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC2005) (20 - 23 Jul 2005)

 

... Jointly organized by

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Department of Mathematics, NUS

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Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

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Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS

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Singapore Mathematical Society (SMS) and

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South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS)

 

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Satellite Mascot Workshop (13 May 2005)

 

Speaker:

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David Creasy (Matrix Science, UK)

 

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Workshop on Data Analysis and Data Mining in Proteomics (9 - 12 May 2005)

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Maxey C.M. Chung (National University of Singapore)

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Newman S.K. Sze (Genome Institute of Singapore)

 

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Workshop on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Analysis, Computation and Applications
(3 - 6 May 2005)

 

... Jointly organized by

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Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore

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Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

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3rd Asia Pacific Workshop on Quantum Information Science (3 - 15 Jan 2005)

 

Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:

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Artur Ekert (University of Cambridge)

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Choo Hiap Oh (National University of Singapore)

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K. K. Phua (SEATPA and National University of Singapore)

 

 Public Lectures

 

 

Date:

Tuesday, 23 Aug 2005

Venue:

LT31, Block S16,
Level 3, Faculty of Science,
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117543

6:30pm - 7:30pm

The Epidemic Clockwork: Exploring the Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases
Bryan T. Grenfell, Pennsylvania State University, USA

 

 

... Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society

Date:

Monday, 1 Aug 2005

Venue:

LT33 (SoC 1, #02-36)
School of Computing, NUS

3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Logic and Computation
Theodore A. Slaman, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

 

... Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society

Date:

Wednesday, 12 Jan 2005

Venue:

LT31, Block S16,
Level 3, Faculty of Science,
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117543

6:30pm - 7:30pm

The Mathematics of Scientific Computation
Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland, USA

 

 

 Colloquium Lectures

 

 

... Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society

Date:

Tuesday, 20 Sep 2005

Venue:

Colloquium Room A
S14 #03-10
Department of Mathematics

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Analysis, Models and Simulations
Pierre-Louis Lions, Collège de France and École Polytechnique

 

 

... Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

Date:

Friday, 26 Aug 2005

Venue:

Seminar room, S16, #05-98
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

10:00am - 11:00am

On Stochastic Integral Representation of Some Partial Max-Functionals of the Brownian Motion
by Albert N. Shiryaev, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow

 

 

... Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Department of Mathematics

Date:

Friday, 26 Aug 2005

Venue:

Colloquium Room B , S14, #03-09
Department of Mathematics

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Towards The Maximal (Doob, Bessel, Hardy-Littlewood, ...) Inequalities: Optimal Stopping and Free Boundary Problems Method
by Albert N. Shiryaev, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow

 

 

... Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

Date:

Monday, 18 Apr 2005

Venue:

Seminar room
S16-06-118
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Statistics of Extremes
by Jef L. Teugels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & EURANDOM

 

 

 Ad-hoc Seminar

 

... Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

Date:

Wednesday, 4 May 2005

Venue:

Seminar room
S16-06-118
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

3:00pm - 4:00pm

A New Method for Approximations in Probability and Operator Theories
Vidmantas Bentkus, Vilnius Pedagogical University

 

 

 

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