Programme

Sunday, June 2

14.00-20.00:Registration in the Entrance Hall of Georg Sverdrup's Building

Monday, June 3

08.00-09.45:Registration in the Entrance Hall of Georg Sverdrup's Building
10.00-10.45:Opening Ceremony with HM King Harald V
10.45-11.15Coffee
11.15-12.00:Phillip Griffiths: The legacy of Abel in algebraic geometry
12.00-14.00:Lunch (included in the reg. fee)
14.00-17.00:Plenary lectures, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.00-14.45Maxim Kontsevich: (Non)-commutative complex analysis and arithmetic groups
15.00-15.45Mark Green: A Geometer Looks at Algebraic Cycles
15.45-16.15Coffee
16.15-17.00Don Zagier: Modular forms and their derivatives
19.00-20.30:Reception in the Town Hall

Tuesday, June 4

09.00-12.00:Plenary lectures, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
09.00-09.45Christian Houzel: The work of Niels Henrik Abel
09.45-10.15Coffee
10.15-11.00William Fulton: On the quantum cohomology of homogeneous varieties
11.15-12.00Alain Connes: Non-commutative spherical manifolds and elliptic functions
12.00-14.00Lunch
14.00-16.15Invited lectures
15.15-15.45:Coffee, Georg Sverdrup's building
Section I Algebraic Geometry, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.00-14.30Herbert Clemens: Hilbert schemes of curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds
14.45-15.15Carel Faber: Counting curves over finite fields and the cohomology of moduli spaces
15.45-16.15Ragni Piene: Counting curves on Abelian surfaces
Section II Complex Analysis, auditorium 2, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.00-14.30Simon Gindikin: Cohomological extension of real functions in complex tubes and its application to spherical functions
14.45-15.15Berit Stensønes: Holomorphic embeddings
15.45-16.15Pertti Mattila: Analytic capacity and Cauchy integral from a geometric measure theory point of view
Section III Differential Equations, auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.00-14.30Gerd Grubb: Trace expansions and geometric invariants
14.45-15.15Helge Holden: Algebro-geometric solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation
Section IV Non-commutative Geometry, auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.00-14.30Alexi Rudakov: Near-commutativity: vertex algebras and related structures
14.45-15.15Erling Størmer: Ergodic theory and maximal abelian subalgebras of the hyperfinite factor
15.45-16.15Ola Bratteli: Operator theory and wavelets
16.30-17.00: Invited lecture, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
Norbert Schappacher: From Abel to Kronecker - algebra and arithmetic
17.15-18.00:Seminar, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
Christian Skau: Abel and Galois - a critical assessment of their roles in unlocking the mystery of the solvability of equations
19.00-20.00Guided tour in the Vigeland Sculpture Park

Wednesday, June 5

09.00-12.00:Plenary lectures, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
09.00-09.45Ciro Ciliberto: The Italian school of algebraic geometry and Abel's legacy
09.45-10.15Coffee
10.15-11.00Hendrik W. Lenstra: Harmonic numbers and the abc-conjecture
11.15-12.00Ken Ribet: Geometry of modular curves and relations among modular forms
12.00-14.00Lunch
14.00-16.15:Invited lectures
15.15-15.45:Coffee, Georg Sverdrup's building
Section I Algebraic Geometry, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.00-14.30Dan Laksov: The Hilbert scheme of points on the line, and related elementary mathematics
14.45-15.15Jesper Funch Thomsen: Principal nilpotent pairs and the n!-conjecture
15.45-16.15Kim Frøyshov: Floer homology, and intersection forms of 4-manifolds with boundary
Section II Complex Analysis, auditorium 2, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.00-14.30Jan Erik Bjørk: Residues and their associated D-modules
14.45-15.15Mikal Passare: Rational integrals and polynomial equations
15.45-16.15Kristian Seip: Recent encounters with Toeplitz operators and coinvariant subspaces
Section III Differential Equations, auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.00-14.30Peter D. Lax: Spectral theory for automorphic functions
14.45-15.15Richard Beals: Periodic peakons, Calogero-Francoise flows, and the Abel map
Section IV Non-commutative Geometry, auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.00-14.30Christian Kassel: Action of the absolute Galois group of the rationals on knot invariants
14.45-15.15Mikhail Kapranov: An algebro-geometric model for the loop space and vertex algebras
15.45-16.15John Rognes: Galois extensions of "brave new rings"
18.00-23.00An evening on the Oslo Fjord

Thursday, June 6

09.00-12.00:Plenary lectures, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
09.00-09.45F. Catanese: From Abel's heritage: transcendental objects in algebraic geometry and their algebraization
09.45-10.15Coffee
10.15-11.00Gerd Faltings: p-adic periods
11.15-12.00Genadi Henkin: The Abel-Radon transform and applications
12.00-14.00:Lunch
14.00-14.30:The Norwegian Minister of Finance Per-Kristian Foss
and the President of the European Mathematical Society Rolf Jeltsch:
The Abel Prize
14.45-17.00:Invited lectures
15.15-15.45:Coffee, Georg Sverdrup's building
Section I Algebraic Geometry, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.45-15.15Ulf Persson: Geography of 3-folds
15.45-16.15Stein Arild Strømme: On the n! conjecture
Section II Complex Analysis, auditorium 2, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.45-15.15Yum-Tong Siu: Hyperbolicity in complex geometry
15.45-16.15Erik Løw : Holomorphic automorphisms of C^n
16.30-17.00Haaken Hedenmalm: Bergman spaces and geometry
Section III Differential Equations, auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.45-15.15Roman Novikov: An inverse problem of classical mechanics
15.45-16.15Victor Palamodov: Inverse problems and phase space analysis
Section IV Non-commutative Geometry, auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.45-15.15Søren Jøndrup: Non-commutative curves
15.45-16.15Claus Ringel: Tubular abelian categories
16.30-17.00Idun Reiten: Hereditary categories (In aud. 1)
17.15-18.00:Seminar, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
Christian Skau: Abel and Galois - a critical assessment of their roles in unlocking the mystery of the solvability of equations
19.30-21.00:Concert

Friday, June 7

09.00-12.00:Plenary lectures, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
09.00-09.45Steve Kleiman: The Abel map in abstract algebraic geometry
09.45-10.15Coffee
10.15-11.00Dennis Sullivan: Algebraic topology and string operations
11.15-12.00Andrew Wiles: Solvable and non-solvable extensions
12.00-14.00:Lunch
14.00-16.15:Invited lectures
15.15-15.45:Coffee, Georg Sverdrup's building
Section I Algebraic Geometry, auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.00-14.30Günther Frei: On the history of the Artin reciprocity law in Abelian extensions of algebraic number fields
14.45-15.15Torsten Ekedahl: On Abel's hyperelliptic curves
15.45-16.15Alexander Goncharov: Galois groups and geometry of modular varieties
Section II Complex Analysis, auditorium 2, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.00-14.30Mark Melnikov: Analytic capacity and removable singularities for bounded analytic functions
14.45-15.15Bo Berndtsson: Eigenvalues of the d-bar-laplacian
Section III Differential Equations, auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes' building
14.00-14.30Igor M. Krichever: Isospectral and isomonodromy equations on algebraic curves
14.45-15.15Valentin Lychagin: Symmetries and quantizations
Section IV Non-commutative Geometry, auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrup's building
14.00-14.30Michel van den Bergh: Non-commutative orbifolds
14.45-15.15Fred Van Oystaeyen: Quantum sheaves on the pattern space : a unifying concept for noncommutative geometry?
15.45-16.15Toby Stafford: Strange non-commutative surfaces (after Rogalski)
20.00.23.30:Conference Dinner at Holmenkollen Park Hotel w/Closure Ceremony

Saturday, June 8

Abel Excursion to Gjerstad and Froland