International Conference

"Spectral Analysis in Geometry and Number Theory"

on the occasion of Toshikazu Sunada's 60th birthday

6-10 August 2007, Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

The 7th International Conference

by the Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University

第７回名古屋国際数学コンファレンス

Program

6th Aug. (Mon.)

• 9:30-10:00
  Registration
• 10:00-10:50
  Mikhail Shubin
  (Northeastern University)
  KdV, mKdV and eigenfunctions of Schrödinger operators
• 11:00-11:50
  Nobushige Kurokawa
  (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Spectra of alternating Hilbert operators
• Lunch
• 13:30-14:20
  Masahiko Kanai
  (Nagoya University)
  Rigidity of the Weyl chamber flow, and the vanishing theorems of Weil and Matsushima
• 14:30-15:20
  Hitoshi Moriyoshi
  (Keio University)
  Twisted index theorem and its geometric applications
• Discussion over Tea
• 15:50-16:20
  Jun Masamune
  (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
  Conservative principle of differential forms
• 16:30-17:20
  Peter Buser
  (EPF Lausanne)
  Pictures of Riemann surfaces

7th Aug. (Tue.)

• 10:00-10:50
  Carolyn Gordon
  (Dartmouth College)
  Sunada's isospectrality technique: Two decades later
• 11:00-11:50
  Junjiro Noguchi
  (University of Tokyo)
  Value distribution and distribution of rational points
• Lunch
• 13:30-14:20
  Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  (University of Tokyo)
  On a conjecture of Sunada and theory of discretely decomposable restrictions of unitary representations
• 14:30-15:20
  Atsushi Katsuda
  (Okayama University)
  An overview of Sunada's works
• 15:40-16:30
  Toshikazu Sunada
  (Meiji University)
  TBA
• 18:00-20:30
  Party (at Rubura Ohzan)

8th Aug. (Wed.)

• 10:00-10:50
  Laurent Saloff-Coste
  (Cornell University)
  Property RD and random walks
• 11:00-11:50
  Kennichi Sugiyama
  (Chiba University)
  A geometric analog of the Iwasawa conjecture for a hyperbolic threefold
• Lunch
• 13:30-14:20
  Wolfgang Woess
  (Graz University of Technology)
  Horocyclic products of trees and of hyperbolic spaces
• 14:30-15:20
  Masanori Morishita
  (Kyushu University)
  Chern-Simons variation and Hida-Mazur theory(Joint work with Yuji Terashima)
• Discussion over Tea
• 15:50-16:10
  Lindley Kent M. Faina
  (University of the Philippines in the Visayas)
  Qualitative analysis of a three-dimensional, single-strain HIV model
• 16:10-17:00
  Peter Kuchment
  (Texas A&M University)
  Liouville theorems on abelian coverings of graphs and manifolds

9th Aug. (Thr.)

• 10:00-10:50
  Jochen Brüning
  (Humboldt University)
  Boundary value problems for Dirac operators
• 11:00-11:50
  Mark Pollicott
  (University of Warwick)
  The dynamical approach to geometric zeta functions
• Lunch
• 13:30-14:20
  Takehiko Morita
  (Hiroshima University)
  Renormalized RVZ inductions
• 14:30-14:50
  Makoto Minamide
  (Nagoya University)
  The zero-free region of the derivative of Selberg zeta functions
• 14:50-15:10
  Ivy Suan
  (University of the Philippines)
  Non-uniform bounds in discretized normal approximation
• 15:10-15:30
  Mia Pang-Rey
  (University of the Philippines)
  Poisson approximation for unbounded functions
• Discussion over Tea
• 16:00-16:50
  Satoshi Ishiwata
  (Tsukuba University)
  Random walks on nilpotent covering graphs

10th Aug. (Fri.)

• 10:00-10:50
  Zeev Rudnick
  (Tel Aviv University)
  Nodal lines of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the torus
• 11:00-11:30
  Yoshihisa Miyanishi
  (The University of Air)
  Some remarks on the behavior of semiclassical eigenfunctions with singular potentials
• 11:40-12:30
  Steve Zelditch
  (Johns Hopkins University)
  Geodesic flow and nodal lines of eigenfunctions

Contact: sunada-60 at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Postal Address:
Graduate School of Mathematics,
Nagoya University
Furo-cho Chikusa-ku Nagoya 464-8602 JAPAN

Last Modified: July 30, 2007