http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2016-2017/Pages/IRP-MATHMEM.aspx 

During the Research Program the following scientific events will be held: 

Memory school, from January 16th to 20th, 2017

http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2016-2017/Pages/MATHMEM_School.aspx 

Symposia, from March 6th to 10th, 2017

http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2016-2017/Pages/MATHMEM_Symposia.aspx 

Master lectures, from January 20 to March 6th, 2016

http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2016-2017/Pages/W1_LargeCardinals.aspx 

There are available grants addressed to PhD students and Post-Doctoral researchers. You can find more information about this grant in the website:

http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2016-2017/Pages/IRP-MATHMEM.aspx 

Description: The goal of this intensive research program is to push the boundaries of theoretical work on memory formation, consolidation and recall in humans and non-human animals. We aim to do this by 1. Bringing together top theoretical researchers working on models of memory, 2. Providing an in-depth introduction to memory science and a review of previous theoretical work in an open, relaxed school-like forum which will be open to student and young researchers, and 3. Exploring current challenges in memory science where theory and experiment meet. This last point will involve lectures by top researchers on their own cutting-edge work, as well as discussion sessions emphasizing brain storming and planting the seeds for future collaboration. We will invite both theoretical and experimental researchers. 

Please, feel free to distribute this information among your colleagues. We hope you find this information useful and look forward to hosting you at the CRM. 

Nicolas Brunei (University of Chicago), Sandro Romani (Janelia Research Campus) and Alex Roxin (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica).Program’s Scientific Organizers

Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Reception & Administration
Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici C
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
Tel.: + 34 93 581 10 81
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Amb el patronatge de l’Acadèmia de Ciències i Lletres de Noruega, i amb la col.laboració de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans i de la Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques, el simposi consisteix en tres conferències tipus col.loqui impartides per Louis Nirenberg, Premi Abel 2015, Luigi Ambrosio i Ben Green, members del Comitè Abel.

La inscripció és obligatòria, però gratuïta. La data límit és el dia 11 de gener.

Al migdia de la jornada es servirà un dinar a peu dret.

"Abel in Barcelona” és la setena edició d’una sèrie de jornades organitzades en diversos països, coincidint amb la celebració de l'última reunió anual del Comitè Abel. Considerem un privilegi per la comunitat científica catalana i la matemàtica en particular poder ser amfitrions d’aquesta activitat i us animem amb entusiasme a participar-hi.

Xavier Jarque, Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques, President.

Marta Sanz-Solé, Universitat de Barcelona, membre del Comité Abel.

On the integral closure of planar ideals: http://www.ub.edu/sga/seminari1617/blanco.pdf.

Divendres 13 de gener, 15h, Aula T2, FMI-UB.

The Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics BGSMath offers intensive advanced graduate courses every semester on specialized topics.

The duration is 10 to 20 hours distributed along 2 to 3 weeks. Some are in connection with monthly programs while others stand alone.

The courses are organized by BGSMath members and taught by research leaders in the corresponding fields.

The courses offered in winter/spring 2017 are the following:

• Category Theory 

From 10th January to 21th January, by Joachim Kock, and Tom Leinster.

• p-adic methods for Galois representations and modular forms

From 30th January to 22th January, by Adrian Iovita, Vincent Pilloni, and Payman Kassaei.

• Random discrete structures

From 29th May to 30th June, by Colin McDiarmid, Luc Devroye, David Conlon, Benny Sudakov, and Tobias Muller.

• Algebraic and combinatorial phylogenetics

From 19th June to 7th July, by Mike Steel, Arndt von Haeseler, and Piotr Zwiernik.

• Interactions of harmonic analysis, combinatorics and number theory

From 24th April to 19th May, by Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà, Juanjo Rué, Jorge Jimenez, Oriol Serra, and Pablo Candela.

• Arithmetic properties of curves of small genus

From 14th to 24th February by Jordi Guàrdia, Joan-C. Lario, and Christophe Ritzenthaler.

More information and registration can be found in http://bgsmath.cat/bgsmath-graduate-courses/.

The workshop is the continuation of a series of two previous meetings: “Crackling noise and intermittency in Condensed Matter” held in Göttingen (Germany) on May 2013 and “Avalanches in Functional Materials and Geophysics” held in Cambridge on December 2014.

Please note that December 16th, 2016 is the deadline for the registration (or when seats are filled). 

You can find more information and register at:

http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2016-2017/Pages/WKAvalancheProcesses.aspx 

We hope that this information is of your interest and look forward to having you at the CRM.

Topologia de contacte: patins, zig-zags i geometria

En aquesta xerrada parlarem de topologia de contacte. En primer lloc, explicarem els orígens d'aquesta àrea de les matemàtiques mitjançant exemples com el patinatge sobre gel i la primera llei de la termodinàmica. Aleshores, ens endinsarem a la teoria de nusos, en la qual discutirem el criteri zig-zag: aquest és un nou resultat que ens permet detectar isomorfismes entre objectes aparentment diferents. Finalment, discutirem aplicacions de la topologia de contacte a altres branques de les matemàtiques, incloent-hi la simetria mirall, la geometria complexa i teoria de grafs.

Roger Casals, llicenciat en matemàtiques per l'FME (any 2011), és el guanyador del premi Rubio de Francia de 2015 i del premi Vicent Caselles 2015, ambdós atorgats per la Real Sociedad Española de Matemáticas. Després de cursar la llicenciatura de Matemàtiques a l'FME, va fer els estudis de doctorat a la Universitat Autònoma de Madrid (UAM) i al Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT), sota la direcció de Francisco Presas. Va defensar la tesi "Contact Fibrations over the 2-disk" l'any 2015. Actualment és CLE Moore instructor al Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

La defensa de tesi d'Anna Kiesenhofer (EPSEB) (directora Eva Miranda, EPSEB) tindrà lloc a la FME-Sala d'Actes a les 12 el dia 21 de Desembre.

El dia 20 de Desembre tindrà lloc una nova jornada de GESTA a la FME (aula 103).

• Conferenciants: Jacques Féjoz (Université Paris Dauphine and Observatoire de Paris), Chiara Esposito (Universität Würzburg) i Francisco Presas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).
• Organitzadors Eva Miranda, Cédric Oms, Arnau Planas.

Programa

11:30-12:30: Chiara Esposito, Obstructions for Twist Star Products.
12:30-13:30: Francisco Presas, Flexibility for horizontal immersions into Engel manifolds.
13:30-15:00: Lunch.
15:00-16:00: Discussions.
16:15-17:30: Jacques Féjoz, Symmetry and degeneracy in KAM theory.

INVERSE PROBLEMS FOR BIOMECHANICS OF TISSUES

In recent years, physicist and biologists have been able to visualise very accurately the positional information of cells of embryonic tissues in vivo. This information is very valuable because it allows scientists to measure differences between mutants or tests different signalling processes. It has become apparent though that mechanical signalling is determinant as biochemical signalling. Therefore, the computation of the mechanical forces that drive morphogenesis, cell migration or wound healing has recently attracted a vast amount of research.

We here present recent techniques to retrieve the mechanical forces from a set of measured displacements in in vitro monolayers. The technique is based on inverse analysis of the underlying elastic problem, which is here discretised with finite elements. The uniqueness and stability of the problem is discussed.

We also focus the talk on techniques for the computation of the three-dimensional displacements using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and digital image correlation (DIC).

We will finally present future directions which are currently investigated, where the continuous assumption of the tissue is replaced by cell-centred and vertex techniques in order to capture the discontinuous nature of cellular tissues and the concentration of forces at the cell-cell boundaries.

• Títol: On the fractional Yamabe problem with isolated singularities and related issues.
• Doctorand: Azahara de la Torre Pedraza.
• Director: Maria del Mar González Noguera.
• Ponent: Joan de Solà-Morales RubióDia : 19.12.2016.
• Hora : 11 h
• Lloc : Sala d’Actes de l’FME