VIC 2004 Special Sessions

There will be seven special sessions and a small number of contributed talks. Titles and abstracts are available through the Atlas Mathematical Conference Abstracts service.

Also see the Timetable for titles and links to abstracts.

Rod Downey (Victoria) is organizing a session on Computational Complexity.

• Eric Allender (Rutgers)
• Rod Downey (Victoria)
• Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland)
• Janos Makowsky (Technion)
• Catherine McCartin (Massey)
• Joseph S. Miller (Victoria/Indiana)
• Wolfgang Merkel and Jan Reimann (Heidelberg)
• Frank Stephan (New South Wales)
• Guohua Wu (Victoria)
• Liang Yu (Victoria)

Shayne Waldron (Auckland) is organizing a session on Surface Approximations.

• Rick Beatson (Canterbury)
• Len Bos (Calgary)
• Sang-Eon Han (Honam)
• Dany Leviatan (Tel Aviv)
• Elijah Liflyand (Bar-Ilan)
• Allan Pinkus (Technion)

Vitali Milman (Tel-Aviv) and Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa) are organizing a session on Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis (GAFA).

• Christopher Atkin (Victoria)
• David Gauld (Auckland)
• Mark Harmer (Auckland)
• Markus Hegland (ANU)
• Estate Khmaladze (Victoria)
• Bo'az Klartag (Tel-Aviv)
• Alexander Litvak (Alberta)
• Gaven Martin (Auckland)
• Shahar Mendelson (ANU)
• Vitali Milman (Tel-Aviv)
• Boris Pavlov (Auckland)
• Vladimir Pestov (Ottawa)
• Aleksandar Stojmirovic (Victoria)
• Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (Alberta)
• David Yost (Ballarat)

David Kazhdan (Harvard) and Christopher Atkin (Victoria) are organizing a session on Operator Algebras and Representation Theory.

• Teresa Bates (New South Wales)
• Michael Cowling (New South Wales)
• Tony Dooley (New South Wales)
• Thierry Giordano (Ottawa)
• Jeong Hee Hong (Korea Maritime University)
• Sidney A. Morris (Ballarat)
• Todd Rangiwhetu (London)
• Wojciech Szymanski (Newcastle)
• Alistair Windsor (Manchester)

Bruce Calvert (Auckland), Simeon Reich (Technion) and Dan Butnariu are organizing a spession on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization.

• Heinz Bauschke (Guelph)
• Victor Khatskevitch (Karmiel, Israel)
• Alexander Kruger (Ballarat)
• Mike Powell (Cambridge)
• Alex Rubinov (Ballarat)
• Stephen Simons (UCSB)
• Isao Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

John Hillas (Auckland), Arkadii Slinko (Auckland) and Matthew Ryan (Auckland) are organizing a session on Game Theory.

• Robert Aumann (Jerusalem)
• Anna Bogomolnaia (Rice University)
• John Hillas (Auckland)
• Jacek Krawczyk (Victoria)
• Hervé Moulin (Rice University)

Bruce van Brunt (Massey) and Gregory Derfel (Ben-Gurion) are organizing a session on Functional-Differential Equations and Applications.

• Bruce van Brunt (Massey)
• Jonathan Marshall (Massey)
• Boris Paneah (Technion)
• Graeme Wake (Massey)

We are also pleased to be able to present the following speakers who have Contributed Talks.

• Heinz Bauschke (Guelph)
• Victor Khatskevich (ORT Braude College)
• Alexander Kruger (Ballarat)
• Shona Yu (Sydney)