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VIC 2004:

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VIC 2004 Timetable

Day 0: Sunday 8 February 2004
18:00	Reception (Weir House)

Day 1: Monday 9 February 2004
8:00	Registration (Hugh Mackenzie Lecture Theatres)
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Ran Raz (HMLT206) Multi-Linear Formulas for Permanent and Determinant are of Super-Polynomial Size
Morning Sessions	Computational Complexity I (HMLT104)	Game Theory (HMLT105)
9:50	Guohua Wu Degrees of D.C.E. Reals	Jacek B. Krawczyk Intertemporal Competition for Water Levels
10:15	J.A. Makowsky 50 Years of the Spectrum Problem: Overview and New Directions	Anna Bogomolnaia Prevention of the Secession: Hedonic Setting
10:40	Morning Tea
11:00	Wolfgang Merkel and Jan Reimann Borel Normality, Automata, and Complexity	Herve Moulin Demand Responsiveness in Additive Cost Sharing
11:25	Catherine McCartin Online Width Metrics	Robert J. Aumann When All is Said and Done, How should we Play and What should we Expect?
11:50	Bakhadyr Khoussainov On Complexity of Infinite Games Played on Finite Graphs	John Hillas On the Relation Between Backward Induction and Forward Induction
12:15	Lunch
13:45	Plenary Speaker: Rod Downey (HMLT206) Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity
Afternoon Sessions	Surface Approximations I (HMLT104)	Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis I (HMLT105)
14:50	Len Bos Metrics Associated to Multivariate Polynomial Inequalities	Boaz Klartag An Isomorphic Version of the Slicing Problem
15:15	Sang-Eon Han An Efficient Recognition of Digital Surface in Zⁿ	Vitali Milman Symmetrizations and Isotropicity
15:40	Afternoon Tea
16:00		Shahar Mendelson Lipschitz Embeddings of Function Classes
16:25		Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann Geometric Inequalities for a Class of Exponential Measures
16:50		Alexander Litvak Random Matrices and Geometry of Random Polytopes

Day 2: Tuesday 10 February 2004
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Victor Palamodov (HMLT206) Reconstruction from Boundary Measurements
Morning Sessions	General Contributed Talks (HMLT104)	Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis II (HMLT105)
9:50	Clemente Zanco Covering Banach Spaces	Gaven Martin Holomorphic Motions
10:15	Daoud Bshouty Sarason's Conjecture for Harmonic Polynomials	Vladimir Pestov Oscillation Stability in Topological Groups
10:40	Morning Tea
11:00	Walter Roth Locally Convex Cones as Generalisations of Locally Convex Vector Spaces	Mark Harmer Spectral Properties of the Triangle Groups
11:25		David Yost Reducible Convex Sets
11:50		David Gauld Function Spaces and Metrisability of Manifolds
12:15	Lunch
13:45	Plenary Speaker: Hugh Woodin (HMLT206) A Structural Equivalence for the Determinacy of Real Games
Afternoon Sessions	Surface Approximations II (HMLT104)	Operator Algebras and Representation Theory I (HMLT105)
14:50	Dany Leviatan The Bramble-Hilbert Lemma for Convex Domains	Michael Cowling The Cayley Transform and Uniformly Bounded Representations
15:15	Rick Beatson Implicit Smoothing of Radial Basis Functions	Sidney Morris The Structure of Abelian Pro-Lie Groups
15:40	Afternoon Tea
16:00	Allan Pinkus Strictly Hermitian Positive Definite Functions	Todd Rangiwhetu Concentration of Measure in Banach Spaces and Criteria for Amenability
16:25	Elijah Liflyand Hausdorff Operators on the Hardy Space	Anthony H. Dooley Entropy for Amenable and Non-singular Actions
17:00	Plenary Speaker: David Kazhdan (HMLT206) The Langlands Program

Day 3: Wednesday 11 February 2004
Free Day

Day 4: Thursday 12 February 2004
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Vaughan Jones (HMLT206) Two Subfactors
Morning Sessions	Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization I (HMLT104)	Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis III (HMLT105)
9:50	Heinz Bauschke Joint Minimization with Alternating Bregman Proximity Operators	Estate Khmaladze Local Poisson Processes in the Neighbourhood of Convex Body
10:15	Victor Khatskevich Interactions between Operator Theory in Krein spaces, Linear Fractional Relations on Operator Balls and Functional Abel-Schroder Type Equations	Markus Hegland On the Sparse Grid Approximation in Radial Basis Function Spaces -- An Application of the Concentration Function
10:40	Morning Tea
11:00	Alexander Kruger About Weak Stationarity of Sets Systems	Boris Pavlov Modelling of Quantum Networks
11:25	Shona Yu (contributed) The Reduced Birman-Murakami-Wenzl Algebra of Type B_n	Aleksandar Stojmirovic Quasi-metric Spaces with Measure
11:50		Christopher Atkin Weakly Compact Banach Lie Groups
12:15	Lunch
13:45	Plenary Speaker: Janos Makowsky (HMLT206) Splitting Formulas for Graph and Knot Polynomials and their Algorithmic Use
Afternoon Sessions	Computational Complexity II (HMLT104)	Operator Algebras and Representation Theory II (HMLT105)
14:50	Eric Allender Algorithmic Randomness and Derandomization	Wojciech Szymanski Graph Algebras and Noncommutative Spaces
15:15	Frank Stephan An Overview on Recent Degree-Theoretic Results in Kolmogorov Complexity and Algorithmic Randomness	Jeong Hee Hong The Structural Properties of Graph C*-algebras
15:40	Afternoon Tea
16:00	Liang Yu Randomness	Teresa Bates Cuntz-Krieger Algebras of Directed Graphs and Shift Spaces
16:25	Joseph S. Miller Degrees of Randomness for Random Reals	Alistair Windsor A Spectral Dichotomy for the Koopman Operator
16:50	Rod Downey Hard Problems and Parameterized Reductions	Thierry Giordano Some Developments on Orbit Equivalence
19:00	Conference Dinner (The Skyline)

Day 5: Friday 13 February 2004
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Robert McLachlan (HMLT206) Geometric Numerical Integration
Morning Sessions	Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization II (HMLT104)	Functional-Differential Equations and Applications (HMLT105)
9:50	M.J.D. Powell A New Algorithm for Unconstrained Minimization Without Derivatives	Boris Paneah On Solvability of Functional Equations Relating to Dynamical Systems with Several Generators
10:15	Alex Rubinov Monotonic Analysis	Graeme Wake Applications of FDE to Cell/Tumour Growth
10:40	Morning Tea
11:00	Stephen Simons The Hahn-Banach Theorem and Maximal Monotonicity	Jonathan Marshall Analyticity of Solutions to Functional Differential Equations
11:25	Isao Yamada Hybrid Steepest Descent Method for the Variational Inequality Problem Over the Fixed Point Sets of Certain Quasi-Nonexpansive Mappings	Bruce van Brunt Spectral Theory for the Pantograph Equation
12:15	Lunch
13:45	Plenary Speaker: André Nies (HMLT206) Randomness Notions and Lowness Properties

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