The first ever PRIMA (Pacific Rim Mathematical Association) Congress will be held at UNSW in July 2009.

Date: 6-10 July 2009

Venue: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Web: http://www.primath.org/prima2009

Contact: Alejandro Adem (adem@pims.math.ca)

Local Arrangements Committee (prima2009@maths.unsw.edu.au)

Description


The Pacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) is an association of mathematical sciences institutes, departments and societies from around the Pacific Rim. It was established in 2005 to promote and facilitate the development of the mathematical sciences throughout the Pacific Rim region. PRIMA aims to hold an international congress every four years.

The first PRIMA Congress will be held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, 6 - 10 July 2009. As well as plenary addresses by leading international speakers there will be a range of special sessions on topics reflecting the breadth and diversity of research in the mathematical sciences across the region.


Confirmed Plenary Speakers


Myles Allen (University of Oxford, UK)

Federico Ardila (SFSU, USA & U. de Los Andes, Colombia)

Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University, Japan)

Seok-Jin Kang (Seoul National University, Korea)

Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo University, Japan)

Shige Peng (Shandong University, China)

Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia, Australia)

Gang Tian (Princeton University, USA & Peking University, China)

Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington, USA)


Confirmed Special Sessions

Symplectic Geometry
K. Fukaya (Kyoto) & Y. Eliashberg (Stanford)

Orbifolds and Stringy Topology
A. Adem (PIMS), Y. Ruan (U. Michigan) & C. Westerland (U. Melbourne)

Geometric Analysis
G. Tian (Princeton & Peking U.), J. Chen (U. British Columbia),
W. Ding (Peking U.)

Mathematics of Climate Change
M. England (U. New South Wales) & C. Jones (U. North Carolina)

Partial Differential Equations
N. Ghoussoub (U. British Columbia) & Y. Long (Nankai Institute)

Inverse Problems
G. Uhlmann (U. Washington) & G. Bal (Columbia U.)

Dynamical Systems
D. Lind (U.Washington), A. Dooley (U. New South Wales) & G. Froyland (U. New South Wales)

Scientific Computing
L. Petzold (UC Santa Barbara) & I. Sloan (U. New South Wales)

Mathematical Physics
R. Benguria (U. Catolica de Chile) & A. Guttmann (U. Melbourne)

Math Finance
S. Peng (Shandong U.) & I. Ekeland (U. British Columbia)


Local Arrangements Committee

G. Froyland (Chair, University of New South Wales)
C. Greenhill (University of New South Wales)
A. Guttmann (University of Melbourne)
J. Kress (University of New South Wales)
D. Lind (University of Washington)
I. Sloan (University of New South Wales)