Departamento de Análisis Matemático

Universidad de La Laguna

Conference on Probability and Conformal Mappings

Sponsored by Institut Mittag-Leffler and Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife.

Tenerife, Canary Islands

February 18 - 22, 2002

Sessions will be held in the Hotel Meliá Jardines del Teide, located in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, except the talks on Friday 22 which will be delivered in Facultad de Matemáticas de la Universidad de La Laguna. All speakers are advised for preparing their talk with transparencies. The conference room is only eqquiped of overhead and a “flip-chart”. No white board are disposable.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Monday, February 18.

Ilia Binder, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA). Minicourse on “The Sharp Constant in Bloch’s Theorem: The theorem of Bonk and Eremenko”.

9:30 – 10:30 Part I.

10:30 – 11: Coffee

11-12: Part II.

Break

17:30 – 18:00 : Jacek Graczyk, (University of Orsay ). “To be announced “

18:15 - 18:45 : Misha Sodin, (University of Ramat Aviv, Israel). “ “

19:00 - 19:30: Kari Astala, (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) . “Open Problems in the Quasi-World “.

Tuesday, February 19.

Xavier Tolsa, (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain). Minicourse on “The Semiadditivity of Analytic Capacity”.

9:30 – 10:30 Part I.

10:30 – 11: Coffee

11-12: Part II.

Break

17:30 – 18:00 : Dragan Vukotic, (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain). “On Univalent Functions in Some Möbius Invariant Spaces”.

18:15 - 18:45 : Gaven Martin (University of Auckland, Australia). “The Beltrami Equation at the Speed of Sound “

19:00 - 19:30: To be announced

Thursday, February 21.

Wendelin Werner, (University of Orsay, France). Minicourse on “Recent Progress on Planar Brownian Motion and SLE“

9:30 – 10:30 Part I.

10:30 – 11: Coffee

11-12: Part II.

Break

17:30 – 18:00 : Harry Kesten, (Cornell University, USA). “Some Results on Reinforced Random Walk“

18:15 - 18:45 : Stanislav Smirnov, (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden). “To be announced“

19:00 - 19:30: Vicent Befarra. (University of Orsay, France) . “To be announced “

Friday February 22.

Sessions will take place in Facultad de Matemáticas of the Universidad de La Laguna with the following two talks:

10:30-11:30. Lennart Carleson, (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden). “My 50 years of Analysis: Mostly Problems I Could Not Solve”.

12:00- 13:00. Peter W. Jones, (Yale University, USA) . “From Cauchy Integrals to High Dimensional Data Sets: The Search for Low Dimensional Subsets”.

Conference on Probability and Conformal Mappings

Sponsored by Institut Mittag-Leffler and Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife.

Tenerife, Canary Islands

February 18 - 22, 2002

SOCIAL PROGRAM

Monday, 18 February.

9:00. As a courtesy of Ayuntamiento de Adeje, a special welcome dinner will be served at the Hotel Melía Jardines del Teide in honour of all participants in the Conference.

Wednesday, 20 February.

Leaving from the hotel at 9:00 an excursion has been scheduled to visit the National Park of the Cañadas del Teide and the Astrophisic Observatory. Courtesy of Cabildo de Tenerife, a lunch will be offered to the participants in a restaurant on the way back to the hotel.

Friday, 22 February.

A bus will leave from hotel at 9.00 to take the participants to La Laguna and the Facultad de Matemáticas de la Universidad.

At 14:00 participants in the Conference are invited to lunch in La Laguna (courtesy of Ayuntamiento de La Laguna), followed by a visit to the old part of the city.

The bus will depart for the trip back to the hotel at 17:30.