General Colloquium MI
Lecture on 29th March 2001 is by prof. dr. G.J. Heckman (KU Nijmegen),
title: Hypergeometric functions and some moduli spaces
Inaugural lectures
On September 7 2001 by prof. dr. P. Stevenhagen
On September 28 2001 by prof. dr. S.M. Verduyn Lunel
Personnel
New Employees
Postdocs
dr. D. R. Pik per February 1, 2001 with group Differential Equations:
``I am a post-doc in mathematics at the Mathematical Institute in the research group of prof. Sjoerd Verduyn-Lunel. In June of 1999 I graduated at the Vrije Universiteit on a thesis titled: Block Lower Triangular Operators and Optimal Contractive Systems. My current research interest concerns the characterization of properties of differential delay equations through numerical approximation. I am also the managing editor of the Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde. The journal goes to about 2,000 subscribers in the Netherlands, and it aims at an audience of professional mathematicians. I live in Amstelveen and have three children.''
dr. F. Ding per March 1, 2001 with group Geometry and Topology :
``My name is Fan Ding. I am from China. I got my PhD at Zhejiang University, China and worked at Peking University, China. I am now a postdoctor of Professor Geiges. My research area is Geometry and Topology. I am interested in contact topology, 3- and 4-manifold theory, knot theory. My favorite sport is table-tennis. You can contact me if you would like to play table-tennis.''
Ph.D. students
drs. S. Tengely per February 1, 2001 with prof. dr. R. Tijdeman, in the framework of an exchange program (NWO-OTKA project, OTKA is the Hungarian scientific research fund) between scientists in number theory from Hungary and from the Netherlands sponsored by NWO:
``I got my master degree as a mathematician at Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen in 1999. Now I'm a PhD student of Prof. Robert Tijdeman. I am interested in Diophantine equations. I am working on discrete tomography too. My hobby is playing chess. I have been playing chess more than ten years. I have a FIDE rating (~2200).''
drs. M.V.S. Frasson per February 1, 2001 with prof. Dr. Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel:
``My name is Miguel Vinícius. I'm from Brazil. I did my undergaduate studies and get my Master degree in the University of São Paulo, in São Carlos. I'm working with Prof. Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel, in Differential Equations. As a hobby, I maintain a TeX site (in Portuguese). Now I'm trying to learn Dutch and to improve my English and Spanish.''
Studentassistent
Mr. M. Kardal per February 15, 2001
Research
Foreign trips
Drs. F. Bakker: Meeting ERCOM, Leipzig, Germany, March 8 - 12, 2001
Dr. M. Girard: work visit GTEM, Bordeaux/ Paris/ Toulouse, France, March 7 - 17, 2001
Dr. M. Lübke: work visit to prof. A. Teleman, Marseille, France, April 8 - 22, 2001
Drs. C.E. van de Woestijne: Conference Quadratic Forms 2001, Baton Rouge, L.A., USA, March 26 - 31, 2001
Report series
MI 2001-02Berezin forms on line bundles over complex hyperbolic spaces, by V.F. Molchanov and G. van Dijk.
MI 2001-03On Hoeffding's inequality for dependent random variables, by S.A. van de Geer.
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e-mail: belitser@math.leidenuniv.nl.
