\def\sp{\vskip 3mm\par\noindent} \def\p{\par\noindent} \def\sit{\smallskip\item} \hsize=155 mm \font\secondb=cmb10 at 18 true pt \font\big = cmr10 scaled 2074 \font\med = cmr10 scaled 1728 \font\medsl = cmsl10 scaled 1728 \font\vbig = cmr10 scaled\magstep4 \overfullrule=0pt \p\quad \vskip 3cm {\big AMS-BeNeLux Congress} \vskip 7mm {\big Mathematics} \vskip 2cm {\bf University of Antwerp UIA} \vskip 4mm {\bf May 22-25} \vskip 2cm {\bf Organized by :} \vskip 5mm \par{\bf The American Mathematical Society} \par{\bf The Belgian Mathematical Society} \par{\bf The Netherlands Mathematical Society} \par{\bf The Luxemburg Mathematical Society} \par\vfill\eject \p\quad \vskip 3cm {\big AMS-BeNeLux Congress} \vskip 7mm {\big Mathematics} \vskip 2mm {\bf University of Antwerp UIA} \vskip 4mm {\bf May 22-25} \vskip 2cm \par{\med Supported by :} \vskip 4mm \par {\bf The National Foundation for Scientific Research (NFWO)} \par {\bf The National Foundation for Scientific Research (FNRS)} \par {\bf The University of Antwerp (UIA)} \par {\bf The American Mathematical Society} \par {\bf The Belgian Mathematical Society} \par {\bf The Netherlands Mathematical Society} \par {\bf The Luxemburg Mathematical Society} \par {\bf Cambridge University Press} \par {\bf Computing Systems Consultants BV} \par {\bf Elsevier Scientific Publications} \vskip 2cm \par {\bf Registration : Kristel Van Rompay vrompay@uia.ua.ac.be} \par {\bf Hotel Information : Luc Willaert willaert@uia.ua.ac.be} \par {\bf Coordinator : Fred Van Oystaeyen voyst@uia.ua.ac.be} \par\vfill\eject \sp {\bf WEDNESDAY MAY 22} \vskip 1cm \p {\bf Morning - Aula} \sit{1.} M. Van den Bergh (NFWO, LUC, Belgium) {\it "Noncommutative Geometry and Regular Algebras"} \sit{2.} F. Takens (R. U. Groningen) {\it "Chaotic Dynamics in Variations of the Henon Attractor"} \sit{3.} Beeger Lecture {\it "The Symmetries of Things"} J. Conway (Princeton) \sit{}{\it Organization Beeger Lecture :} H. Te Riele, herman.te.riele@cwi.nl \vskip 1cm \p {\bf Afternoon} \sp Short meeting of Dutch Mathematical Society in the afternoon V1 \vskip 5mm \p {\bf Aula} Didactics \p {\bf R.0.19} Number Theory + Disc. Math. \p {\bf V.1.} Harmonic Analysis \p {\bf V.2.} History of Mathematics (I) \p {\bf R.1.} Mathematical Physics \p {\bf R.2.} Differential Geometry 1 \p {\bf R.3.} Algebra 1 \p {\bf R.4.} Dynamical Systems 1 \p {\bf Promotion Room} Wavelets 1 \p {\bf D.2.35.} Buildings \p {\bf R.1.09.} Special Functions \p {\bf B.0.36.} Reserve \p {\bf Acad. Club} Discussions \vskip 5mm\p {\bf Evening} \p Dinner on Campus Possible (6 p.m.) \sp Brouwer Medal 7h30 in UIA "Aula Major" \sp Brouwer Lecture by Wolfgang Hackbush : {\it "Recent Developments in Numerical Mathematics"}, followed by a reception (9.30 p.m.-10.45 p.m.) \par\vfill\eject \sp {\bf THURSDAY MAY 23} \vskip 1cm \p {\bf Morning - Aula} \sit{1.} E. Stein (Princeton University) {\it "Maximal ergodic theorems for groups"} \sit{2.} C. Taubes (Harvard University) {\it "The Geometry of the Selberg-Witten Equations"} \sit{3.} S. Smale (City University of Hong Kong, Mathematics Department, TAT CHEE Ave. Kowloon, Hong Kong) (Logic Foundation Lecture) {\it "Relating the Hilbert Nulstellensatz to the Problem : does P=NP ?"} \vskip 1cm \p {\bf Afternoon} \sp {\bf Aula} Didactics \p {\bf R.0.19} Dynamic Systems 2 + Contributed Papers \p {\bf V.1.} Discrete Mathematics + Fin. Geometry \p {\bf V.2.} History of Mathematics (2000) \p {\bf R.1.} Motivic Cohomology ... \p {\bf R.2.} Differential Geometry 2 \p {\bf R.3.} Algebra 2 \p {\bf R.4.} Logic 1 \p {\bf D.2.35.} Contributed Papers \p {\bf B.0.36.} nverse Problems I \p {\bf D.2.33.} Algebraic Geometry \p {\bf Acad. Club} Discussions \par\vfill\eject \sp {\bf FRIDAY MAY 24} \vskip 1cm \p {\bf Morning - Aula} \sit{1.} A. Schrijver (CWI, Amsterdam) {\it "Combinatorial Optimization with Cohomology over Groups"} \sit{2.} J. McLaughlin (Rensselaer Polytechnic, US) {\it "Two Formulas for Finding Potentials from Nodal Lines and Surfaces"} \sit{3.} J. Bourgain (Princeton, I.A.S) {\it "New Results and Problems in Hamiltonian PDE's"} \vskip 1cm\p {\bf Afternoon} \sp {\bf R.0.19} Numerical Mathematics \p {\bf V.1.} Contributed Papers \p {\bf V.2.} Discrete Math. + Finite Geometry 2 / Contributed Papers \p {\bf R.1.} Motivic Cohomology 2 \p {\bf R.2.} Inverse problems II + Contributed Papers \p {\bf R.3.} Contributed Papers (Hopf Algebras) \p {\bf R.4.} Modular Functions \p {\bf Promotion Room} Logic 2 \p {\bf D.2.35.} Wavelets 2 \p {\bf B.0.36.} Reserve \p {\bf D.2.33} Reserve \p {\bf Acad. Club} Discussions \par\vfill\eject \sp {\bf 1. Discrete Mathematics and Finite Geometry} \sp {\it Organization :} R. Calderbank (AT $\&$ T Bell Labs.) rc@research.att.com, A. Blokhuis (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, nl) \sp {\bf First Session :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room V.1.) \sp {\bf Second Session :} Fri. May 24, half afternoon (Room V.2.) \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 2. Mathematical Physics} \sp {\it Organization :} B. Nachtergaele (Princeton University) bxn@math.princeton.edu, J. Bricmont (FYMA, 2, Ch. du Cyclotron, UCL, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Tel. 32-10-47.32.77) \sp {\bf Session :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room R.1.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p M. Aizenman (Princeton) (40 min.) \p R. Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam): (40 min.) {\it "String duality"} \p C. Maes (K. U. Leuven) (30 min.) {\it "Relaxation to equilibrium in glassy dynamics"} \p M. Fannes (K. U. Leuven) (30 min.) {\it "Quantum dynamical entropy"} \p Van de Leur (Twente) (30 min.) {\it "A geometrical interpretation of the constrained KP hierarchy"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 3. Harmonic Analysis} \sp {\it Organization :} J. Ludwig (Universite Metz, Fr.) ludwig@poncelet.univ-metz.fr J.-P. Pier (Univ. de Luxembourg, LU) pier@crpcu.lu \sp {\bf Session :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room V.1.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p M. Bekka (Metz, Fr.) {\it "Some irreducible representations of G(Q) for a simple algebraic group G."} \p F. Bien (San Diego, U.S.) \p G. van Dijk (Leiden, Nl.) {\it "Canonical representations related to hyperbo lic spaces."} \p A. Van Daele (Leuven, Belgium) {\it "Multiplier Hopf Algebras and Group Duality"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 4. History of Mathematics (XXth Century)} \sp {\it Organization :} J. Mawhin (Univ. Louvain, Belgium) mawhin@amn.ucl.ac.be J.-P. Pier (Univ. de Luxembourg, LU) pier@crpcu.lu \sp {\bf Session :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room V.2.) \sp {\it Speakers :} (40' lectures) \p T. Apostol (Caltech, US) {\it "Centennial history of the proof of the prime number theorem"} \p J. Gray (Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) {\it "Curves and Ideals from Noether to Noether, a forgotten Chapter in the History of Algebraic Geometry."} \p R. Langevin (Dijon, Fr) {\it "The little music of integral geometry since Buffon."} \p M. Willem (UCL): On the history of convolution product. \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 5. Number Theory} \sp {\it Organization :} F. Beukers (Uiversity of Utrecht, Nl), beukers@math.ruu .nl J. Denef (K. U. Leuven, Belgium) \par\eject \sp {\bf Session :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room R.0.19) \sp {\it Speakers : } \p G. Christol (Univ. Paris VI) {\it "On the Index Theorem for p-adic Different ial Equations"} \p R. Schoof {\it "The Support Problem and its Elliptic Analogue"} \p H. Te Riele (CWI, Amsterdam) {\it "On Amicable Pairs Based on Euler's Phi-Fu nction"} \p R. W. van der Waall (UVA, Amsterdam) {\it "Embedding of a Group as a Frattini subgroup"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 6. Algebraic Geometry} \sp {\it Organization :} J. de Jong (Harvard U.), dejong@abel.math.harvard.edu M. van der Put (Univ. Groningen, Nl.), m.van.der.put@math.rug.nl \sp {\bf Session :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room D.2.33) \sp {\it Speakers : } \p D. Abramovich (Boston University, US) {\it "Fibrations by Nodal Curves and Applications"} \p W. van der Kallen (U. Utrecht, NL) \p R.I. Michler (Univ. North Texas) {\it "The Torsion Module of Differentials of Affine Hypersurfaces with Isolated Singularities"} \p Takao Kato (Yamaguchi U.,Japan) {\it "Variety of special linear systems on triple coverings of irrational curves"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 7. Algebra} \sp {\it Organization :} Susan Montgomery (USC, LA, US) smontgom@math.usc.edu S. Caenepeel (V. U. Brussels, Belgium) scaenepe@vnet3.vub.ac.be \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room R.3.) \sp {\it Speakers :} (45 min.) \p S.P. Smith (Univ. Washington, Seattle, US) \p L. Small (Univ. San Diego, La Jolla, US), {\it "Embeddings of Rings"} \p J.-P. Tignol (U.Cath.L. Louvain, Belgium) {\it "Central Simple Algebras with Involutions and Classical Groups"} \sp {\it Speakers :} (25 min) \p M. Vancliff (U. of Antwerp, UIA Belgium), {\it "Quantum Quadrics in Quantum $P^3$'s."} \p C. Ohn (Univ. Reims, France) {\it "Quantum SL(3)'s with Good Fundamental Representations"} \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room R.3.) \sp {\it Speakers :} (45 min.) \p M. Artin (M.I.T., US) \p L. Le Bruyn (NFWO, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium) {\it "Lie Stacks and their Enveloping Algebras"} \sp {\it Speakers :} (25 min) \p J. Zhang (University of Washington, Seattle, US) {\it "Hilbert Series and Growth of Graded Noetherian Rings"} \p I. Musson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US) {\it "A Geometric Approach to the Center of the Enveloping Algebra of a Classical Simple Lie Superalgebra."} \p A. Giaquinto, (Mississippi State Universityi, US), {\it "Boundary Solutions of the Classical Yang-Baxter Equation"}. \p A. I. Lichtman (Univ. of Wisconsin, Parkside), {\it "Trace Functions in the Rings of Polycyclic Group Rings"}. \par\eject \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 8. Differential Geometry} \sp {\it Organization :} L. Vanhecke (K. U. Leuven) fgaga03@ccl.kuleuven.ac.be L. Lemaire (U. L. Bruxelles, Belgium) ulbmath@ulb.ac.be \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room R.2.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p J. Jost (Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum) {\it "Generalized harminic Maps and Geometric Applications"} \p J. J. Duistermaat (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) {\it "Counting Eigenvalues of Higher Order Sturm-Liouville Problems"} \p S. Gutt (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Univ. Metz, Fr.), {\it "Quantization of Kaehler Manifolds"} \p G. Walschap (Univ. of Oklahoma, US), {\it "Metric Fibrations of Euclidian Spaces"} \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room R.2.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p N. Hitchin (Cambridge University, U.K.) \p C. Viterbo (Universite Paris Sud, Fr) \p Y. Eliashberg (Stanford University) \p A.S. Dzhumadil'daev (U. Munchen) {\it "Vector fields Lie algebras: nonsplit extension, deformations and defining relations"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 9. Buildings} \sp {\it Organization :} H. Van Maldeghem (R. U. Gent, Belgium) hvm@cage.rug.ac.be M. Ronan (U. Illinois, Chicago) u53074@uicvm.bitnet \sp {\bf Session :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room D.2.35.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p H. Van Maldeghem (R. U. Gent, Belgium) {\it "Variations on the Moufang Condi tion for Buildings of Low Rank"} \p R. Scharlau (U. Dortmund, Germany) {\it "Voronoi Domains, Reflexion Groups, and shadow geometries"} \p M. Ronan (U. of Illinois, Chicago) {\it "Twin Trees"} \p B. Muehller (U. Tuebingen, Germany) {\it "Commutator relations in 2-spherical Moufang buildings"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 10. Logic} \sp {\it Organization :} M. Boffa (Univ. de Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium) chrmich@sun1.umh.ac.be; Y. Gurevich (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Send papers to : C. Michaux, (michaux@hilbert.logique.jussieu.fr) \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room R.4.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p S. Smale (C. U. Hong Kong, Math. Dept. TAT CHEE Ave, Kowloon, Hong Kong) {\it "Extending the Notion of Decidability"} \p Y. Gurevich (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor) {\it "Logic and Computer Science or the Holy Cows of Computer Science Logicians"} \p E. Graedel (RWTH, Aachen, Germany) {\it "Metafinite Model Theory"} \sp + 4 Contributed Papers : \sp Friederike Koerner (T.U. Berlin, BRD), {\it "Countable Recursively Saturated Models with Automorphisms that Move all Non-Algebraic Points"} \p Thanases Pheidias and Karim Zahidi (University of Crete, Greece) {\it "The Rational Function Field C(t) has an Undecidable Existential Theory in the Language of Rings Augmented by a Predicate Representing the Relation "x is a Derivative in C(t)" and a Constant for the variable t."} \p Gregorio Malajovitch (Inst. Matematica da UFRJ, Rio, Brazil) and Klaus Meer (RWTH, Aachen, BRD), {\it "On the Structure of $NP_C$"} \p Tomasz Polacik (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland), {\it "Pitt's Quantifiers and Topological Interpretation of Quantification in Intuitionistic Propositional Logic"} \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Fri. May 24, afternoon (Room : Promotion Room) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p A. Macintyre (U. of Oxford, UK) {\it "Geometric Categories Arising in Model Theory"} \p D. Evans (U. of East Anglia, UK) {\it "Automorphism Groups of Saturated Structures"} \p E. Bouscaren (U. Paris VII, France) {\it "Model Theory and Algebraic Geometr y, a Survey of Recent Developments"} \p Z. Chatzidakis (U. Paris VII, France) {\it "Model Theory of Algebraically Closed Fields with an Automorphism"} \sp + 3 Contributed Papers \sp Francoise Point $\&$ Patricia Wantiez (Univ. de Mons, Belgium), {\it "Multiplicative Lie Algebras"} \p Alexis Bes (Universite Paris VII, Fr.) {\it "Logic, k-Recognizable Sets and Cobham-Semenov Theorem"} \p F. Collot (SMF, Paris, Fr.) {\it " Continuum Hypothesis : a New Approach"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 11. Numerical Mathematics} \sp {\it Organization :} S. Van de Walle (K. U. Leuven) stefan.vandewalle@cs.kuleuven.ac.be P. Hemker (CWI, Amsterdam) pieth@cwi.nl \sp {\bf Session :} Fri. May 24, afternoon (Room R.0.19.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p M. Griebel (Univ. Bonn) {\it "Algebraic multigrid methods for the solution of the Navier Stokes equations in complicated geometries"} \p A. Reusken (T.U. Eindhoven, Nl) {\it " On algebraic multigrid methods"} \p W. Dahmen (RWTH Aachen, Germany) {\it "Stable multiscale bases and adaptive techniques for elliptic problems"} \p C.W.Oosterlee (SCAI, Germany){\it " An evaluation of parallel multigrid as solver and preconditioner for singular perturbed problems"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 12. Dynamical Systems} \sp {\it Organization :} F. Dumortier (LUC, Hasselt, Belgium) fdumorti@luc.ac.be S. van Strien (U. Amsterdam, Nl) strien@fwi.uva.nl \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room R.4.) \sp \p Michael Benedicks (Stockholm Technical University, Swden) {\it "Stochastic Properties of Certain Henon Attractors"} \p Greg Swiatek (Penn State Univ., US) {\it "Remarks on Critical Circle Mapping s"} \p Duncan Sands (Orsay, Paris Sud, Fr.) {\it "Collet-Eckman and related Hyperbolicity Conditions in Unimodal Maps"} \p Henk Bruin (Erlangen, BRD), {\it "Factor Maps of Cantor Attractors in Interval Dynamics"} \par\eject \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room R.0.19) \sp Chengzhi Li {\it "Some techniques in the Study of the Number of Zeros of Abe lian Integrals"} \p Andre Vanderbauwhede (R.U. Gent, Belgium) {\it "Normal Forms and Subharmonic Bifurcation"} \p M. Sintzhoff (Univ. de Louvain, Belgium) {\it "Abstract Verification of Structured Dynamic Systems"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 13. Motivic Cohomology and Algebraic K-Theory} \sp {\it Organization :} E. Friedlander, eric@math.nwu.edu \p J. Murre (U. Leiden, Nl.) murre@rulwinw.leidenuniv.nl \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room R.1.) \sp Helene Esnault (U. Essen, BRD) {\it "Algebraic Chern-Simons Theory"} \p Brent Gordon (Univ. of Oklahoma, US) {\it "Chow Motives of Elliptic Modular Varieties"} \p Christophe Soule (Paris, Fr.) \p Vladimir Voevodsky (Harvard, US), {\it "Stable Homotopy Category of Algebraic Varieties"} \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Fri. May 24, afternoon (Room R.1.) \sp Christopher Deniger (Univ. Muenster, BRD) {\it "Periods of Mixed Motives, K-Theory and Entropy"} \p Henri Gillert (Illinois, US) \p Uwe Jannsen (Koeln, BRD) {\it "Applications of Motives"} Anthony Scholl, (Durham) \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 14. Wavelets} \sp {\it Organization :} I. Daubechies (Princeton) ingrid@math.princeton.edu N. Temme (cwi, Amsterdam) nicot@cwi.nl \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room : promotion Room) (40' lectur es) \sp I. Daubechies (Princeton University, US) \p J. P. Antoine, {\it "Wavelets : From Group Representations to Image Processing and Motion Analysis"} \p J.B.T.M. Roerdink (Univ. Groningen) {\it "Wavelets in computerized tomograph y"} \p W. Sweldens (AT $\&$ T, NJ, US) {\it "Construction and Application of Second Generation Wavelets"} \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Fri. May 24, afternoon (Room D.2.35.) \sp Francoise Bastin (Univ. de Liege, Belgium) {\it "Construction of Wavelets in Sobolev Spaces"} \p Geert Uytterhoeven c.s. (Kath. Univ. Leuven, Belgium) {\it "Experiments with a Wavelet-Based Approximate Karhunen-Loeve Decomposit ion"} \p Maarten Jansen c.s. (Kath. Univ. Leuven, Belgium) {\it "Generalized Cross Validation for Wavelet Thesholding"} \p Patrick Oonincx (CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) {\it "A Generalization of Multiresolution Analyses"} \p Felis Herrmann (Delft Univ. Techn., The Netherlands) {\it "Waves in Scalding Media : A Preliminary Discussion on the Implications of Non-Differentiability on Wave Dynamics"} \p Manos Papadakis (Hellenic Military Acad., Greece) {\it "A Unitary Parametrization of Low-Pass Filters of MRA"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 15. Inverse Problems} \sp {\it Organization :} Fadil Santosa (U. of Minnesota), santosa@math.umn.edu C. De Mol (U. L. Bruxelles, Belgium) demol@ulb.ac.be \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Thu. May 23, afternoon, Room B.0.36 \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Fri. May 24, afternoon (Room R.2.) \sp {\it Speakers : } \p A. Nachman (Rochester University, USA) \p F. Santosa (U. of Minnesota, USA) \p R. Snieder (U. of Utrecht, Nl.) \p E. Di Bennedetto (North Western Univ., USA) \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 16. Modular Functions} \sp {\it Organization :} J. Top (R. U. Groningen, Nl.) j.top@math.rug.nl B. Edixhoven (U. Rennes, Fr.) edix@campagnarde.univ.rennes.fr \sp Fri. May 22, afternoon (Room : R.4.) \sp {\it Speakers : } \p B. Edixhoven (Univ. Rennes, Fr.) {\it "Oort's Conjecture for $P_1 \times P_1 $"} \p P. Parent {\it "Effective Bounds for the Torsion of Elliptic Curves on Number Fields"} \p B. Birch {\it "Abelian Surfaces with Real Multiplication"} \p B. Perrin-Riou {\it "Representations p-adiques et fonctions L p-adiques"} \p J. Huntley, {\it "On the Analogue of Selberg'sEigenvalue Conjecture for $SL_3(Z)$.} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 17. Special Functions} \sp {\it Organization :} Walter Van Assche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Marcel G. de Bruyn, Technische Universiteit Delft \sp Wed. May 22, afternoon (Room : R.1.09) \sp {\bf First Session :} (20 minutes talks) \p M. G. de Bruyn, (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands), {\it "Continuous Sobolev-Laguerre Polynomials amd their Continued Fractions"} \p H. G. Meijer (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands), {\it "Coherent P airs for Sobolev Orthogonal Polynomials"} \p H. Bavinck (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands), {\it "Linear Perturbations of Differential and Difference Operators with Polynomial Eigenfunctions"} \p J. Van Der Jeugt (Univ. Gent, Belgium), {\it " Transformation and Summation Formulas for Multiple Hypergeometric Functions"} \sp {\bf Second Session :} (20 minutes talks) \p M. Schosser, Ch. Krattenthaler (Univ. Wien, Austria), {\it "Multidimensional Matrix Inversion and $A_r$ and $C_r$ Basic Hypergeometric Functions"} \p W. Koepf (Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany), {\it "Efficient Computation of orthogonal Polynomials in Computer Algebra"} \p W. Koepf (Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany), {\it "Orthogonal Polynomial Identities in Maple V.4."} \p R. F. Swarttouw (Computer Algebra Nederland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), {\it "An Interactive Electronic Version of the Askey-Wilson Table for Classi cal Orthogonal Polynomials"} \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 18. History of Mathematics: Mathematical Brain Drain within Europe (1550-1650) and from Europe to North America (1850-1950)} \sp {\it Organization :} J. van Maanen (R. U. Groningen) j.a.van maanen@math.rug .nl \sp {\bf Session :} Wed. May 22, Afternoon (Room V.2.) \sp {\it Speakers :} \p Jan van Maanen (R. U. Groningen, the Netherlands) {\it "Introduction"} (5') \p A. Meskens (Mechelen, Belgium) {\it "The Road to the Republic : The Antwerp Reckoning Masters 1550-1620"} (35') \p G. Vanpaemel (U. Nijmegen) $\&$ J. van Maanen {\it "Migration Patterns of Mathematicians in the Low Countries 1550-1650"} (35') Discussion (15') \p Coffee-break \p T. Archibald (Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada) {\it "Transforming Canadian Mathematics : British and Continental Influences"} (35') \p D. Rowe (Mainz, BRD) {\it "The Impact of European Emigres on Mathematics in the United States"} (35') \sp Discussion (20') \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 19. Contributed Papers} \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Thu. May 23, afternoon (Room D.2.35) (Lectures are 25' minutes long) \sp S. Sontz {\it "Log-Sobolev Inequalies and Statistical Mechanics"} \p W. Kuijk (RUCA, Antwerp, Belgium), {\it "Intrinsic Relativistic Schrodinger Equation for the Electron"} \p F. Cantrijn (University of Ghent, Belgium) {\it "Multisymplectic Structures and their Appearance in Classical Field Theory"} \p W. Sarlet (University of Ghent, Belgium) {\it "Aspects of the geometry of Non-Holonomic Mechanics"} \p J. Naudts (University of Antwerp, UIA, Belgium) {\it "Generalized Fuzzy Sets, Conditional Weights and Gibbs Specifications"} \p L. Sadun (University of Texas, US) {\it "Subgroups of SO(3) Associated with Tilings"} \p H. De Schepper, R. Van Keer (University of Ghent, Belgium) {\it "Variational Approximation Method for a Class of 2nd Order Eigenvalue Problems in Composite Media with Nonlocal Transition Conditions at the Internal Boundaries"} \sp {\bf Session 2 :} Fri. May 24, half afternoon (Room R.2) (Lectures are 25' minutes long) \sp M. Dewar (Comp. Math. Group, NAG Ltd, Oxford, UK) {\it "Computer Algebra with AXIOM"} \p J.-P. Doignon (ULB, Belgium) {\it "Finding the Facets of a Convex Polytopic Related to a Model of Approval"} \p A. Toom (US), {\it "Tails in Harnesses"} \p B. Russo (Univ. of California, Irvine, US) {\it "The Small Hankel Operator on the Hardy Space of the Unit Ball and Visit Polydisc"} \p A.F.M. ter Elst (T.U. Eindhoven, Nl) {\it "Weighted Subcoercive Operators on Lie Groups"} \p J. Korevaar (Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) {\it "An Approximation Pro blem for the Sphere"} \p A. Kuylaars (Purdue University, US) {\it "A Problem on Fast Decreasing Polynomials"} \sp {\bf Session 3 :} Hopf Algebras, Fri. May 24, afternoon (Room R.3) (Lectures are 25' minutes long) \sp M. Cohen (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel) {\it "The Semicenter and Generalized Invariants of Commutative Algebras in Categories"} \p B. Chin (De Paul University, Chicago, US) {\it "Basic coalgebras"} \p H.-J. Schneider (University of Munchen) \p G. Militaru (Univ. Bucharest) {\it "Frobenius Type Properties for Doi-Hopf Modules"} P. Schauenburg (University of Munchen), {\it "Hopf Bigalois Extensions"} \p S. Dascalescu (Univ. of Bucharest), {\it "FBN Hopf Module Algebras"} \p B. Zhou (Buffalo, US) {\it "Doi Hopf Data, Functors, Applications, Frobenius Types"} \p N. Guner (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, US) {\it "Borsuk-Ulam Type Theorem for Heisenberg Lie Group Action"} \p Ioana Boca (U.Southern California) {\it "Projective Representations of Hopf Algebras"} \par\eject \vskip 5mm\p {\bf 20. Short Communications (20')} \sp {\bf Session 1 :} Thursday 23, Room R.0.19, time : from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. \sp Nowak, {\it "Primitive Lattice Points in Starlike Planar Sets"} \p A.K. Devaraj (Bombay, India) {\it "A Theorem a la Ramanujan : There are Only Two Values of $x$ for which $x^2 + 18 = 3^n$ "} \p P. Popescu (Univ. of Craiova, Roumania) {\it "About the Behaviour of Some New Functions in Number Theory"} \p V. V. Rane (Institute of Science, Bombay, India) {\it "Approximate Functional Equations and the Mean Square Value of Hurwitz Zeta Functions"}. \sp {\bf Session 2} Thursday 23, Room R.2., time : from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. \sp W. Malfait (KUL, Belgium) {\it "On Extension Realising a Faithful Abstract Kernel and their Automorphisms. Application : An Algebraic Approach to the Symmetry of Infranilmanifolds"} \p K. De Kimpe (KUL, Belgium) {\it "Poly Structures on Polycyclic Groups"} \p D. Scevenels (KUL, Belgium), {\it "The Mislin Genus of Some Classes of Finit ely Generated Nilpotent Groups"} \p S. Lu (Denver, Colorado, US) {\it "The Prime Avoidance Theorem for Modules"} \sp {\bf Session 3 :} Friday 24, Room V.2., time : from 4.20 p.m. to 6.40 p.m. \sp D. Burde (univ. Duesseldorf, BRD) {\it "Etale Affine Representations of Lie Groups"} \p M. Serfati (Paris, Fr.) {\it "The Lattice Theory of r-ordered Partitions"} \p D. Marrero (Villanova Univ.i, US) {\it "A Test for Seasonal Variation Having Small Amplitude"} \p E. A. van Doorn {\it "A Service System Gathering Surplus Capacity during Idle Periods"} \p T. Driessen (Univ. Twente, the Netherlands) {\it "Catalan and Fibonacci Numb ers in the Context of Cooperative Game Theory"} \p P. V. Subrahmanyam (Indian Inst. of Technology, Madra, India) {\it "On the Existence of Solutions of Certain Functional Internal Equations"} \p T. Tkebuchava (U. Tbilisi, Ukraine) {\it "On the Conjugate Function and Hardy Littlewood Maximal Operator in Nonreflexive Separable Orlicz Space"} \sp Reserve Rooms : \p Wed. May 22, Room B.0.36 \p Fri. May 24, Room B.0.36) \par\vfill\end