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Mathematics of Information, September 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

Third Abel Conference:
A Mathematical Celebration of Endre Szemerédi

November 29 to December 1, 2012

The IMA gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the conference from
IBM Research, Microsoft Research and the University of Minnesota.

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Organizers

Imre Bárány	Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Joel Spencer (Chair)	New York University
Helge Tverberg	The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Description

The Abel Conference is an annual conference series that honors the Abel Prize Laureates. It is a collaboration between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

Schedules

Thursday \| Friday \| Saturday
Thursday November 29, 2012
8:00am-8:45am	Coffee and Registration		Keller Hall 3-180
8:45am-9:00am	Welcome to the IMA		Keller Hall 3-180
9:00am-10:00am	Points, Lines and Ranks of Design Matrices Introduced by: Bill Steiger	Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study)	Keller Hall 3-180
10:00am-10:30am	Break		Keller Hall 3-176
10:30am-11:30am	Regularity, Factors and Limit Structures Introduced by: Gyula Katona	Balazs Szegedy (University of Toronto)	Keller Hall 3-180
11:30am-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm	A Szemeredi--Type Theorem for Non-Amenable Groups Introduced by: Jeff Kahn	Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University)	Keller Hall 3-180
3:00pm-3:10pm	Group Photo		Keller Hall 3-180
3:10pm-3:30pm	Break		Keller Hall 3-176
3:30pm-4:30pm	Complexity and Periodicity Introduced by: Tom Trotter	Bryna Kra (Northwestern University)	Keller Hall 3-180
5:00pm-7:00pm	Reception		Campus Club conference rooms B&C - Coffman Memorial Union
Friday November 30, 2012
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee		Keller Hall 3-176
9:00am-10:00am	Szemeredi Regularity Lemma and Limit of Graphs Introduced by: Miklós Simonovits	Vera Sos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA))	Keller Hall 3-180
10:00am-10:30am	Break		Keller Hall 3-176
10:30am-11:30am	On Graphs, Progressions and Communication Introduced by: Zoltan Furedi	Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University)	Keller Hall 3-180
11:30am-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm	Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma, Variants, and Applications Introduced by: Van Vu	Jacob Fox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Keller Hall 3-180
3:00pm-3:30pm	Break		Keller Hall 3-176
3:30pm-4:30pm	Graph, Hypergraph, Szemeredi Regularity Lemma Introduced by: Penny Haxell	Vojtêch Rödl (Emory University)	Keller Hall 3-180
6:00pm-8:00pm	Banquet		McNamara Alumni Center - Heritage Gallery
Saturday December 01, 2012
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee
9:00am-10:00am	The Reluctant Semi-Algebraist Introduced by: Janos Pintz	János Pach (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA))	Keller Hall 3-180
10:00am-10:30am	Break		Keller Hall 3-176
10:30am-11:30am	Arithmetic and Algebraic Regularity Lemmas Introduced by: Joel Spencer	Terence Tao (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))	Keller Hall 3-180

Participants

NAME	DEPARTMENT	AFFILIATION
Ghodratollah Aalipour	School of Mathematics	Sharif University of Technology
Miklós Abért	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Anar Akhmedov	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
James Allen	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Noga Alon	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Tel Aviv University
Jozsef Balog	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Imre Bárány		Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Abdul Basit	Department of Computer Science	Rutgers University
Nitsan Ben-Gal	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Andrew Beveridge	Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	Macalester College
Sergei Bezrukov	Math and Comp. Science	University of Wisconsin-Superior
Bhaswar Bhattacharya	Department of Statistics	Stanford University
Nate Bruner	Department of Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota
Albert Bush	Department of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Steve Butler	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Jane Butterfield	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Mei-Chu Chang	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Riverside
Gong Chen	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Krzysztof Choromanski	Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Columbia University
David Conlon	Mathematical Institute	University of Oxford
Michelle Delcourt	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen DeSalvo	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Douglas Dokken	Department of Mathematics	University of St. Thomas
Gabor Elek	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Jacob Fox	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zoltan Furedi	Renyi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Hillel Furstenberg	Einstein Institute of Mathematics	Hebrew University
Sergei Gelfand		American Mathematical Society
Catalin Georgescu	Department of Mathematics	University of South Dakota
Daniel Gerbner	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Edinah Gnang	Department of Computer Science	Rutgers University
Anant Godbole	Department of Mathematics	East Tennessee State University
Ronald Graham	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of California, San Diego
Andrey Grinshpun	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Gunderson	Department of Mathematics	University of Manitoba
Ervin Gyõri	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Penny Haxell		University of Waterloo
Blaise Heltai		NewVantage Partners
Simão Herdade	Department of Mathematics	Rutgers University
Lindsay Hoefert	Department of Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota
Ping Hu	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Danrun Huang	Department of Mathematics	St. Cloud State University
Joan Hutchinson		Macalester College
Sogol Jahanbekam	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dihua Jiang	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Richard Johnson	Department of Mathematics	University of Memphis
Ryan Johnson		University of Minnesota
Tomas Juskevicius	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Memphis
Jeff Kahn	Department of Mathematics	Rutgers University
Mihyun Kang	Institut für Optimierung und Diskrete Mathematik	Technische Universität Graz
Gyula Katona	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Lauren Keough	Department of Mathematics	University of Nebraska
Teeradej Kittipassorn	Department of Mathematics	University of Memphis
Oleksiy Klurman	Department of Mathematics	University of Manitoba
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa	Instituto de Matemática e Estatística	University of São Paulo
Peter Komjath	Department of Computer Science	Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Bryna Kra	Department of Mathematics	Northwestern University
Matthias Laurich	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
Nathan Lemons	Theoretical Division	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Gilad Lerman	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Shoham Letzter	Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics	University of Cambridge
Bernard Lidicky	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hong Liu	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Po-Shen Loh	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Carnegie Mellon University
Laszlo Lovasz	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ryan Martin	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Máté Matolcsi	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
William Messing	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Dezsõ Miklós	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Alexander Miller		University of Minnesota
Salah-Eldin Mohammed	Department of Mathematics	Southern Illinois University
Andrew Odlyzko	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
János Pach	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Xing Peng	Department of Mathematics	University of California, San Diego
János Pintz	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Michal Przykucki	Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics	University of Cambridge
Jamie Radcliffe	Department of Mathematics	University of Nebraska
Amanda Redlich	Department of Mathematics	Rutgers University
Bruce Reed	School of Computer Science	McGill University
Peter Rejto	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Vojtêch Rödl	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Emory University
Andrzej Ruciński	Department of Mathematics	Emory University
Miklós Ruszinkó	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Gabor Sarkozy	Computer Science Department	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jeroen Schillewaert	Department of Mathematics	University of California, San Diego
Rik Sengupta	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miklós Simonovits	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Vaidy Sivaraman	Department of Mathematics	Ohio State University
Jozsef Solymosi	Department of Mathematics	University of British Columbia
Vera Sos	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Joel Spencer	Department of Computer Science	New York University
William Steiger	Department of Computer Science	Rutgers University
Benny Sudakov	Mathematical Sciences Department	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Wenbo Sun	Department of Mathematics	Northwestern University
Balazs Szegedy	Department of Mathematics	University of Toronto
Endre Szemeredi	Department of Mathematics	Rutgers University
Terence Tao	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Gábor Tardos	Alfred Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)
Prasad Tetali	School of Mathematics and College of Computing	Georgia Institute of Technology
Enrique Thomann	Department of Mathematics	Oregon State University
Ágnes Tóth	Department of Computer Science and Information Theory	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
William Trotter	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Gyorgy Turan	Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Department	University of Illinois at Chicago
Helge Tverberg	Division of Mathematical Studies	The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Dominik Vu	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Memphis
Van Vu	Department of Mathematics	Yale University
Avi Wigderson	School of Mathematics	Institute for Advanced Study
Julia Wolf	Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz	École Polytechnique
Wing Hong Tony Wong	Department of Mathematics	California Institute of Technology
Hehui Wu	School of Computer Science	McGill University
Rupei Xu	Industrial Engineering and System Engineering	University of Minnesota
Zejiang Zeng		University of Minnesota
Ruixiang Zhang	Department of Mathematics	Princeton University
Yufei Zhao	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tamar Ziegler	Mathematics Department	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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