SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Focus Program on Whitney Problems August 27-September 30, 2012 Hosted by the Fields Institute Organizers: Alexander Brudnyi University of Calgary Charles Fefferman,Princeton University Pierre Milman, University of Toronto Nahum Zobin, College of William and Mary

Overview

The program is focused on some the most vibrant developments in function theory related to the celebrated Whitney extension and trace problems for classes of smooth functions. These include new analytic and geometric methods in the study of Lipschitz structures on finite sets, extension and trace problems for functions in Sobolev spaces, simultaneous extensions of Lipschitz functions from subsets of metric spaces, Helly type Lipschitz selection problems, etc.

Objectives

The objective of the program is to bring together an international group of experts in the areas of function theory and functional and geometric analysis to report on and discuss recent progress and open problems in the area of Whitney type problems and thus foster interaction and collaboration between researches in these fields.

Scientific Activity

August
August 27-31, 2012 Workshop on Whitney type extension and trace problems Distinguished Lecture Series August 28,29,30 at 3:30 p.m Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University The Lipschitz Extension Problem
September
September 4,6,7, 2012 at 10-11a.m. Room 230, Fields Institute Distinguished Graduate Course on Whitney Problems Instructor: Charles Fefferman, Princeton University. Whitney Trace and Extension Problems for Spaces of Smooth Functions on Rn September 4,6, 2012 at 2 p.m. September 7, 2012 at 9-10 a.m. Room 230, Fields Institute Selected Topics in Extension and Trace Problems Instructors: Nahum Zobin (College of William and Mary) and Pavel Shvartsman (Technion) A permanent weekly seminar at Fields will be run for the duration of the program, as well as a special weekly young researcher seminar.

Confirmed Participants :

Full Name	University/Affiliation	Arrival Date	Departure Date
Bojarski, Bogdan	Polish Academy of Sciences	27-Aug-12	07-Sep-12
Bos, Len	University of Calgary	08-Sep-12	30-Sep-12
Brudnyi, Alexander	University of Calgary	27-Aug-12	30-Sep-12
Chen, Li	University of the District of Columbia	27-Aug-12	31-Aug-12
Fefferman, Charles	Princeton University	27-Aug-12	07-Sep-12
Goldshtein, Vladimir	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	27-Aug-12	28-Sep-12
Hajlasz, Piotr	University of Pittsburgh	27-Aug-12	01-Sep-12
Hirn, Matthew	Yale University	26-Aug-12	09-Sep-12
Ihnatsyeva, Lizaveta	University of Helsinki	26-Aug-12	09-Sep-12
Israel, Arie	New York University	27-Aug-12	30-Sep-12
Johnson, William	Texas A&M University	TBA
Jonsson, Alf	Umeå University	27-Aug-12	31-Aug-12
Kinzebulatov, Damir	The Fields Institute	27-Aug-12	30-Sep-12
Kurdyka, Krzysztof	Université de Savoie	26-Aug-12	07-Sep-12
Le Gruyer, Yves	INSA de Rennes	26-Aug-12	09-Sep-12
Luli, Garving	Yale University	26-Aug-12	03-Sep-12
Milman, Pierre	University of Toronto	27-Aug-12	30-Sep-12
Mitra, Atish	University of South Florida	24-Sep-12	29-Sep-12
Naor, Assaf	New York University	27-Aug-12	30-Sep-12
Nicoara, Andreea	University of Pennsylvania	26-Aug-12	29-Aug-12
Pawlucki, Wieslaw	Jagiellonian University	26-Aug-12	07-Sep-12
Pelczynski, Aleksander	Polish Academy of Sciences	27-Aug-12	10-Sep-12
Plelniak, Wieslaw	Jagiellonian University	27-Aug-12	07-Sep-12
Shvartsman, Pavel	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	27-Aug-12	30-Sep-12
Sinha, Gaurav	California Institute of Technology	29-Aug-12	07-Sep-12
Szeto, Kwok Yip	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	26-Aug-12	01-Sep-12
Thamrongthanyalak, Athipat	University of California, Los Angeles	22-Aug-12	02-Sep-12
Wojciechowski, Michal	Polish Academy of Sciences	27-Aug-12	17-Sep-12
Yomdin, Yosef	The Weizmann Institute of Science	27-Aug-12	10-Sep-12
Zobin, Nahum	College of William and Mary	26-Aug-12	25-Sep-12

 

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