As in the previous years, we will have two invited speakers, one internal and one external one. They have been chosen by popular vote and are
- Dr. Stefano Luzzatto from Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
- Prof. Peter Bürgisser from TU Berlin.
Stefano Luzzatto
ICTP
Stefano Luzzatto received PhD in Dynamical Systems from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste and the Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, under the supervision of Marcelo Viana an Jacob Palis in 1995. He was a postdoc at the Mathematics Institute at Warwick University from 1995 to 1999 and a lecturer, senior lecturer and reader from 2000 at Imperial College London where he co-founded the Dynamical Systems group DynamIC. In 2009 he moved to the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste where he coordinates the activities in Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory within the Mathematics Section.
His research is in the area of Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.
More information can be found on his webpage.
Peter Bürgisser
Technische Universität Berlin
Peter Bürgisser has been a professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin since 2013. Prior to that, he was a professor of Mathematics at the University of Paderborn. He has received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Konstanz under the supervision of Volker Strassen. Bürgisser was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in 2010. He is the editor in chief of the journal Computational Complexity, and an editor of the journal Foundations of Computational Mathematics. Bürgisser’s research interests are algebraic complexity theory (both the design of efficient algorithms for algebraic problems, and the quest for lower bounds), symbolic and numeric computation, and more recently, the probabilistic analysis of numerical algorithms.
For more information, visit his webpage at TU Berlin .