Finnish Mathematical Days 2008

Helsinki University of Technology 3.1.-4.1.2008

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Program of the Finnish Mathematical Days

The invited talks in the sessions, will last 30 minutes. Other talks in the sessions will take 20 minutes. These include the time for discussion.



Thursday 3.1
9.00-9.45
Registration
9.45-10.00
The opening of the Mathematical Days: Rector Matti Pursula (Mellin hall)
10.00-10.45
Karl Sigmund (University of Vienna, Austria) (Mellin hall)
10.55-11.40
Paavo Salminen (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) (Mellin hall)
11.40-13.00
Lunch
13.00-14.30
Sessions

Computer aided education (H)
Matti Pauna (UH): WebALT virtuaalinen analyysin peruskurssi
Miika Huikkola (TUT): Opiskelijoiden asenteet ja taidot sekä tietotekniikan käyttö matematiikan opetuksessa
Antti Rasila (TKK): Kokemuksia harjoitustehtävien automaattisesta tarkastuksesta

Statistics (J)
Jukka Corander (ÅA): Bayesian unsupervised classification utilizing non-reversible parallel MCMC
Jarkko Isotalo (UTA): A useful matrix decomposition and it's statistical applications in linear regression
Juha Karvanen (Kansanterveyslaitos): Use of L-moments in data description and modeling

Analysis (L)
Riikka Korte (TKK): Hardy and fatness in metric spaces
Pekka Alestalo (TKK): Kuvausten isometrisestä aproksimaatiosta
Lauri Ylinen (UH): Two-dimensional tomography with unknown view angles

Control and system theory (U322)
Seppo Pohjolainen (TUT): Robustisuus ja säätö
Timo Hämäläinen (TUT): Robusti regulointi ääretönulotteisilla signaalingeneraattoreilla
Lassi Paunonen (TUT): Robust Stability of Observers

Discrete mathematics (U345)
Erkko Lehtonen (TUT): Operations on finite sets, functional composition, and ordered sets
Ion Petre (ÅA): The mathematics of gene assembly in ciliates
Alexander Okhotin (UTU): Equations over sets of natural numbers

Industrial mathematics (N)
Roininen Lassi (SGO): Magnetometridatan aikasarja-analyysi tilastollisilla inversiomenetelmillä
Siltanen Samuli (TUT): Kolmiulotteinen röntgenkuvaus
Sirola Niilo (TUT): Henkilökohtainen navigointi

Mathematical risk management (U356)
Ahti Salo (TKK): Diskreetin portfoliomallinnuksen sovelluksia riskienhallinnassa
Matti Koivu (Rahoitustarkastus): A stochastic model for assets and liabilities of a pension institution
Teemu Pennanen (HSE): Pricing and hedging of claim processes in illiquid markets

14.30-15.00
Coffee
15.00-16.00
PhD thesis presentations

Hall H
Mika Leikas (JY): Incomplete projection families
Pekka Nieminen (UH): Composition Operators and Aleksandrov Measures
Hall J
Jaakko Nevalainen (UTA): Non-parametric Methods for Multivariate Location Problems
Jukka Lempa (TSE): On stochastic control of Markov processes
Hall L
Simopekka Vänskä (UH): Beltrami-kenttien sirontaa
Meeri Kesälä (UH): Finitary abstract elementary classes

16.15-17.15
Sessions

Mathematical videos (Mellin hall)
Arabeskit ja geometria, 20 min
The shape of space, 15 min
The dynamics of the rabbit, 24 min
More information (in Finnish)

Mathematics education (contributed) (H)
Timo Tossavainen (UJo): Matematiikan opettajankoulutuksen haasteita ja mahdollisuuksia
Martti E. Pesonen (UJo): Dynaaminen geometria

Stochastics (contr.) (J)
Christel Geiss (JY): The discrete-time hedging error for the Lévy process model
Eija Laukkarinen (JY): Malliavin calculus for Lévy processes and fractional smoothness

Analysis (contr. 1) (L)
Glader Christer (ÅA): Nonlinear Riemann-Hilbert Problems with Circular Target Curves
Eriksson Sirkka-Liisa (TUT): Hyperbolic harmonic functions and their function theory
Erkama Timo (UJo): Aritmeettiset jonot polynomien sykleissä

Analysis (contr. 2) (U322)
Tuomas Hytönen (HY): Some new Carleson measure conditions and their connection to BMO
Ville Turunen (TKK): Pseudo-Differential Operators and Symmetries
Tero Vedenjuoksu (OY): The Stone-Cech compactification of topological groups

Discrete mathematics (U345)
Vesa Halava (TY): Hilbert's 10th problem and undecidability in matrix equations

Applied mathematics (contr.) (N)
Stefan Geritz (HY): Biomathematics
Ping Yan (HY): Three-dimensional Competitive and Competitor-competitor-mutualist Lotka-Volterra Systems Ahti Rahikainen (TKK): Biomechanics in shot put

Analysis (contr. 3) (U356)
Suomala Ville (JyU): Which measures are projections of purely unrectifiable one-dimensional Hausdorff measures
Suvitie Eeva (UTU): On a short sum involving an inner product of a holomorphic cusp form and a Maass form
Wildrik Kevin (JyU): Doubling measures on incomplete spaces

17.15-
Maplesoft Technology Forum
19.00-22.30
Conference dinner (Valkoinen sali, Aleksanterinkatu 16-18 Helsinki)


Friday 4.1
9.00-9.10
The awards of The Finnish Mathematical Society (Mellin hall)
9.10-9.55
Stanislav Smirnov (Université de Genève, Switzerland) (Mellin hall)
9.55-10.25
Coffee
10.25-11.15
Kaisa Nyberg (Helsinki University of Technology) (Mellin hall)
11.15-13.00
Lunch and Poster Session
13.00-14.30
Sessions

Mathematics education (H)
Tiina Rintala: Toiminnallista matematiikkaa alakoulujen Summamutikka-kerhoissa
Ville Tilvis: Maunulan matematiikkalukion toiminnasta
Matti Lehtinen ja Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen: Amatööreistä huippuja? Matematiikan kilpailuvalmennus Suomessa

Stochastics (J)
Timo Koski (KTH): TBA
Lasse Leskelä (TKK): Stochastics binary relations of random variables and processes
Mikko Pakkanen (UH): From endogenous prices and microstructure to Black-Scholes

Analysis (L)
Mahmoud Filali (OY): Functions on a topological group
Jari Taskinen (HY): Toeplitz-operaattorit Bergman-avaruuksissa
Hans-Olav Tylli (HY): Composition operators on spaces of vector-valued functions

Control and system theory (U322)
Ville Havu (TKK): Cayley Transform as numerical integration scheme
Jarmo Malinen (TKK): Semigroups of impedance conservative boundary control systems
Pertti Palo (TKK): Recording speech during MRI

Logic (U345)
Jonathan Kirby (Oxford): Model Theory of Holomorphic Functions
Keijo Heljanko (TKK): Verification Methods based on Propositional Logic Satisfiability
Juha Kontinen (UH): Äärellisten mallien teoria

Applied mathematics (N)
Jari Kaipio (KY): TBA
Tapio Helin (TKK): Hierarchical statistical inverse problems and the Mumford-Shah functional
Mikko Salo (HY): Carleman estimates and anisotropic inverse problems

Numerical analysis and operator theory (U356)
Marko Huhtanen (TKK): Matrix factorization problems
Santtu Ruotsalainen (TKK): Operator theory in diffractive optics
Jaroslav Zemanek (Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences): On powers and resolvents of linear operators

15.00-16.30
Sessions

Mathematics education (H)
Juha Oikkonen (HY): Ajatuksia ja kokemuksia luentokursseista.
Kyösti Tarvainen (Stadia): Ammattikorkeakoulujen insinööriopiskelijoiden matematiikan osaamistaso ja sen parantaminen.
Juha Kinnunen (TKK): Näkökulma matematiikan ylioppilaskokeeseen.

Stochastics (J)
Eero Saksman (HY): Fraktionaalisen Brownin liikkeen lokaali riippumattomuus
Tommi Sottinen (Reykjavik University): Local continuity (for stopping times)
Ilkka Norros (VTT): Hierarkisen ydinverkon muodostuminen eräissä satunnaisverkoissa

Analysis (L)
Peter Hästö (OY): TBA
Petri Juutinen (JY): On a nonlinear mass transportation problem
Risto Korhonen (JoY): Painlevé type difference equations and finite-order meromorphic solutions

Mathematical physics (U322)
Kalle Kytölä (Université Paris-Sud): Punished loop-erased random walks
Mikko Stenlund (Courant Institute): Billiard and statistical properties of toral automorphisms
Jani Lukkarinen (HY): Effective dynamics of lattice systems in a kinetics scaling limit

Diskrete mathematics (contr.) (U345)
Esko Turunen (TUT): Axiomatic Extensions of Monoidal Logic
Pauliina Ilmonen (UTA): On eigenvalues of meet and join matrices associated with incidence functions
Johanna Rämö (University of London): Äärelliset yksinkertaiset ryhmät ja kahden involuution tulot
Pirita Paajanen (University of Southampton): Aliryhmien kasvu ja ryhmien zeeta-funktiot

Analysis (contr.) (N)
Heikki Orelma (TTY): Hyperbolinen funktioteoria geometrisissa algebroissa
Anne Maria Ernvall-Hytönen (TY): Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms... What's so fancy about them?
Vasudevarao Allu (Indian Institute of Technology Madras): Region of variability for certain classes of univalent functions satisfying differential inequalities

Mechanics
Teijo Arponen (TKK): Numerical and symbolic computation in multibody systems
Mika Malinen (CSC): On preconditioning of Dissipative Acoustic Equations
Jari Mäkinen (TTY): TBA

16.35
The closing of the Mathematical Days

Updated 2.1.2008 ht