National Committee for Mathematics  ICM'98--Berlin

International Congress of Mathematicians Berlin, Germany August 18-27, 1998

The next International Congress of Mathematicians will take place in Berlin, Germany, from Tuesday, August 18, through Thursday, August 27, 1998. It will be held under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and sponsored by many other institutions. Up-to-date information about all aspects of ICM'98 is available on the official website which is mirrored in Adelaide:

http://emis.maths.adelaide.edu.au/EMIS/mirror/ICM98/

This includes full details of the program and speakers together with information about registration, abstract submission, etc. For convenience we list some of the relevant program information.

The Program Committee of the IMU has selected the plenary speakers for the 1998 Congress and invitations have been issued. The speakers in the various sections, together with a tentative schedule, are listed below.

• Jean-Michel Bismut, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.

Differential Geometry and Global Analysis.
• Christopher Deninger, Universität Münster, Germany.

Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, L-Functions of Motives.
• Persi Diaconis, Mathematics and ORIE, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

Statistics, Probability, Algebraic Combinatorics.
• Giovanni Gallavotti, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.

Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability.
• Wolfgang Hackbusch, Universität Kiel, Germany.

Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing.
• Helmut H. W. Hofer, Courant Institute, New York University, USA.

Global Analysis, Dynamical Systems.
• Ehud Hrushovski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Logic.
• I. G. Macdonald, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, England.

Lie Groups, Algebraic Combinatorics.
• Stéphane Mallat, École Polytechnique, CMAP, Palaiseau, France.

Applied Mathematics, Signal Processing.
• Dusa McDuff, SUNY Stony Brook, USA.

Symplectic Topology.
• Tetsuji Miwa, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan.

Integrable Systems, Infinite Dimensional Algebras.
• Jürgen Moser, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations.
• George C. Papanicolaou Stanford University, USA.

Applied Mathematics, Probability.
• Gilles Pisier, Université Paris VI, France and Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.

Functional Analysis.
• Peter Sarnak, Princeton University, USA.

Number Theory.
• Peter W. Shor, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, USA.

Computer Science.
• Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna, Austria.

Mathematical Ecology, Evolutionary Game Theory.
• Michel Talagrand, CNRS, Université Paris VI, France.

Probability, Statistical Mechanics, Functional Analysis, Measure Theory.
• Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and Tehran, Iran.

String Theory, Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity.
• Marcelo Viana, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory.
• Vladimir Voevodsky, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA.

Algebraic Cycles and Motives.

The Organizing Committee has made a schedule of the Plenary Lectures. The Plenary Addresses will be presented in the morning sessions - with two exceptions. There will be no talks parallel to a Plenary Lecture!

One Plenary Lecture is scheduled for the afternoon of the first day (August 18, 1998). It will be given by Juergen Moser. Another Plenary Talk (by Persi Diaconis) will be presented in the afternoon of the last day (August 27). It will start at 2 p.m.

There are two Plenary Lectures in each morning session of the first week (Wednesday to Saturday). The schedule is as follows:

First lecture: 9:30 - 10:30 coffee break Second Lecture: 11:00 - 12:00 lunch break

In the second week (Monday to Thursday) we will have three Plenary Lectures each morning with the following schedule:

First lecture: 9:00 - 10:00 break Second Lecture: 10:15 - 11:15 coffee break Third lecture: 11:45 - 12:45 lunch break

The speaker schedule is as follows:

• Tuesday, August 18: Moser (afternoon).
• Wednesday, August 19: Shor, Hrushovski.
• Thursday, August 20: McDuff, Macdonald.
• Friday, August 21: Hofer, Voevodsky.
• Saturday, August 22: Hackbusch, Noether Lecture.
• Monday, August 24: Sigmund, Talagrand, Vafa.
• Tuesday, August 25: Papanicolaou, Miwa, Pisier.
• Wednesday, August 26: Deninger, Gallavotti, Bismut.
• Thursday, August 27: Viana, Mallat, Sarnak and Diaconis (afternoon).

The Noether Lecture on August 22 belongs to the "Section of Special Activities". It was suggested by a group representing "Women in Mathematics" and was approved by the IMU and the ICM'98 Organizing Committee. The Noether Lecture will be presented by Cathleen S. Morawetz (New York).

The first Plenary Lecture (by J. Moser) will be delivered in the afternoon of the opening day at the International Congress Center (ICC). The other addresses will be given in the Auditorium Maximum (lecture hall H 105) of the TU Berlin. The Auditorium Maximum has a capacity of 1200 seats. The talks will also be shown in an adjoining lecture hall via closed-circuit television, so that an audience of more than 2000 people can be reached.

At the recommendation of the IMU Program Committee, more than 160 mathematicians have been invited to give 45-minute lectures in specified sections. These lectures are intended to be surveys of significant topics in the respective area of research. The speakers have been asked to make their lectures comprehensible to the general mathematical community, and they have agreed to do so.

These Invited Lectures will take place in the afternoons of August 19-22 and 24-26, beginning at 14:00. The Invited Lectures will be given in several large lecture rooms at the TU Berlin. Usually there will be about six or seven lectures simultaneously. The list of sections is as follows, where the number in parentheses indicates the expected number of presentations in that section.

1. Logic (5)
2. Algebra (8)
3. Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry (9)
4. Algebraic Geometry(7)
5. Differential Geometry and Global Analysis (13)
6. Topology (8)
7. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras (10)
8. Analysis (14)
9. Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (10)
10. Partial Differential Equations (10)
11. Mathematical Physics (12)
12. Probability and Statistics (13)
13. Combinatorics (8)
14. Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science (6)
15. Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (6)
16. Applications (12)
17. Control Theory and Optimization (7)
18. Teaching and Popularization of Mathematics (6)
19. History of Mathematics (3)

Full details of the invited lectures are given on the site http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/EMIS/mirror/ICM98/B/3/

The following Australians are among the invited lecturers.

Gregory Hjorth
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
Peter Gavin Hall
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Iain Murray Johnstone
Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
Ruth J. Williams
UCSD, La Jolla, USA.

The Second Announcement of ICM'98 describes the activities of the Congress in more detail and gives instructions on how to complete the registration process and obtain accommodation. It s provide more information on the scientific program, contains a call for contributed short presentations, and gives instructions regarding the submission of abstracts.

The Second Announcement includes advice on how to proceed upon arrival at airports and train stations, and a brochure describing the day trips and tours organized by DER-CONGRESS.

Several conferences of a more specialized nature are scheduled immediately before or after ICM'98 . The Second Announcement contains a list of such ``satellite conferences''.

Instructions for receiving the Second Announcement can be obtained from http://emis.maths.adelaide.edu.au/EMIS/mirror/ICM98/Second_Announcement/