Department News and Events
Summer 2011 Programs
Variational Analysis for Finance and Economics
Time: July 31–August 12
Organizer: Yeshiva University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, on Wilf Campus of Yeshiva University, located in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York.
Participants: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students are invited majoring or with majors in Mathematics, Operations Research, Financial Engineering, Mathematical Economy or related areas, both from universities and business schools. The number of participants is limited to 15.
Program: Twenty-seven one-hour lectures, afternoon tutorials and guided projects carried out by the participants. The course presents fundamental results in infinite-dimensional Convex and Variational Analysis along with selected applications in Finance and Economics. Afternoon tutorials, guided projects, scientific talks, social program and sightseeing in Manhattan.
Special Focus: Risk measures - representation, optimization, extensions.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in Linear Algebra, Analysis and Probability. Some knowledge in Functional Analysis (Banach spaces) is helpful, but not required.
Registration: At this stage, please email your interest to Professor Hamel. The final registration will include a fee of $200 for Yeshiva and $400 for non-Yeshiva students which count towards the expenses, and we will also ask for a short CV and a recommendation letter written by a professor/supervisor. Depending on funding, a limited number of travel/accommodation grants will be available, please email your interest to Professor Hamel. Accommodations will be organized in proximity to campus.
International Workshop: Algebra Across the Borders
Time: August 7–August 12
Organizers: Kira Adaricheva, Yeshiva University, Department of Mathematical Sciences. J.B. Nation, University of Hawaii and M. Stronkowski, Warsaw University of Technology.
Venue: Stanton Hall, Stern College for Women, in Midtown of Manhattan, New York.
Participants: Ralph Freese, University of Hawaii; Marina Langlois, Yeshiva University; Robert McGrail, Bard College; Tristan Holmes, University of Hawaii; Oscar Ortega, HW College, Chicago; Maurice Pouzet, University of Lyon, France; Agata Pilitowska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; Anna Romanowska, Warsaw University of Technology Poland; Jonathan Smith, Iowa State University; Marcel Wild, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Program:
- Closure operators on the finite sets and their bases
- Horn belief revision
- Finite axiomatization in equality free logics
- Structure of barycentric algebras
- Commuting operations and theory of aggregation
- Multiconsensus functions on hierarchies
The workshop is open to Yeshiva University students. If you are interested in attending the workshop, the request should be sent to Professor Kira Adaricheva.
Workshop Schedule “Algebra Across the Borders”, Yeshiva University, New York
August 8-12, 2011
Schedule of presentations and social events:
Sunday, August 7
Travel day: arrival of participants
Monday, August 8
Mamaroneck Town Hall
9:00 Opening of the workshop
9:30 – 12:00 Recent results on the bases of closure systems; Kira Adaricheva (YU) and JB Nation (University of Hawaii)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:45 Survey on algorithms producing all closed sets; Marcel Wild, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:15 Quandles and the Towers of Hanoi; Robert McGrail, Bard College, NY
16:30 – 18:00 Walk in the Mamaroneck Harbor Park
18:00 Dinner in Mamaroneck
Tuesday, August 9
Stern College, Midtown Manhattan, Koch Auditorium
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 11:45 Principle of exclusion (continuation); Marcel Wild, University of Stellenbosch
12:00 – 13:15 Survey on Hereditary classes of relational structures; Maurice Pouzet, University of Lyon, France
13:30-14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 16:00 Reducing the Multiple-instance Learning to Classification using the Boosting Framework; Marina Langlois, Yeshiva University
16:00 – 16:15 coffee break
16:15-17:15 Formulating supervised machine learning solutions to biological problems; Robert Langlois, Columbia University
After 17:30 Open plans for social program in Manhattan
Wednesday, August 10
Mamaroneck Town Hall
9:30 – 10:45 Survey on permutohedra and associahedra; Tristan Holmes, University of Hawaii
10:45 -11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Survey on barycentric algebras; Jonathan Smith, Iowa State University
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch in Mamaroneck
13:45-15:00 Barycentric Hopf algebras (continuation); Jonathan Smith
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:30 Exotic barycentric algebras; Anna Romanowska, Warsaw University of technology
18:00-21:00 Dinner at Profesor Adaricheva's in New Rochelle, live music in the program
Thursday, August 11
Stern College, Manhattan, Koch Auditorium
10:30 – 11:30 Survey on median rule in consensus theory; Kira Adaricheva
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45 Survey on aggregation theory; Agata Pilitowska, Warsaw University of Technology
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Bisymmetry and commuting functions (continuation); Agata Pilitowska
15:30-16:00 coffee break
16:00-17:15 What is a finite lattice?; JB Nation, University of Hawaii
After 17:30 Open social program in Manhattan
Friday, August 12Yeshiva College, Uptown Manhattan, Belfer Hall, room 515
10:00 -11:15 Finite segments of harmonic series; Donald Silberger, SUNY New Paltz
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45 Survey on chains in algebraic lattices; Maurice Pouzet, University of Lyon
13:00-13:30 Open problems session
13:30 Closing of the workshop
13:30-14:30
Lunch Uptown
14:30-17:15 Excursion to the Cloisters Museums and Gardens; Fort Tryon park, Uptown Manhattan