ICE-EM Australian Graduate School in Mathematics

Speakers
Geometric Analysis

	Ben Andrews Ben obtained his PhD at ANU in 1994 before moving to Stanford. He returned to ANU as an ARC QEII fellow in 1997, and is now a senior research fellow and associate dean for graduate studies. His research interests are in differential geometry and partial differential equations, as well as other areas of analysis and topology: Geometric analysis, spectral theory, isoperimetric inequalities and convex geometry. He has worked extensively in geometric evolution equations, including some with applications in image processing, moving phase boundaries and models for rolling stones. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing in 2002, and was awarded the medal of the Australian Mathematical Society in 2003.

		Gary Lieberman Gary is professor at the Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University. His research interests include Elliptic PDEs and Parabolic PDEs.
		Gerhard Huisken Gerhard is currently director of Geometric Analysis and Gravitation at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut in Germany. The division "Geometric Analysis and Gravitation" is concerned with the role of mathematics in the description of gravitation. Mathematical concepts of central importance in this context are geometric evolution equations and geometric variational problems. Topics studied in the division include the choice of natural coordinates, cosmology and symmetry, asymptotically flat spacetimes, numerical methods, and Einstein's equations with matter.

Mathematical Physics
		Gustav Delius Gustav originally started out as a theoretical physicist before becoming a mathematician and he is still most inspired by the amazing symmetries that can be observed in the theories describing the laws of nature. His work can always be given a physical as well as a mathematical interpretation. He is currently a lecturer in mathematics at the University of York. He earned his PhD from the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stony Brook with Peter van Nieum\wenhuizen with work on the WZW model and related conformal field theories. He has held research positions in Boston, Geneva and London. Gustav's current interest lies in studying the effects of boundaries and impurities in integrable quantum field theories. This work has already led to the discovery of new classes of quantum groups: the boundary affine algebras and the general twisted Yangians.
		Murray Batchelor Murray is a professor in mathematics at the Australian National University. His research interests include: Exactly solved models in statistical mechanics, quantum spin systems, ultracold atoms and quantum gases, phase transitions and critical phenomena, complex networks, fractal growth & theoretical morphology, stromatolitic microbialites

Computation
		Boris Vexler Dr Borix Vexler is currently a senior scientist in the group Optimization and Optimal Control at Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Australian Academy of Sciences. He was a student at Moscow State University (Russia) and at University of Heidelbert (Germany). In 2004 he finished his PhD on Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Parameter Identification Problems. Dr Vexler's research area is the development and analysis of efficient numerical methods for solution of optimization problems governed by partial differential equations. He works on the development of problem adjusted discretization and solution concepts based on a priori and a posteriori error analysis. The application fields are fluid dynamics, chemical reaction systems and multidimensional reactive flows.
	Robert McLachlan Professor Robert McLachlan is professor of applied mathematics at Massey University in New Zealand. His main field of research is geometric integration. Click here to find out about geometric integration.