SMS Doctoral Day 2019

Friday, 10 May 2019
University of Bern

Organizers: Steering committee SMS and Vincent Emery, Luca Studer (Bern)

Description

The Swiss Mathematical Society invites graduate students in mathematics from Swiss Universities, as well as recent postdocs, to a special one-day event offering a platform for presentations, discussions, and exchange of experiences.

Make new contacts with peers from all of Switzerland
Present your own ongoing or recently completed work in a short presentation (15 minutes) or a poster session
Share your experiences and benefit from others
Enjoy informal discussions during lunch and coffee breaks
Learn about the benefits and support provided by the Swiss Mathematical Society

Program

Place

The workshop will take place in the ExWi builing, room B1 (B is the lowest floor, on the south side).

Schedule

10:00 - 10:10: welcome introduction by Urs Lang
10:10 - 10:25: Livio Liechti (Fribourg) — The overcommutation length
10:35 - 10:50: Merlin Incerti-Medici (Zürich) — Hyperbolic methods and asymptotic geometry

Coffee break / Poster session

11:40 - 11:55: Pascal Fong (Basel) — About automorphism groups of ruled surfaces
12:05 - 12:20: Alejandro Vargas (Bern) — A moduli space of tropical morphisms

Lunch

14:15 - 14:30: Giuliano Basso (ETHZ) — Computation of maximal projection constants
14:40 - 14:55: Arthur Bik (Bern) — Semi-algebraic properties of Minkowski sums of the bounded twisted cubic

Posters

Thomas Rubin (EPFL): Sparsely observed functional time-series: estimation and prediction
Julia Schneider (Basel): Relations between Sarkisov links of surfaces over a perfect field
Hubert Sidler (Fribourg): Harmonic quasi-isometric maps into Gromov hyperbolic CAT(0)-spaces