The Painleve Equations and Monodromy Problems : Introduction

11 - 15 September 2006, The Isaac Newton Institute

09:00-10:00 10:00-11:00 11:30-12:30 14:00-15:00 15:30-16:30 16:30-17:30
11th K. Okamoto H. Umemura K. Okamoto N. Joshi F. Niihoff
12th K. Okamoto H. Umemura Talks K. Okamoto N. Joshi F. Niihoff
13th T. Fokas H. Umemura Talks II Y. Ohyama Discuss
14th T. Fokas H. Umemura Talks III J. Keating M. Mazzocco P. Boalch
15th Y. Ohyama J. Keating Talks IV M. Mazzocco P. Boalch

* 11th 8:30--09:45: Registration

Speaker:Philip Boalch (ENS Paris)
Title:"Algebraic solutions of the Painleve equations" (2 lectures)
 
Speaker:Thanasis Fokas (Cambridge)
Title:Riemann-Hilbert problems (2 lectures)
 
Speaker:Nalini Joshi (Sydney)
Title:"Asymptotics of Painleve equations" (2 lectures)
 
Speaker:Jon Keating (Bristol)
Title:"Random matrices and Painleve equations" (2 lectures)
 
Speaker:Marta Mazzocco (Manchester)
Title:"Hamiltonian structure of the Painleve equations" (2 lectures)
 
Speaker:Frank Nijhoff (Leeds)
Title:"Discrete Painleve equations" (2 lectures)
 
Speaker:Kazuo Okamoto (Tokyo)
Title:"Introduction to the Painleve equations" (4 lectures)
 
Speaker:Hiroshi Umemura (Nagoya)
Title:"Differential Galois theory and the Painleve equations" (4 lectures)
 
Speaker:Yousuke Ohyama (Osaka)
Title:"Classical solutions on the Painleve equations: from PII to PV" (2 lectures)
 

Contributed talks (30 minutes)

Guy Casale (Tokyo)
Local irreducibility of the first Painlevé equation
 
Tom Claeys (Leuven)
A real pole-free solutions of the fourth order analogue of the Painlevé I equation and critical edge points in random matrix ensembles
 
Maurice Duits (Leuven)
Painlevé I asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials with respect to a varying quartic weight
 
Galina Filipuk (Kumamoto)
On the middle convolution for Fuchsian systems
 
Stijn Lievens (Ghent)
Symmetry groups underlying Bailey's transformations for 10Ø 9 series
 
Vasilios Papageorgiou (Patras)
Yang-Baxter maps and integrable difference equations
 
Tomasz Stachwiak (Krakow)
Applications of differential Galois theory in cosmology
 
Teruhisa Tsuda (Kobe)
Tropical representation of Weyl groups associated with certain rational varieties
 

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