PRIMA 2013 Congress: First Announcement & Call for Special Sessions

First Announcement of the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) 2013 Congress & Call for Special Sessions 

PRIMA 2013 CONGRESS June 24-28, 2013 Shanghai Jiaotong University Shanghai, China

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Martin Barlow (UBC)
Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
Weinan E (Princeton)
Jun-Muk Hwang (KIAS)
Vaughan Jones (UC Berkeley)
Zhi-Ming Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Matilde Marcolli (Caltech)
Maryam Mirzakhani (Stanford)
Arun Ram (Melbourne)
Shuji Saito (Tokyo)
Weiping Zhang (Nankai University)

Public Lecture: Ronald Graham (UC San Diego)

PRIMA 2013 Congress website:http://www.primath.org/congress/2013.

 


Call for Special Sessions:

The organizing committee invites the Pacific Rim community to submit proposals for special sessions at the PRIMA 2013 Congress to be held at Shanghai Jiaotong University on June 24-28, 2013.

The organizers for each proposed session should include individuals from at least two different countries in the region. The format for each session will consist of 1/2 hour or 1 hour slots (including breaks) with a total of 9 hours to fill during the week of the meeting. Thus each session will have a maximum of 18 and a minimum of 9 speakers.

Proposals for these sessions should include:
(1) Names and affiliations of organizers
(2) Title of proposed session
(3) List of possible speakers


These proposals should be sent via email to PRIMA 2013 Organizing Committee

prima2013@pims.math.ca

by December 1, 2011. [from the PRIMA 2013 Congress Organizing Committee]