s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Invited Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 IGNITE Talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Invited talks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Bojan Mohar, Rooted K2,4-minors and wye-delta reducibility 11 János Pach, The importance of being simple . . . . . . . 11 Paul Seymour, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 R. Ravi, Improved Approximations for Graph-TSP in Regular Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Bruce Reed, The Structure and...

This talk will be addressed to a general mathematical audience. The contents are a consequence of the close connection between combinatorial group theory and the topology of surfaces, where the fundamental groups are either one relator groups or free groups. Consider the free Z-module generated by the set of directed free homotopy classes of closed curves on a orientable surface. Goldman proved...

Auditorium: Talks, Session 1 Chair: Amanda Brock 9:15 – 9:30 Alireza Ramezani Bat Robot, an Underactuated Biomimetic Micro Aerial Vehicle with Membranous Wings (1.1) 9:30 – 9:45 Meraj Khan Identification and localization of putative oviduct glycan receptors ADAM5 and PKDREJ on boar spermatozoa: changes during capacitation and freezing (1.2) 9:45 – 10:00 Vincent Reverdy Relativistic effects in c...

How should central banks conduct and communicate their policies to serve the goal of stabilizing the macroeconomy? This thesis – consisting of three self-contained essays on dynamic macroeconomics – is mainly intended as a progress report on exploring the normative aspect of monetary policy. The main result of the first essay is, that in the presence of idiosyncratic risk, the public revelation...

Invited Talks (Alphabetical order) Gerardo Adesso (University of Nottingham, UK) Relativistic Quantum Metrology