EVENTS

International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2010, Hyderabad, India

Last year the  ICM , which is the most prestigious and most traditional event in mathematics, took place in Hyderabad, India. About 3,000 mathematicians attended. At its opening ceremony, the Fields Medals were awarded; maths’ most coveted prize. And the event has a history going back to 1897. No other scientific discipline has an event as big and with as much historic resonance.The purpose of the ICM – which in its postwar period has taken place every four years since 1950 –  is to present a summary of recent achievements and to set the agenda of where the subject is going.
The winners of  the year 2010 Fields Medals were

Ngo Bau Chau, Vietnam
Elom Lindenstrauss, Israel
Stanislav Smirnov, Russia
Cédric Villani, France

Lindenstrauss, Ngo, Smirnov, Villani

A woman has never won a Fields Medal. But apparently this is changing. For a start, the ICM  announced in Hyderabad that it has elected a woman president for the first time in its history: Ingrid Daubechies (Belgian), aged 56, a world star in wavelet  analysis.

Daubechies

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SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics & Engineering

Sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering.

November 21-22 , 2008
The Heldrich Hotel
New Brunswick, New Jersey

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Rene Carmona, Princeton University (Co-chair)
Alexander Eydeland, Morgan Stanley
Paul M.N. Feehan, Rutgers University (Co-chair and Local Organizer)
Jean-Pierre Fouque, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Glasserman, Columbia University
Halil Mete Soner, Sabanci University, Turkey
Agnes Sulem-Bialobroda, INRIA, France
Thaleia Zariphopoulou, The University of Texas at Austin

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Workshop on Recent Advances in Risk Management and Numerical Methods in Finance
24 Nov 2008 -> 26 Nov 2008; Tunis, Tunisia

Abstract: The workshop will address risk management, with an emphasis on risk measure, credit risk, liquidity and risk the computational challenges facing the modern developments in quantitative finance such that numerical problems arising from the discretization of backward stochastic differential equations, solving optimization problems in high dimension, etc.

Topics: Risk management, Numerical Methods in Finance
Weblink: http://www.tn.refer.org/unesco/workshop/mathfi.htm