Special Sessions

SESSÃO
ESPECIAL DE ÁLGEBRA

• Curves with Infinite Rational Fundamental Groups, Gerhard Frey, Institute for Experimental
Mathematics, Univ of Essen 

• Normal closed subgroups of profinite groups of finite cohomological dimension, Dessislava
Kochloukova, IME/UNICAMP

• Abhyankar’s conjecture: finite groups as groups of étale Galois covers of algebraic curves,
Amilcar Pacheco, UFRJ

• A class of birational transformations, Aron Simis, UFPE

• Discriminants in codimension two and bivariate hypergeometric functions, Alicia Dickenstein,
Univ. Buenos Aires

• The tame and wild automorphisms of polynomials in three variables (Joint research with
U.U.Umirbaev), Ivan P. Shestakov, IME-USP

Sessão Especial de Computação Gráfica

• Automatic programming of morphological machines by PAC learning, Junior Barrera, IME-USP

• Dynamic Shapes in Bioinformatics, Luciano da F. Costa, Cybernetic Vision Research Group, IFSCUSP

• Affine Arithmetic and Applications, Jorge Stolfi, UNICAMP

• Topology as a Basis for Modeling, Geovan Tavares, Mathmedia Laboratory, PUC-Rio

• Measuring usability and quality of images in visualization applications, Carla Maria Dal Sasso
Freitas, Instituto de Informática – UFRGS

• Identificação de eventos do vídeo a partir da análise de imagens 2D, Arnaldo de Albuquerque
Araujo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

• Modelos Polarimétricos para Imagens de Radar de Abertura Sintética, Alejandro C. Frery,
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Sessão Especial de EDP

• On an inequality by N. Trudinger and J. Moser and applications, Djairo de Figueiredo,
UNICAMP

• Stationary solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for inhomogeneous incompressible fluids
in 2d domains with channels having bounded cross sections, Marcelo Santos, UNICAMP

• Evolution equations associated to time- and state-dependent convex sets, Manuel D. P. Monteiro
Marques, Universidade de Lisboa

• On the problem of the existence of regular global solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, Hugo
Beirão da Veiga, Universitá di Pisa

• Singular Shocks and Bubbly Flows, Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston

• Inviscid vortex scattering in two dimensions, Milton Lopes, UNICAMP

• Periodic BV_loc of the Relativistic Euler Equations: Global Existence and Decay, Mikhail
Perepelitsa, Northwestern University

• Uniqueness of entropy solutions to hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, Philippe LeFloch,
École Politechnique

• Fluid mixing in porous media flows: the relative roles of heterogeneity and nonlinearity,
Frederico Furtado, University of Wyoming

• Stability of viscous shock and relaxation profiles, Kevin Zumbrun, University of Indiana at
Bloomington

• Two-dimensional Free-surface Solitary Water Waves, Paul A. Milewski, University of Wisconsin

• Stochastic Models for Resonant Energy Transfer, Esteban Tabak, Courant Institute

• Shock Structure in Two- and Three-Phase Flow with Permeability Hysteresis, Bradley Plohr,
SUNY at Stony Brook

• A strong uniqueness theorem for planar vector fields, Jorge Hounie, DM-UFSCar

• A parabolic system for three-phase capillary flows in porous media, Vladimir Shelukhin,
Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Novosibirsk, Russia

• Local regularization of inverse problems, Patricia Lamm, State Univ. of Michigan

• Stabilization of some nonlinear dispersive models with localized damping, Gustavo Perla, LNCC e
UFRJ

Sessão Especial de Otimização

• Spectral analysis of set-valued operators, Rafael Correa, Univ. de Chile, Santiago de Chile

• The ST (Symmetric-Triangular) decomposition, Yuan Jin Yun, Univ. Federal de Paraná, Curitiba

• Box constrained optimization and its applicsations in solving mechanical engineering problems,
Ana Friedlander, UNICAMP, Campinas

• Column generation algorithms for integer linear programming problems, Irene Loiseau, Univ. de
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires

• Remark about optimization over efficient sets, Wilfredo Sosa Sandoval, IMCA, Lima

• Problemas de programação matemática transformáveis em convexos e monótonos, Orizon Pereira
Ferreira, Univ. Federal de Goiás, Goiânia

• O método de gradiente espectral projetado inexato para Programação Não Linear com restrições
convexas, José Mario Martínez, UNICAMP, Campinas

• Order-value optimization, Roberto Andreani, UNESP, São José do Rio Preto

• Singularities of monotone vector fields and an extragradient-type algorithm, Luis Roman
Lucambio Pérez, Univ. Federal de Goiás, Goiânia

• Equilibria in congested public transportation networks, Roberto Cominetti, Univ. de Chile,
Santiago de Chile

Sessão Especial de Probabilidade

• Polydispersity: an amusing problem in percolation, Agoston Pisztora, Carnegie-Mellon Univ. –
USA

• Dyson’s Hierarchical Model: Central Limit Theorem, Lee–Yang Zeros and Heat Equation,
Domingos Marchetti, IF-USP

• Front Fluctuations in Stochastic Phase–Field Equations, Stella Brassesco, IVIC, Caracas

• Transition from quenched to annealed asymptotics for random walks among random traps,
Alejandro F. Ramírez, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Chile

• Modeling rhythm in natural languages: acoustic correlates and preliminary statistical analyses,
Antonio Galves, IME-USP

• Modeling rhythm in natural languages: correlates of rhythm in written texts using unbounded
variable length Markov chains, Nancy Garcia, IMECC UNICAMP

• Generalizations of the Borel-Cantelli Lemma, Valentin Petrov, St Petersburg State University

• Measuring Asymptotic Independence for Extremal Indexes, Chang C. Y. Dorea, Universidade de
Brasília

• The random field Kac model: an overview of recent results, Pierre Picco, CNRS, Luminy

• Sharp pinning transition for polymers in disordered media, Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA

• Large deviations for the boundary driven symmetric simple exclusion process, Claudio Landim,
IMPA

Sessão Especial de Sistemas Dinâmicos

• Bernoulli Elliptical Stadia, Roberto Markarian, Instituto de Matemática y Estadística, Universidad de
la República, Uruguay

• Hamilton Jacobi equation and Randon Lagrangian systems, Renato Iturriaga, CIMAT, México

• The CAR C*Algebra and Thermodynamic Formalism, Artur Lopes, Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul

• Symmetry and Synchrony in Coupled Cell Systems, Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston

• Floquet Torus for perturbations of product o quadratic maps, Leonardo Mora, Universidade de
Los Andes

• Dynamics of Sequences of Mappings, Albert Fisher, IME/USP

• Moduli of Stability and Singular Cycles: a four dimensional case, Rafael Labarca, Univ. Santiago
de Chile

• Growing invariant manifolds as geodesic level sets: from the Lorenz system to delay equations,
Bernd Krauskopf, University of Bristol

• Recurrence and transitivity in the closure of invariant manifolds, Fernando Oliveira, UFMG

Sessão Especial de Sistemas Dinâmicos Complexos

• Hilbert Modular Foliations on the Projective Plane. Jorge Vitório Pereira, IMPA

• Global Theory of Holomorphic Foliations, Bruno Scárdua, UFRJ

• Quadrics in Complex Projective Spaces, Jose Seade, Universidad Autônoma de México

• The action of Gauss-Manin connection on the global Brieskorn lattices, Hossein Movasati, Max
Plank Institute

Sessão Especial de Geometria

• A matrix valued solution to Bochner’s problem, Juan Tirao, Universidade Nacional de Córdoba

• The Christoffel problem in Lorentzian Geometry, Levi Lopes de Lima, Universidade Federal do
Ceará

• Minimal surfaces of rotation in Finsler space with a Randers metric, Keti Tenenblat, (Univ.
Brasília) trabalho em conjunto com Marcelo Souza

• Isometric immersions of warped products in codimension two, Ruy Tojeiro, Universidade Federal
de São Carlos

• Minimal surfaces under the light of Liouville equation, Maria Luiza Leite, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco

• Maslov Index and Bifurcation for semi-Riemannian Geodesics, Paolo Piccione, IME-USP