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Among newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election, there is Son Dam Thanh – a University Professor from University of Chicago, USA. Prof. Son is also a member of VIASM Scientific Council. He regularly helps VIASM in determining its scientific policy.

For more details about the election, please visit:

Want one of the best jobs in the nation? Then do the math -- and do a lot of it. According to a new report, mathematicians, statisticians and actuaries are now three of the four best jobs to be had.

The CareerCast.com report ranks 200 jobs each year based on a number of criteria, including income, outlook, environmental factors, stress and physical demands. Mathematician, this year's No. 1 job, and statistician, No. 3, both jumped up 17 places from last year's ranking. Actuary, last year's winner, fell to No. 4, while tenured university professor took second place on the new list.

The 12th workshop on Optimization and Scientific Computing takes place from 23 to 25 April 2014 in Ba Vi, Hanoi.

The series “Workshop on Optimization and Scientific Computing” is organized annually, starting from 2003. The series was founded by Prof. Hoang Xuan Phu (Institute of Mathematics – VAST) and it has become an annual national forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and state-of-the-art applications in the field of optimization and scientific computing among mathematicians, PhD students and graduate students.

Prof. Hoang Tuy having the first plenary talk at the workshop.

Moreover, it is to support outstanding maths graduate and PhD students of universities in Vietnam to improve their ability, to learn some advanced lectures and talks as well as to be acquainted with the mathematicians.

This year, the 12th workshop of the series is jointly organized by Vietnam Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics and Institute of Mathematics. The workshop attracts more than 140 participants from all around Vietnam..

 Participants at the workshop. 

More details about the 12th workshop can be seen at the website:

http://viasm.edu.vn/activities/osc2014/?lang=en

The website of the series can be also seen here.

(Source VIASM)

Time: 21/4 – 15/5/2014 (4 weeks)

For the first week: the lectures will be on Monday (21 Apr), Wednesday (23 Apr) and Friday (25 Apr) at 14:30-16:30.
(the schedule will be further updated soon).

Location: VIASM Lecture Hall (C2).

Lecturer: Prof. Jean Lannes, Université Paris Diderot

Abstract:

The main theme of the course will be the description of the interactions between:

- The theory of group cohomology ;

- The theory of unstable modules over the Steenrod algebra.

I will state Quillen’s theorem describing mod p cohomology of finite groups up to nilpotents elements. I will prove this theorem after a long detour using the theory of unstable modules over the Steenrod algebra developped in the 80′s to solve Sullivan’s conjecture. As a reward, we will obtain generalisations of Quillen’s theorem.

Text books

1.  Henn, Hans-Werner, in Homotopy theoretic methods in group cohomology, Advanced Courses in Mathematics. CRM Barcelona, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 2001.
2. Schwartz, Lionel: Unstable modules over the Steenrod algebra and Sullivan’s fixed point set conjecture, Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1994.

Registration:

Please fill in the registration form below your contact information. Deadline for registration: 15/4/2014.

Detail : http://viasm.edu.vn/events/mini-course-group-cohomology-and-t-functor/

On April 2, 2014, Professor Alfred Forschel, President of Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg, Germany, and Professor Tran Gia Phuoc, Professor of its Department of Computer Sciences, visited the Insitute of Mathematics Hanoi.

The aim of their visit is to find out possibilities for cooperation between the university and the institute. Professors Le Tuan Hoa, Ngo Viet Trung, and Nguyen Quoc Thang have received them.