5th European Congress of Including the 44th Nederlands Mathematisch Congres Under auspices of the European Mathematical Society Under special patronage of the Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap 14-18 July 2008 EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15RAI APRIL Convention 2008 Center

Minisymposia Plenary Speakers Advances in Variational Evolution Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Algebra in Optimization Christine Bernardi (Université Paris VI, Paris) Applications of Jean Bourgain (IAS Princeton) Applied Algebraic Topology Jean-François Le Gall (ENS and Université Paris VI, Paris) Combinatorics of Hard Problems François Loeser (ENS, Paris) Coupled Cell Networks László Lovász (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Discrete Structures in Geometry and Topology Matilde Marcolli (Max Planck Institut, ) Galois Theory and Explicit Methods Felix Otto (Universität Bonn) Nicolai Reshetikhin (University of California, Berkeley) Global Attractors in Hyperbolic Hamiltonian Systems Richard Taylor (Harvard University, Cambridge USA) Graphs and Matroids Hypoellipticity, Analysis on Groups and Functional Inequalities Science Lectures Mathematical Challenges in Cellular Systems Ignacio Cirac (Garching, Germany) on Quantum Information Theory Mathematical Finance Tim Palmer (Reading, UK) on Climate Change Mathematical Logic Jonathan Sherratt (Edinburgh, UK) on Mathematical Biology Mathematics of Cryptology Random and Quasi-periodic Operators Ten Prize Lectures Representation Theoretical Methods and Quantization The Brouwer Lecture Rough Path Theory Singular Structures in Variational PDE's Historical Lecture Spectral Problems and Hilbert Spaces of Entire Functions Dirk van Dalen (Utrecht) about L.E.J. Brouwer Spectral Theory Weak Approximations of Stochastic Differential Equations The Beeger Lecture

Invited Lectures (preliminary list)

Nalini Anantharaman (Palaiseau) Nicola Fusco (Napoli) Sergei Merkulov () Balázs Szegedy (Toronto) Artur Avila (Paris) Søren Galatius (Stanford CA) Ralf Meyer (Göttingen) Constantin Teleman (Edinburgh) Christoph Böhm (Münster) Dmitry Kaledin (Moscow) Oleg Musin (Moscow) Ana Vargas (Madrid) Annalisa Buffa (Pavia) Nikita Karpenko (Paris) Nikolai Nadirashvili (Marseille) Frank Wagner (Villeurbanne) José A. Carrillo (Barcelona) Arno Kuijlaars (Leuven) Jaroslav Nesetril (Praha) Reinhard Werner (Braunschweig) Nils Dencker (Lund) Miklós Laczkovich (Budapest) Yuval Peres (Berkeley CA) Andreas Winter (Bristol) Bas Edixhoven (Leiden) Michel Ledoux (Toulouse) Laure Saint-Raymond (Paris) Ragnar Winther (Oslo) Manfred Einsiedler (Columbus OH) Wolfgang Lück (Irvine CA) H. Mete Soner (Istanbul) Stanislaw L. Woronowicz (Warszawa) László Erdös (München) Yvan Martel (Versailles) Christoph Schweigert (Hamburg)

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