PROGRAM

The Joint Meeting Mathematics and its Applications will start on Monday 3^rd July 2006 in the morning at 9:00 and will finish on Friday 7^th July 2006 at 13:00.
The general conferences will take place on 3^rt, 5^th and 7^th July 2006 at Centro Congressi Unione Industriale Torino. The Special Sessions will take place on 4^th and 6^th July 2006 at the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico of Torino and at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Torino.

GENERAL CONFERENCES

	Monday 3rd July	Wednesday 5th July	Friday 7th July
9.00 10.00	Opening Ceremony	Luigi Ambrosio The flow associated to weakly differentiable vector fields: recent results and open problems	Albert Cohen Adaptive Approximation by Greedy Algorithms
10.00 11.00	Maria Esteban Some mathematical and numerical problems in relativistic quantum mechanics	Gerard Besson The geometrization conjecture after Hamilton and Perelman	Cedric Villani Hypocoercive diffusion processes
11.00 11.30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11.30 12.30	Carlo Cercignani The Boltzmann equation: mathematics and applications	Barbara Fantechi Generalized Manifolds	Paolo Baldi Large deviations, between theory and applications
12.30 15.00	Buffet Lunch
15.00 16.00	Jean-Marc Delort Normal forms and long time existence for semi-linear Klein-Gordon equations	Gianni Dal Maso Quasistatic evolution problems in plasticity with softening
16.00 16.30	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
16.30 17.30	José Antonio Carrillo Contractivity of Wasserstein metrics and asymptotic profiles for nonlinear diffusions and scalar conservation laws	Franco Brezzi Mimetic Finite Differences: new results and perspectives
17.30 18.30	Yves André Ambiguity theory, old and new	Kenneth H.Karlsen Mathematical and numerical aspects of some integrable equations

SPECIAL SESSIONS

4^th July

Università	Politecnico
3. Algebraic Geometry Organizers: A. Beauville (Nice), C. Ciliberto (Roma II), O. Debarre (Strasbourg), A. Verra (Roma III)	1. Advanced Methods in Scientific Computing Organizers: Y. Maday (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), F. E. Saleri (Politecnico di Milano)
7. Geometry and Topology of Groups Organizers: L. Funar (Institut Fourier, Grenoble), A. Sambusetti (Roma I)	6. Geometric Analysis Organizers: Z. Djali (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris), A. Malchiodi (SISSA, Trieste)
14. Number Theory Organizers: J. M. Deshouillers (Bordeaux), A. Perelli (Genova), G. Rhin (Metz), C. Viola (Pisa)	10. Hyperbolic and Transport Problems Organizers: P. E. Jabin (Nice), C. Lattanzio (L'Aquila)
	13. Modelling and Analysis of Phase Transitions and Free Boundary Problems Organizers: P. Colli (Pavia), A. Miranville (Poitiers)
	15. PDE's and Applications Organizers: G. Dal Maso (SISSA, Trieste), V. Ferone (Napoli), G. Francort (Université Paris-Nord), F. Murat (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
	16. Qualitative Methods for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Applications Organizers: M. Falcone (Roma I), R. Monneau (CERMICS-ENPC), A. Siconolfi (Roma I)
	19. Variational Methods and Dynamical Systems Organizers: V. Coti Zelati (Napoli), M. Esteban (Ceremade, Paris), S. Terracini (Milano Bicocca)

6^th July

Università	Politecnico
2. Algebraic Analysis and Geometry Organizers: A. D'Agnolo (Padova), B. Fantechi (SISSA, Trieste), S. Guillermou (Grenoble), B. Toen (Toulouse)	4. Analysis and Numerics of Kinetic Models in Applied Sciences Organizers: S. Cordier (Orleans), L. Pareschi (Ferrara)
11.Mathematical Population Dynamics, Mathematical Epidemiology and Other Biomedical Applications Organizers: M. Langlais (Bordeaux), E. Venturino (Torino)	5.Dynamical Systems Organizers: S. Marmi (Pisa), J.C. Yoccoz (College de France, Paris)
17. Real Algebraic and Analytic Geometry Organizers: F. Broglia (Pisa), M. Coste (Rennes)	8. Global Analysis on Manifolds Organizers: G. Besson (Grenoble), E. Musso (L'Aquila), A. Savo (Roma I)
Panel on Didactics of Mathematics Organizers: M. Artigue (Universite' Denis Diderot, Paris, artigue@math.jussieu.fr), F. Arzarello (Torino, ferdinando.arzarello@unito.it)	9.Homogenization and Thin Structures Organizers: D. Cioranescu (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), R. De Arcangelis (Napoli)
	12. Microlocal Methods: Analysis in the Phase-Space Domain Organizers: F. Colombini (Pisa), N. Lerner (Rennes), L. Rodino (Torino), P. Schapira (Paris Jussieu)
	18. Stochastic Processes and Their Applications Organizers: G.Peccati (Paris VI), G. Pistone (Politecnico, Torino), L. Sacerdote (Torino), M. Yor (Paris VI)