Call for Papers and Registration

 

International Conference on Differential Algebra

and Related Topics (DART-III)

 

Rutgers University at Newark, November 13-16, 2008

 

 

The Third International Conference on Differential Algebra and Related Topics (DART-III) is the third in a series of conferences after DART and DART-II on the subject of differential algebra and related topics.

 

Based on the pioneering work of Ritt and foundational research of Kolchin in the last century, differential algebra has evolved into an extremely rich subject in the recent two decades. From traditional studies of differential equations using an algebraic view point, it now has interactions with highly diversified areas of mathematics, ranging from algebraic geometry, combinatorics, and mathematical logic to differential algebraic equations on differential manifolds, Diophantine geometry, and arithmetic differential equations. New and improved differential algebraic methods have been incorporated in many symbolic computation systems. Much progress has alsobeen made in related algebra structures, such as difference algebra, difference and differential schemes, and Rota-Baxter algebra.

 

Topics that will be covered by this workshop mainly are:

 

differential Galois theory,

differential schemes,

differential algebraic groups,

differential algebra and model theory,

exterior differential systems,

Riemann-Hilbert correspondence,

Rota-Baxter algebra and renormalization,

integrable systems,

computational differential algebra

 

Analogous topics in difference algebra are included as well. Other topics such as D-module theory, control theory, and applications to non-commutative differential geometry will also be considered in as much as they relate to the above.

 

Confirmed speakers at the conference include

 

Matthias Aschenbrenner:  UCLA

Guy Casale: University of Rennes 1

Julia Hartmann: University of Heidelberg

Evelyne Hubert: INRIA Sophia Antipolis

Jerry Kovacic: City University of New York (CCNY)

Anton Leykin: IMA, University of Minnesota

Snigdhayan Mahanta: University of Toronto

Sylvie Paycha: University of Blaise Pascal

Anand Pillay: University of Leeds

Emma Previato: Boston University

Bin Zhang: Sichuan University

 

There will be sessions for contributed talks and for posters. If you would like to contribute, please send a title and abstract by July 1, 2008. Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for the poster session in case a contributed talk is not available. A decision on contributed papers and posters will be made by August 1, 2008.

 

Funding for the Workshop for participants with US citizenship or permanent residence status is available from the National Security Agency. Limited funding for other participants is available from the Rutgers University. Priority in financial support will be given to graduate students and post-docs, especially minorities and women. Requests for support received before August 1, 2008 will receive first consideration.

 

To register or submit your presentation, please send an e-mail to any of the organizers. Please give an itemized estimate of your costs if you would like to be considered for support. Further information can be found at the conference website at

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~liguo/DARTIII/diffalg.html

 

Program Committee:

Li Guo, Rutgers University - Newark (liguo@rutgers.edu)

Matilde Marcolli, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn (marcolli@mpim-bonn.mpg.de)

Michael Singer, North Carolina State University (singer@math.ncsu.edu )

William Sit, City College of New York (CCNY) (wyscc@cunyvm.cuny.edu)

Jim Stasheff, University of Pennsylvania (jds@math.upenn.edu)

 

Local Committee:

Li Guo, Rutgers University - Newark (liguo@rutgers.edu)

William Keigher, Rutgers University - Newark (keigher@rutgers.edu)