Moscow Russian-French Mini-Colloquium
"Some mathematical problems of technological importance"

Moscow, November 17-18, 2005

Program of the colloquium

November 17, morning

10:30-14:00 First session (Chairman : Christian PESKINE)

10:30: Greetings by Michel TSFASMAN, Director of the Poncelet Laboratory

10:35: Opening lecture by Georges RYSCHENKOW, from the Poncelet Laboratory

10:40: "Mathematical problems encountered in Saint-Gobain Company" by Jacques-Olivier MOUSSAFIR, from Saint-Gobain Recherche (SGR), Aubervilliers, France

11:10: "Non-parametric methods for analysis of industrial technical structure" by Alexander SHANANIN from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MPTI)

11:40: COFFEE BREAK and free discussions

12:00: "Discrete convexity and applications" by Gleb A. KOSHEVOY, from the Central Economico-Mathematical Institute (TsEMI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

12:30: "Optimal metric extensions and the multifacility location problem" by Alexander V. KARZANOV, from the Institute for System Analysis (RAS)

13:00: "Boundary control, plane flow and vortices behind an obstacle" by Alexander DEMIDOV, from the Lomonosov Moscow State University

13:30: General round-table discussion

14:00: LUNCH for all the participants inside the MCCME

November 17, afternoon

15:00-19:00: Second session (Chairman : Georges RYSCHENKOW)

15:00: Opening session by Christian PESKINE, from the Direction of CNRS

15:15: "Computer algebra and its applications" by Grégoire LECERF, from Poncelet Lab

15:45: "Ant colony systems for transport optimization" by David LOUAPRE, from SGR

16:15: "Modeling and analysis of distributed systems with Petri nets" by Irina A. LOMAZOVA, from the Program System Institute of Pereslavl' Zaleski

16:45: Special interventions of Vitali VOLPERT from Lyon University, Grigory PANASENKO from Saint-Etienne University on biologic applications: blood circulation modeling, etc.. , and Sergey TARASOV from the Dorodnicyn Computer Center of the RAS (CCRAS)

17:15: COFFEE BREAK and free discussions

17:30: "Program specialization by supercompilation and its applications" by Andrey P. NEMYTIKH, from the Program System Institute of Pereslavl' Zaleski

18:00: "Searching of periodic structures in words" by Roman KOLPAKOV, from the Lyapunov French-Russian Mathematical Center of the Moscow State University

19:00: General round-table discussion

19:30: FRIENDLY DINNER near the Poncelet Lab

November 18, morning

10:20-14:00: Third session and conclusions (Chairman: Sergey LANDO)

10:20: "Identifying Maximal Connected Sets of Intervals Graphs" by Mathieu RAFFINOT, from the Poncelet Lab

10:50: "Multidisciplinary Design Optimization" by Alessandro GIASSI, from SGR

11:20: "What combinatorics can do for Intellectual Property protection" by Gregori KABATIANSKI, from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IPPI) of the RAS

11:50: COFFEE BREAK and free discussions

12:00: "On some problems of 3-dimensional geometric modelling" by Sergey DUZHIN, from the Steklov Mathematical Institute of Saint Petersburg (RAS)

12:30: "Statistical learning" by Alexander MERKOV, from the Independent University of Moscow and the Institute for System Analysis.

13:00: Final conclusions and perspectives of cooperation

14:00: LUNCH inside the MCCME and departure