Invited Speaker

John Baez is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, currently visiting the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. He has published numerous articles on mathematical physics relating to quantum gravity, categorification and other topics. His present interest is in network theory with applications to biology and environmental science. His webpage can be found at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/. More details...

Do Ngoc Diep is a Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology. He has written numerous articles and books on quantization, non-commutative geometry and representation theory. His present interest is in quantization of fields, quantum algorithms and related topics. His webpage can be found at http://www.math.ac.vn/topo/dndiep/dndiep.html. More details...

Fredrik Stroemberg is a senior researcher at the Department of Mathematics at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests are computational aspects of automorphic forms, spectral theory for Fuchsian groups, quantum chaos and dynamical systems. He has written many articles and conduct many workshops in these topics. He is visiting the Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia in early January 2012. His webpage can be found at http://www3.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=982. More details...

S. Twareque Ali is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He has written numerous articles and books on quantization, representation theory, signal processing and related topics of mathematical physics. He has been a key advisor to this Expository Quantum Lecture Series (EQuaLS). His webpage can be found at http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~physmath/LabPhysMathEn/ali.html. More details...

Mathai Varghese is ARC Professorial Fellow at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Director of Institute for Geometry and its Applications in University of Adelaide. Among his research interests are differential geometry, mathematics of string theory, index theorems and noncommutative geometry. His webpage can be found at http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/mathai.varghese/. More Details...