The B. L. van der Waerden Centenary Colloquium will be held January 31, 2003, at the University of Zurich. The organizer is H. Jarchow. Speakers include:
- Pierre Cartier (Paris): B.L. van der Waerden and the development of quantum mechanics
- John Coates (Cambridge): Number theory and noncommutative algebra
- David Eisenbud (Berkeley): Chow Forms Old and New: Leibniz, Cayley, van der Waerden and Chow, Grothendieck and beyond
- Robin Hartshorne (Berkeley): On the impossibility of the classical construction problems
- Christoph Soulé (Paris): Successive minima on arithmetic surfaces
For more information, see the conference web page or contact: University of Zurich, Institute of Mathematics, Mrs. Pia Bossard, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Email: bossard@math.unizh.ch, Tel.: +41 01 635 58 61, Fax: +41 01 635 57 06.