HM King Harald presents the Abel Prize

Before the award ceremony John Tate will be received in audience at the Royal Palace. In the evening the Norwegian government gives a banquet at Akershus Castle in honor of the Abel Laureate, hosted by the Minister of Research and Higher Education, Tora Aasland. The speakers at the banquet will be the Minister and Sir Michael Atiyah who, together with Isadore Singer, received the Abel Prize in 2004.

 

It has become a tradition that the Abel Laureate honors Niels Henrik Abel by laying down a wreath at the Abel Monument the day before the award ceremony. This also opens the Abel celebrations in Oslo and Kristiansand – and this year also in Stockholm. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters gives a dinner in honor John Tate and for the mathematical community.

 

 

John T. Tate will give his Abel Lecture "The arithmetic of elliptic curves" at the University of Oslo on May 26.  Richard Taylor will give the other Abel Lecture with the title "The Tate Conjecture". His summary: I will briefly recall some of John Tate's most influential mathematical achievements. I will then discuss in more detail one of them: the Tate conjecture. I hope to describe how the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture led Tate to this conjecture; what the conjecture says; Tate's proof of his conjecture in an important special case; and some of the impact the conjecture has had.

 

Andreas Enge will present the Science Lecture where the topic is cryptology with the title "The queen of mathematics in communication security". His summary: Number theory and arithmetic geometry have found surprising applications to cryptology, the science of protecting communication from malicious intruders. In particular, abelian varieties of low dimension currently provide the most performing public key cryptosystems. After giving a brief and self-contained introduction to modern cryptography, I discuss some of John Tate's results on abelian varieties and how they relate to the design of secure systems.