Noncommutative geometry and physics: fundamental structure of space and time

Workshop theme

The workshop is expected to be a unique event that brings together mathematicians and physicists to consider the fundamental nature of space and time. Are space and time a continuum, discrete or something different from both of these at the tiniest scales? Is time intrinsically generated? What is the picture of spacetime arising from string theory and quantum gravity? Noncommutative geometry provides a radical proposal as to what 'geometry' might be from a pure mathematician's point of view. The workshop will bring this and other new conceptions of geometry in contact with physical and philosophical intuitions about the nature of gravity, quantum measurement, information, and the possibility of experimental test.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

The Organisers would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the event:

Timetable

Monday 4th September 2006
08:30 to 10:00	Registration	No Room Required
10:00 to 11:00	The quest for non commutative field theory	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Albert Schwarz University of California Space and time from translation symmetry	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Samson Shatashvili Trinity College Dublin Higgs bundles, gauge theories and quantum groups	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea and Poster Session I	No Room Required
15:30 to 17:30	Alain Connes IHES Noncommutative geometry and the standard model with neutrino mixing	Room 1
17:30 to 18:30	Welcome Wine Reception	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 5th September 2006
09:00 to 10:00	Dirk Kreimer Locality and self-similarity	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Walter van Suijlekom The Hopf algebra of Feynman graphs in QED	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Raimar Wulkenhaar Renormalisation of quantum field theories on noncommutative geometries	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Fabien Vignes-Tourneret Renormalization of the orientable noncommutative Gross-Neveu model	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea and Poster Session I	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	Victor Gayral Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen) Quantum field theory on projective modules	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Harold Steinacker Technische Universität Wien A nontrivial solvable noncommutative $\phi^3$ model in 4 dimensions	Room 1
17:00 to 18:30	Poster Session I	Discussion Room
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Wednesday 6th September 2006
09:00 to 10:00	Spin-networks, twistors, cosmology and all that	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Experimental search for quantum gravity effects	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Andrew Taylor University of Edinburgh The standard cosmological model	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Michael Heller A noncommutative closed Friedman world model	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea and Poster Session II	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	The physics of three-dimensional quantum gravity	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Gerald Goldin Local current algebras for deformed quantum mechanics with fundamental length scales	Room 1
17:00 to 18:30	Poster Session II	Discussion Room
19:30 to 18:00	Conference Dinner in the Dining Hall at St John's College (Pre-dinner drinks from 19:30)	No Room Required

Thursday 7th September 2006
09:00 to 10:00	Some SUq(2) instantons on noncommutative spaces	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Shahn Majid Anomaly for noncommutative differentials and the origin of time	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Michael Movshev Stony Brook University Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and noncommutative supergeometry	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	David Rideout Imperial College London Entropy bound from causal set quantum gravity	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea and Poster Session II	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	Pierre Bieliavsky Université Libre de Bruxelles Universal deformation formulae for the `ax+b' group, and noncommutative BTZ black holes	Room 1
16:00 to 16:30	Noncommutative Batalin-Vilkovisky geometry, Feynman transform of modular operads and Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Pierre Martinetti Distance in noncommutative geometry	Room 1
18:30 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required
19:00 to 20:00	Pre-event buffet at Emmanuel College (Panel members and guests only)	No Room Required
20:00 to 22:00	Panel discussion at Emmanuel College	No Room Required

Friday 8th September 2006
09:00 to 10:00	Michael Douglas Why does space-time exist?	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Noncommutative geometry in M-theory	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Large N Expansion of q-deformed two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and Hecke algebras	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:00	Ki-Myeong Lee Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) The fuzzy space-time	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	Chris Hull Imperial College London Generalisations of geometry and thier role in String theory	Room 1
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Noncommutative geometry and physics: fundamental structure of space and time

Speakers

Pierre Bieliavsky Université Libre de Bruxelles
Alain Connes IHES
Michael Douglas
Victor Gayral Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
Gerald Goldin
Michael Heller
Chris Hull Imperial College London
Dirk Kreimer
Ki-Myeong Lee Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Shahn Majid
Pierre Martinetti
Michael Movshev Stony Brook University
David Rideout Imperial College London
Albert Schwarz University of California
Samson Shatashvili Trinity College Dublin
Harold Steinacker Technische Universität Wien
Andrew Taylor University of Edinburgh
Walter van Suijlekom
Fabien Vignes-Tourneret
Raimar Wulkenhaar

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Noncommutative geometry and physics: fundamental structure of space and time

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