Provisional Programme
Updated 30.11.96
Monday 25 November
- 09:30 - 10:30 M Lackenby (Cambridge)
- 3-manifold topology and invariants
- 11:30 - 12:30 P Kronheimer (Harvard)
- Foliations, contact structures and the 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten
- equations I
Tuesday 26 November
- 09:30 - 10:30 G Moore (Yale)
- String duality, automorphic forms, and generalized Kac-Moody algebras I
- 11:30 - 12:30 S Donaldson (Oxford)
- Symplectic submanifolds and Leschetz fibrations - progress report
- 14:30 - 15:30 P Kronheimer (Harvard)
- Foliations, contact structures and the 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten equations II
Wednesday 27 November
- 09:30 - 10:30 G Moore (Yale)
- String duality, automorphic forms, and generalized Kac-Moody algebras II
- 11:30 - 12:30 P Seidel (Oxford)
- Singularities and symplectic Floer homology
- 14:30 - 15:30 P Kronheimer (Harvard)
- The monopole invariants: some questions and calculations
Thursday 28 November
- 09:30 - 10:30 I Hambleton (MPI, Bonn)
- The spherical space form problem
- 11:00 - 12:00 R Borcherds (Cambridge)
- TBC
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Monday 2 December
- 09.30 E Witten (IAS, Princeton)
- VIDEO I: Topology of monopole moduli spaces
- 11.30 S Axelrod (MIT)
- Results in perturbation theory
Tuesday 3 December
09.30 N Hitchin (Cambridge)
Monopole moduli spaces
11.00 G Gibbons (Cambridge)
Monopole moduli spaces for higher rank groups
14.30 G Segal (Cambridge)
Topology of monopole moduli spaces
Wednesday 4 December
09.30 S Jarvis (Oxford)
Monopoles and rational maps
11.30 P Sutcliffe (Kent)
Monopoles, metrics and geodesics
14.30 P Norbury (Warwick)
TBC
Thursday 5th Dec
09.30 M Duff (Texas A & M)
Four dimensional electric/magnetic duality from six dimensional string/string/duality
11.30 E Witten (IAS, Princeton)
Video II: Supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions
14.30 M Duff (Texas A & M)
Six dimensional string/string duality from eleven dimensional membrane/fivebrane duality
Friday 6 December
11.30 E Witten (IAS, Princeton)
Video III: Relation to string theory
14.30 C Hull (QMW)
TBC