GRAPHS AND PATTERNS
in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics A conference to celebrate Dennis Sullivan's 60th birthday Department of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematical Sciences Stony Brook, New York June 14-21, 2001 |
09:10 - 10:10. | Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (SUNY at Stony Brook) |
Minicourse: An Introduction to Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Superspace for Mathematicians, Lecture I |
10:30 - 11:30. | John Hubbard (Cornell University) |
Minicourse: Bifurcation Patterns in Dynamical Systems, Lecture I |
01:30 - 02:30. | Boris Tsygan (Penn State University) |
Non-commutative Differential Calculus and Applications |
02:45 - 03:45. | Robin Forman (Rice University) |
The Differential Topology of Combinatorial Spaces |
04:15 - 05:15. | Alexander Voronov (Michigan State University) |
Minicourse: Universal Algebra, Lecture I
Note: Only the first 38 minutes of the lecture. |
07:30 - 09:30. | Evening session: |
Kevin Pilgrim (University of Missouri) Dessins d'enfant and Hubbard trees Horst Winkelnkemper (University of Maryland) Artin presentations: a rigorous string theory Alexander Kirillov Jr (SUNY at Stony Brook) Combinatorial presentation of modular functors Leonid Chekhov (Steklov Mathematics Institute) Quantum Teichmüller space description using graphs |
09:00 - 10:00. | Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (SUNY at Stony Brook) |
Minicourse: An Introduction to Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Superspace for Mathematicians, Lecture II |
10:30 - 11:30. | John Hubbard (Cornell University) |
Minicourse: Bifurcation Patterns in Dynamical Systems, Lecture II |
01:30 - 02:30. | Curtis McMullen (Harvard University) |
Dynamics on K3 Surfaces
Note: No audio between 20th minute and 66th minute. |
02:45 - 03:45. | Kenji Fukaya (RIMS, Kyoto) |
WKB Analysis, Multivalued Morse theory, and Collapsing Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Note: No audio between after the 6th minute. |
04:15 - 05:15. | Alexander Voronov (Michigan State University) |
Minicourse: Universal Algebra, Lecture II
Note: No audio between the 5th and 78th minutes. |
Sunday June 17
09:00 - 10:00. | Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (SUNY at Stony Brook) |
Minicourse: An Introduction to Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Superspace for Mathematicians, Lecture III Note: No audio between 8th minute and 21st minute. |
10:30 - 11:30. | John Hubbard (Cornell University) |
Minicourse: Bifurcation Patterns in Dynamical Systems, Lecture III |
01:30 - 02:30. | Dennis Sullivan (SUNY at Stony Brook & CUNY) |
Strings, Graphs, Riemann Surfaces |
02:45 - 03:45. | Misha Polyak (University of Tel Aviv) |
Minicourse: Quantum Field Theory and Topology, Lecture I |
04:15 - 05:15. | André de Carvalho (SUNY at Stony Brook) |
Graphs and Patterns in 2-dimensional Dynamics |
07:30 - 09:30. | Evening session: |
Vladimir Korepin (SUNY at Stony Brook) Six vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions Thomas Tradler (CUNY Graduate Center) Infinite inner products on infinite associative algebras Riccardo Longoni (SUNY at Stony Brook) TQFT's and cohomology of knot spaces in any dimension Victor Tourtchine (Independent University of Moscow) On the homology of the spaces of long knots |
Monday June 18
09:00 - 10:00. | Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (SUNY at Stony Brook) |
Minicourse: An Introduction to Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Superspace for Mathematicians, Lecture IV |
10:15 - 11:15. | John Hubbard (Cornell University) |
Minicourse: Bifurcation Patterns in Dynamical Systems, Lecture IV |
11:30 - 12:30. | John Baez (UC at Riverside) |
Minicourse: Discrete Riemannian Geometry and Gauge Theory, Lecture I |
Tuesday June 19
09:00 - 10:00. | Misha Polyak (University of Tel Aviv) |
Minicourse: Quantum Field Theory and Topology, Lecture II |
10:30 - 11:30. | John Baez (UC at Riverside) |
Minicourse: Discrete Riemannian Geometry and Gauge Theory, Lecture II |
01:30 - 02:30. | Yair Minsky (SUNY at Stony Brook) |
Curves, Surfaces, 3-manifolds and Hyperbolic Geometry |
02:45 - 03:45. | Dylan Thurston (Harvard University) |
Trivalent Graphs in 3-dimensional Topology |
04:15 - 05:15. | Alexander Voronov (Michigan State University) |
Minicourse: Universal Algebra, Lecture III |
07:30 - 09:30. | Evening session: |
Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University) Lie algebras of trees, complexes of graphs, and automorphisms of free groups Nils Baas (Norwegian University) Higher order topology Ralph Cohen (Stanford University) Topological viewpoint on Chas-Sullivan's string topology Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Institute of Technology) Invariants of boundary links Alberto Pinto (Universidade do Porto) Solenoid functions and train-tracks in hyperbolic dynamics |
Wednesday June 20
09:00 - 10:00. | Misha Polyak (University of Tel Aviv) |
Minicourse: Quantum Field Theory and Topology, Lecture III |
10:30 - 11:30. | John Baez (UC at Riverside) |
Minicourse: Discrete Riemannian Geometry and Gauge Theory, Lecture III |
01:30 - 02:30. | Nikolai Reshetikhin (UC at Berkeley) |
Invariants of Links in S3 with a G-flat Connection in the Complement |
02:45 - 03:45. | Dirk Kreimer (Clay Mathematics Institute and IHES) |
Structure in Feynman graphs-Hopf algebras and Symmetries |
04:15 - 05:15. | Alexander Voronov (Michigan State University) |
Minicourse: Universal Algebra, Lecture IV |
Thursday June 21
09:00 - 10:00. | Misha Polyak (University of Tel Aviv) |
Minicourse: Quantum Field Theory and Topology, Lecture IV |
10:30 - 11:30. | John Baez (UC at Riverside) |
Minicourse: Discrete Riemannian Geometry and Gauge Theory, Lecture IV |
01:30 - 02:30. | Abhay Ashtekar (CGGP Penn State University) |
Quantum Geometry in Action: Black Holes and Big Bang |