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Connections in Modern Mathematics and Physics
Stony Brook, April 2-5, 1998
SCHEDULE OF TALKS AND EVENTS
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- THURSDAY, April 2
(Room S-240, Math Building)
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| 8:15 AM | REGISTRATION |
| 9:15 AM | Opening Ceremonies |
| 9:30 AM | Jeff Cheeger and Blaine Lawson
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| | "The mathematical work of
James Simons |
| | and its impact on the field"
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| 11:30 AM | C.-N. Yang, Stony Brook |
| | "Vector potentials and connections"
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1:30 PM | Jeff Cheeger, Courant |
| | "Ricci curvature" |
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3:00 PM | Blaine Lawson, Stony Brook |
| | "Connections and singularities
of maps" |
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4:30 PM | Gang Tian, MIT |
| | "Yang-Mills connections
and calibration" |
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- FRIDAY, April 3 (Room S-240, Math Building)
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9:15 AM | Robert Bryant for S.-S. Chern
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| | "Recent results and open problems
in Finsler geometry" |
| 10:30 AM | Dennis Sullivan, Stony Brook &
CUNY |
| | "A combinatorial model
for non-linearity" |
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1:00 PM | I.M. Singer, MIT |
| | TBA |
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2:15 PM | S.-T. Yau, Harvard |
| | "Mirror symmetry and
rational curves" |
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3:30 PM | Scott Axelrod, MIT |
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"Generalized Chern-Simons invariants as a
generalized Lagrangian field theory"
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4:45 PM | Mikhael Gromov,
Courant & IHES |
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"Dynamics on function spaces"
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6:00 PM | Cocktails and Dinner at 7:00 |
| | Student Union Ballroom |
- SATURDAY, April 4 (Room 137, Harriman Hall)
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9:30 AM | Jean-Michel Bismut, Orsay |
| | "Chern-Simons classes, Bott Chern
classes and analytic torsion" |
| 11:00 AM | Spencer Bloch, Chicago |
| | "Algebro-geometric Chern-Simons
classes" |
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1:30 PM | Maxim Kontsevich, I.H.E.S. |
| | "On regulators, critical values and q-factorials" |
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3:00 PM | Robert Bryant, Duke |
| | "Recent progress on the holonomy classification problem"
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4:30 PM | Jürg Fröhlich, E.T.H.
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"Physics and the Chern-Simons form
(from anomalies to the quantum Hall effect to magnetic stars)"
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8:30 PM | PARTY
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at James Simons house
(maps will be provided).
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- SUNDAY, April 5 (Room 137, Harriman Hall)
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9:00 AM | Clifford Taubes, Harvard |
| | "Seiberg-Witten invariants,
harmonic forms, and their
pseudo-holomorphic curves" |
| 10:30AM | John Milnor, Stony Brook |
| | "Remarks on geometry and
dynamics" |
| 12:00 PM | Robert MacPherson, I.A.S. |
| | "Spaces with torus actions" |
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