Conference Program

Final Schedule

Thursday, May 13: (10:00 - 5:30). Session Chairs: Dmitry Fuchs (Morning), Bruno Nachtergaele (Afternoon)

10:00 - 10:15. Opening. John Hunter, Chair of Mathematics
10:15 - 11:15. Maxim Kontsevich: "On Algebraic (de)Quantization and Finite Characteristic" slides
11:30 - 12:30. Vera Serganova slides
12:30 - 1:45. Lunch Break (*Please see special notes below)
1:45 - 2:45. Petr Horava
3:00 - 4:00. Arthur Jaffe: "Quantum Invariants"
4:30 - 5:30. Sergey Novikov: "Discrete Complex Analysis and Discrete Connections" slides

Friday, May 14: (9:00 - 5:40). Session Chairs: Andrew Waldron (Morning), Ling-Lie Chau (Afternoon)

9:00 - 10:00. Alexander Polyakov: "Conformal Fixed Points of Unidentified Gauge Theories"
10:15 - 11:15. Nicolai Reshetikhin slides
11:30 - 12:30. Leonard Susskind: "Exploring the Landscape"
12:30 - 1:45. Lunch Break (*Please see special notes below)
1:45 - 2:45. Albert Schwarz slides
3:00 - 4:00. Vaughan Jones: "The Connes Tensor Product in Mathematics and Physics"
4:10 - 4:30. Welcome Addresses
  Barry Klein, Vice Chancellor for Research
  Winston Ko, Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
4:40 - 5:40. John Schwarz: "Light-cone Gauge String Field Theory and an Integral Transform" slides

Conference Banquet (6:30PM - 9:00PM) at Cafe California, 208 Second Street, Davis.

Saturday, May 15: (9:00 - 5:30). Session Chairs: Arthur Jaffe (Morning), Nemanja Kaloper (Afternoon)

9:00 - 10:00. Alain Connes: "Noncommutative Geometry and Modular Forms"
10:15 - 11:15. Marc Rieffel: "Morita Equivalence for Non-commutative Tori" slides
11:30 - 12:30. Hirosi Ooguri: "Black Hole Attractors and Topological Strings" slides
12:30 - 1:45. Lunch Break (*Please see special notes below).
1:45 - 2:45. Bruno Zumino: "Constraints and Superspin for Super Poincare Algebras in Diverse Dimensions" slides
3:00 - 4:00. Michael Douglas: "Is There a Topological Theory of Flux Vacua?" slides
4:30 - 5:30. Andrei Linde: "Inflation, String Theory, and Origins of Symmetry" PowerPoint slides

Conference Reception (6:30PM - 9:00PM) at the residence of Motohico and Sayuri Mulase. (*Please see below.)

Sunday, May 16: (9:30 - 3:00). Session Chairs: Andrew Waldron (Morning), John H. Schwarz (Afternoon)

9:00 - 10:00. Renata Kallosh: "Deformation, Non-Commutativity and the Cosmological Constant Problem" PowerPoint slides
10:15: 11:15. Anton Kapustin: "Remarks on Topological Landau-Ginzburg Models" slides
11:30 - 12:30. Alexander Givental
12:30 - 1:45. Lunch Break (*Please see special notes below)
1:45 - 2:45. Edward Witten: "Twistor-String Theory And Conformal Supergravity" slides

Remarks:

• Lunch and refreshments will be served, free of charge, at the conference site to all registered participants.
• All registered participants are cordially invited to the Conference Reception on Saturday evening. Dinner, drinks and dessert will be served.