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Conference Program
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Final Schedule
- Thursday, May 13: (10:00 - 5:30). Session Chairs: Dmitry Fuchs (Morning), Bruno Nachtergaele (Afternoon)
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10:00 - 10:15. Opening. John Hunter, Chair of Mathematics
10:15 - 11:15. Maxim Kontsevich: "On Algebraic (de)Quantization and Finite Characteristic"
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11:30 - 12:30. Vera Serganova
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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"
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- Friday, May 14: (9:00 - 5:40). Session Chairs: Andrew Waldron (Morning), Ling-Lie Chau (Afternoon)
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9:00 - 10:00. Alexander Polyakov: "Conformal Fixed Points of Unidentified
Gauge Theories"
10:15 - 11:15. Nicolai Reshetikhin
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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
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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"
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- 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)
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9:00 - 10:00. Alain Connes: "Noncommutative Geometry and Modular Forms"
10:15 - 11:15. Marc Rieffel: "Morita Equivalence for Non-commutative Tori"
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11:30 - 12:30. Hirosi Ooguri: "Black Hole Attractors and Topological Strings"
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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"
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3:00 - 4:00. Michael Douglas: "Is There a Topological Theory of Flux Vacua?"
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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)
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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"
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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"
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- 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.
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Venue:
University of California, Davis
Walter A. Buehler Alumni & Visitors Center
in the Alpha Gamma Rho Hall
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Organizing Committee:
Ling-Lie Chau, Dmitry Fuchs,
Nemanja Kaloper, Motohico Mulase,
Bruno Nachtergaele, Craig Tracy, Andrew Waldron
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Funding Provided By:
Department of Mathematics
MSRI
Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Office of Research
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