Public Lecture

September 11, 2009. Time 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
Speaker: S. Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University
Place: Sciences Lecture Hall
For more information, see the public lecture webpage.

Scientific Programs

September 11 - 13, 2009. Mathematical Sciences Building, UC Davis
All talks are in 1147 Mathematical Sciences Building (MSB) unless otherwise noted.


For abstracts: Place mouse over talk titles (or click on the title to go to the selected talk).

Friday, September 11

9:15am - 9:30	Welcome
9:30 - 10:20	J. Bernstein Tel Aviv University	A remark about the definition of pseudo-differential operators
10:20 - 11:00	Conference photo and coffee
11:00 - 11:50	M. Khovanov Columbia University	Categorification of quantum groups
12:00 - 1:30pm	Lunch (onsite at Mathematical Sciences Building) The cost of lunch is covered by a small $10 registration fee those who register.
1:30pm - 2:20	A. Kirillov University of Pennsylvania	Family algebras and generalized exponents for multivector representations of SO(2n+1)
2:20 - 3:00	Coffee
3:00 - 3:50	O. Viro Stony Brook University	Boundary value Khovanov homology
5:15 - 6:15	S. Tabachnikov Pennsylvania State University	Flavors of "bicycle mathematics" (public lecture in 123 Sci Lec)
6:25 - 6:55	Film (123 Sci Lec)
7:00 - 8:30pm	Dinner (catered)

Lunch is onsite (at Mathematical Sciences Building) on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The cost of lunch is covered by a small $10 registration fee those who register.

Saturday, September 12

9:00am - 9:50	S. Novikov University of Maryland	New Discretization of Complex Analysis
10:00 - 10:50	Y. Eliashberg Stanford University	Fuchs quillenization and Madsen-Weiss theorem
11:00 - 11:40	Coffee
11:40 - 12:30	S. Gindikin Rutgers University	Harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces: between algebra and analysis
12:30 - 2pm	Lunch (onsite at Mathematical Sciences Building) The cost of lunch is covered by a small $10 registration fee those who register.
2pm - 2:50	V. Retakh Rutgers University	From factorizations of noncommutative polynomials to combinatorial topology
3:00 - 3:50	A. Khovanskii University of Toronto	Newton Convex Bodies
3:50 - 4:30	Coffee
4:30 - 5:20	E. Frenkel UC Berkeley	Quantization of soliton systems and Langlands duality
7pm - 8:30	Banquet (Bistro 33)

Tickets to Saturday's banquet dinner at Bistro 33, 226 F Street (SE corner of 3rd and F streets) will be $20.

Sunday, September 13

9:00am - 9:50	C. Roger University of Lyon	Lie algebra cohomology, infinite dimensional symplectic structures and hamiltonian systems
10:00 - 10:50	G. Segal University of Oxford	The Lie algebra cohomology of some groups related to loop groups
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee
11:15 - 12:05	A. Givental UC Berkeley	Cobordism-valued intersection theory on \bar{M}_{0,n}
12:05 - 2pm	Lunch (onsite at Mathematical Sciences Building) The cost of lunch is covered by a small $10 registration fee those who register.