UK-Japan Winter School

Geometry and Analysis Towards Quantum Theory

University of Durham, 6-9 January 2004



PROGRAMME

Time MONDAY, 5 JANUARY
18:45 - 19:30 Dinner


Time TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Richard Ward (University of Durham): Symmetric calorons (and instantons, monopoles, skyrmions)
11:00 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45 - 12:45 Alexander Veselov (University of Loughborough): Spectra of Sol-manifolds: Geometry and Arithmetic (I)
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Akito Futaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology): Asymptotic Chow semistability and integral invariants
15:30 - 16:30 Ed Corrigan (University of York): Integrable models with boundaries and defects (I)
16:30 - 17:15 Tea
17:15 - 17:35 Man-yue Mo (University of Oxford): Twistor theory of Frobenius manifolds
17:35 - 17:55 Toshihiro Shoda (Tokyo Institute of Technology): Components of the moduli of trigonal minimal surfaces in 4-dimensional flat tori
17:55 - 18:15 Martin Svensson (Lund University): Harmonic morphisms from hyperbolic spaces
18:45 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - Wine reception


Time WEDNESDAY, 7 JANUARY
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Alexander Veselov (University of Loughborough): Spectra of Sol-manifolds: Geometry and Arithmetic (II)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Ed Corrigan (University of York): Integrable models with boundaries and defects (II)
11:45 - 12:45 Paolo Piazza (University of Rome La Sapienza): Bordism and rho-invariant
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Vadim Kuznetsov (University of Leeds): Well integrable and completely separable
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Hajime Sato (Nagoya University): Geometric structures and differential equations
17:15 - 17:35 Shingo Kamimura (Keio University): TBA
17:35 - 17:55 Akifumi Sako (Keio University): Ring structure of SUSY star product and 1/2 SUSY Wess-Zumino model
17:55 - 18:15 Daisuke Kato (Keio University): The Poincare type lemma for superspace
18:45 - 19:30 Dinner


Time THURSDAY, 8 JANUARY
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 John Rawnsley (University of Warwick): Symmetries of star products (I)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Simon Salamon (Imperial College): Explicit metric with holonomy G2 (I)
11:45 - 12:45 Mark Gross (University of Warwick): Amoebas of complex curves and tropical curves (I)
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch
15:45 - 16:15 Tea
16:15 - 17:15 Kaoru Ikeda (Keio University): Construction of line bundles on the iso-level set of Toda lattice and its application to quantum cohomology
17:30 - 17:50 Rie Natsui (Keio University): Ergodicity of group extensions of the non-archimedean continued fraction map
17:50 - 18:10 Eveyth Deligero (Keio University): On the central limit theorem for solutions of Diophantine approximations-non-archimedean
19:00 - 20:30 Special dinner


Time FRIDAY, 9 JANUARY
08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 John Rawnsley (University of Warwick): Symmetries of star products (II)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Simon Salamon (Imperial College): Explicit metric with holonomy G2 (II)
11:45 - 12:45 Mark Gross (University of Warwick): Amoebas of complex curves and tropical curves (II)
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch
14:45 - 15:45 Akio Hattori (Tokyo University): Multi-fan and its orbifold elliptic genus
15:45 - 16:15 Tea
16:15 - 17:15 Sir Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh): The geometry behind some string theory dualities
18:45 - 19:30 Dinner


Time SATURDAY, 10 JANUARY
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00 Discussion Day




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