CTQM Opening Symposium, 9 March 2006

The Opening Symposium for CTQM was a one-day event with 55 registered participants. The group photo of all participants was taken outside the lecture hall just before lunch.

The CTQM Problem List

Dennis Sullivan suggested a CTQM Problem List. This list has been created: CTQM Problem List

The Aarhus University Press Statement

Aarhus University issued a press statement (in Danish only) regarding the CTQM Opening Symposium.

Programme

09:30-09:45

Registration

09:45-10:00

Welcome

10:00-11:00

Nigel Hitchin (Oxford)
Spectral Curves and Langlands Duality

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

Maxim Kontsevich (IHES)
On Motives in Finite Characteristic

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Dennis Sullivan (CUNY)
Compatified Moduli Spaces and String Topology of the Free Loop Space of a Manifold

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-16:30

Christoph Böhm (Münster)
Manifolds with Positive Curvature Operators are Space Forms

16:30-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-17:45

Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam)
Gromov-Witten Invariants and Gauge Theory

18:30

Dinner

All talks took place in Auditorium F (1534.125) at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Aarhus.

Dinner was held at Restaurant Le Regal, Nørre Alle 55, Aarhus.

Additional Information

Please contact secretary Janne Christensen

Revised 19.12.2006