The Stony Brook Dialogues
in Mathematics and Physics

Schedule of Events

as of March 27

Thursday Morning March 27    Large Lecture Hall, Wang Center
  • 9 - 9:10    Greetings (Eric Kaler, Stony Brook Provost; George Sterman, YITP Director; David Ebin, Mathematics Chair)

  • 9:10 - 9:30    Irwin Kra: The Stony Brook Dialogues

  • 9:30 - 10:20    George Sterman: Gauge theory at the LHC

  • 10:20 - 10:50    Break with refreshments

  • 10:50 - 11:40    Peter van Nieuwenhuizen: The discovery of
                              supergravity

  • 11:40 - 12:30  Juan Maldacena: QCD, Strings and black holes

  • 12:35 - 1:50    Lunch (Wang Center)
 

Thursday Afternoon    SAC, Ballroom A

  • 2 - 2:50    Cumrun Vafa: Strings and geometry

  • 2:50 - 3:20    Break with refreshments
 
General Interest Session
Adventures in curved and twisted spaces
  • 3:20 - 3:40    Welcome and Comments (Dennis Sullivan)

  • 3:40 - 4:30    John Morgan: Topology, geometry and physics
                          in three and four dimensions

  • 4:30 - 4:40   Introduction of James Simons and C. N. Yang
                  (Shirley Kenny, President, Stony Brook University)

  • 4:40 - 5    James Simons

  • 5 - 5:30    C. N. Yang: How mathematics and physics got
                     together again

 

Thursday Evening

 

Friday Morning March 28     Math S-240

  • 9 - 9:10    Welcome to second day; announcements

  • 9:10 - 10    Shing-Tung Yau: Hermitian Yang-Mills
                      connections and minimal submanifolds

  • 10 - 10:30    Break with refreshments

  • 10:30 - 11:20  Leon Takhtajan: 40 years of Yang-Baxter
                   equation: between Stony Brook and St. Petersburg

  • 11:20 - 12:10    Dennis Sullivan: The three 2D geometries, the eight 3D geometries and the four appearances of two by two matrices in the construction of a non redundant list of all compact three manifolds

  • 12:15 - 2    Lunch (Catered in S-240) and free time
 

Friday Afternoon     Harriman 137

  • 2 - 2:50    Robbert Dijkgraaf: The unreasonable effectiveness
                     of physics in modern mathematics

  • 2:50 - 3:20    Break with refreshments

  • 3:20 - 4:10    Michael Douglas: Physics and geometry: past,
                          present and future

  • 4:10 - 5:00    Edward Witten: Electric-magnetic duality
                          on a half-space

Back to Main Page

A Stony Brook University 50th Anniversary Celebration