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
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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
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