Geometry and Physics
AN LMS RESEARCH WORKSHOP
IN HONOUR OF THE 60TH BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR RICHARD WARD, FRS
Durham University
September 6th and 7th, 2011
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All talks will take place in the Kingsley Barrett Lecture Theatre (CLC407)
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The Calman Learning Centre (the tall cylindrical building
near the maths department).
Programme
Tuesday 6th September
| 9.30-10.15 |
Penrose |
Twistors and Λ-Cosmology |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Schroers |
The Atiyah-Hitchin manifold as a 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee break |
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| 11.30-12.15 |
Gibbons |
Invisibility cloaks and general relativity |
| 12.30-2.00 |
Lunch |
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| 2.00-2.45 |
Veselov |
Gaudin subalgebras and stable rational curves |
| 3.00-3.30 |
Cherkis |
Amoebas and monopole membranes |
| 3.30-4.00 |
Coffee break |
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| 4.00-4.45 |
Mason |
From the Ward construction to the S-matrix |
| 5.00-5.30 |
Bielawski |
The geometry of monopoles revisited |
| 7.00 |
Dinner |
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Wednesday 7th September
| 9.30-10.15 |
Atiyah |
Geometric models of matter |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Speight |
Wave map flow on a compact Riemann surface |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Coffee break |
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| 11.30-12.15 |
Manton |
Skyrmions -- what we still need to do. |
| 12.30-1.00 |
Harland |
The large N limit of the Nahm transform |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
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