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
Speakers Programme Participants Accommodation Reception Dinner Organizers Photos

All talks will take place in the Kingsley Barrett Lecture Theatre (CLC407)
in 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
11.30-12.15 Gibbons Invisibility cloaks and general relativity
12.30-2.00 Lunch
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
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

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
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