Geometry, Topology and Quantum Field Theory

Workshop on Geometry, Topology and Quantum Field Theory

Sunday, July 2 to Saturday, July 15, 1995

Hosted by
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong

Objectives: To provide a forum to exchange ideas on the latest developments in Geometry, Topology and Quantum Field Theory

Chairman: Prof. Shing-Tung Yau

Invited Speakers will include: C. Le Brun (Stony Brook), S.C. Chang (Hsin Tsu), L.F. Cheung (Hong Kong), K.S. Chou (Hong Kong), M.Y. Jiang (Beijing), C. Leung (Minnesota), P. Li (UCI), K. Liu (MIT), Q.K. Lu (Beijing), C, Shen (Shanghai), C.J. Sung (Chia Yi), X.J. Tan (Beijing), T. Wan (Hong Kong), H.Y. Wang (Singapore), S.K. Wang (Beijing), K.L. Wong (Hong Kong), K. Wu (Beijing), Q.H. Yu (Beijing), Y.L. Yu (Beijing), Q. Zhou (Shanghai).

Registration: There is no registration fee.

Venue: LT5, Lady Shaw Building

Accommodations:

  • University Guest House at CUHK : A block of rooms are reserved at about $40 USD per night.
  • Royal Park Hotel : $100 USD per night; Tel : 26016111, Fax : 26013666.

    Tentative titles and schedules:

  • Chang, S.C. (July 1-July 15) : The Calabi Flow on Einstein 4-manifolds
  • Cheng, L.F. (July 9-July 15) : TBA
  • Chou, K.S. (July 1-July 15) : Entire solutions of the Monge-Ampere equation
  • Jiang, M.Y. (July 1-July 10) : Symplectic capacities and Weinstein Conjecture
  • Le Brun, C. (July 2-July 9) : Polarized 4-manifolds and Seiberg-Witten invariants Scalar-flat Kaehler surfaces and complex singular spaces Fano contact manifolds and Quaternion-Kaehler geometry
  • Leung, C. (July 2-July 15) : On the Seiberg-Witten equation
  • Li, P. (July 10-July 15) : Heat equations on algebraic varieties
  • Lu, Q. (July 1-July 15) : The mass term of the nonlinear gauge lagrangian
  • Shen, C.L. (July 1-July 15) : TBA
  • Sung, C.J. (July 8-July 15) : Bounded harmonic maps on a class of manifolds
  • Wan, T.Y.H. (July 1-July 15) : Harmonic maps from C into surfaces with nonpositive curvature
  • Wang, H.Y. (July 2-July 15) : Exactness Theorem for Floer homology
  • Wang, S.K. (July 1-July 15) : TBA
  • Wong, K.L. (July 1-July 15) : Topologoical Hopf Algebra & Quantum Group
  • Wu, K. (July 1-July 15) : Application of non-commutative geometry in physical model building
  • Yau, S.T. (July 1-July 15) : Quantum field theory in geometry
  • Yu, Y.L. (July 1-July 15) : Semi-classical limit of the Hopf theorem
  • Zhou, Q. (July 1-July 15) : TBA

    Information: S.Y. Cheng, Tel : 26097966, Fax : 26035154. e-mail : sycheng@euler.math.cuhk.hk