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Host: Sala Luis Woodhouse, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Sponsor: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Centro de Matemática do Porto, Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática Aplicada, Instituto Superior Técnico , Centro Interdisciplinar de Astrofísica, Instituto Superior Técnico , Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Projecto "Física Matemática" PRAXIS/2/2.1/MAT/19/94 , Projecto "AGCQ" PBIC/C/MAT/2150/95
Homepage: http://www.fisica.ist.utl.pt/~jmourao/om/omviii/om99b.html
Organizers: Peter Gothen (Oporto, FCUP), José Mourão (Lisbon, IST), Roger Picken (Lisbon, IST), João Nuno Tavares (Oporto, FCUP)
Description:
The VIIIth Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics (formerly known as the Oporto Meetings on Knot Theory and
Physics) will take place in Oporto, Portugal, from July 2nd to July 5th, 1999, being Friday to Monday. The aim of the Oporto
meetings is to bring together mathematicians and physicists interested in the inter-relation between geometry, topology and
physics and to provide them with a pleasant and informal environment for scientific interchange.
As in previous years, we are aiming to focus to some extent on certain themes. The themes we would like to focus on next year are
1.- Spinors and geometry 2.- Integrability & Algebraic Geometry and 3.- Topological quantum field theory.
The meeting will consist largely of short courses, of approximately three lectures each, given by the main speakers, supplemented by a limited number of seminars (more details later). The talks are at the advanced graduate or postdoctoral level, and should be of interest to all researchers wishing to learn about recent developments in the overlap between geometry, topology and physics.
Speakers: Ron DONAGI (University of Pennsylvania), Juerg FROEHLICH (Institut fur Theoretische Physik), Ezra GETZLER (Northwestern University), Igor KRICHEVER (Columbia University)
Date received: February 15, 1999
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