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Host: Tennessee Technological University
Homepage: http://math.tntech.edu/rafal/cookeville/cookeville.html
Organizers: Rafal Ablamowicz, John Ryan
Description:
The 6th International Conference on Clifford Algebras will be a continuation of a 16 year old sequence of
international conferences devoted to the mathematical aspects of Clifford algebras and their varied
applications in mathematical physics, cybernetics, robotics, image processing and engineering. Previous
meetings took place at: University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 1985; University of Montpellier,
Montpellier, France, 1989; University of Gent, Gent, Belgium, 1993 and University of Aachen, Germany,
1996. The most recent meeting took place in Ixtapa, Mexico, 1999. Among mathematical structures
considered are: Grassmann algebras and supersymmetry, quaternions, octonions, spinors, Clifford
algebras over arbitrary fields, multivector algebras, spinor representations of Lie algebras and quantum
groups, Clifford bundles, local and global problems for Dirac operators, Dirac operator in
noncommutative geometry, Connes spectral triples, Clifford analysis and quantum logic. Applications in
physics cover a wide range of topics from classical mechanics to general relativity, twistor methods,
electromagnetism, elementary particle physics, quantum mechanics, Seiberg-Witten theory,
perturbative renormalisation, spin foam models and quantum gravity. Applications in robotics include
double quaternions, rigid motions, constrain manifolds, robot arm geometry. It is expected that
somewhere between 100 and 150 participants, including graduate students, will attend this conference.
Date received: June 09, 2001
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