Program





Monday, May 19
10.00 - 10.45     Opening
11.00 - 12.00   Louis Kauffman:   An extended bracket state summation for virtual knots and links
LUNCH
14.00 - 15.00   Michael Polyak:   Enumerative geometry and finite type invariants
15.30 - 16.30   Alexander Degtyarev:   Towards the generalized Shapiro and Shapiro conjecture
17.00 - 18.00   Ngaiming Mok:   Geometric structures on Fano manifolds of Picard number 1



Tuesday, May 20
9.30 - 10.30   Gang Tian:   Ricci flow and projective manifolds
11.00 - 12.00   Ludwig Faddeev:   Discrete series of representations for the modular double of U_q(sl(2,R))
LUNCH
14.00 - 15.00   Tobias Ekholm:   A surgery exact sequence in linearized contact homology
15.30 - 16.30   Paolo Lisca:   Heegaard Floer invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots
17.00 - 18.00   John Etnyre:   Fibered knots and the Bennequin bound



Wednesday, May 21
9.30 - 10.30   Gennadi Henkin:   Cauchy-Pompeiu type formulas for d-bar on affine algebraic Riemann surfaces and some applications
11.00 - 12.00   Charles Epstein:   Solving Maxwell's equations in exterior domains
LUNCH
14.00 - 15.00   Elliott Lieb:   Four decades of 'Stability of Matter' and analytic inequalities
15.30 - 16.30   Eric Bedford:   Dynamics of rational surface automorphisms of positive entropy
17.00 - 18.00   Mikhail Lyubich:   Yang-Lee zeros for diamond lattices and 2D rational dynamics



Thursday, May 22
9.00 - 10.00   Viatcheslav Kharlamov:   On the number of connected components in the intersection of three real quadrics
10.30 - 11.30   Grigory Mikhalkin:   Patchworking of real algebraic knots and links
12.00 - 13.00   Stepan Orevkov:   Classification of algebraic links in RP^3 of degree 5 and 6
LUNCH
14.00 - 18.30       Excursion
19.00 -       Reception at Town Hall



Friday, May 23
9.30 - 10.30   Selman Akbulut:   On exotic structures on 4-manifiolds
11.00 - 12.00   Nicolai Reshetikhin:   Invariants of links and quantum groups at roots of unity
LUNCH
14.00 - 15.00   Robert MacPherson:   The geometry of grains
15.30 - 16.30   Laszlo Lempert:   Two examples of complex manifolds, motivated by (theoretical) physics
17.00 - 18.00   Boris Khesin   A nonholonomic Moser theorem and diffeomorphism groups
19.00 -     Banquet



Saturday, May 24
9.30 - 10.30   Tomasz Mrowka:   Knot invariants from instantons
11.0 - 12.00   Askold Khovansky:   Algebraic equations, convex bodies, and Bernstein theorem for some spherical varieties
LUNCH
14.00 - 15.00   Ronald Fintushel:   Constructions of 4-manifolds
15.30 - 16.30   Stefan Nemirovskii:   Lagrangian embeddings and complex analysis
17.00 - 18.00   Stanislav Smirnov:   Conformal invariance and universality in 2D Ising model



Sunday, May 25
9.30 - 10.30   Eugenii Shustin:   Computing real algebraic and tropical enumerative invariants
11.00 - 12.00   Alexander Shumakovitch:   Khovanov homology, its properties and applications
12.00       Closure