Events 2006

The 2006 Twente conference on Lie groups
December 13th, 2006 

From 13-15 December 2006 the annual Twente conference on Lie groups takes place. For more information contact Gerard Helminck by sending an email to helminckgf@cs.utwente.nl

J. Martens (MPI) in Utrecht
November 30th, 2006

J. Martens will speak in the geometry and topology seminar.
Title: Equivariant volumes of non-compact quotients and instanton counting
Location and time: 14:00-15:00 in room 611a in the math building

Mini-workshop on index theory of singular spaces
November 28th and 29th, 2006

Location: RU Nijmegen, Huygens Building (FNWI)

Schedule 28th
10:45- 12:00 Walter van Suijlekom (MPIM), Local index formula for SU_q(2)
13:45-14:30 & 14:45-15:30 Varghese Mathai (Adelaide) Twisted index theory on orbifolds I+II
16:00-17:15 Hessel Posthuma (Utrecht) Cyclic homology theory of deformations over orbifolds
Location: HG01.057

Schedule 29th
10:15 – 11:30 Markus Pflaum (Mainz) Algebraic index theory and deformations over orbifolds
12:45-13:30 & 13:45-15:00 Varghese Mathai (Adelaide) Twisted index theory on orbifolds III+IV

Note! All talks are meant for an audience with good knowledge of index theory, K-theory and noncommutative geometry

GQT-Colloquium
November 24th, 2006

Joint meeting of the GQT-Colloquium and the Utrecht joint seminar on mathematical physics

Schedule
14:00-15:00 Varghese Mathai (Adelaide), T-duality in a background H-flux
15:15-16:15 Erik Verlinde (UvA), Strings, Symmetric Products and the Elliptic Genus
16:20-???? reception

Location: UU Mathematics Building, room K11

Colloquium Lecture by Varghese Mathai
November 23rd, 2006

15.30-16.30, Utrecht Colloquium lecture

Varghese Mathai (Adelaide): On a curious extension of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem

Location: room K11, Mathematics Building

Mathai Varghese at UvA
November 20th, 2006

Mathai Varghese (Adelaide, Australia) will give a talk at the KdVI institute on his recent work with Melrose and Singer on index theory (math.DG/0402329 + followup work).
Title: Fractional Analytic Index.

Time: Monday November 20, from 11-12,
Room: P0.19 (gebouw Euclides, Plantage Muidergracht 24),

Colloquium lecture by J.D. Lewis
November 16th, 2006

15.30-16.30, Utrecht Colloquium Lecture

J.D. Lewis (Alberta): Variants of the cycle class map
Location: room K11, Mathematics Building

UU Topology & Geometry lecture by E. Emsiz (UvA)
November 9th, 2006

14.00-15.00 Room 611a mathematics building
Title: Affine Weyl groups and integrable systems with delta potentials

IMAPP Symposium “The Origin of the Universe: Mathematics, Astrophysics or Particle Physics?”
October 13th, 2006

Scientific Meeting at the Cluster Opening
October 10th, 2006

Time: 13:00-16:00
Location: Belle van Zuylenzaal, Academiegebouw Utrecht

Speakers
13:30-14:30 Pierre Cartier (IHES, France) Towards a “cosmic Galois group”: two parallel hierarchies of polyhedra and their meaning for number theory and quantum field theories
15:00-16:00 Alan Weinstein (UC Berkeley, USA) The quantum torus as a quantum “group”

Registration via NWO-website is required!

Official opening ceremony of the GQT-cluster by Minister of Education
October 10th, 2006

Time: 16.00-17.30, followed by drinks at 17:30
Location: Senaatszaal, Academiegebouw Utrecht

Meeting of the Mathematical Clusters at the occasion of the official opening of the GQT-cluster by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science.

Registration via NWO-website is required!

Modular forms, October 8-13
October 8th, 2006 

The topic of the conference is the theory of modular forms, both the geometric as well as the arithmetic aspects.

Expected participants include: Bergstr�m, Boecherer, Bosman, Bruinier, Diamond, Edixhoven, Faber, van der Geer, Gritsenko, Grushevski, Ibukiyama, R. de Jong, Katsura, Kondo, Kudla, Meagher, Moonen, Pollack, Rajan, Rastegar, Salvati-Manni, Savin, Shepherd-Barron, Taelman, Wiese, Zagier.

The conference is held at the traditional Hotel van der Werff on Schiermonnikoog island, the Netherlands.

Symposium “Geometry in Autumn” (September, 28th-29th)
September 28th, 2006

This short symposium at the Lorentz Centre in Leiden is devoted to recent developments in complex algebraic geometry. Some of the topics the symposium focuses on are moduli spaces, algebraic curves and surfaces, and vector bundles. We will also look back and evaluate the developments since the symposium ‘Geometry in Autumn I’ held about ten years ago on the occasion of the retirement of Van de Ven.

Speakers: E. Amerik, W. Barth, A. Beauville, F. Catanese, G. Deschamps, G. Farkas, K. Hulek.

Lectures will start on Thursday September 28 at 2 pm. The symposium will end in the early afternoon of Friday.

Participants are requested to register at the Lorentz Center.

Organizers: Bas Edixhoven, Gerard van der Geer Martin Luebke

Lectures by Jan Stienstra and Vasily Golyshev
September 22nd, 2006

Intercity Number Theory Seminar

Schedule
13:00-14:00 Vasily Golyshev (Moscow), Spectra and Their Arithmetic
14:15-15:15 Jan Stienstra (Utrecht), Apery-like numbers, differential equations of type DN and dimer models

Location: UU Mathematics Building, room K11

Lecture by Alessio Corti
September 20th, 2006

Time: 16.15-17.15
Alessio Corti (Imperial College): Orbifold quantum cohomology of Fano toric stacks
Location: room K11, Mathematics Building