Opening colloquium

The opening colloquium of the Center for Mathematical Physics took place on 20–22 October 2005 at the main building of Hamburg university. You may also download our poster (PDF).

Speakers

John Cardy: SLE – a new way of thinking about Conformal Field Theory (PDF)
Philippe Di Francesco: Combinatorics and Physics: The Miracles of Integrability
Robbert Dijkgraaf: Topological strings and black holes
Nigel Hitchin: Generalized Geometries (PDF)
Roberto Longo: The Structure and Classification of local conformal nets
Nikita Nekrasov: Chiral Algebras, pure Spinors and Superstrings
Tudor S. Ratiu: Symmetry in infinite dimensional systems
Nicolai Reshetikhin: Discrete Dirac operators and dimer models
Matthias Staudacher: Integrability and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
Robert M. Wald: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Alexander Zamolodchikov: 2D QFT and amplitudes of subleading critical singularities.
Martin Zirnbauer: From Random Matrices to Supermanifolds (PPT)

You will find a timetable for the talks in our program (PDF). We also offer a list of participiants (PDF) of all registered guests and some photos taken by Arthur Jaffe. If you also took photos you'd like to see here, please contact Konrad Waldorf.