The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc)

Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment

and

Department of Physics, Cochin University for Science and Technology (CUSAT)

Workshop

on

Geometry and Topology inspired by Physics

4-8, December, 2003

Kochi, Kerala

This Workshop - which is is sponsored jointly by the Kerala State council for Science, Technology and Environment, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and the Department of Physics, CUSAT - hopes to bring together some of the active Indian researchers working at the interface referred to in the title above. The last day of the workshop will be devoted to a discussion of a proposal to develop a center for mathematical sciences at a suitable place in Kerala.

Organising Committee

  • T.R. Govindarajan (IMSc, Chennai, India)
  • V. C. Kuriakose, (CUSAT, Kochi,India)
  • S. G. Rajeev (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA)
  • V. S. Sunder (IMSc, Chennai, India)

    • Invited Speakers and title of talks

  • A P Balachandran
    		• Unitary quantum physics with space-time non-commutativity
  • I Biswas
    		• Quantisation and differential operators on a Riemann surface with projective structure
  • R Gopakumar
  • S Govindarajan
    		• Orientifolds of Calabi-Yau manifolds
  • T R Govindarajan
    		• 3D Quantum gravity and nocommutative geometry
  • V Kodiyalam
    		• Subfactors and 1+1-dimensional TQFT's
  • V C Kuriakose
    		• Geometrical approach to integrable models
  • V Parameswaran Nair
    		• Quantum Hall effect in higher dimensions, edge states and noncommutative $S^3/Z_2$.
  • Kapil Paranjepe
    		• The Seiberg-Witten invariants
  • G Rajasekaran
    		• Generalised Fock spaces and Quantum Statistics
  • S G Rajeev
    		• The Ricci flow with torsion
  • T R Ramdas
    		• The `Harder-Narasimhan trace' and unitarity of the Hitchin connection
  • P Ramadevi
    		• Cherns-Simons Field Theory Invariants and Topological Strings
  • S Ramanan
    		• Moduli space of Higgs pairs
  • M Sabir
    		• Curvature and chaos
  • K B Sinha
    		• Non-Commutative geometry and probability
  • V S Sunder
    		• Subfactor Planar Algebras
  • S Vaidya
    		• Topology Change from large N Gauge theory

    The Workshop will be held at Department of Physics, Cochin University for Science and Technology (CUSAT) , Kochi, India.

    The details of Guest House arrangements for invited participants are here.

    The Schedule of talks can be found here.

    For further informations contact:

    T R Govindarajan, IMSc trg@imsc.res.in

    or

    V. C. Kuriakose, CUSAT vck@cusat.ac.in

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