Fondation Francqui-Stichting
Fondation d’Utilité Publique  Stichting van Openbaar Nut



Homological Geometry - The mathematics behind non-commutative geometry

(Hotel le Méridien, Brussels October 22 to 24, 2004)


Programme

Friday 22 October, 2004

08.30 : Welcome Mark Eyskens, Chairman of the Francqui Foundation, Minister of State
08.50 : General Introduction & Welcome Professor Michel Van den Bergh

Chairman : Professor Michel Van den Bergh (FWO, LUC, VUB, Belgium)

09.00 – 9.50 Professor Maxim Kontsevich, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette-France - A convenient class of triangulated categories
09.55-10.45 Professor Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago,
Department of Mathematics, USA - Non-commutative geometry and preprojective algebras

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.05 Professor Mikhail Kapranov (Yale University, Department of Mathematics, New Haven-USA - Semi-infinite cohomology of Ind-schemes

12.15-13.30 Lunch

Chairman : Professor Claudio Procesi, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma-Italy

13.40-14.40 Professor Toby Stafford, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor-USA - Naïve non-commutative blowing up
14.35-15.25 Professor Bernhard Keller, UFR de Mathématiques, Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7, France - On well-generated triangulated categories

15.25-15.55 Coffee

15.55-16.45 Professor Hanspeter Kraft, Mathematisches Institut, Universität Basel-Germany : A result of Hermite and equations of degree 5 and 6
16.50-17.40 Professor Miles Reid,
Mathematical Institute, University of Warwick-UK - Rings and varieties

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Saturday 23 October, 2004

Chairman : Professor Miles Reid Mathematical Institute, University of Warwick-UK

09.00-09.50 Professor Michael Douglas, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, Piscataway-USA - Non-commutative geometry and Dirichlet branes
09.55-10.45 Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf,
University of Amsterdam, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam-the Netherlands

10.45-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.05 Professor Albert Schwarz, University of California, Department of Mathematics, Davis-USA - On non-commutative supergeometry and its applications

12.15-13.30 Lunch

Chairman : Professor Michael Artin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge-USA

13.40-14.30 Professor Alan Weinstein, University of California Berkeley, Department of Mathematics, USA - Hopfish algebras
14.35-15.25 Professor Claudio Procesi, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma-Italy - Cycles in hyperplane arrangements and polytopes

15.25-15.55 Coffee

15.55-16.45 Professor Boris Tsygan, Penn State University, Mathematical Department, USA -Index theorems for deformations of Poisson manifolds
16.50-17.40 Professor Corrado De Concini, Università di Roma « La Sapienza » -Roma-Italy - The Schwarz genus of the Coxeter fibration and polynomial equations

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Sunday 24 October, 2004

Chairman : Professor Hanspeter Kraft, Universität Basel, Mathematisches Institut, Switzerland

09.00-09.50 Professor Pierre Deligne, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton-USA - Questions and examples around quantization
09.55-10.45 Professor Alexei Bondal,
Steklov Mathematical Institute, Institute of RAS, Moscow-Russia - Derived categories of toric varieties

10.45-11.15  Coffee

11.15-12.05 Professor Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto University, Japan - Loop space and holomorphic disc

12.10-12.25 Thank you and farewell