Seventh Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting 2000

The 7^th IQFT Meeting takes place on 26-27^th May, 2000 at the
Maxwell Lecture Theatre,
School of Mathematics,
Hamilton Building,
Trinity College, Dublin.

D. Birmingham (NUI, Dublin)
M. Creutz (Brookhaven)
C. Houghton(Columbia)
A. Iorio (TCD)
G. Moore (Rutgers)
B. Muratori (NUI, Maynooth)
S. Ryan (TCD)
J. Teschner (DIAS)
M. Tuite (NUI, Galway)
N. Turok (DAMTP, Cambridge)
H. Verlinde (Princeton)


FRIDAY MAY 26

9.30 - 10.00 Registration

10.00 - 11.00 Herman Verlinde (Princeton)
Warped Compactification and Holography: I
Chair: S. Sen

11.10 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee

11.30 - 12.10 Danny Birmingham (NUI, Dublin)
Gott Time Machines and BTZ Black Hole Formation
Chair: M. Fry

12.15 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 3.00 Greg Moore (Rutgers)
D-Branes, RR Fields, and K-Theory: I
Chair: D. Birmingham

3.10 - 3.50 Joerg Teschner (DIAS)
Solvable Models for Strings on Nontrivial Backgrounds
Chair: D. Birmingham

3.55 - 4.15 Tea/Coffee

4.15 - 5.15 Neil Turok (DAMTP, Cambridge)
Before Inflation
Chair: T. Sherry

6.00 - Commons (Evening Meal in Trinity College)

8.00 - 9.00 Michael Creutz (Brookhaven)
The Early Days of Lattice QCD
Chair: S. Sen



SATURDAY MAY 27

9.30 - 10.10 Michael Tuite (NUI, Galway)
Genus Two Meromorphic Conformal Field Theory
and Siegel Modular Forms
Chair: C. Nash

10.15 - 10.55 Bruno Muratori (NUI, Maynooth)
Fermionic Zero Modes of Three-Dimensional QED
Chair: C. Nash

11.00-11.20 Tea/Coffee

11.20 - 12.20 Herman Verlinde (Princeton)
Warped Compactification and Holography: II
Chair: T. Tchrakian

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 3.00 Greg Moore (Rutgers)
D-Branes, RR Fields, and K-Theory: II
Chair: J. Sexton

3.10 - 3.50 Sinead Ryan (TCD)
Lattice QCD for the Standard Model and Beyond
Chair: J. Sexton

3.55 - 4.15 Tea/Coffee

4.15 - 4.55 Conor Houghton (Columbia)
Monopoles and their Spectral Curves
Chair: N. Buttimore

5.00 - 5.40 Alfredo Iorio (TCD)
Supersymmetric Noether Currents and Seiberg-Witten Theory
Chair: N. Buttimore



There will be an evening meal (Commons) on Friday 26th at 6pm (sharp) in the Dining Hall of Trinity College, prior to the evening talk by Prof. M. Creutz. If you would like to attend, please send a cheque for 7.10 Irish pounds (per person) to S. Sen by May 22.

Please note also that there are no parking facilities in TCD due to extensive construction work.

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