10.30 - 11.00   Registration



11.00 - 12.00   A.P. Balachandran       (Syracuse)


      Enquiries about the Nature of Spacetime

Chair: N. Buttimore



12.10 - 12.50          D. Birmingham       (NUI, Dublin) 


      Exact Results for the BTZ Black Hole

Chair: M. Fry



1.00 - 2.30    Lunch



2.30 - 3.30          M. Creutz       (Brookhaven) 


      Chiral Symmetry versus the Lattice

Chair: J. Sexton



3.40 - 4.20          P. Sutcliffe       (Kent)


      The Geometry of Point Particles

Chair: C. Nash 



4.25 - 4.45    Tea/Coffee            



4.45 - 5.25         V.V. Sreedhar       (DIAS)


      The Maximal Kinematical Invariance Group  of Fluid Mechanics

Chair: S. Sen       

9.30 - 10.30 		  N. Manton (DAMTP, Cambridge) 


Topological Solitons I

Chair: C. Nash  



10.40 - 11.20 		  A. Small (NUI, Maynooth) 


BPS-Monopole Minimal Surfaces of Charge 2

Chair: C. Nash    



11.25 - 11.45		 Tea/Coffee



11.45 - 12.25 		  C. Houghton (TCD)


Massless Monopoles and Clouds

Chair: W. McGlinn    



12.30 - 2.00    Lunch 



2.00 - 3.00          G. Gibbons       (DAMTP, Cambridge) 


      Born-Infeld Theory

Chair: D. Birmingham  



3.10 - 3.50          C. Nash       (NUI, Maynooth)  


      On non  L2  Solutions to the Seiberg-Witten Equations

Chair: D. Birmingham  



3.55 - 4.15    Tea/Coffee



4.15 - 5.15          N. Manton       (DAMTP, Cambridge)


      Topological Solitons II

Chair: T. Sherry      



6.00 - 7.30     Commons (Evening Meal in Trinity College) 



8.00 - 9.00        P. Higgs       (Edinburgh)


      My Life as a Boson: The Story of `The Higgs'

Chair: S. Ryan

9.30 - 10.10         A. Iorio       (Salerno)


      Quantum Algebras, Event Horizons and Thermo-Field             Dynamics

Chair: S. Sen  



10.15 - 10.55         M. Tuite       (NUI, Galway) 


      A New Exact Formula for Genus Two Bosonic String             Partition Function

Chair: S. Sen   



11.00- 11.20 Tea/Coffee



11.20 - 11.50         S. Sen (Jnr)       (TCD) 


      Extending Geometric Discretisation

Chair: S. Sen 



11.55 - 12.25         D. Grigoriev       (NUI, Maynooth) 


      Resonant Amplification of Electroweak             Baryogenesis

Chair: T. Tchrakian 



12. 30 - 2.00    Lunch 



2.00 - 3.00    G. Gibbons (DAMTP, Cambridge) 


Metrics of Special Holonomy

Chair: M. Tuite  



3.10 - 4.10   T. Ioannidou (Kent)  


Soliton Dynamics in 3D Ferromagnets

Chair: C. Houghton  



4.15 - 4.35    Tea/Coffee



4.35 - 5.35    A.P. Balachandran (Syracuse)


Fuzzy Physics

Chair: C. Nash  

There will be an evening meal (Commons) on Friday 25th at 6pm (sharp) in the Dining Hall of Trinity College, prior to the evening talk by Prof. P. Higgs. If you would like to attend, please send a cheque for 7.88 Irish pounds (per person) to Sinead Ryan as soon as possible before the conference starts.

Parking facilities are available in nearby public car parks.

Enquiries:

Dr. D. Birmingham  Dr. S. Ryan

Department of Mathematical Physics  School of Mathematics

National University of Ireland, Dublin  Trinity College Dublin

Belfield, Dublin 4  Dublin 2



Tel: 706 8223 Tel: 608 1267

Email: dannyb@pop3.ucd.ie Email: ryan@maths.tcd.ie

Conference website: www.thphys.may.ie