The Department of Mathematical Physics, National University of Ireland, Galway

 

 

Sixth Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting 1999

Introduction The 6th IQFT Meeting takes place on 14-15th May, 1999 at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The meeting begins at 11.00 on Friday 14th May and finishes at 17.00 on Sat 15th May. All lectures will take place in the D'Arcy Thompson Theatre in the Arts Concourse.


Speakers The invited plenary speakers are:

There will also be six short talks by other speakers.

Timetable

Friday May 14

10.30-11.00

Registration, Tea/Coffee

 

11.15-12.15

Paul Townsend (DAMTP, Cambridge)

Solitons on Branes I

12.20-1.00

Danny Birmingham (UCD)

Geometrical Finiteness and the BTZ Black Hole

1.00-2.30

Lunch

 

2.30-3.30

Geoff Mason (UC Santa Cruz)

Moonshine, Modular Invariance, and Chiral Algebras

3.35-4.15

Dolan (NUI, Maynooth)

Duality, the modular group and the quantum Hall effect

4.15-4.30

Tea/Coffee

 

4.30-5.30

Chris Hull (QMC, London)

 M-Theory, Duality and Space-Time I

7.00

Conference Dinner

Ardilaun Hotel, Taylor's Hill

9.00

Lochlainn O' Raifeartaigh (DIAS)

Dimensional Reduction and Gauge Theory: Then and Now

 

Saturday May 15

9.30-10.10

Emil Prodanov (TCD)

Equivalence of Maxwell-Chern-Simons Theory and Self-Dual Model on Arbitrary Manifolds

10.10-11.10

Paul Townsend (DAMTP, Cambridge)

Solitons on Branes II

11.15-11.35

Tea/Coffee

 

11.35-12.15

Sreedhar Vinnakota (DIAS)

Duality in quantum Liouville theory

12.15-2.15

Lunch

2.15-3.15

Chris Hull (QMC, London)

M-Theory, Duality and Space-Time II

3.20-4.00

Frank Zimmerschied (NUI, Maynooth)

d dimensional SO(d) Higgs models with instanton and sphaleron: d=2,3

4.00-4.20

Tea/Coffee

4.20-5.00

Christopher Adam (TCD)

Zero modes of the Dirac operator in three dimensions

7.00

Informal Dinner

 

Registration Fee A registration fee of IPŁ10 will charged.

Accommodation Advanced booking is strongly recommended. Local Bed and Breakfast accommodation costs in the region of IP Ł18/25/night/person for a twin/single room. Hostel accommodation is also available IP 12-15/person sharing. Accommodation may be booked through the conference organisers until April 16th by contacting:

Michael Tuite, Dept. Maths. Physics, NUI, Galway, Ireland.

Email: Michael.Tuite@nuigalway.ie

Conference dinner A conference dinner will take place on Friday 14th May, 7.00 at a cost of IPŁ20 per person. An historical talk will follow given by Prof. L. O'Raifeartaigh of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

Travel Arrangements

Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Subsidies A limited fund is available to subsidise the travel, accommodation expenses and registration fees of postgraduates and postdoctoral fellows at Irish universities and Institutes. This will be allocated on a first come first served basis. For further details please contact as soon as possible:

Tom Sherry, Dept. Maths. Physics, NUI, Galway, Ireland.

Email: Tom.Sherry@nuigalway.ie

Last updated 6 May 99


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