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.
Friday May 14
10.30-11.00 |
Registration, Tea/Coffee |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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11.35-12.15 |
Sreedhar Vinnakota (DIAS) |
Duality in quantum Liouville theory |
12.15-2.15 |
Lunch |
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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 |
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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.
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