Schedule

Program Schedule

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Monday, 19 March 2012
Time Speaker Title
13:30Refreshments
13:50Opening
14:00 Jonathan Rosenberg The basic idea of dualities in field theories and T-duality
15:00 Jonathan Rosenberg K-Theory and its relevance to physics
16:00Reception
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Time Speaker Title
09:30Refreshments
10:00Nora Ganter 196,884 = 196,883+1
11:00Craig Westerland Some higher chromatic analogues of the J-homomorphism
SLIDES
12:00 Lunch break
14:00 Jonathan Rosenberg Basics of C*-algebras and crossed products
15:00 Jonathan Rosenberg Continuous-trace algebras and twisted K-theory
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Time Speaker Title
12:00 Free morning and lunch break
14:00 Jonathan Rosenberg The topology of T-duality and the Bunke-Schick construction
15:00 Jonathan Rosenberg T-duality via crossed products
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Time Speaker Title
09:30Refreshments
10:00 Jonathan Rosenberg Problems presented by S-duality
11:00 Jonathan Rosenberg The AdS/CFT correspondence and problems it raises
12:00 Lunch break
14:00 Alan Carey Spectral flow using Kasparov
SLIDES
15:00 Refreshments
15:30 Wend Werner K-theory and the classification of symmetric spaces
SLIDES
18:00 Conference dinner
Friday, 23 March 2012
Time Speaker Title
09:30Refreshments
10:00 Jonathan Rosenberg KR-theory and some KR calculations
11:00 Jonathan Rosenberg T-duality for orientifolds and applications of KR-theory
12:00 Lunch break and end of workshop