Monday, 19 March 2012 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
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13:30 | Refreshments | |
13:50 | Opening | |
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 |
16:00 | Reception | |
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
09:30 | Refreshments | |
10:00 | Nora Ganter | 196,884 = 196,883+1 |
11:00 | Craig Westerland | Some higher chromatic analogues of the J-homomorphism |
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 |
09:30 | Refreshments | |
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 |
15:00 | Refreshments | |
15:30 | Wend Werner | K-theory and the classification of symmetric spaces
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18:00 | Conference dinner | |
Friday, 23 March 2012 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
09:30 | Refreshments | |
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 |