A Celebration of Raoul Bott’s Legacy in Mathematics

June 9-13, 2008

Program
 

Monday, June 9, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Registration and Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 09:15
Welcoming Remarks F. Lalonde & R. Kotiuga
09:15 - 10:15
Michael Atiyah
(The University of Edinburgh)
Working with Raoul Bott: From Geometry to Physics
Abstract
10:15 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:30 - 11:30
Nancy Hingston
(The College of New Jersey)
Loop Products and Closed Geodesics
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Cumrun Vafa
(Harvard University)
Topological Strings
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Morris W. Hirsch
(University of California, Berkeley)
Actions of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras on Manifolds
Abstract
15:00 - 16:00
John Morgan
(Columbia University)
Geometry and Topology in Dimension 3
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

16:30 - 17:30
Panel Session "Raoul Bott as teacher, mentor, and colleague" with Nancy Hingston (chair), Paul Baum, Jim Stasheff and Loring Tu. This panel session will also feature the film by Vanessa Scott about her grandfather, Raoul Bott, "A Peek Into the Book"

 

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:00
Joseph Kohn
(Princeton University)
Multiplier Ideals
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:30 - 11:30
James Heitsch
(University of Illinois at Chicago & Northwestern University)
Index Theory, Lefschetz Theory and Foliations
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Paul Baum
(The Pennsylvania State University)
Dirac Operators and K-Theory for Discrete Groups
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Lisa Jeffrey
(University of Toronto)
Connectedness of Moment Maps on Based Loop Groups
Abstract
15:00 - 16:00
Edward Witten
(Institute for Advanced Study)
Geometric Langlands Duality from Six Dimensions
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
16:30 - 17:30
Peter D. Lax
(New York University)
Multiple eigenvalues and symmetric hyperbolic systems
Abstract

19:00
Banquet Chez Queux (158, St-Paul Street East)

 

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
08:30 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:30
Stephen Smale
(Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
Mathematics of Vision and an Abstract Hodge Theory
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 11:30
Jim Lambek
(McGill University)
Raoul Bott, McGill, the 1940s
11:30 - 12:00
James Bernhard
(University of Puget Sound)
Equivariant Cohomology and Finite Stationary Phase Expansions
Abstract
12:00 - 12:30
P. Robert Kotiuga
(Boston University)
Cochains, Combinatorial TQFTs, Networks, Bott and History
Abstract
12:30 - 13:00
John Hubbard
(Cornell University)
Bott-Duffin Network Synthesis and Positive Real Functions
Abstract

13:00
Lunch break and free afternoon

 

Thursday, June 12, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:00
Constantin Teleman
(The University of Edinburgh)
Topological Landau-Ginzburg models revisited
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:30 - 11:30
Jonathan Weitsman
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
Measures on Banach Manifolds and Supersymmetric QFT
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Nitya Kitchloo
(University of California, San Diego)
Morse-Bott stratifications in Infinite dimensions
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Ralph Cohen
(Stanford University)
Morse Theory, Loop Spaces, and Manifolds with Corners
Abstract
15:00 - 16:00
Loring Tu
(Tufts University)
Computing the Gysin Map Using Fixed Points
Abstract
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
16:30 - 17:30
András Szenes
(Université de Genève)
Localization in Global Singularity Theory
Abstract

 

Friday, June 13, 2008
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:00
Marco Gualtieri
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Generalized Complex Geometry
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:30 - 11:30
Susan Tolman
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Generalized Schubert Calculus and the Atiyah-Bott principle
Abstract
11:30 - 12:30
Octav Cornea
(Université de Montréal)
Quantization of Morse Theory
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:30
Panel Session "Examining Raoul Bott's Legacy in Mathematics" with Michael Atiyah (chair), Nancy Hingston, Jacques Hurtubise, Nitya Kitchloo, Jim Stasheff et Susan Tolman
15:30 - 16:00
Rerun of Vanessa Scott's film about her grandfather, Raoul Bott, "A Peek Into the Book"

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