Workshop on large N limits of U(N) gauge theory
in physics and mathematics

January 5-9, 2004

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 4
17:00
The shuttle leaves the Campus. Arrival at the Far Hills Inn around 18:30.
19:30
Dinner
MONDAY, JANUARY 5
07:30 - 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 10:15
V. Kazakov
Non-perturbative corrections and instantons in the
large N matrix integral
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10:15 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
M. Douglas
11:30 - 12:30
I. Kostov
Geometrical derivation of the boundary ground ring in
2D quantum gravity
Lunch and free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 17:00
M. Staudacher
Integrability in N=4 gauge theory, matrix models, and
rotating superstrings
17:00 - 18:00
TBA
19:00
Dinner
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6
07:30 - 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 10:15
N. Reshetikhin
Random skew plane partitions
10:15 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
A. Okounkov
11:30 - 12:30
S. Zelditch
Large N asymptotics of characters and partition
functions: positive and negative results
12:30
Lunch and free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 17:00
J. Harnad
Large N asymptotics in normal matrix models,
convergent partition functions and dispersionless
hierarchies
17:00 - 18:00
D. Korotkin
Genus one corrections in two-matrix models,
G-function of Frobenius manifolds and Laplace
determinants
19:00
Dinner
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7
07:30 - 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 10:15
O. Zeitouni
10:15 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
A. Guionnet
First order asymptotics for some matrix equation
11:30 - 12:30
P. Bleher
Large N-limit in the random matrix model with external
source. The Riemann-Hilbert approach
12:30
Lunch and free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 17:00
M. Shcherbina
On the edge and the extreme point universality of the
local eigenvalue statistics of matrix models
17:00 - 18:00
C. Frohman
19:00
Dinner
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
07:30 - 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00
W. Goldman
Representations of surface groups
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
10:15 - 11:30
F. Labourie
Surface groups, $SL(n,\mathbb R)$, crossratios and
$C^1(S^1)\rtimes Diff^1(S^1)$
11:30 - 12:30
C. Woodward
K-theory pairings on the moduli stack of bundles
12:30
Lunch and free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 17:00
R. Wentworth
17:00 - 18:00
M. Bertola
Tau Function of the Dispersionless Toda Hierarchy and planar limit of the Free Energy of the Hermitean Two-Matrix Model
19:00
Dinner
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
07:30
Breakfast
10:30
The shuttle leaves the Far Hills Inn for Dorval
Airport, and makes a final stop at the Université de
Montréal campus.