School of Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science

British Mathematical Colloqium 2012 Mathematical Physics workshop

April 17 2012 - April 18 2012

Information:

This workshop is part of the 2012 British Mathematical Colloquium, held at the University of Kent, 16--19 April, 2012.

Speakers

• Matthew England (Glasgow)
  
• Graham Kemp (Loughborough)
  
• Sara Lombardo (Northumbria/Vrije Universiteit)
• Martin Speight (Leeds)
  
• Anne Taormina (Durham)(Morning speaker at the BMC)
  
• Roberto Tateo (Torino)
  
• Alexander P Veselov (Loughborough)
  
• Jacopo Viti (Trieste)
  
• Charles Young (Hertfordshire)
  

Programme:

Tuesday 17 April 2012

• 13.30--14.15 Alexander P Veselov (Loughborough)
  Universality in Lie algebras and Chern-Simons theory
• 14.15--15.00 Matthew England (Glasgow)
  Building Abelian functions with generalised Hirota operators
• 15.15--16.00 Martin Speight (Leeds)
  Solitons on tori and soliton crystals
• 16.00--16.30 Graham Kemp (Loughborough)
  Geometric quanitzation, Dirac monopoles and coadjoint orbits
• 16.30--17.00 Coffee
  

Wednesday 18 April 2012

• 10.00--10.55 Anne Taormina (Durham)
  K3 elliptic genus: glimpse of a new Moonshine
• 13.30--14.15 Roberto Tateo (Torino)
  Bethe Ansatz and nonlinear wave equations
• 14.15--15.00 Charles Young (Hertfordshire)
  Quantum Affine Algebras and Extended T-systems
• 15.15--16.00 Sara Lombardo (Northumbria/Vrije Universiteit)
  The unexpected simplicity of Automorphic Lie Algebras
• 16.00--16.30 Jacopo Viti (Trieste)
  Universal properties of two-dimensional percolation
• 16.30--17.00 Coffee
  

The mathematical physics afternoon sessions will be held in Keynes College KS12 at the University of Kent. Prof. Taormina's talk will be in the Grimond building in GLT2. A map of campus is available here.

Registration:

If you plan to attend just the Mathematical Physics workshops then please email Clare Dunning. There is no registration fee to attend the Mathematical Physics workshops.

If you plan to attend the entire BMC, you need to register here and pay the registration fee.

Travel Information:

Canterbury is approximately one hour by train from London St Pancras or two hours twenty minutes from Paris (via Ashford International). Travel information is available here.

Enquiries

Please contact Clare Dunning if you have any queries.

Support

Contact us on +44(0)1227 827181 or e-mail the department

School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF.

Last Updated: 23/03/2012

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