2007 Special Year on Mathematical Physics

The year 2007 will be a Special Year on Mathematical Physics within the Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Organizing Committee

Murray Batchelor
Peter Bouwknegt
Bai-Ling (Bryan) Wang

Events

The following events have been organized:

• A topical program on the "Geometric Langlands Conjecture" (ANU, 16 July- 3 Aug)

• Special Event on the Baum-Connes Conjecture and Related Topics (ANU, 21-22 Sep)

• The First Asia-Pacific Summer School on Mathematical Physics (ANU, 26 Nov - 7 Dec)

• Annual workshop on Mathematical Physics (10-11 Dec ANU, 12-14 Dec Kioloa, NSW South Coast), incorporating the Annual Statistical Mechanics meeting (10-11 Dec).

Visitors

Confirmed visitors during the Special Year include:

Sander Bais (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Paul Baum (Penn State University, USA)
Jarah Evslin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Alex Flournoy (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Omar Foda (University of Melbourne)
Peter Forrester (University of Melbourne)
Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard University, USA)
Ian Grojnowski (University of Cambridge, UK)
Greg Lawler (University of Chicago, USA)
James McGuire (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Soonkeon Nam (Kyung Hee University, Seoul)
Akinori Nishino (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tony Pantev (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland, USA)
Hisham Sati (Yale University, USA)
Keiichi Shigechi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Masahiro Shiroishi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Minoru Takahashi (Toho University, Japan)
Zengo Tsuboi (Okoyama Institute for Quantum Physics, Okoyama, Japan)
Mathai Varghese (University of Adelaide)
Guifre Vidal (University of Queensland)
Siye Wu (Hong Kong University, China)

Information

For visitors to the ANU and Canberra there is an ANU campus map, a list of suggested accommodation and some more general tourist information.

For further information please contact cmaoffice@maths.anu.edu.au.