Hodge Theory in a New Century
A Euro Conference celebrating the Centenary of
Sir William Hodge (1903-1975)
Edinburgh, 20-26 July 2003
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TIMETABLE
Lectures take place in the Theatre of the Michael Swann Building Lectures take place in the Theatre of the Michael Swann Building
Q&A Sessions and afternoon coffee take place in the James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
| Sunday 20 July | |
| from 1830 | Welcome/Registration Buffet in St Leonards Hall, Pollock Halls |
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| Monday 21 July | |
| 0915–0945 | Registration outside the Swann Lecture Theatre (for those who could not attend the Buffet on 20 July) |
| 0945–1000 | Sir Michael Atiyah
Welcome and administrative details |
| 1000–1100 | Phillip Griffiths Hodge Theory and geometry |
| 1100–1130 | Coffee in foyer of Swann Theatre |
| 1130–1230 | Alexander Beilinson tba |
| 1230–1430 | Lunch Break. Lunch available at KB House |
| 1430–1530 | Mark Green Higher invariants of Chow groups |
| 1530–1600 | Coffee in Room 5215 of JCMB |
| 1600–1730 | Informal seminars (in Swann Theatre)Q & A Sessions in Room 5326 of JCMB |
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| Tuesday 22 July | |
| 1000–1100 | Jeff Cheeger Hodge theory on singular spaces with special holonomy? |
| 1100–1130 | Coffee in foyer of Swann Theatre |
| 1130–1230 | Christophe Soulé
On the support of torsion classes in the cohomology of complex manifolds |
| 1230–1400 | Lunch Break. Lunch available at KB House |
| London Mathematical Society and Edinburgh Mathematical Society Joint Meeting | |
| 1400–1415 | LMS/EMS Business |
| 1415–1515 | Michael Atiyah Sir William Hodge – the man and the mathematician |
| 1515–1600 | Roger Penrose
Mathematical experiences as a Cambridge research student under William Hodge |
| 1600–1645 | Tea in the foyer of the Swann Theatre |
| 1645–1730 | Fritz Hirzebruch Hodge numbers, Chern numbers, Catalan numbers |
| 1730 | Joint LMS/EMS meeting closes |
| 1930 for 2000 | Reception hosted by the University of Edinburgh in the Raeburn Room of Old College (1930 onwards), followed by the Conference Dinner in the nearby Playfair Library (2000) |
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| Wednesday 23 July | |
| 1000–1100 | Edward Witten Chiral rings |
| 1100–1130 | Coffee in foyer of Swann Theatre |
| 1130–1230 | David Morrison
Kähler metrics and birational geometry |
| 1230–1430 | Lunch Break. Lunch available at KB House |
| Discussion afternoon | |
| 1430–1530 | Simon Donaldson
Perelman’s work on the Poincaré conjecture |
| 1530–1630 | Opportunity for discussion |
| 1630 | Tea/coffee available in Room 5215 of JCMB |
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| Thursday 24 July | |
| 1000–1100 | Simon Donaldson Hodge, Lefschetz and differentiable 4-manifolds |
| 1100–1130 | Coffee in foyer of Swann Theatre |
| 1130–1230 | Dusa McDuff Comparing Kähler and symplectic topology |
| 1230–1430 | Lunch Break. Lunch available at KB House |
| 1430–1530 | Wilfried Schmid Some musings about Hodge theory and unitary representations |
| 1530–1600 | Coffee in Room 5215 of JCMB |
| 1600–1730 | Informal seminars (in Swann
Theatre) Q & A Sessions in Room 5326 of JCMB |
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| Friday 25 July | |
| 1000–1100 | Maxim Kontsevich Hodge structures in noncommutative algebraic geometry |
| 1100–1130 | Coffee in foyer of Swann Theatre |
| 1130–1230 | Claire Voisin Hodge classes on Kaehler and projective manifolds |
| 1230–1430 | Lunch Break. Lunch available at KB House |
| 1430–1530 | Spencer Bloch Periods for differential equations |
| 1530–1600 | Coffee in Room 5215 of JCMB |
| 1600–1730 | Informal seminars (in Swann
Theatre) Q & A Sessions in Room 5326 of JCMB |
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| Saturday 26 July | |
| 1000-1600 | ICMS – 14 India Street –
will be open for visitors The common room in Grant House (Pollock Halls) will be available all day for informal discussion. |
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Speakers
Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)
Alexander Beilinson (Chicago)
Spencer Bloch (Chicago)
Jeff Cheeger (Courant)
Simon Donaldson (Imperial)
Mark Green (UCLA)
Philip Griffiths (IAS, Princeton)
Fritz Hirzebruch (Bonn)
Maxim Kontsevich (IHES)
Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook)
David Morrison (Duke)
Roger Penrose (Oxford)
Wilfried Schmid (Harvard)
Christophe Soulé (IHES)
Claire Voisin (Paris VII)
Edward Witten (IAS, Princeton)
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PARTICIPANTS - 17 July 2003
| Name | Institution |
| Akaki, Tikaradze | University of Chicago |
| Albuquerque, Rui | Universidade de Evora |
| Allaud, Emmanuel | Université Paul Sabatier |
| Ambro, Florin | University of Cambridge |
| Bahraini, Alireza | Institut de Mathématiques, Paris |
| Barden, Dennis | Pembroke/Girton Colleges Cambridge |
| Beilinson, Alexander | University of Chicago |
| Bielawski, Roger | University of Glasgow |
| Bloch, Spencer | University of Chicago |
| Boissiere, Samuel | Université de Nantes |
| Bondal, Alexei | Steklov Institute |
| Boucksom, Sebastien | Imperial College |
| Bourguignon, Jean Pierre | Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
| Bournaveas, Nikolaos | University of Edinburgh |
| Braden, Harry | University of Edinburgh |
| Bridgeland, Tom | University of Edinburgh |
| Bruenjes, Lars | University of Cambridge |
| Castano-Bernard, Ricardo | ICTP, Trieste |
| Cheeger, Jeff | Courant Institute/Renaissance Technolgies |
| Coates, Tom | Harvard University and CMI |
| Conte, Alberto | Universita' di Torino |
| Costello, Kevin | University of Cambridge |
| Dammerman, Brandon | University of Oxford |
| Dancer, Andrew | University of Oxford |
| Donaldson, Simon | Imperial College |
| Figueroa-O'Farrill, Jose Miguel | University of Edinburgh |
| Fine, Joel | Imperial College |
| Garling, Ben | University of Cambridge |
| Green, Mark | UCLA |
| Griffiths, Phillip | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| Guillot, Pierre | University of Cambridge |
| Haire, Timothy J | University of Cambridge |
| Halliday, Sam | Heriot Watt University |
| Hansen, Soeren Kold | University of Edinburgh |
| Hirzebruch, Fritz | Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik |
| Hodge, Thomas | Imperial College |
| Kang, Hyunsuk | University of Cambridge |
| Kaplan, Aroldo | U. of Massachusetts/U. of Cordoba |
| Kokarev, Gerasim | Heriot-Watt University |
| Kontsevich, Maxim | Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques |
| Lattarulo, Michele | Universita di Genova |
| Lickorish, Raymond | Cambridge Universtiy |
| Madonna, Carlo | University of Ferrara |
| Maldonado-Mercado, Cesar | University of Glasgow |
| Mann, Elizabeth | Oxford University |
| Marchisio, Marina | Universita' di Torino |
| Martínez, Cristina | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Matessi, Diego | Imperial College |
| Maulik, Davesh | Oxford University |
| McDuff, Dusa | SUNY at Stony Brook |
| McKay, John | Concordia University |
| McQuillan, William | |
| Morrison, David | Duke University |
| Mourougane, Christophe | Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu |
| Nash, Oliver | University of Oxford |
| Nieper-Wißkirchen, Marc | University of Cambridge |
| O'Donnell, Peter | Anglia Polytechnic University |
| Penrose, Roger | University of Oxford |
| Perutz, Tim | Imperial College London |
| Philip, Simon | University of Edinburgh |
| Rajaniemi, Hannu | University of Edinburgh |
| Ramon-Mari, Jose J | University of Durham |
| Ranicki, Andrew | University of Edinburgh |
| Ravindra, Girivaru | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
| Raza, Aleksis | Imperial College |
| Rees, Elmer | University of Edinburgh |
| Rochon, Frederic | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Ross, Julius | Imperial College |
| Sabbah, Claude | CNRS |
| Schmid, Wilfried | Harvard University |
| Segal, Graeme | Oxford University |
| Shirvani, Mazi | University of Alberta |
| Simms, David | Trinity College Dublin |
| Singer, Michael | University of Edinburgh |
| Somberg, Petr | Charles University, Praha |
| Soucek, Vladimir | Charles University, Praha |
| Soulé, Christophe | CNRS/IHES |
| Svensson, Martin | Lund University |
| Thomas, Richard | Imperial College |
| Totaro, Burt | University of Cambridge |
| Tweedale, Michael | Imperial College London |
| Voisin, Claire | Université de Paris VI |
| Watterson, Voirrey | Edinburgh University |
| Wendland, Katrin | University of Warwick |
| Wilton, Henry | Imperial College |
| Witten, Edward | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
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