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Durham Cathedral

London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium
Methods of Integrable Systems in Geometry
Friday 11th August - Monday 21st August 2006

Programme

All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site. Details of the informal seminars are available elsewhere. Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Grey College.
Friday 11th August
14:00Registration in Holgate House - closes at Dinner
19:00Dinner
Saturday 12th August
09:20-10:10U. AbreschOn holomorphic quadratic differentials
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50U. Hertrich-JerominConformally flat hypersurfaces with cyclic Guichard net
12:30Lunch - Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:20M.U. SchmidtOn immersions of tori in 3-space.
17:30-18:20F. HéleinIntegrable systems associated with 4-symmetric spaces
20:00Wine Reception (after dinner)
Sunday 13th August
09:20-10:10U. PinkallIntegrable systems for real time simulation of fluid flow
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50M. MulaseIntegrable Systems in Gromov-Witten Theory
12:30Lunch - Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:20I. TaimanovSurfaces in three-dimensional Lie groups
17:30-18:20E.V. FerapontovIntegrable 3-dimensional equations of the dispersionless Hirota type.
20:00Computer Visualization Evening
Monday 14th August
09:20-10:10K. FukayaSmooth correspondence and Topological Field theory
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50L.J. MasonHolomorphic discs and global problems in integrable systems or Integrability and Twistor Strings
12:30Lunch - Grey College
13:50Conference Photograph after lunch
14:30Durham Cathedral Tour
Tuesday 15th August
09:20-10:10C.-L. TerngThe n×n KdV flows
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50P.A. ClarksonThe Painlevé Equations - Nonlinear Special Functions
12:30Lunch - Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:20A. BobenkoOn organising principles of discrete differential geometry. Geometry of spheres.
17:30-18:20I. McIntoshHamiltonian stationary surfaces in R4 and CP2
20:00Poster Session in Grey JCR
Wednesday 16th August
09:20-10:10A.B. GiventalPicard-Lefschetz periods and integrable hierarchies
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50E. PreviatoCommuting partial differential operators
12:30Lunch - Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:20B. DubrovinDo we already know enough integrable systems?
17:30-18:20C. BohleConstrained Willmore Tori in the 4-Sphere
20:00Willmore Evening
Thursday 17th August
09:00Day trip to Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby (confirm your participation at registration)
Friday 18th August
09:20-10:10M. SaitoGeometry of equations of Painlevé type
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50T. MilanovGromov-Witten invariants of CP1 and integrable hierarchies
12:30Lunch - Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:20A. VeselovLogarithmic Frobenius structures and Coxeter root systems
17:30-18:20D. CalderbankSubmanifolds of celestial spheres: geometry and integrability
Saturday 19th August
09:20-10:10M. MicallefIsotropic minimal surfaces and holomorphic curves in flat tori
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50A. NakayashikiAbelian functions as a D-module
12:30Lunch - Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:20W. SchiefThe geometry of shell membranes: The Lamé equation
17:30-18:20H. Kanno Topological strings on local Calabi-Yau manifolds and instantons in gauge theories
19:00Drinks in Grey JCR followed by the Conference Dinner
Sunday 20th August
09:20-10:10K. StephensonDiscretizing conformal geometry
10:15Coffee/Tea
11:00-11:50M. HaskinsSpecial Lagrangian cones, integrable systems and spectral geometry
12:30Lunch - Grey College
16:00Tea/Coffee
16:30-17:20R.S. WardPeriodic and doubly-periodic monopoles
Monday 21st August
Departure after breakfast