Program

Monday, November 24 (Sde Boqer)
9:00  ­ 9:30 Opening
9:35 ­ 10:25 Christian Fronsdal   Thermodynamics with an action principle
- Coffee break -
10:40 ­ 11:30 Didier Arnal    Quasi standard Young tableaux
11:35 ­ 12:25 Erik Taflin   Asymptotic Quantum Electrodynamics
- Lunch -
14:30 ­ 15:20 Giuseppe Dito   A new algebra of deformation quantization on a complex symplectic manifold
15:25 ­ 16:15 Michel Lapidus   Fractal Geometry and Number Theory: Zeta Functions and Complex Dimensions
- Coffee break -
16:30 ­ 17:20 Olivier Mathieu   A symmetric space attached to polyzeta values
18:30 Leave to dinner at Shivta National Park (Dinner at 19:00)
Tuesday, November 25 (Sde Boqer)
8:30 ­ 13:30 Excursion to Ramon Crater
- Lunch -
15:00 ­ 15:50 Michael Polyak   Invariants of 3-manifolds by counting arrow diagrams
- Coffee break -
16:05 ­ 16:55 Boris Tsygan   Oscillatory modules
17:00 ­ 17:50 Amnon Yekutieli   Twisted Deformation Quantization of Algebraic Varieties
18:30 Leave to Neve-Midbar (hot springs). Arrival 19:00, dinner. Open till 22h.
Wednesday, November 26 (Sde Boqer and Beer Sheva)
9:10 ­ 10:00 Nicolai Reshetikhin   Quantum groups at roots of unity and invariants of links
- Coffee break -
10:15 ­ 11:05 David Kazhdan   The Satake isomorphism for Kac-Moody algebras
11:05 ­ 12:00 Kyoji Saito   The Partition Functions for Non-Commutative Ising Models
- Lunch and bus to Ben Gurion University -
15:30 ­ 16:30 Mikhael Gromov   Multiplicity of maps between polyhedra
- Coffee break -
16:45 ­ 17:45 Maxim Kontsevich   Arithmetic supports of holonomic D-modules
- Bus to Golden Tulip Hotel. MFMM Conference dinner -
Thursday, November 27 (BGU Beer Sheva)
The Moshe Flato Lectures Series 2008
Last updated: November 23, 2008