Thematic year on
Perspectives in Deformation Quantization
and Noncommutative Geometry

April 2010 --- March 2011
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Kyoto University, Japan
Opening meeting
April 26-28, 2010     RIMS, room 111

Speakers
Nigel Higson The Pennsylvania State University
Kentaro Hori IMPU, The University of Tokyo
Katsutoshi Kawashima Tokyo Metropolitan University
Toshikazu Natsume Nagoya Institute of Technology
Daniel Sternheimer Keio University and Bourgogne University
Boris Tsygan Northwestern University and Kyoto University
Program
Monday, April 26, 2010
13:00 ­ 13:30   Opening
13:30 ­ 14:30   Toshikazu Natsume   Index Theory for Beginners (1)
15:00 ­ 16:00   Kentaro Hori   String Theory and K-theory (1)
16:30 ­ 17:30   Boris Tsygan   Microlocal Methods in Symplectic Geometry (1)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
10:00 ­ 11:00   Toshikazu Natsume   Index Theory for Beginners (2)
11:30 ­ 12:30   Kentaro Hori   String Theory and K-theory (2)
- Lunch -
14:00 ­ 15:00   Boris Tsygan   Microlocal Methods in Symplectic Geometry (2)
15:30 ­ 16:30   Katsutoshi Kawashima   The Entire Cyclic Cohomology of Noncommutative Manifolds
17:00 ­ 18:00   Nigel Higson   The Weyl Character Formula and KK-Theory
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
10:00 ­ 11:00   Toshikazu Natsume   Index Theory for Beginners (3)
11:30 ­ 12:30   Kentaro Hori   String Theory and K-theory (3)
- Lunch -
14:00 ­ 15:00   Boris Tsygan   Microlocal Methods in Symplectic Geometry (3)
15:30 ­ 16:30   Daniel Sternheimer   Deformations, Quantizations, and the Geometry of Space-Time: An Introductory Overview
16:30 ­ -----   Informal Discussion/Closing  
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