Program
Pdf files: program and abstracts.
Monday, December 14
9:00 - 9:50
Registration
9:50 - 10:00
Opening
10:00 - 11:00
P. Cartier
LIchnerowicz and spinors
- Coffee break -
11:30 - 12:30
R. Bryant
Beyond holonomy: constrained structure equations
- Lunch break -
14:30 - 15:30
C. Fronsdal
Action principle for thermodynamics?
- Coffee break -
16:00 - 17:00
O. Biquard
On 4-dimensional Einstein manifolds
17:00 - 18:00
S. Klainerman
Are black holes real?
18:00 Reception at IHP
Tuesday, December 15
9:00 - 10:00
S. Gutt
A symplectic analogue to spaces of constant curvature
- Coffee break -
10:30 - 11:30
M. Dubois-Violette
Local Einstein-Cartan actions
11:30 - 12:30
T. Damour
The problem of motion in general relativity
- Lunch break-
Afternoon session at the amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Collège de France
14:30 - 15:30
S. Donaldson
Special holonomy and adiabatic limits
15:30 - 16:30
M. Kontsevich
Noncommutative Kähler geometry
- Coffee break -
17:00 - 18:00
Remembering Lichnerowicz and his works
Y. Choquet-Bruhat, M. Cahen, M. Modugno, J.-P. Bourguignon, and A. Connes
Wednesday, December 16
9:00 - 10:00
N. Deruelle
On the equivalence principle, from Newton to Einstein and beyond
- Coffee break -
10:30 - 11:30
J. Isenberg
Expliciting the space of solutions of the Lichnerowicz equation and
the Einstein constraints
11:30 - 12:30
C. Frances
A. Lichnerowicz and the conformal group of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
- Lunch break-
14:30 - 15:30
A. Cattaneo
BV-BFV theories on manifolds with boundary and general relativity
- Coffee break -
16:00 - 17:00
E. Frenkel
Geometry, duality, and quantum physics
17:00
Closing