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Pre - SAAC symposium

Speakers

  • John Ball, Heriot-Watt University
  • Constantine Dafermos , Brown University
  • Yulij Ilyashenko, Higher School of Economics
  • Bao Chau Ngo, University of Chicago 
  • Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley

Venue:

Weizmann Institute of Science, Ziskind Building,  Lecture Hall 1 ( Jean Goldwrum ) 

Organized by:

  • Maria Gorelik 

 

Program

09:30 - 10:30 Vera Serganova 
"Supersymmetry and tensor categories"
10:30 - 10:50

Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:50 Bao Chau Ngo
“Geometry of the Hitchin fibration and application to local harmonic analysis”
12:00 - 13:00

John Ball
"The mathematics of liquid crystals"

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch Break

14:40 - 15:40 Yulij Ilyashenko
Global bifurcations on the two sphere: first steps of a new theory
15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Constantine Dafermos
"Zero Relaxation Limit"