Winter School

in Mathematical Physics - 2011

Place and date:

Les Diablerets, January 30 - February 4, 2011
(deadline for registration: November 15, 2010)

Speakers and subjects:

Rinat Kashaev (Geneva), "Colored Jones polynomial and the hyperboilc volume conjecture"
Marcos Mariño (Geneva), "Matrix models and knot invariants"
Pavel Mnev (Steklov Institute), "1-dimensional Chern-Simons theory"
Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton), "Cohomology of the moduli space of curves"
Michael Polyak (Technion), "Open-closed Conway-type TQFT for tangles"
Balázs Szendrői (Oxford), "Donaldson-Thomas theory and its variants"
Paul Turner (Geneva, Fribourg), "A brief introduction to Khovanov homology"

short talks by graduate students

Organizers:

Anton Alekseev (Geneva), Anton.Alekseev (at) unige.ch
Damien Calaque (Lyon)
Alberto Cattaneo (Zürich)
Giovanni Felder (ETH, Zürich)
Maria Podkopaeva (Geneva), Maria.Podkopaeva (at) unige.ch
Thomas Strobl (Lyon)
Andras Szenes (Geneva), Andras.Szenes (at) unige.ch