Winter School

in Mathematical Physics - 2011

General:

The arrival day is Sunday, January 30.
The scientific program begins on Monday, January 31.
The talks take place in the conference center 5 minutes walk from the hotel.

Schedule:

Monday, January 31

 9:30 - 10:30  B. Szendroi, "Donaldson-Thomas theory and its variants"
10:45 - 11:45  R. Kashaev, "Colored Jones polynomial and the hyperboilc volume conjecture"

17:00 - 18:00  M. Polyak, "Open-closed Conway-type TQFT for tangles"
18:15 - 19:15  M. Marino, "Matrix models and knot invariants"


Tuesday, February 1

 9:30 - 10:30  B. Szendroi, "Donaldson-Thomas theory and its variants"
10:45 - 11:45  R. Kashaev, "Colored Jones polynomial and the hyperboilc volume conjecture"

17:00 - 18:00  P. Turner, "A brief introduction to Khovanov homology"
18:15 - 19:15  M. Marino, "Matrix models and knot invariants"


Wednesday, February 2

 9:30 - 12:00  short talks by graduate students

18:15 - 19:15  P. Mnev, "1-dimensional Chern-Simons theory"


Thursday, February 3

 9:30 - 10:30  B. Szendroi, "Donaldson-Thomas theory and its variants"
10:45 - 11:45  R. Pandharipande, "Cohomology of the moduli space of curves"

17:00 - 18:00  M. Marino, "Matrix models and knot invariants"
18:15 - 19:15  R. Kashaev, "Colored Jones polynomial and the hyperboilc volume conjecture"


Friday, February 4

 9:30 - 10:30  M. Marino, "Matrix models and knot invariants"
10:45 - 11:45  R. Pandharipande, "Cohomology of the moduli space of curves"