SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

December 22, 2024

Activities July 2000- June 2001

THEMATIC PROGRAMS

January to June 2001
Symplectic Topology, Geometry and Gauge Theory

Quasiclassical and Quantum Structures,-- Jan. 9-14, 2001
Symplectic and Contact Topology, Quantum Cohomology, Symplectic Field Theory and Higher-Dimensional Gauge Theory -- March 26 - April 7, 2001
Hamiltonian Group Actions and Quantization -- June 4 - 13, 2001

September 2000 - January 2001
Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory and Its Applications

Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras and Groups: Structure and Geometry Sept. 25-29, 2000
Vertex Operator Algebras in Mathematics and Physics, Oct. 23-27, 2000
Quasiclassical and Quantum Structures, Jan. 9-14, 2001

Graduate Courses
Symplectic Geometry with E. Meinrenken
Introduction To Extended Affine Lie Algebras with Y.Gao,
Topics In Representation Theory with Y.Billig

Dec. 5-7, 2000
Coxeter Lecture Series 2000
Graeme Segal
: "The Idea of Space in String Theory"

GENERAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Sept. 2000 - June 2001
Fields Colloquium in Applied Mathematics
Organizers: W. Craig and C. Sulem

Sept. 2000 - April 2001
Complexity Theory and Model Theory Seminars

June 22-23, 2001
A Workshop in Honour for Allan Borodin, "Borodin at 60"
Organizer: S. Cook

June 18, 2001
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

May 14-18, 2001
Summer School in Quantum Information Processing
Organizers: R. Cleve, R. Laflamme, D. Lidar, M. Mosca, A. Tapp

Distinguished Lecture Series
Peter Shor, (AT&T) -"Quantum Computing" & "Capacities of Quantum Channels"

April 27-30, 2001
Informal Workshop on Thom's gradient conjecture
Organizer: Chris Miller

April 26-28, 2001
Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization , University of Waterloo
Supported by The Fields Institute

April 16-21, 2001
Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics
Organizers: W. Craig and C. Sulem

March 20, 2001
2001 Nerenberg Lecturer at The University of Western Ontario
S. Fred Singer, "Where was global warming this winter when we needed it?"
Co-sponsored by The Fields Institute

November 4 and 9, 2000
GLENN SHAFER, Rutgers University
'The Language of Causality'
SEWALL WRIGHT LECTURES

Oct. 30, 2000
CRM-Fields Institute Prize Lecture 2000
Israel Michael Sigal, University of Toronto

October 25-26, 2000
JUDEA PEARL, University of California
'The Mathematics of Cause and Effect '
SEWALL WRIGHT LECTURES

Oct. 18 - 22, 2000
Workshop on Simple Theories

Sept. 21- 22, 2000
Topics in Modern Stochastic Analysis

Sept.-Dec. 2000
String Theory Seminar
Organizer: A. Peet