Vth OPORTO MEETING on KNOT THEORY AND PHYSICS April 19th-22nd, 1996

MAIN SPEAKERS and PLANNED COURSES

J.L. GERVAIS

(Univ. Paris):

Generalised 3D simplicial gravity from Liouville theory

C. KASSEL

(Univ. Strasbourg):

Vassiliev invariants

J. M. LABASTIDA

(Univ. Santiago de Compostela):

Duality and Topological Quantum Field Theory

V. TURAEV

(Strasbourg):

Braided categories and topological field theory

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

José Mourão (Lisbon, IST): jmourao@ualg.pt
Roger Picken (Lisbon, IST): picken@math.ist.utl.pt
Eduardo Rêgo (Oporto, FCUP): jntavar@fc.up.pt
João Nuno Tavares (Oporto, FCUP): jntavar@fc.up.pt
Home page address: http://www.fisica.ist.utl.pt/~jmourao/om/om96b.html

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica
Centro de Matemática do Porto, Universidade do Porto
Centro de Matemática Aplicada, Instituto Superior Técnico
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Projecto "Física Matemática" PRAXIS/2/2.1/MAT/19/94
Projecto "AGCQ" PBIC/C/MAT/2150/95