XIII Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics
16 -19 July, 2004
Departamento de Matemática Pura, Faculdade de Ciências,

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Schedule of Talks

DROR BAR-NATAN, University of Toronto, Canada
    "New and Newer Knot Invariants"
SERGEI GUKOV, Harvard University, USA
    "Quantum Geometry of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds"
JUSTIN ROBERTS, University of California at San Diego, USA
    "Derived Categories and Rozansky-Witten invariants"
CHRIS WOODWARD, Rutgers University, USA
    "Geometry of moduli spaces of flat bundles, quantum 6j symbols, and asymptotics of the Turaev-Viro invariant"

                                       Contributed talks:

Jamila Douari, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa
    "Unified Particles Algebra and Non-Commutative Geometry"
Soeren Kold Hansen, Max-Planck-Institute of Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
    "Chern-Simons invariants and asymptotics of the quantum invariants for surgeries on the figure eight knot"
Matyas Karadi, University of Cambridge, DAMTP, United Kingdom
    "Particles in models of three-dimensional quantum gravity"
Aaron Lauda, University of Cambridge, DPMMS, United Kingdom
    "Categorified Frobenius Algebras"
João Nunes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    "Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Theta Functions"
Marko Stosic, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    "Parasupersymmetric Quantum Mechanics of Order 3 and a Generalized Witten Index"
Paul Turner, Institut de Récherche Mathématique Avancée, Strasbourg, France
    "Chern-Simons Chain Field Theory"
João Faria Martins, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
    " (to be announced)"