Subject: SEMESTER ON K-THEORY AND NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY (second announcement) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:04:41 -0800 From: Max Karoubi IMPORTANT : If you want to receive automatically informations about the Semester (courses, seminars, workshops, special lectures, etc.), please send an e.mail to : infokgnc-request@ihp.jussieu.fr with no subject and containing the single word SUBSCRIBE in the text of your message. K-THEORY AND NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY March 1st-July 17, 2004 Institut Henri Poincare (Paris) www.ihp.jussieu.fr www.math.ku.dk/~rnest/ihp.htm ORGANIZERS AND STAFF Max Karoubi Ryszard Nest Claude Lucet It is the main objective of this Semester to bring together the expertise of K-theory and noncommutative Geometry and to gather most of the mathematicians and theoretical physicists working on these fields and related subjects : Algebraic Topology, Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry, Global Analysis and finally Deformation Theory. PROGRAM Intensive courses on pre and postgraduate level over a period of four months will be organized in order to bring young researchers up to the level where they can understand and participate in the research going on. At the present time, we plan 7 graduate courses : Fabien Morel, Boris Tsygan, Lars Hesselholt, Vincent Lafforgue, Ryszard Nest, Victor Nistor, Dimitri Tamarkin. In addition, there will be short advanced courses handled by the following mathematicians and physicists : Jean Bellissard, Michel Dubois-Violette, Joachim Cuntz, Eric Friedlander, Alexander Goncharov, Nigel Higson, Bruno Kahn, Max Karoubi, Marc Levine, Henri Moscovici, Markus Rost, Vladimir Voevodsky, C. Weibel, Mariusz Wodzicki. The Spring course of Alain Connes at the College de France will be included in the schedule of the Semester during that period. Each afternoon, about two hours will be devoted to seminars and discussion groups on special topics. The detailed schedule may be found in the Web site of the Semester www.math.ku.dk/~rnest/ihp.htm Three workshops will be devoted to the following subjects : Applications to Theoretical Physics (March 17-19) Index problems (April 26-28) Motivic homotopy theory (May 26-28) The Semester will conclude by a final conference during two weeks (July 5/17). The present list of confirmed participants is the following : Paul BALMER (University of Muenster), Jean BELLISSARD (University of Georgia) Spencer BLOCH (University of Chicago), Baptiste CALMES (Institut Math. de Jussieu) Denis-Charles CISINSKI (Universite Paris 13), Alain CONNES (Collège de France) Katia CONSANI (University of Toronto), Guillermo CORTINAS (University of Buenos-Aires) Marius CRAINIC (University of Berkeley), Joachim CUNTZ (University of Muenster) Frédéric DEGLISE (Universite Paris 13), WDes. EVANS (University of Cardiff) Eric FRIEDLANDER (Northwestern University), Alexander GOROKHOVSKY (University of Colorado), Lars HESSELHOLT (MIT/Cambridge) Nigel HIGSON (Penn State University), Jens HORNBOSTEL (University of Regensburg) Uwe JANNSEN (University of Regensburg), Jerry KAMINKER (University of Indiana) Giovanni LANDI (ICTP, Trieste), Klaas. LANDSMAN (University of Amsterdam) Eric LEICHTNAM (Institut Math. de Jussieu), Marc LEVINE (NorthEastern University) Wolfgang LUECK (University of Muenster), Ralf MEYER (University of Muenster) Fabien MOREL (Institut Math. de Jussieu), Victor NISTOR (Penn State University) Florin RADULESCU (University of Iowa), Mark RIEFFEL (University of Berkeley) Markus ROST (University of Ohio), Marco SCHLICHTING (University of Essen) Thomas SCHICK (University of Goettingen), Elmar SCHROHE (University of Potsdam) Christophe SOULE (CNRS/IHES), Georges SKANDALIS (Institut Math. de Jussieu) Ramdorai SUJATHA(Tata Institute, Bombay) Burt TOTARO (University of Cambridge/UK), Boris TSYGAN (Northwestern University), Stefaan VAES (Institut Math. de Jussieu) Alexander VISHIK(Steklov Institute/Moscou), Vladimir VOEVODSKY(IAS, Princeton) Dan VOICULESCU (University of Berkeley), Mark WALKER (University of Nebraska) Charles WALTER (University of Nice), Mariusz WODZICKI(University of Berkeley). There will be funds available through French and European sources, the Clay Institute and the Leibniz prize of Joachim Cuntz. Fellowships, lodging problems, offices in the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) will be handled by the Centre Emile Borel which is part of the IHP. The Web site http://www.ihp.jussieu.fr/ gives all the practical information about the IHP, the Centre Emile Borel and the Semesters planned in the future. In order to register for our Semester, please write to the following address kgnc@ihp.jussieu.fr In order to apply for financial support and/or office space, write to the same address with a curriculum vitae, a list of publications and a letter of recommandation if possible. Please mention if you are European and interested by a predoc or postdoc position for few months.