International Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry and String Theory

International Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry
and String Theory

March 16- 22, 2001,
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

ANNOUNCEMENT

The announcement of the workshop at Keio University (Japan) in March 2001.

Title: International Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry and String theory

Date: March,16 -22, 2001

Location: The meeting will take place at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University:

         Hiyoshi 3-14-1, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8825, Japan
         Tel: +81-(0)45-566-1641, Fax: +81-(0)45-566-1642

The conference is held at the 14th building, seminar room #1 in the Yagami Campus.

Access to Yagami Campus from Hiyoshi station: 
            Yagami Campus
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Organizing Committee

Y. Maeda, Keio University (Japan)

H. Moriyoshi, Keio University (Japan)

H. Omori, Tokyo Science University (Japan)

S. Watamura, Tohoku University (Japan)

A. Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley(USA)

A. Yoshioka, Tokyo Science University (Japan)

Registration: To get a registration form, please send an e-mail to

                maeda@math.keio.ac.jp.

Programme
The International Workshop will focus to the recent topics on noncommutative geometry and string theory. The first two days, March 16-17, will be devoted to survay lectures as follows:

Prof. B. Tsygan : Noncommutative geometry and index theorem
Prof. P. Xu : Poisson manifolds and Lie bialgebroids
Prof. Y. Matsuo : Introduction to D-brane for Mathematicians
Prof. C. Klimcik : String on the Poisson-Lie groups
Prof. V. Schomerus : Strings, D-branes and non-commutative geometry

We will have a break on March, 18. March 19-22 will include various invited talks related on the problems. Speakers:

S. Bouarroudj, Keio University (Japan),

A. Cattaneo, Zurich University (Switzerland),

H. Ishikawa, Tohoku University (Japan),

H. Itoyama, Osaka University (Japan),

M. Kato, Tokyo University (Japan),

C. Klimcik, University of Marseille (France),

P. Lecomte, Uniersity of Liege (Belgium)(to be confirmed),

Z.-J. Liu, Peking University (China),

Y. Matsuo, Tokyo University (Japan),

P. Michor, Schroedinger Institute (Austria),

H. Moriyoshi, Keio University (Japan),

T. Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland),

V. Schomerus, Albert-Einstein-Institute, (Germany),

Y. Sugawara, Tokyo University (Japan),

B. Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University (USA),

S. Waldman, Univ. Friburg (Germany),

A. Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley (USA),

P. Xu, Pennsylvania State University (USA)

The preliminary program is available from HERE.

Address for the correspondence:

Yoshiaki Maeda
e-mail:maeda@math.keio.ac.jp
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences
and Technology, Keio University
3-14-1, Hiyoshi, Yokohama, 223 Japan
Tel: +81-45-566-1141
Satoshi Watamura
e-mail: watamura@tuhep.phys.tophoku.ac.jp
Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences,
Tohoku University,
Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8578
Tel: +81-22-217-7740