Miniconference "Low-dimensional mathematics"

Dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the seminar "Low-dimensional mathematics".

Venue: Euler institute, St.Petersburg, June 29 - July 1, 2006.

Program:

About 10 one-hour talks during 2 working days.
Welcome party on Thursday, June 29th.
Conference dinner on Friday, June 30th.
Boat trip under open bridges in the night June 30 -- July 1.
Picnic or excursions (according to taste) on Saturday, July 1st.

Topics: any reasonable mathematics that can be explained to a non-specialist (see the Cumulative list of talks on the seminar web site).

Working language: Russian (with a possible switch to English in case of necessity).

The 1st announcement was sent out on April 26, 2006. Additional information (conference fee etc.) is contained in the 3rd announcement sent out on June 14, 2006.

Schedule of talks:

First day (June 29th):

9:30. Registration.
10:00. Sergey Fomin (Univ of Michigan). "Catalan numbers and root systems". (Same in Russian.)
11:10. Coffee break.
11:30. Vladimir Sokolov (Landau Inst). "Linear associative deformations of matrix multiplication".
12:40. Lunch.
14:00. Vladimir Fock (ITEP--Komarovo). "Doubles". (Same in Russian).
15:10. Guy Roos (St.Petersburg). "Symplectic duality for symmetric spaces".
16:20. Coffee break.
16:40. Grigory Mikhalkin (Toronto--V.O.) "Phases of amoebae and algae".
18:00. Welcome party (at Euler institute, a la fourchette).

Second day (June 30th):

10:00. Vladlen Timorin (Stony Brook). "Topological models for some quadratic rational mappings". (Same in Russian).
10:50. Coffee break.
11:10. Anton Khoroshkin (ITEP). "Higher order relations of the Plucker embedding of Grasmannian 2,n".
12:00. Dmitry Kaledin (MIAN). "Noncommutative Frobenius map and degeneration of the Hodge -- de Rham spectral sequence".
12:50. Lunch.
14:00. Gaiane Panina (SPb). "Pseudotilings, or why is a raven like a writing-desk".
15:10. Sergey Shadchin (Padova). "Topological Quantum Field Theories and division algebras".
16:20. Coffee break.
16:40. Vitaly Tarasov (PDMI). "B. and M.Shapiro conjecture and Bethe ansatz".
18:30. Conference dinner (at a restaurant nearby).

Participants without talks:

Dmitri Beliaev (Princeton).
Sergei Duzhin (POMI).
Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov (ETH, Zurich).
Maxim Karev (SPb Univ).
Valentina Kiritchenko (Stony Brook).
Petr Kulish (POMI).
Nikita Markaryan (Sheffield).
Alexey Pak (SPb Univ).
Dmitry Pavlov (ITMO).
Marina Prokhorova (Ekaterinburg).
Dmitri Sustretov (Paris).
Pavel Svetlov (POMI).
Nikolai Vasiliev (POMI).
Andrey Malyutin (POMI).
Vera Serganova (Berkeley).

Program committee: {S.Duzhin}.
Organizing committee: {S.Duzhin, E.Novikova}.

The conference has been successful, and we plan to make it a regular event: every second year in the end of June -- beginning of July. Please send applications and questions to duzhin[x]pdmi.ras.ru. For technical questions (hotels, visas etc.) you may contact novikova[x]pdmi.ras.ru.