Announcement of
XXIII International Conference of Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics *

August 20-26, 2005
Nankai Institute of Mathematics
Tianjin , China

 

Brief Introduction to DGMTP (written by Werner Nahm)

When Chern classes were discovered, they seemed to be a pure mathematical creation, far from the lost symbiosis between mathematics and physics. Thirty years later they proved to be fundamental for the study of Yang-Mills fields. Conversely, supersymmetry appeared in a quantum field theoretical context, but became essential in mathematics, too. Starting in the 1970's, in response to these challenges, the conferences on Differential Geometrical Methods in Theoretical Physics helped to reestablish a common understanding. The itinerary of the conference locations from Europe to Israel , the USA , China and Mexico reflects the increasingly global nature of scientific work and the universal recognition of its mathematical basis.
International Advisory Committee
Scientific Committee
Parallel Sessions
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Local organizers
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International Advisory Committee

  Michael Atiyah ( Edinburgh , UK )  
 

Jean-Michel Bismut ( Orsay , France )

 
 

Shiing-Shen Chern

(NIM, China )
 
 

Alain Connes (IHES, France)

 
 

Simon Donaldson ( Imperial College , UK )

 
 

Ludvig Faddeev (RAS, Russia )

 
 

Chaohao Gu ( Fudan , China )

 
 

Vaughan F.R. Jones (UC Berkley , USA )

 
 

Yuri. I. Manin (MPI, Germany )

 
 

Edward Witten ( IAS , USA )

 
 

Chen Ning Yang ( SUNY , USA )

 
  Scientific Committee
 

Victor Batyrev ( Tuebingen , Germany )

 
 

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (IHES, France)

 
 

Sultan Catto ( CUNY , USA )

 
 

Yongmin Cho (SNU, Korea )

 
 

Vladimir Dobrev ( Sofia , Bulgaria )

 
 

Kzauo Fujikawa ( Tokyo , Japan )

 
  Han-Ying Guo (ITP, China )  
 

Michio Jimbo ( Tokyo , Japan )

 
 

Arthur Jaffe ( Harvard , USA )

 
 

Louis H. Kauffman ( UIC , USA )

 
 

Xiao-Song Lin ( UCR , USA )

 
 

Kefeng Liu ( UCLA , USA )

  
 

Marco Modugno ( Firenze , Italy )

  
 

Gregory W. Moore ( Rutgers , USA )

  
 

Werner Nahm ( Dublin IAS, Ireland )

  
 

Antti Niemi ( Uppsala , Sweden )

  
 

Graeme B. Segal ( Oxford , UK )

  
 

Andrew Strominger ( Harvard , USA )

  
 

Cliff H. Taubes ( Harvard , USA )

  
 

Cumrun Vafa ( Harvard , USA )

  
 

Fa Yueh Wu (Northeastern, USA )

 
 

Yong-Shi Wu ( Utah , USA )

  
 

Parallel Sessions

 

1•Models and related topics in statistical physics

 

2•Quantum fields, strings and M-theory

 

3•Yang-Mills fields, Knot theory and related topics

 

4•K-theory, including index theory and non-commutative geometry

 

5•Mirror symmetry, conformal and topological quantum field theory

  6•Development of integrable systems
  7•Random matrix theory
 

Supported by

 
 

Nankai Institute of Mathematics

 
 

Nankai University

 
 

Ministry of Education, China

 
 

S.S. Chern Foundation for Mathematical Research

 
 

Local organizers

 

Chengming Bai

  
 

Mo-Lin Ge

 
 

Honghai Lv

  
  Weiping Zhang  
  Contact by: dgmtp2005@nankai.edu.cn  
* For the 60 th anniversary of Professor Shiing-Shen Chern's paper ¡°Characteristic classes of Hermitian manifolds¡±, including a ceremony on August 24, for the openning of the new building of the Nankai Institute of Mathematics. There will also be an occasion which is dedicated to the memory of Professor Chern.  
 
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