CDSAGENDA V.5 15th ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF DIRAC MEDALLISTS

15th ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF DIRAC MEDALLISTS

Start Time:

4 November 2000 at 09:00

Ends On:

5 November 2000

Location:

ICTP

Venue:

M (LH)

Local Organizer(s):

K.S. Narain

Description:

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the institution of the award of the Dirac Medal of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

During its short life, the Dirac Medal has become a prestigious award with an impressive list of medallists, all of them protagonists in today's theoretical physics
research. We celebrated this anniversary by inviting all Medallists to come to Trieste to tell us about their past or recent interests.

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STRING THEORY (Part I) (Saturday)

Chairperson: K.S. Narain

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

4 November 2000

09:00
09:20

Opening Remarks

20'

M.A. Virasoro
Director of Abdus Salam I.C.T.P. (Trieste)

09:20
10:15

Recent Progress in Superstring Theory

55'

J. Schwarz

10:15
11:10

Instantons in Yang-Mills and String Theory

55'

M. Green

11:10
11:25

Coffee Break

15'

11:25
12:20

Field Theory Insight from the AdS/CFT Correspondence

55'

D.Z. Freedman

12:20
13:00

Spinors and Superalgebras

40'

S. Ferrara

13:00
14:30

Lunch

01h30'

INTERESTING ASPECTS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY (Saturday)

Chairperson: R. Iengo

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

4 November 2000

14:30
15:25

Aspects of Electromagnetic Duality

55'

D. Olive

15:25
16:05

The Role of the Functional Integral Measure in Quantum Field Theory

40'

B. DeWitt

16:05
16:20

Coffee Break

15'

16:20
17:00

Descendants of the Axial Anomaly

40'

R. Jackiw

17:00
17:40

Infrared parametrisation of the Yang-Mills field

40'

L. Faddeev

STATISTICAL PHYSICS (Sunday)

Chairperson: D. Amati

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

5 November 2000

09:00
09:40

Some progress in D>2 lattice statistics

40'

T. Regge

09:40
10:20

The glass transition

40'

G. Parisi

10:20
10:35

Coffee Break

15'

PARTICLE PHYSICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY (Sunday)

Chairperson: S. Randjbar-Daemi

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

5 November 2000

10:35
11:30

Higher Unification and the Clues from Nature

55'

J. Pati

11:30
12:25

Matter and Antimatter - Dirac's discovery today

55'

H. Quinn

12:30
12:40

Group Photo

10'

12:40
14:00

Lunch

01h20'

STRING THEORY (Part II) (Sunday)

Chairperson: S. Wadia

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

5 November 2000

14:30
15:25

String Theory and Quark Confinement

55'

A. Polyakov

15:25
16:20

The BPS bound at the quantum level and discrete gauge symmetry

55'

P. van Nieuwenhuizen

16:20
16:35

Concluding Remarks

15'

pictures

J. Schwarz