SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

March 28, 2024

The Legacy of John Charles Fields

June 7 - 9, 2000

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

 


Wednesday, June 7, 2000
The Fields Institute, 222 College Street, 2nd Floor - (416) 348-9710
Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle - (416) 978-2452
Medical Sciences Building, J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium, U of T, Room 2158, 1 King's College Circle
Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto - (416) 586-8000
9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. REGISTRATION Fields Institute Building
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. REGISTRATION Medical Sciences Building
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sir Michael Atiyah *Mathematics in the 20th Century Medical Sciences Building
*Due to limited space, nametags from the MITACS AGM, or The Legacy of John Charles Fields Symposium are required for this event.
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Panel Discussion Medical Sciences Building
Thursday, June 8, 2000
REGISTRATION (open 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.).
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Maxim Kontsevich Limits of Complex Structures ROM Lecture Theatre
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Alain Connes Renormalization and the Riemann-Hilbert Problem ROM Lecture Theatre
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Richard Borcherds Automorphic Forms ROM Lecture Theatre
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Vaughan Jones Planar Algebras: between dimensions two, three and infinity ROM Lecture Theatre
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Tom Archibald J.C. Fields: the research ideal in mathematics and in the organization of science ROM Lecture Theatre
The Fields Institute Banquet
6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Pre-banquet Cocktails (cash bar) Hart House, The Great Hall
7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Banquet Hart House, The Great Hall
Dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 9, 2000
REGISTRATION (open 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.).
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Michael Monastyrsky Trends in Modern Mathematics and the Fields Medals ROM Lecture Theatre
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. John Milnor Complex Systems: the role of mathematics ROM Lecture Theatre
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Timothy Gowers Combinatorics in the Service of Mathematics ROM Lecture Theatre
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Alan Baker Diophantine Analysis and Transcendence Theory: the way forward ROM Lecture Theatre
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Stephen Smale The Mathematics of Theories of Learning and Intelligence ROM Lecture Theatre