Dublin Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Salmon Lecture Theatre
School of Mathematics, Hamilton Building
Trinity College Dublin
Time: 4.15 pm


January 5    Ronan McNulty (Physics, NUI Dublin)
Experimental issues and theoretical interests at the Tevatron

January 12   Gyan Bhanot  (IBM T. J. Watson RC, USA, visiting TCD)   
Computer Modeling of gene array hybridization, reliability and predictions

January 19   Werner Nahm  (STP, Dublin IAS)
Bethe ansatz, modular forms and algebraic K-theory for
conformal field theories with integrable perturbations.

January 26   Aybike Ozer   (Mathematics, TCD)
Compactifications with S-duality twists

February 2   Chris Sachrajda (Southhampton, England)
B-decays

February 9   Denis Weaire  (Physics, TCD)
Foams and minimal surfaces

February 16  David A. Kosower (Saclay, France)
Peeking at all orders in N=4 SUSY

February 17  Ruben Minasian (CPHT, France)
On mirror symmetry with fluxes
This seminar is at 4.15 on Tuesday 17 February in the large seminar room in the Dublin IAS.

February 23  Daniel Elton (Heriot Watt U., Scotland)
Zero energy bound states of the Pauli operator in three dimensions

March 1      Harry Braden  (U. of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Six dimensional gauge theories, their reductions and integrable systems.

Other TP and related announcements:

Seminar by Nigel Hitchin: 4.15pm March 5, Salmon LT, TCD.

2004 Embark Postdocs: http://www.embark.ie/grant_schemes/postdoctoral.html deadline 27 Feb 2004

Hamilton Maths Institute Workshop: Fundamental problems and challenges, a course of lectures for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates, March 25-27. Maxwell Theatre TCD, see
http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/MarchMeeting2004/

Five year jobs at Dublin IAS: http://www.stp.dias.ie/Fellowships.html deadline end of March.

The 7th JL Synge public lecture: Making light of mathematics by Michael Berry: 8pm, Tuesday, 27th APRIL, 2004 in TCD, venue TBA.

2004 Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting. 14/15 May, NUI Maynooth, see http://www.thphys.may.ie/conferences/qft2004

Marie Curie: for a list of deadlines and links see http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~houghton/MCdeadlines.html

CAMS seminar: 2pm Wednesdays, seminar room 2.6, School of Maths, TCD
See also CAMS

January 14    Eduardo Follana (U. Glasgow)
Taste-changing interactions and topology for improved staggered fermions
January 28    Stephan Dürr (DESY Zeuthen)
Staggered versus overlap fermions: a study in the Schwinger model
Febuary 3     Chris Sachrajda (U. Southampton)
Lattice studies of nonleptonic kaon decay 
February 11   David Walters (U. Manchester)
A BCS gapped lattice superfluid
February 25   Tilo Wettig (U. Regensburg)
Color-flavor transformation and application to QCD

Some interesting local seminar series and links:

Dublin IAS Theoretical Partical Physics group seminar, thursdays.
The CNRI at DIT related to communications networks and quantum information.
The NUI Maynooth Hamilton Institutue related to systems level dynamics.
TCD CS Dept seminars, fridays.
TCD Physics Dept seminars, fridays.
The Hamilton Maths Institute.

Previous announcements:

Hamilton Maths Institute Public Event: University outreach, the Millenium Maths Project experience. Julia Hawkins, Deputy director of the Millenium Mathematics Project, Cambridge University and University outreach, the Spin-a-Web experience. Tim Savage, the Centre for Research in Information Technology in Education at TCD. 7.30-8.30 pm, Wednesday 18 February, 2004. Salmon LT, TCD.

1pm Wednesday 11 February 2004, SNIAM Building Advanced Materials Conference Room (room 0.07) Ken Brakke, Soap Films and Time Machines, see http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/People/Donal.MacKernan/hardtimes.sp03.html

RIA: Supercomputers and Clusters and Grids, Oh My, by Prof Jack Dongarra, (U. of Tennessee, visiting NUI Dublin), 21st January, 2004 at 6.30 PM, Royal Irish Academy, http://www.ria.ie/events/sci.html#don

Two jobs at TCD: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/official/Advertisements/ad2004a.html deadline 15 Jan 2004

Chair hire in Galway: http://www.nuigalway.ie/news/vacancies.php?v_id=464 deadline 9 Jan 2004

Basis Research Grant: http://www.sfi.ie deadline 9 Jan 2004

The previous seminar list.

The future seminar list.

Enquiries: Conor Houghton, email: houghton@maths.tcd.ie, tel: 608-3542 or Nigel Buttimore, email: nhb@maths.tcd.ie, tel: 608-1474.