IIId OPORTO MEETING

on

KNOT THEORY AND PHYSICS

June 6th-8th, 1994

MAIN SPEAKERS and PLANNED COURSES
Jeannette NELSON (INFN Torino, Italy): Knots and the braid group in 2+1 gravity 




















  José Sousa RAMOS 





(IST, Lisbon): 





Knot theory and dynamical systems




























  Eduardo RÊGO 





(FCUP, Oporto): 





Combinatorial invariants for
3-manifolds





























  João Nuno TAVARES 





(FCUP, Oporto): 





Topics in topological quantum
field theories

























 LIST of SEMINARS  





















  Paulo ALMEIDA 





(IST, Lisbon): 





Non-commutative geometry via
examples



























  Luís BARREIRA 





(Penn State Univ.  & IST,  Lisbon): 





Entropy-like
invariants and their relationships



























  Alcides CAETANO 





(FCUL, Lisbon): 





On the kernel of
holonomy



























  Raul CORDOVIL 





(IST, Lisbon): 





Braid monodromy
groups of wiring diagrams
































 Nenad   MANOJLOVIC  





(Univ. Algarve): 





Riemann-Hilbert
problem and the chiral equations in two    dimensions































  José MOURÃO 





(IST, Lisbon & Penn State Univ.): 





Integration on
the space of connections modulo gauge     transformations































  Shingo OKAMOTO  





(IST, Lisbon): 





Knot theory and operator algebras































  Roger PICKEN 





(IST, Lisbon): 





Kontsevich integrals and related
topics































  Thomas THIEMANN 





(Penn State Univ.): 





Introduction to constructive
quantum field
theory
































 Robin TUCKER 





(Lancaster Univ., UK): 




Constrained dynamics and
exterior
differential systems






























  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  






José Mourão (Lisbon, IST):  jmourao@ualg.pt

Roger Picken (Lisbon, IST):  picken@math.ist.utl.pt

Eduardo Rêgo (Oporto, FCUP):  jntavar@fc.up.pt

João Nuno Tavares (Oporto, FCUP):  jntavar@fc.up.pt

Home page address:  http://www.fisica.ist.utl.pt/~jmourao/om/om94b.html 













 
FINANCIAL SUPPORT 






Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e
Tecnológica

Centro de Matemática do Porto, Universidade do Porto 

Centro de Matemática Aplicada, Instituto Superior Técnico 


Caixa Geral de Depósitos

Projecto "Física Matemática" PRAXIS/2/2.1/MAT/19/94 

Projecto "AGCQ" PBIC/C/MAT/2150/95