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Conference Programme 13-14 March 2025
Location: Exam Hall, TCD
Thursday, 13 March, 2pm - 3pm
Speaker: Maxim Kontsevich (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
Title: Resurgence in Quantum Mechanics
Thursday, 13 March, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Speaker: Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Title: The Eisenstein spectrum
Thursday, 13 March, 7pm
Public lecture: Nigel Hitchin (Oxford, UK)
Title: William Rowan Hamilton
Friday, March 14, 10.00am - 11.00am
Speaker: Erik Verlinde (University of Amesterdam, Netherlands)
Title: Strings, Black Holes and Entropy
Friday, March 14, 2pm - 3pm
Speaker: Gregory Gabadadze (New York University, Simons Foundation, New York, USA)
Title: Quantum Anomaly Actions and Cosmology
Friday, March 14, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Speaker: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford, UK)
Title: How some curious squiggles came to be understood; the discovery of pulsars
Conference Programme 13-14 March 2025
Location: Exam Hall, TCD
Thursday, 13 March, 2pm - 3pm
Speaker: Maxim Kontsevich (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
Title: Resurgence in Quantum Mechanics
Thursday, 13 March, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Speaker: Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Title: The Eisenstein spectrum
Thursday, 13 March, 7pm
Public lecture: Nigel Hitchin (Oxford, UK)
Title: William Rowan Hamilton
Friday, March 14, 10.00am - 11.00am
Speaker: Erik Verlinde (University of Amesterdam, Netherlands)
Title: Strings, Black Holes and Entropy
Friday, March 14, 2pm - 3pm
Speaker: Gregory Gabadadze (New York University, Simons Foundation, New York, USA)
Title: Quantum Anomaly Actions and Cosmology
Friday, March 14, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Speaker: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford, UK)
Title: How some curious squiggles came to be understood; the discovery of pulsars
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
DBE, FRS, FRSE, FRAS, Oxford University, UK
Copley Medal of Royal Society of London (2021); Michael Faraday Prize of Royal Society of London (2010); Royal Medal (2015); Grande Medaille of the French Academy of Sciences (2018); Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2018); Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2021); Cunningham Medal of Royal Irish Academy (2023).
Link to bio: https://www.famousscientists.org/jocelyn-bell-burnell/
Gregory Gabadadze
(New York University, Simons Foundation, New York, USA)
Professor of Physics (New York University), Dean for Science (New York University), Senior Vice President (The Simons Foundation).
Link to bio: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/gregory-gabadadze.html
Nigel Hitchin
FRS, Oxford University, UK
Savilian Professor of Geometry Emeritus (1619), Oxford University; Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society of London (2000); London Mathematical Society Polya Prize (2002); Shaw Prize (2016).
Link to bio: Nigel Hitchin
Maxim Kontsevich
(IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
AXA-IHES Chair for Mathematics, Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES); Fields Medal (1998); Shaw Prize (2012); Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012); Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014); Henri Poincare Prize (1997); Crafoord Prize (2008).
Bio on MacTutor: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kontsevich/
Andrei Okounkov
Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York
Samuel Eilenberg Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York; Fields Medal (2006); European Mathematical Society Prize (2004); Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2012).
Bio on MacTutor: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Okounkov/
Erik Verlinde
(University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1990), Fellow of the Royal Dutch Society (1993), Pioneer Award (1999), Advanced Grantee of European Research Council (2010), Spinoza Prize (2011), Gravitation Grantee of Dutch Research Organisation (2012).
Link to bio: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/v/e/e.p.verlinde/e.p.verlinde.html
Sir Michael Atiyah, Chairman of HMI Founding Board, speaks about W. R. Hamilton at CERN (October 2006).
