UG = Undergraduate Student Program HSTP = High School Teacher Program ER = Mathematics Education Research Program GSS = Graduate Summer School RP = (Mathematics) Research Program UFP = Undergraduate Faculty Program

IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute 2001 Summer Session Daily Schedule

Tuesday July 10, 2001

 

 

7:00-8:30 a.m.

BREAKFAST PCMI tent

 

8:30-9:30 a.m.

·         GSS Lecture: D. Freed  – Grand Theater

·         HSTP Number Theory Problem Session – Coalition 1&2

·         UFP Seminar – Coalition 4

 

9:40-10:40

·         GSS Problem Session  – Tent

·         RP Seminar The Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture; J. Bryan – Grand Theater

·         UG Lecture:  R. Gornet – South Lounge

·         HSTP Problem Session [continued] – Coalition 1& 2

 

10:40-11:00

Break (coffee service is located in the foyer outside the

Grand Theater)

 

11:00-12:00

·         GSS Lecture: C. Johnson – Grand Theater

·         HSTP Building Math in the Classroom; P. Mallinson – Coalition 1&2

·         UFP Seminar – Computer lab

UG Lecture: S. Katz – South Lounge

 

12:00-1:15 p.m.

LUNCH PCMI tent

 

1:00-2:00

·         HSTP Working Groups (self scheduled)

 

2:00-3:00

·         HSTP Working Groups [continued]

·         UG Problem Session – South Lounge

·         GSS Lecture: W. Fulton – Grand Theater

 

3:15-4:15

Cross Program Activity:  Million Dollar Math I: Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap; Lorenzo Sadun

 

4:15-4:30

            Afternoon Tea – served in the foyer outside the Grand Theater

 

4:30-5:30

·         UFP Seminar – Coalition 4

·         RP Seminar Disk instantons; M. Liu – Grand Theater

·         UG Problem Session – South Lounge

·         HSTP (TBA) – Coalition 1&2

 

 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Today’s Cross Program Activity: Million Dollar Math I: Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap.  The Clay Mathematics Institute has offered $1 million in prizes for seven “millennium math” problems.  Two in particular are closely related to this year’s PCMI topic.  This week, Lorenzo Sadun will lay out the Yang-Mills problem: where it came from, what it is, and where we stand.  Next week, Dan Freed will explain the Hodge Conjecture. 

 

Reminder: Tomorrow (Wednesday) is a half-day – classes end at noon and a sandwich lunch will be served which can be eaten in the tent or taken away.

 

Thursday’s Cross Program Activity at 3:15 p.m.: a presentation by the University of Washington’s Physics Education Group.

 

On Thursday evening there will be an extra Graduate seminar: Quantum Mechanics in one hour; Orlando Alvarez; Grand Theater at 7:00 p.m.

 

Breakfast is available in the PCMI tent from 7:00-8:30 a.m.  A variety of cereals, baked goods, yogurt, juices, coffee and tea will be served.  The tent will be heated on cold mornings, however sweaters or light jackets may still be needed.

 

Lunch will be in the PCMI tent from 12:00-1:15.  Although lunch is laid out in a buffet-style, we regret that funding concerns do not allow us to serve an “all-you-can-eat” meal.  Additional portions may be obtained after 1:00, when all participants have had the chance to go through the line once. 

 

Please remember that your name badge serves as your meal pass and that badges will be checked every day at every meal.   Participants who do not have their name badges will be asked to go back to their rooms and get them.  We very much appreciate your cooperation with our efforts to maintain program expenses at a reasonable level.

 

Refreshments: Coffee and tea are available at all times in the foyer outside the Grand Theater.  Cookies will be served daily from 4:15-4:30 p.m. in the same location.

 

The PCMI Office is located on the third floor of building 4 at the Prospector Square Lodging and Conference Center.  The code for entry into the building is “*2436.”  Office hours are 8:00a.m.-12:00 noon and 12:45p.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday-Tuesday-Thursday-Friday; and 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on Wednesdays.

 

Attention TA’s!  The chalkboards will need to be wiped down with water after every lecture.  A bucket and sponge will be provided at the back of the stage in the Theater.  Thank you – we very much appreciate your help!