2008 Clay Research Conference Schedule

Monday, May 12

9:15	Coffee
9:45	Asaf Naor Probablistic reasoning in quantitative geometry
11:00	Scott Sheffield Quantum gravity and the Schramm-Loewner evolution
2:00	Presentation of the Clay Research Awards Cliff Taubes, For his proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three Claire Voisin, For her disproof of the Kodaira conjecture
2:30	Claire Voisin Hodge structures, cohomology algebras and the Kodaira problem
3:45	János Kollár Local integrability of holomorphic functions
4:45	Reception in lobby of Bartos Theater

9:15	Coffee
9:45	Tom Mrowka Monopoles, closed Reeb orbits and spectral flow: Taubes' work on the Weinstein conjecture
11:00	Helmut Hofer A generalized Fredholm theory and some new ideas in nonlinear analysis and geometry
1:30	Rahul Pandharipande Curve counting via stable pairs in the derived category
2:45	Kevin Costello A Wilsonian point of view on renormalization of quantum field theories