Fundamental Problems and Challenges

On 25/26/27 March 2004 the Hamilton Mathematics Institute, TCD, will hold its first annual March meeting: three days of lectures aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and open to all. There is a registration at 9.30 am outside the Maxwell LT, on 25 March 2004. There is no registration fee.

• The poster in pdf:
  http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/MarchMeeting2004/Poster.pdf

• The poster in html:
  http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/MarchMeeting2004/Poster.html

• The schedule:
  http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/MarchMeeting2004/Schedule.html

Short Lecture Courses:

• Rajesh Gopakumar (String theorist working in HRI Allahabad and the Princeton IAS)
  Gauge theory and gravity
• Michael Joyce (Cosmologist and Professor of Physics at U. of Paris VI)
  Fundamental problems and challenges in cosmology
• Sinéad Ryan (Lattice gauge theorist and mathematics lecturer in TCD)
  Understanding the strong force

Special Lectures:

• Ian Robertson (Neuroscientist and Director of TCD's new Institute of Neuroscience)
  Brain frontiers
• Eoin O'Reilly (SFI Professor at NMRC in UC Cork)
  Nanophotonics, harnessing the photon for future science and technology

The Maxwell Lecture Theatre is on the first floor of the Hamilton building, near the Maths Department. The Hamilton building is at the east end of TCD, the side furthest removed from the main gate. A map can be found at http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/hamilton.html

For further information contact Siddhartha Sen at sen@maths.tcd.ie or (01)-608-1211 from 1 March onwards.

Art: Detail 3 by Stephen Gaughan see http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/MarchMeeting2004/Art