Workshop on Reflection Groups and Their Applications

SISSA (Trieste), 13-20 January 1998

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Programme

Monday 12 January

15:00 to 17:30 Registration

18:00 Informal gathering and reception

 

Tuesday 13 January

9:00 Registration

9:50 Opening of the Workshop by D. Amati, Director of S.I.S.S.A.

10:00 R. Kellerhals, The size of hyperbolic Coxeter simplices

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 W.J. Couwenberg, Geometry of Gauss-like Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric functions

12:30 Lunch

14:30 K. Saito, Elliptic Lie Algebra

15:30 A. Alexeevski, Generalized Weyl groups of unrefinable graded simple Lie algebras

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 S. Kondo, The group of automorphisms of K3 surfaces

 

Wednesday 14 January

9:30 M. Yoshida, Examples of hyperbolic Coxeter groups related to hypergeometric functions

10:30 O. Chalykh, Darboux transformations for Schroedinger operators in many dimensions and deformed root systems

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 E. Vinberg, Groups given by periodic pairwise relations

12:30 Lunch

14:30 K. Narain, Orbifolds in string theory

15:30 R. Kaufmann, The tensor product in the theory of Frobenius manifolds and quantum cohomology

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 E. Schulte, Reflection groups and regular polytopes

Thursday 15 January

9:00 J.-B. Zuber, Generalized Dynkin diagrams and root systems and their folding

10:00 T. Kawai, Automorphic forms appearing in string duality

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 V.D. Bugaenko, Q-arithmetic Coxeter polygons

12:30 Lunch

14:30 M. Salvetti, Cohomology of Artin groups and Coxeter group

15:30 P. Bandyopadhyay, Quantization, topological origin of internal symmetry and reflection group

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 O. Schwarzmann, Around the Chevalley theorem

 

Friday 16 January

9:30 B. Dubrovin, Algebraic solutions of Painleve' VI and reflection groups

10:30 A. Felikson, Coxeter partitions of the hyperbolic polytopes

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 V.V. Nikulin, On the classification of hyperbolic root systems

12:30 Lunch

14:30 P. Papi, The structure of total reflection orders in affine root systems

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 C. Procesi, The n! conjecture

20:00 Social Dinner

 

Saturday 17 January

9:00 J. Fuchs, Orbit Lie algebras and conformal field theory

10:00 C. De Concini, Cohomology of Braid groups

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 T.A. Springer, Satellities of finite complex reflection groups

12:30 Lunch

 

Sunday 18 January

14:00 Sightseeing Tour

 

Monday 19 January

9:30 O. Sheinman, Weyl groups of Krichever-Novikov algebras

10:30 J. Kaneko, Gauss-Manin connection of integral of deformed difference product

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 G. Heckman, Harmonic analysis for affine Hecke algebras

12:30 Lunch

14:30 A.M. Cohen, Linear groups generated by reflection tori

15:30 A. Björner, Combinatorics of reduced decompositions in infinite Coxeter groups

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 Discussion session

 

Tuesday 20 January

9:30 H.C. Im Hof, Polytopes and reflection groups in hyperbolic geometry

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 G. Soifer, Finitely generated profinitely dense free groups in higher rank lattices

12:30 Lunch

14:30 H. Abels, On generating discrete groups of affine isometries

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 G. Malle, The finite irreducible linear groups with polynomial ring of invariants

 

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Ugo Bruzzo
Sun Jan 11 15:44:37 MET 1998