The Conference on
"Secondary Calculus and Cohomological Physics"
was organized in
Moscow, Russia, by Moscow State University,
Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofoci
(Naples), and the Diffiety Institute under support of
International Center for Fundamental Physics in Moscow and
Russian Founation for
Base Research.
Time: August 24, 1997 - August 31, 1997.
| Scientific Committee: | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. Batalin (Moscow) | L. Bonora (Triest) | |
| R. Bryant (Durham, NC) | M. Dubois-Violette (Orsay) | |
| M. Fliess (Paris) | P. Griffiths (Princeton, NJ) | |
| M. Henneaux (Brussels) | V. Kozlov (Moscow) | |
| I. Krasil'shchik (Moscow) | G. Marmo (Naples) | |
| B. Sadovnikov (Moscow) | J. Stasheff (Chapel Hill, NC) | |
| M. Talon (Paris) | I. Tyutin (Moscow) | |
| C. Viallet (Paris) | A. Vinogradov(Salerno-Moscow) | |
| B. Voronov (Moscow) | ||
| Local Committee: | ||
| V. Kozlov (Moscow) | I. Krasil'shchik | |
| B. Sadovnikov (Moscow) | A. Samokhin (Moscow) | |
| M. Vinogradov(Moscow) | ||
The term secondary calculus refers to such
topics as higher symmetries of PDE's, the C-spectral sequence (variational
bicomplex) which are secondary analogues of usual vector fields and differential
forms, respectively. Recently it became clear that there exist secondary
counterparts of all ingredients of the standard calculus which are various
type cohomology classes living on infinite prolongations of appropriate
equations. Among them are BRST-anti-fields, Batalin-Vilkovisky bracket
and similar cohomology constructions which are natural to be called cohomological
physics.
The conference is thought to be a forum of both mathematicians and physicists
to fix the state of art and perspectives in this extremely promising area.
Topics:
A list of invited speakers includes:
M. Asorey, G. Barnich, C. Becchi, L. Bonora, F. Brandt, R. Bryant, M. Fliess, M. Henneaux, V. Kozlov, I. Krasil'shchik, A. Ibort, N. Maggiore, G. Marmo, M. Rasetti, B. Sadovnikov, J. Stasheff, A. Verbovetsky, C. Viallet, A. Vinogradov,
The program
Click here (last updated September 3, 1997).
Here you can see more conference pictures. (last updated September 3, 1997).
Proceedings:
Papers of the invited lecturers are published in the Contemporary Mathematics series of the American Mathematical Society, volume 219, 1998. All other contributions are e-printed in the Electronic Conference Proceedings of EMIS.