C.N. Yang and Themes in Contemporary Physics

Draft Agenda.   All titles Tentative

Tuesday, October 13

9:30 – 11:05am

   George Sterman (Stony Brook) - Welcome, and Frank Yang’s strong force

   Yoichi Kazama (remote, U. Tokyo) - Frank Yang, an extraordinary teacher and collaborator

   Yuefan Deng  (Stony Brook)  - Symmetry and computing: Carbon-60. Waring's problem and C.N. Yang

11:05 – 11:30am (Coffee)

11:30am – 12:40pm: 

   Michael Douglas (Harvard) - TBA

   Juan Maldacena (IAS) - Yang-Mills theory, strings and gravity

12:40 – 2:00pm (Lunch)

2:00 – 3:45pm

   Alexander Zamolodchikov (Stony Brook)  - Yang-Baxter equations, Yang-Lee singularity, and Ising field fheory in an external field.

   Pedro Vieira (Perimeter & ICTP-SAIFR)  - TBA

   Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook)  - Yang-Mills theory’s impact on geometry and topology

3:45 – 4:15 Coffee

4:15 – 5:25   

   Norman Christ (Columbia)  - From symmetry to substance: using discrete Yang-Mills symmetry to study matter-anti-matter asymmetry

   Zoltan Fodor (Penn State) - Muon magnetic moment: new physics or the most precise justification of quantum field theory?

5:30    Reception

Wednesday, October 14

9:30 – 10:40

   Li Hua Yu (Brookhaven)  - From quantum decoherence to free electron lasers, Advice and collaboration with C.N. Yang

   Klaasjan van Druten (Amsterdam)  - Yang-Yang thermodynamics: past present and future

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee

11:10 – 12:50 

   Natan Andrei (Rutgers)  - C.N. Yang and integrability: Review and recent results

   Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard)  - TBA

   Shu-Heng Shao (MIT) - Laws of physics in a mirror

12:50 – 2:15 Lunch

2:15 – 4:00 

   Chris Quigg (Fermilab)  - What will happen next? A little tour of particle physics.

   Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)  - Yang-Mills theory and quantum gravity

   Peter van Nieuwenhuizen  (Stony Brook) - Yang-Mills in (Super)Gravity and Frank Yang in Y(ITP)