Speakers and Topics

“Loops, surfaces and the structure of 3 and 4-dimensional spaces”
Professor Clifford H Taubes
The Shaw Laureate in Mathematical Sciences 2009
William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at harvard University

“Old themes and new directions in mathematical aspects of Yang-Mills theory”
Professor Simon K Donaldson
The Shaw Laureate in Mathematical Sciences 2009
Royal Society Research Professor of Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Imperial College, London