Seminar on Mathematical Physics and Partial Differential Equations

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Our seminar will start with a set of lectures by Prof. Bert Schroer  as follows:
 April 5th, 10th, 17th, 19th, 2001  at  3:30 pm in Room 232 of IMPA.

The general title:

Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Operator Algebras

Bert Schroer
Fachbereich Physik der Freien
Universität Berlin
Institut für Theoretische Physik

     Abstract:

In this series of lectures directed towards a mainly mathematically oriented
audience I try to motivate the use of operator algebra methods in quantum
field theory. Therefore a title as ``why mathematicians are/should be
interested in algebraic quantum field theory'' would be equally fitting.
Besides a presentation of the framework and the main results of local quantum
physics these notes may serve as a guide to frontier research problems in
mathematical physics with applications in particle and condensed matter
physics for whose solution operator algebraic methods seem  indispensable.
The ultraviolet problems of the standard approach and the recent
holographic aspects belong to this kind of problems.

For a post-script version of his lecture notes clic here;