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                         A Conference on Topics in  

                            Geometry  &  Physics


                             November 5-6, 1992

                     University of Southern California


                   *************  Program  **************


    Time           Thursday, November 5                 Friday, November 6

  9:00 - 10:30    Greg Zuckerman, Yale Univ.         Brian Greene, Cornell Univ.
                  
                  Differential graded algebras       Mirror manifolds in higher
                  in string theory                   dimensions


 10:30 - 11:00          BREAK                               BREAK


 11:00 - 12:30    Jim Stasheff, UNC Chapel Hill      David Morrison, Duke Univ.

                  Closed string field theory,        Quantum algebraic geometry
                  strong homotopic Lie algebras
                  and the operad action of moduli
                  space


 12:30 -  2:00          LUNCH                               LUNCH


  2:00 -  3:30    Maxim, Kontsevich, IAS             S. T. Yau, Harvard Univ.

                  Non-commutative calculus          (tentative)
                  and topological field theory


  3:30 -  4:00          BREAK                               BREAK


  4:00 -  5:30    Scott Axelrod, MIT                 Mike Freedman, UCSD

                  More on Chern-Simons               A Mobius-invariant energy on
                  perturbation theory                knots in three-space


   All lectures will be held in the Gerontology Auditorium (between the math and
physics departments) on the main campus of USC.  The conference is followed on
November 7-8 by a regional meeting of the American Mathematical Society at USC; 
see the AMS publications for details.

   For further information, contact Lesley Newton at 213-740-7361 or 
lnewton@mtha.usc.edu or contact Bob Penner at 213-740-2422 or rpenner@mtha.usc.edu.