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s for Plenary Speakers John Baez (University of California, Riverside) “Higher Gauge Theory: 2-Connections” Abstract: Gauge theory describes the parallel transport of point particles using the formalism of connections on bundles. In both string theory and loop quantum gravity, point particles are replaced by 1-dimensional extended objects: paths or loops in space. This suggests that we seek som...

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s: Plenary Speakers Spiros Argyros (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) [email protected] HI extensions of L∞ spaces and spaces with very few operators Tuesday, July 30, HA4, 9:00–9:50 We will present a general method of embedding Banach spaces with separable dual into L∞ spaces admitting very few operators. In particular we will discuss the following two results. Theorem 1. (i...

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All animals exhibit innate behaviors that are specified during their development. Drosophila melanogaster males (but not females) perform an elaborate and innate courtship ritual directed towards females (but not males). Male courtship requires products of the fruitless (fru) gene, which is spliced differently in males and females. We have generated alleles of fru that are constitutively splice...