Workshop on Mirror Symmetry
Description
Main topics will be Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture, homological mirror symmetry, as well as number theoretic aspects. New directions such as (0,2) mirror symmetry, flux backgrounds, etc will also be discussed.
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Schedule
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Yong-Geon Oh, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:30 to 12:30 |
Jan Stienstra, Universiteit Utrecht |
| 12:30 to 14:00 |
Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Marco Gualtieri, University of Toronto |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Noriko Yui, Queen's University |
| 16:30 to 17:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 17:00 to 18:00 |
Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania |
| 18:00 to 19:30 |
Reception
|
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Mark Gross, University of California at San Diego and University of Cambridge |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:30 to 12:30 |
Rolf Schimmrigk, Kennesaw State University |
| 12:30 to 14:00 |
Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
G_2 geometry and mirror triality
Naichung Conan Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Topological sigma-models and generalized complex geometry
Anton Kapustin, California Institute of Technology |
| 16:30 to 17:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 17:00 to 18:00 |
Higher Genus Amplitudes on Compact Calabi-Yau and Threshold Corrections
Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Strominger-Yau-Zaslow revisited
David Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:30 to 12:30 |
Victor Batyrev, Universität Tübingen |
| 12:30 to 14:00 |
Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Ilia Zharkov, Harvard University |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Johannes Walcher, McGill University and Universität Heidelberg |
| 16:30 to 17:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 17:00 to 18:00 |
The Arithmetic of Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Xenia de la Ossa, University of Oxford |
| 10:00 to 11:00 |
Counting open Riemann surface with Lagrangian boundary condition and Perturvative Chern-Simons Gauge theory
Kenji Fukaya, Simons Institute |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11:30 to 12:30 |
Complex, real and tropical curves
Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Toronto |
| 12:30 to 14:00 |
Lunch
|
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Homological mirror symmetry for Fano surfaces
Denis Auroux, University of California Berkeley |
| 15:00 to 15:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Towards (0,2) Mirror Symmetry
Allan Adams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 16:30 to 17:00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 17:00 to 18:00 |
Affine geometry of degeneration limits and mirror symmetry
Bernd Siebert, Freiburg University |
| 09:10 to 10:10 |
The Picard-Fuchs equation of the A_n family of Calabi-Yau varieties
Helena Verrill, Louisiana State University |
| 10:10 to 10:30 |
Coffee Break
|
| 10:30 to 11:30 |
Sheldon Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 11:30 to 11:50 |
Break
|
| 11:50 to 12:50 |
Andrei Caldararu, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 09:30 to 10:20 |
Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto |
