Geometry of Lagrangian Submanifolds

Part of the Long Program Symplectic Geometry and Physics
April 14 - 18, 2003

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 14, 2003

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Anton Kapustin (Caltech / USC)

The Geometry of A-branes.

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Intantons and Lagrangian submanifolds in manifolds with vector cross products
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:00
Tommaso Pacini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

A report on special Lagrangian and minimal Lagrangian deformations

5:00 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 10:30
Mina Aganagic (Harvard University)

Duality and topological strings
PDF Presentation
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Chiu-Chu (Melissa) Liu (Harvard University)

Open Gromov-Witten theory

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
Frederic Helein (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France)

Hamiltonian stationary lagrangian surfaces as an integrable system

4:30 - 5:30
Ai-Ko Liu (University of California at Berkeley)

Type II exceptional curves in family SW theory


Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Mark Haskins (Johns Hopkins University)

Isolated conical singularities of special Lagrangian varieties

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00
4:05 - 4:35
4:40 - 5:10
Adrian Butscher (University of Toronto at Scarborough)

Regularizing a Singular Special Lagrangian Variety and Application to

5:15 - 5:35
Marco Zambon (University of California at Berkeley)

Averaging of isotropic submanifolds

5:40 - 6:40
Paul Biran (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Symplectic Obstructions in Algebraic Geometry


Thursday, April 17, 2003

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 10:30
Mark Gross (University of California at San Diego)

Tutorial: Lagrangian fibrations

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Pelham Wilson (Cambridge University)

Metric limits of Calabi--Yau manifolds

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Ilia Zharkov (Duke University)

Limiting behavior of Calabi-Yau metrics

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30
Wei-Dong Ruan (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Generalized special Lagrangian torus fibration for Calabi-Yau

5:30 - 7:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, April 18, 2003

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 10:30
Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)

D-brane Compendium
PDF Presentation
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London, UK)

Uniqueness of special lagrangians
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Yong-Geun Oh (University of Wisconsin)

Geometry of coisotropic D-branes and Floer homology

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30
Gang Tian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Compactifying manifolds with special holonomy

4:30 - 5:00 Conclusion