Tuesday, April 29, 2003
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:30
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:30 - 10:30
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Sergei Gukov (Harvard University)
"Tutorial: Special Holonomy Manifolds and Their Applications in String Theory I"
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
"Tutorial: Geometry of G_2 manifolds I"
Presentation (PDF File)
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Robert Bryant (Duke University)
"Some remarks on associative submanifolds"
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3:00 - 3:30
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Coffee Break
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3:30 - 4:00
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Frederik Witt (Oxford University)
"Generalized G_2 structure"
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4:00 - 4:10
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Break
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4:10 - 4:40
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Shengli Kong (Northeastern University)
"From nearly Kahler manifolds to G_2 manifolds"
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5:00 - 7:00
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Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:30
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:30 - 10:30
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Sergei Gukov (Harvard University)
"Tutorial: Special Holonomy Manifolds and Their Applications in String Theory II"
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
"Tutorial: Geometry of G_2 manifolds II"
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Alexei Kovalev (Cambridge University)
"Coassociative fibrations of compact G2 manifolds"
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3:00 - 3:30
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Coffee Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Sergei Gukov (Harvard University)
"Topology Change in G2 and Spin(7) Manifolds"
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Thursday, May 01, 2003
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:30
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:30 - 10:30
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Christopher Pope (Texas A&M University)
"(Almost) Special Holonomy and M-theory"
Presentation (PDF File)
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)
"Duality and fibrations on G2-manifolds"
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
"G2, Calabi-Yau Threefolds and Topological Strings"
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3:00 - 3:30
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Coffee Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Discussion (all)
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Friday, May 02, 2003
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:15
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:15 - 10:15
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Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)
"Couplings in M-theory on G2 Holonomy Spaces from Type II String Theory on Orientifolds with Intersecting D6-Branes "
Presentation (PDF File)
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10:15 - 10:45
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Coffee Break
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10:45 - 11:45
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Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)
"Construction of G2 manifold"
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11:45 - 12:00
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Conclusion
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