Monday, June 02, 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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Sergey Cherkis (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)
"Asymptotically Locally Flat Hyperkahler Metrics of D-type"
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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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Chiu-Chu (Melissa) Liu (Harvard University)
"A conjectural formula of Marino-Vafa"
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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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Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
"Instantons and Lagrangians in manifolds with vector cross product"
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Itzhak Bars (University of Southern California)
"Non Commutative Geometry and String Field Theory"
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4:30 - 5:00
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Break
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5:00 - 7:00
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Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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Tuesday, June 03, 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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David Morrison (Duke University)
"TBA"
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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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Chien-Hao Liu (Harvard University)
"S1 fixed points in Quot-schemes, mirror principle, and the Hori-Vafa formula"
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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Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Open Gromov-Witten Invariants"
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Ludmil Katzarkov (University of California, Irvine)
"Homological Mirror Symmetry for Fano's and beyond "
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Wednesday, June 04, 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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Jun Li (Stanford University)
"A vanishing theorem of the moduli of vector bundles on curves"
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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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Mina Aganagic (Harvard University)
"TBA"
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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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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
"The Topological Vertex"
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Xiaobo Liu (University of Notre Dame)
"Universal equations for Gromov-Witten invariants"
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Thursday, June 05, 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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Kentaro Hori (University of Toronto)
"Orientifolds And Mirror Symmetry"
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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Mark Gross (UCSD / University of Warwick)
""Affine manifolds and mirror symmetry""
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12:00 - 1:45
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:45 - 2:45
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Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
"Calabi-Yau integrable systems, matrix models, and open strings"
Presentation (PDF File)
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2:45 - 3:15
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Break
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3:15 - 4:15
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Amer Iqbal (Harvard University)
"SU(M) Geometries and Topological String Amplitudes"
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4:15 - 4:30
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Break
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4:30 - 5:30
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Ai-Ko Liu (University of California at Berkeley)
"Algebraic Seiberg-Witten Invariants and Family Blowup Formula"
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5:30 - 7:30
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Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)
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Friday, June 06, 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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Burt Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania)
"Vector Bundles and Superpotentials in Heterotic String Theory"
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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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Anton Kapustin (Caltech / USC)
"The Geometry of A-branes"
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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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Emanuel Diaconescu (Rutgers University)
"Extremal Transitions in Gromov-Witten Theory"
Presentation (PDF File)
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