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Symplectic Geometry and Physics Workshop III: Symplectic Geometry and String Theory

June 2 - 6, 2003

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, June 02, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Sergey Cherkis (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)

"Asymptotically Locally Flat Hyperkahler Metrics of D-type"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Chiu-Chu (Melissa) Liu (Harvard University)

"A conjectural formula of Marino-Vafa"

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

"Instantons and Lagrangians in manifolds with vector cross product"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Itzhak Bars (University of Southern California)

"Non Commutative Geometry and String Field Theory"

4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

David Morrison (Duke University)

"TBA"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Chien-Hao Liu (Harvard University)

"S1 fixed points in Quot-schemes, mirror principle, and the Hori-Vafa formula"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Open Gromov-Witten Invariants"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Ludmil Katzarkov (University of California, Irvine)

"Homological Mirror Symmetry for Fano's and beyond "


Wednesday, June 04, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Jun Li (Stanford University)

"A vanishing theorem of the moduli of vector bundles on curves"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Mina Aganagic (Harvard University)

"TBA"

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)

"The Topological Vertex"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Xiaobo Liu (University of Notre Dame)

"Universal equations for Gromov-Witten invariants"


Thursday, June 05, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Kentaro Hori (University of Toronto)

"Orientifolds And Mirror Symmetry"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Mark Gross (UCSD / University of Warwick)

""Affine manifolds and mirror symmetry""

12:00 - 1:45 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:45 - 2:45

Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)

"Calabi-Yau integrable systems, matrix models, and open strings"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:15

Amer Iqbal (Harvard University)

"SU(M) Geometries and Topological String Amplitudes"

4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Ai-Ko Liu (University of California at Berkeley)

"Algebraic Seiberg-Witten Invariants and Family Blowup Formula"

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

Friday, June 06, 2003

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Burt Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania)

"Vector Bundles and Superpotentials in Heterotic String Theory"

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

Emanuel Diaconescu (Rutgers University)

"Extremal Transitions in Gromov-Witten Theory"
Presentation (PDF File)

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