Geometry of Lagrangian Submanifolds - IPAM

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

08:00-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Anton Kapustin (California Institute of Technology)
The Geometry of A-branes.

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Intantons and Lagrangian submanifolds in manifolds with vector cross products
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:00
Tommaso Pacini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A report on special Lagrangian and minimal Lagrangian deformations
17:00-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-10:30
Mina Aganagic (Harvard University)
Duality and topological strings
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Chiu-Chu (Melissa) Liu (Harvard University)
Open Gromov-Witten theory

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
Frederic Helein (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France)
Hamiltonian stationary lagrangian surfaces as an integrable system
16:30-17:30
Ai-Ko Liu (University of California at Berkeley)
Type II exceptional curves in family SW theory

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-10:30
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:00
16:40-17:10
Adrian Butscher (University of Toronto at Scarborough)
Regularizing a Singular Special Lagrangian Variety and Application to
17:15-17:35
Marco Zambon (University of California at Berkeley)
Averaging of isotropic submanifolds
17:40-18:40
Paul Biran (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Symplectic Obstructions in Algebraic Geometry

Thursday, April 17, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-10:30
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Ilia Zharkov (Duke University)
Limiting behavior of Calabi-Yau metrics
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
16:30-17:30
Wei-Dong Ruan (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Generalized special Lagrangian torus fibration for Calabi-Yau
17:30-19:30
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, April 18, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Continental Breakfast
09:15-10:30
Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)
D-brane Compendium
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London, UK)
Uniqueness of special lagrangians

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Yong-Geun Oh (University of Wisconsin)
Geometry of coisotropic D-branes and Floer homology
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30
Gang Tian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Compactifying manifolds with special holonomy
16:30-17:00
Conclusion