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

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

Part of the Long Program Symplectic Geometry and Physics
June 2 - 6, 2003

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, June 2, 2003

Morning Session

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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Instantons and Lagrangians in manifolds with vector cross product
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Itzhak Bars (University of Southern California)
Non Commutative Geometry and String Field Theory
16:30-17:00
Break
17:00-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, June 3, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
David Morrison (Duke University)
TBA
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Chien-Hao Liu (Harvard University)
S<sup>1</sup> fixed points in Quot-schemes, mirror principle, and the Hori-Vafa formula

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Open Gromov-Witten Invariants
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Ludmil Katzarkov (University of California, Irvine)
Homological Mirror Symmetry for Fano's and beyond

Thursday, June 5, 2003

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:30
Kentaro Hori (University of Toronto)
Orientifolds And Mirror Symmetry
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Mark Gross (UCSD / University of Warwick)
Affine manifolds and mirror symmetry

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:45
Lunch (on your own)
13:45-14:45
Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)
Calabi-Yau integrable systems, matrix models, and open strings
14:45-15:15
Break
15:15-16:15
Amer Iqbal (Harvard University)
SU(M) Geometries and Topological String Amplitudes
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Ai-Ko Liu (University of California at Berkeley)
Algebraic Seiberg-Witten Invariants and Family Blowup Formula
17:30-19:30
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)
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