Workshop Programme
for period 11-13 January
Mathematical Aspects of String and M-Theory
11-13 January
Timetable
| Wednesday 11 January | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Registration | BSM |
| 09:45-10:00 | Welcome from John Toland (INI Director) & Annoucements | BSM |
| 10:00-11:00 | de la Ossa, X (University of Oxford) | BSM |
| Geometry and Connectedness of Heterotic String Compactifications with Fluxes | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | BSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Larfors, M (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) | BSM |
| A ten-dimensional action for non-geometric fluxes | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | BSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Waldram, D (Imperial College London) | BSM |
| Supergravity as generalised geometry | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | BSM |
| 15:30-16:30 | Minasian, R (CEA/Saclay) | BSM |
| Stringy corrections with B-field | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Graña, M (CEA/Saclay) | BSM |
| Reductions with reduced supersymmetry using generalized geometry | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-18:00 | Drinks Reception | BSM |
| Thursday 12 January | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Becker, K (Texas A&M University) | BSM |
| D-brane/O-plane effective actions, disc amplitudes and T-duality | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | BSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Sati, H (University of Pittsburgh) | BSM |
| M-branes and String structures | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | BSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Hartman, T (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) | BSM |
| Higher Spin Gravity and 2d CFTs | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | BSM |
| 15:30-16:30 | Diaconescu, E (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) | BSM |
| Lagrangian cycles and knots at large N | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Anderson, L (Harvard University) | BSM |
| Line bundle Standard Models | Sem 1 | |
| 19:30-22:00 | Conference Dinner at Emmanuel College | BSM |
| Friday 13 January | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Pestun, V (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) | BSM |
| Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | BSM |
| 11:30-12:30 | Cheng, M (Harvard University) | BSM |
| String Theory and the Moonshine Programme | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | BSM |
| 14:00-15:00 | Persson, D (Chalmers University of Technology) | BSM |
| Wall-crossing, dilogarithm identities and the QK/HK correspondence | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | BSM |
| 15:30-16:30 | Hollands, L (Caltech) | BSM |
| A 4d-2d correspondence for Sicilian quivers | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Dabholkar, A (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies) | BSM |
| Localization and Exact Quantum Entropy of Black Holes | Sem 1 | |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |