Organisers: Professor R Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam), Professor M Douglas (Rutgers), Professor JP Gauntlett (London), Professor C Hull (London)

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences A Newton Institute Workshop Clay Mathematics Institute School on Geometry and String Theory 24 Mar - 20 Apr 2002 Timetable: List of participants

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Monday 25 March

08.30-09.20 Registration

09.20-09.30 Welcome by Deputy Director Dr. Robert Hunt

09.30-11.00 M Douglas (Rutgers / IHES)

String / M Theory Compactification: An Overview

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 M Reid (Warwick)

Introduction to derived categories and McKay correspondence (I)

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 J Gauntlett (QMUL)

Branes, Calibrations and Supergravity  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 V Batyrev (Tu"ebingen)

Toric Mirror Symmetry  More info

17.15-18.15 Wine Reception

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Tuesday 26 March

09.30-11.00 J Gauntlett (QMUL)

Branes, Calibrations and Supergravity

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 G Gibbons (Cambridge)

New Metrics with Special Holonomy

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 M Gross (Warwick)

Mirror Symmetry

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 M Reid (Warwick)

Introduction to derived categories and McKay correspondence (II)

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Wednesday 27 March

09.30-11.00 G Gibbons (Cambridge)

New Metrics with Special Holonomy

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 D Joyce (Oxford)

Constructing compact manifolds with exceptional holonomy  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-14.10 A Jaffe (Clay Mathematics Institute)

14.10-15.30 J Gauntlett (QMUL)

Branes, Calibrations and Supergravity

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 D Joyce (Oxford)

Introduction to calibrated geometry  More info

19.45- . Conference Dinner - Kings College

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Thursday 28 March

09.30-11.00 R Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam)

Topological String Theory

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 M Gross (Warwick)

Mirror Symmetry

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 M Reid (Warwick)

Introduction to derived categories and McKay correspondence (III)

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 G Gibbons (Cambridge)

New Metrics with special Holonomy

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Friday 29 March

. - . Free Day

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Saturday 30 March

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Sunday 31 March

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Monday 1 April

09.30-11.00 N Dorey (Swansea)

Exact results in supersymmetric field theory
Wolfson Court - Fletcher Molton Room

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 C Bachas (ENS)

Introduction to D-Branes and boundary CFT - I
Wolfson Court - Fletcher Molton Room  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 N Dorey (Swansea)

Exact results in supersymmetric field theory

15.30-16.00 Tea at Wolfson Court

16.00-17.00 Poster Session
Wolfson Court - Law Library

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Tuesday 2 April

09.30-11.00 R Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam)

Topological string theory

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 A Craw (Utah)

The Picard group and the cohomology of G-Hilb  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 B Szendroi (Warwick)

Introduction to Homological Mirror Symmetry  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 A Craw (Utah)

Stringy Hodge numbers and the McKay correspondence  More info

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Wednesday 3 April

09.30-11.00 R Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam)

Topological string theory

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 D Joyce (Oxford)

Singularities of special Lagrangian submanifolds  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 F Kirwan (Oxford)

Moduli spaces of bundles over Riemann surfaces  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.15 D Joyce (Oxford)

Special Lagrangian fibrations and the SYZ conjecture  More info

20.00- . Conference Dinner - Magdalene College
Pre dinner drinks from 19.30 - Benson Hall

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Thursday 4 April

09.30-11.00 B Szendroi (Warwick)

Derived Equivalences in Homological Mirror Symmetry  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 C Bachas (ENS)

Introduction to D-Branes and boundary CFT - II  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 F Kirwan (Oxford)

The Yang-Mills stratification revisited  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 N Dorey (Swansea)

Exact results in supersymmetric field theory

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Friday 5 April

09.30-11.00 N Dorey (Swansea)

Exact results in supersymmetric field theory

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 S Donaldson (Imperial)

Standard conjectures in Kahler geometry  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 R Donagi (Pennsylvania)

Principal bundles on elliptic fibrations  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 V Batyrev (Tuebingen)

Testing toric mirror symmetry  More info

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Saturday 6 April

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Sunday 7 April

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Monday 8 April

09.30-11.00 R Donagi (Pennsylvania)

Heterotic/F-Theory duality  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 M Douglas (Rutgers & IHES)

D-Branes, orbifolds and derived categories

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 B Acharya (Rutgers)

M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Tuesday 9 April

09.30-11.00 B Acharya (Rutgers)

M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 S Barannikov (CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure)

Introduction to quantum periods - I  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 A Kapustin (CALTECH)

Mirror symmetry and A-Branes

14.00-15.30 TBA

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 R Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam)

Topological string theory

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Wednesday 10 April

09.30-11.00 M Douglas (Rutgers & IHES)

D-Branes, orbifolds and derived categories

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 N Hitchin (Oxford)

Invariant functionals  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 M Mustata (Clay Mathematics Institute)

Introduction to motivic integration

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 B Acharya (Rutgers)

M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics  More info

20.00 Conference Dinner - Corpus Christi College

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Thursday 11 April

09.30-11.00 B Acharya (Rutgers)

M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 N Hitchin (Oxford)

Cohomogeneity one metrics  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 N Hitchin (Oxford)

Generalised Calabi-Yau manifolds  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 S Gukov (Harvard)

Duality and Fibrations on G$\_$2 Manifolds

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Friday 12 April

09.30-11.00 G Moore (Rutgers)

K-Theory - I

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 S Gukov (Harvard)

Fluxes, Superpotential, and Calibrated Geometry

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 M Douglas (Rutgers & IHES)

D-Branes, orbifolds and derived categories

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 S Barannikov (CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure)

Introduction to quantum periods - II  More info

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Saturday 13 April

21.30- . Late buffet at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Sunday 14 April

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Monday 15 April

09.30-11.00 G Moore (Rutgers)

K-Theory - II

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 A Kovalev (Cambridge)

From Fano 3-folds to compact G$\_$2-manifolds  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 S Sethi (Chicago)

String/M compactifications and duality

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 I Dolgachev (Michigan)

Hermitian symmetric domains and Calabi-Yau manifolds  More info

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Tuesday 16 April

09.30-11.00 G Moore (Rutgers)

Non supersymmetric orbifolds - I

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 D Kaledin (Steklov Institute)

McKay correspondence for symplectic singularities  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 S Sethi (Chicago)

String/M compactification and duality

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 J Sawon (Oxford)

Rozaansky-Witten invariants and extended TQFT

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Wednesday 17 April

09.30-11.00 S Sethi (Chicago)

String / M compactification and duality

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 A Ishii (Kyoto)

Representations of the McKay quiver and variation of GIT quotients  More info

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 PMH Wilson (Cambridge)

Large Complex Structure limits of K3 surfaces  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 TBA

TBA

19.30- . Conference Dinner - Emmanuel College

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Thursday 18 April

09.30-11.00 S Sethi (Chicago)

String / M compactification and duality

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 G Moore (Rutgers)

A time dependent background in string theory

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 M Verbitsky (Moscow)

Stability of Fourier-Mukai transform  More info

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 TBA

TBA

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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Friday 19 April

09.30-11.00 R Myers (Perimeter Institute)

TBA

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 RP Thomas (Imperial)

Aspects of mirror symmetry

13.00-14.00 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.30 RP Thomas (Imperial)

Aspects of mirror symmetry

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.00 V Nikulin (Liverpool)

On hyperbolic Kac--Moody algebras of Borcherds type and applications

19.00- . Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

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