Clay Mathematics Institute School on geometry and string theory

Workshop theme

The topics that will be covered are the following: Orbifolds and McKay correspondence, Calabi-Yau 3 folds and mirror symmetry, hyperKähler and other geometries based on special holonomy, and applications of these to the study of supersymmetric compactifications and brane configurations in string/M theory

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Timetable

Monday 25th March 2002
08:30 to 09:20	Registration	No Room Required
09:20 to 09:30	Welcome by Deputy Director Dr. Robert Hunt	Room 1
09:30 to 11:00	String / M Theory Compactification: An Overview	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Introduction to derived categories and McKay correspondence (I)	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Branes, Calibrations and Supergravity	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Victor Batyrev Toric Mirror Symmetry	Room 1
17:15 to 18:15	Wine Reception	No Room Required
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 26th March 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Branes, Calibrations and Supergravity	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	New Metrics with Special Holonomy	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Mirror Symmetry	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Introduction to derived categories and McKay correspondence (II)	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Wednesday 27th March 2002
09:30 to 11:00	New Metrics with Special Holonomy	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Constructing compact manifolds with exceptional holonomy	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:10	Unknown	Room 1
14:10 to 15:30	Branes, Calibrations and Supergravity	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Introduction to calibrated geometry	Room 1
19:45 to 00:00	Conference Dinner - Kings College	No Room Required

Thursday 28th March 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Robert Henricus Dijkgraaf University of Helsinki Topological String Theory	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Mirror Symmetry	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Introduction to derived categories and McKay correspondence (III)	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	New Metrics with special Holonomy	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Friday 29th March 2002
00:00 to 00:00	Unknown	No Room Required
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Saturday 30th March 2002
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Sunday 31st March 2002
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Monday 1st April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Exact results in supersymmetric field theory Wolfson Court - Fletcher Molton Room	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Introduction to D-Branes and boundary CFT - I Wolfson Court - Fletcher Molton Room	No Room Required
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Exact results in supersymmetric field theory	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Poster Session Wolfson Court - Law Library	No Room Required
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 2nd April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Robert Henricus Dijkgraaf University of Helsinki Topological string theory	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	The Picard group and the cohomology of G-Hilb	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Balázs Szendröi University of Warwick Introduction to Homological Mirror Symmetry	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Stringy Hodge numbers and the McKay correspondence	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Wednesday 3rd April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Robert Henricus Dijkgraaf University of Helsinki Topological string theory	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Singularities of special Lagrangian submanifolds	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Frances Kirwan University of Oxford Moduli spaces of bundles over Riemann surfaces	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:15	Special Lagrangian fibrations and the SYZ conjecture	Room 1
20:00 to 00:00	Conference Dinner - Magdalene College Pre dinner drinks from 19.30 - Benson Hall	No Room Required

Thursday 4th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Balázs Szendröi University of Warwick Derived Equivalences in Homological Mirror Symmetry	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Introduction to D-Branes and boundary CFT - II	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Frances Kirwan University of Oxford The Yang-Mills stratification revisited	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Exact results in supersymmetric field theory	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Friday 5th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Exact results in supersymmetric field theory	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Standard conjectures in Kahler geometry	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Ron Donagi University of Pennsylvania Principal bundles on elliptic fibrations	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Victor Batyrev Testing toric mirror symmetry	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Saturday 6th April 2002
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Sunday 7th April 2002
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Monday 8th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Ron Donagi University of Pennsylvania Heterotic/F-Theory duality	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	D-Branes, orbifolds and derived categories	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Bobby Acharya M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 9th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Bobby Acharya M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Introduction to quantum periods - I	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Anton Kapustin CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) Mirror symmetry and A-Branes	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Robert Henricus Dijkgraaf University of Helsinki Topological string theory	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Wednesday 10th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	D-Branes, orbifolds and derived categories	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Invariant functionals	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Introduction to motivic integration	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Bobby Acharya M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics	Room 1
20:00 to 18:00	Conference Dinner - Corpus Christi College	No Room Required

Thursday 11th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Bobby Acharya M theory, G2-holonomy singularities and four dimensional physics	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Cohomogeneity one metrics	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Generalised Calabi-Yau manifolds	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Sergei Gukov Harvard University Duality and Fibrations on G$\_$2 Manifolds	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Friday 12th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Gregory Moore K-Theory - I	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Sergei Gukov Harvard University Fluxes, Superpotential, and Calibrated Geometry	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	D-Branes, orbifolds and derived categories	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Introduction to quantum periods - II	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Saturday 13th April 2002
21:30 to 00:00	Late buffet at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Sunday 14th April 2002
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Monday 15th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Gregory Moore K-Theory - II	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	From Fano 3-folds to compact G$\_$2-manifolds	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	String/M compactifications and duality	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Igor Dolgachev University of Michigan Hermitian symmetric domains and Calabi-Yau manifolds	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 16th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Gregory Moore Non supersymmetric orbifolds - I	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Dmitry Kaledin Independent University of Moscow McKay correspondence for symplectic singularities	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	String/M compactification and duality	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Justin Sawon University of Oxford Rozaansky-Witten invariants and extended TQFT	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Wednesday 17th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	String / M compactification and duality	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Akira Ishii Kyoto University Representations of the McKay quiver and variation of GIT quotients	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Large Complex Structure limits of K3 surfaces	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	TBA	Room 1
19:30 to 00:00	Conference Dinner - Emmanuel College	No Room Required

Thursday 18th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	String / M compactification and duality	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Gregory Moore A time dependent background in string theory	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Misha Verbitsky Stability of Fourier-Mukai transform	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	TBA	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Friday 19th April 2002
09:30 to 11:00	Rob Myers Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics TBA	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 13:00	Aspects of mirror symmetry	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:30	Aspects of mirror symmetry	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Viacheslav Nikulin University of Liverpool On hyperbolic Kac--Moody algebras of Borcherds type and applications	Room 1
19:00 to 00:00	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)	No Room Required

Speakers

Bobby Acharya
Victor Batyrev
Robert Henricus Dijkgraaf University of Helsinki
Igor Dolgachev University of Michigan
Ron Donagi University of Pennsylvania
Sergei Gukov Harvard University
Akira Ishii Kyoto University
Dmitry Kaledin Independent University of Moscow
Anton Kapustin CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Frances Kirwan University of Oxford
Gregory Moore
Rob Myers Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Viacheslav Nikulin University of Liverpool
Justin Sawon University of Oxford
Balázs Szendröi University of Warwick
Misha Verbitsky

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