Symplectic geometry - celebrating the work of Simon Donaldson

Workshop theme

A week-long meeting of the world's experts in symplectic geometry and neighbouring fields. We will be celebrating the 60th birthday of Sir Simon Donaldson FRS and his profound influence on the subject. A characteristic of both his work and this meeting will be the influence of (and on) other fields, such as low dimensional topology, algebraic geometry, geometric analysis and theoretical physics. This is a joint INI - CMI workshop.

The organisers expect that additional funding from the NSF will be available to support the participation of US-based researchers. Participants interested in being supported from that NSF grant need to fill out a separate application for that, see https://tinyurl.com/SYGW05

The application is closed

Timetable

Monday 14th August 2017
09:00 to 09:50	Registration	No Room Required
09:50 to 10:00	Welcome from David Abrahams (INI Director)	No Room Required
10:00 to 11:00	Paul Seidel Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fields of definition of Fukaya categories of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Kenji Fukaya Stony Brook University Atiyah Floer conjecture	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Free time	No Room Required
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch @ Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Free time	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Eleny Ionel Stanford University The Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture for symplectic manifolds	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Zoltan Szabo Princeton University Knot Floer homology and algebraic methods	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome Wine Reception at INI	No Room Required

Tuesday 15th August 2017
10:00 to 11:00	Denis Auroux University of California, Berkeley Speculations about homological mirror symmetry for affine hypersurfaces	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Mikhail Gromov 100 Problems around Scalar Curvature	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Free time	No Room Required
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch @ Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Free time	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Peter Ozsvath Computing knot Floer homology	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Mina Aganagic Mathematical applications of little string theory	Room 1

Wednesday 16th August 2017
09:00 to 10:00	Nigel Hitchin University of Oxford Remarks on Nahm's equations	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
10:30 to 11:30	Michael Atiyah University of Edinburgh From Euler to Poincare	Room 1
11:30 to 12:00	Free time	No Room Required
12:00 to 13:00	Tomasz Mrowka Massachusetts Institute of Technology An approach to the four colour theorem via Donaldson- Floer theory	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Buffet Lunch at INI	No Room Required
14:00 to 16:30	Discussion; tributes to Sir Simon Donaldson	No Room Required
17:00 to 18:00	CONCERT: Music for Simon - Old Library, Pembroke College	No Room Required
18:15 to 22:00	Pre-dinner Drinks & Formal Dinner at Pembroke College (by invitation only)	No Room Required

Thursday 17th August 2017
10:00 to 11:00	Peter Kronheimer An SU(3) variant of instanton homology for webs	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Emmy Murphy Northwestern University Graph Legendrians and SL2 local systems	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Free time	No Room Required
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch @ Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Song Sun Stony Brook University Singularities of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections and the Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtration	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	Dusa McDuff Constructing the virtual fundamental cycle	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Free time	No Room Required
17:00 to 18:00	John Pardon Existence of Lefschetz fibrations on Stein/Weinstein domains	Room 1

Friday 18th August 2017
10:00 to 11:00	Katrin Wehrheim University of California, Berkeley A polyfold lab report	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Frances Kirwan University of Oxford Graded linearisations for linear algebraic group actions	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Free time	No Room Required
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch @ Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Free time	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Thomas Walpuski Massachusetts Institute of Technology On the ADHM Seiberg–Witten equations	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Ivan Smith Symplectic topology of K3 surfaces via mirror symmetry	Room 1

Organisers

Dusa McDuff
Dieter Salamon ETH Zürich
Paul Seidel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Thomas Imperial College London
Nicholas Woodhouse University of Oxford; Oxford Brookes University

Speakers

Mina Aganagic
Michael Atiyah University of Edinburgh
Denis Auroux University of California, Berkeley
Kenji Fukaya Stony Brook University
Mikhail Gromov
Nigel Hitchin University of Oxford
Eleny Ionel Stanford University
Frances Kirwan University of Oxford
Peter Kronheimer
Dusa McDuff
Tomasz Mrowka Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emmy Murphy Northwestern University
Peter Ozsvath
John Pardon
Paul Seidel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ivan Smith
Song Sun Stony Brook University
Zoltan Szabo Princeton University
Thomas Walpuski Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Katrin Wehrheim University of California, Berkeley

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Participants

Mina Aganagic
N Hulya Arguz Imperial College London
Michael Atiyah University of Edinburgh
Denis Auroux University of California, Berkeley
Mohamed El Amine Bahayou Université Kasdi Merbah
Ian Banfield Boston College
Michael Callahan None / Other
Ricardo Castano-Bernard University of Massachusetts
Rima Chatterjee Louisiana State University
John Alexander Cruz Morales Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Aliakbar Daemi Stony Brook University
Frederik De Keersmaeker Cornell University
Aleksander Doan Stony Brook University
Simon Donaldson Imperial College London
Will Donovan University of Tokyo
Mariano Echeverria University of Virginia
Hamed Farhadpour IPM - Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics; None / Other
Paul Feehan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Benjamin Filippenko University of California, Berkeley
Joel Fine Université Libre de Bruxelles
Lorenzo Foscolo Stony Brook University
Kenji Fukaya Stony Brook University
Agnes Gadbled Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
Oscar García-Prada Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; ICMAT
Chris Gerig University of California, Berkeley
Paolo Ghiggini CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université de Nantes
Sherry Gong Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mikhail Gromov
Roberta Guadagni University of Texas at Austin
Mark Haskins Imperial College London
Kota Hattori Keio University
Nigel Hitchin University of Oxford
Eleny Ionel Stanford University
Marcos Jardim Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Ludmil Katzarkov Vienna University of Technology
Michael Khanevsky Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Se-Goo Kim Kyung Hee University
Taehee Kim Konkuk University
Alastair King University of Bath
Frances Kirwan University of Oxford
Ralph Klaasse Universiteit Utrecht
Momchil Konstantinov University College London
Peter Kronheimer
Andrew Lee University of California, Santa Cruz
Heather Lee Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Zhenkun Li Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yang Li Imperial College London
Timothy Logvinenko Cardiff University
Jason Lotay University College London
Shaun Martin University of Oxford
Makiko Mase Tokyo Metropolitan University
David Mason
Emily Maw University College London
Dusa McDuff
Agustin Moreno Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Tomasz Mrowka Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vicente Munoz Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Emmy Murphy Northwestern University
Goncalo Oliveira Duke University
Peter Ozsvath
John Pardon
Jongil Park Seoul National University
Woongbae Park Michigan State University
Brett Parker Australian National University
Daniel Pomerleano Imperial College London
Dieter Salamon ETH Zürich
Paul Seidel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xi Shen Northwestern University
Alan Sheppard University of Cambridge
Steven Sivek Imperial College London
Jack Smith University of Cambridge
Ivan Smith
Andras Stipsicz Renyi Institute for Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Song Sun Stony Brook University
Yuhan Sun Stony Brook University
Zoltan Szabo Princeton University
Henrique Sá Earp Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Carlos Tejero Prieto Universidad de Salamanca
Richard Thomas Imperial College London
Brunella Torricelli University of Cambridge
Aleksy Tralle University of Warmia and Mazury
Christophe Wacheux University of Manchester
Thomas Walpuski Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shuguang Wang University of Missouri
Katrin Wehrheim University of California, Berkeley
Chris Wendl Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Nicholas Wilkins University of Oxford
Nicholas Woodhouse University of Oxford; Oxford Brookes University
Chengjian Yao Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ustun Yildirim Michigan State University
Ki-Heon Yun None / Other
Raphael Zentner Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn; Universität Regensburg
Jingyu Zhao Brandeis University
Zhengyi Zhou University of California, Berkeley
Filip Zivanovic University of Oxford