Arrival date: Saturday, September 9.
Departure date: Wednesday afternoon, September 13, or Thursday, September 14.

All times are EDT. Organizers are Mark Haskins (Duke University) and Simon Salamon (King’s College London).

Schedule:

Speakers:

The links will take you to abstracts, slides of lectures, and/or video recordings of the lectures (when available).

• Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley), Homological link invariants from Floer theory
• Daniel Baldwin (King’s College London), Coulomb and Higgs phases of G_2 manifolds
• Olivier Biquard (Sorbonne), Limits of Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities, and Calabi-Yau metrics
• Charles Cifarelli (Nantes), Steady gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons and Calabi-Yau metrics on Cⁿ
• Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Knot invariants from hyperbolic, SU(3) and G_2 geometries
• Julius Grimminger (Oxford), Stratified hyper-Kähler moduli spaces and physics
• Jonas Lente (Freiburg), Modular Mathai-Quillen currents
• Jin Li (Freiburg), On the geometry of resolutions of G-2-manifolds with ICS
• Mingyang Li (UC Berkeley), Classification results for Hermitian non-Kahler gravitational instantons
• Langte Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong), Instantons on Joyce’s G₂-manifolds
• Alec Payne (Duke), Closed G2-Structures with Negatively Pinched Ricci Curvature
• Daniel Platt (Imperial College London), Approximations of harmonic 1-forms on real loci of Calabi-Yau 3-folds
• Evyatar Sabag (Oxford), G2 Manifolds from 4d N=1 Theories
• Justin Sawon (UNC Chapel Hill), Lagrangian fibrations in four and six dimensions
• Valentino Tosatti (NYU), Holomorphic Lagrangian fibrations and special Kähler geometry
• Lu Wang (Yale), A mean curvature flow approach to density of minimal cones
• Junsheng Zhang (UC Berkeley), On complete Calabi-Yau manifolds asymptotic to cones

This conference will be immediately preceded by our Seventh annual meeting held at the Simons Foundation in New York City.