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Algebraic Geometry, Gauge Theory and the Swampland Conjectures: January 9-13, 2023, Oxford

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Arrival date: Sunday, January 8.
Departure date: Friday, January 13, or Saturday, January 14.

All times are BST. Organizers: Dominic Joyce, Jason Lotay, Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford University).

The meeting will cover several topics: some differential geometry and gauge theory, some material on enumerative invariants including Virasoro relations and invariants counting coherent sheaves on Calabi-Yau 4-folds, and a strand on the Swampland Conjectures from String Theory. The conference will happen simultaneously, in the next door lecture theatre, to the ADK60 conference on ‘Quivers, Clusters, Moduli and Stability’ https://www.cantab.net/users/t.logvinenko/2023-qcms/index.html, in honour of the 60th birthday of Alastair King. Attendees at either conference are welcome to go to the talks at the other (but not to steal each others’ biscuits). Five talks will be joint between both conferences. As a result, this Simons meeting will have more of an emphasis on Algebraic Geometry than usual.

Practical arrangements:

  • The conference will take place in Lecture Theatre 3 of the basement of the Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford, OX2 6GG, except for the lectures on Tuesday and the first lecture on Wednesday, which will happen in Lecture Theatre 2. See https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about-us/travel-maps for how to get here.
  • Invited participants will be housed in the Linton Lodge Hotel, see https://www.bestwestern.co.uk/hotels/linton-lodge-hotel-bw-signature-collection-83647.
  • Invited participants should arrange their own travel to Oxford, and claim (reasonable) travel costs back from the conference afterwards. Please keep all receipts if you intend to make a claim.
  • The most convenient airport for Oxford is London Heathrow. A good way to get to and from the airport is to use a bus service called the Oxford Airline, see https://www.theairlineoxford.co.uk/. You can buy tickets on the bus – no need to do this in advance – and it is much cheaper to buy a ‘period return’ ticket rather than two single tickets. It is also possible to do the journey by train (go via the Elizabeth line), provided the trains are not on strike and have not melted down (e.g. wrong kind of rain, leaf on line).
  • It is an easy walk to the Maths Institute from all of Linton Lodge, the bus station, and the train station.
  • There is a cafe in the basement of the Mathematical Institute where you can buy your own lunch. There are also plenty of local shops and restaurants.
  • Academics and PhD students at the Oxford Mathematical Institute or Physics department are welcome to attend the conference talks, no need to ask the organizers. Attendees at the ADK60 conference are also welcome to attend the conference talks.
  • The conference is primarily an activity of the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics, https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/, put on for the benefit of its members, and is not an open invitation conference. We do not have funding for inviting non-collaboration members, except invited speakers.
  • Non-Oxford people who have not been invited to the conference, but would like to attend, should contact the organizers. We are not offering funding for this, nor to arrange travel or accommodation, this would be your problem. One limiting factor is the capacity of the lecture theatre.

You can download a pdf of the schedule, or use the version below.

Schedule (including links to streaming video):

MON 9 JAN

TUE 10 JAN

WED 11 JAN

THU 12 JAN

FRI 13 JAN

9:30-10:00

 J. Nordstrom
and M. Turner
(room L3)
streaming		 T. Langlais
(room L3)
streaming		 J. Streets
(room L3)
streaming

10:00-11:00

 D. Joyce
(room L2)
streaming		 K. Wendland
(room L2)
streaming

11:00-11:30

 tea break tea break tea break tea break tea break

11:30-12:30

 G. Ball
(room L3)
streaming		 R. Thomas
(room L2)
streaming		 A. Bojko
(room L3)
streaming		 T. Grimm
(room L3)
streaming		 Geometric flows discussion
(led by Jason Lotay)
in room L3
streaming

12:30-1:00

 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch, further discussions,
and departure

1:00-2:00

2:00-2:15

 V. Hoskins
(room L3)
streaming		 W. Lim and M. Moreira
(room L3)
streaming		 T. Weigand
(room L3)
streaming

2:15-3:00

 L. Alvarez-Consul
(room L2)
streaming

3:00-3:15

 TBA
(room L3)
streaming		 tea break

3:15-3:30

 tea break

3:30-3:45

 tea break Swampland discussion
(led by Bobby Acharya)
in room L3
streaming

3:45-4:00

 O. Garcia-Prada
(room L2)
streaming

4:00-4:30

 tea break B. Pioline
(room L3)
streaming

4:30-4:45

 Differential geometry
and gauge theory
discussion (led by
Thomas Walpuski)
in room L3
streaming

4:45-5:00

 break

5:00-5:30

 T. Bridgeland
(room L2)
streaming

5:30-6:00

evening

 Conference dinner,
Balliol College
(by invitation only):
7:15 Drinks reception,
8:00 dinner

Speakers:

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

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