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Collapse, Adiabatic Limits and Special Holonomy, January 9-13, 2017, Imperial College, London
Arrival date: Sunday, January 8, 2017. Departure date: Saturday, January 14, 2017.
All talks Monday – Wednesday will take place at Huxley Building room 140 [ click for map ]
Schedule
| Mon. JAN. 9 | TUES. JAN. 10 | WED. JAN. 11 | THURS. JAN. 12 | FRI. JAN. 13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Registration/ Welcome |
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| 10:00 | Gilles Carron | Tristan Collins | Dietmar Salamon | Song Sun | Open Discussions |
| 11:30 | Bobby Acharya | Song Sun | Dietmar Salamon | Song Sun | |
| 2:00 | Joel Fine | Mark Gross | Dominic Joyce | Open Discussions | 1:30 David Morrison |
| 3:30 | Gilles Carron | Mark Haskins & Lorenzo Foscolo |
Open Discussions | Open Discussions | |
| 4:45 | – | – | PI Business Mtg 4:45 – 5:30 pm |
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Speakers & Lecture titles:
- Gilles Carron (Université de Nantes), Introduction to Riemannian collapse with bounded curvature
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), M theory and Type IIA superstring theory: Six-dimensional limits of G2 Manifolds
- Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Adiabatic limits and constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics
- Gilles Carron (Université de Nantes), Collapsing spaces with special holonomy with bounded or very small curvature
- Tristan Collins (Harvard), Sasaki-Einstein metrics and K-Stability
- Song Sun (Stony Brook), Isolated conical singularities of Calabi-Yau varieties
- Mark Gross (Cambridge), Gromov-Hausdorff collapse for abelian fibred Calabi-Yau varieties
- Lorenzo Foscolo (Stony Brook) & Mark Haskins (Imperial College London), Non-compact G2 manifolds collapsing to asymptotically conical Calabi-Yau 3-folds
- Dietmar Salamon (ETH Zürich), Adiabatic limits in gauge theory
- Dietmar Salamon (ETH Zürich), An open-closed isomorphism in instanton Floer homology
- Dominic Joyce (Oxford), Counting problems for G2 manifolds
- David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), Degenerations of K3 surfaces, gravitational instantons, and M-theory
Physics Background for Applications of Special Holonomy, September 12-15, 2016, SCGP, Stony Brook
Arrival date (for second week attendees): Sunday, September 11. Departure date: Friday, September 16.
Schedule
| Mon. Sept. 12 | Tues. Sept. 13 | Wed. Sept. 14 | Thurs. Sept. 15 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:15 | Registration/Welcome | – | – | – |
| 9:30 | Jacques Distler | Johannes Walcher | Ronen Plesser | Bobby Acharya |
| 11:00 | Jacques Distler | Dave Morrison | Dave Morrison | Jim Halverson |
| 1:15 | Bobby Acharya | Sakura Schafer-Nameki | Frederik Denef | Bobby Acharya |
| 2:30 | Frederik Denef | Johannes Walcher | Sakura Schafer-Nameki | Dave Morrison |
| 4:00 | Ronen Plesser | Bobby Acharya | Jim Halverson | |
| 5:15 | Jacques Distler |
Speakers & Lecture titles:
- Jacques Distler (University of Texas at Austin), Geometric structures and supersymmetric theories, I
- Jacques Distler (University of Texas at Austin), Geometric structures and supersymmetric theories, II
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), Particle physics for mathematicians
- Frederik Denef (Columbia), Supergravity theories and their compactification, I
- Ronen Plesser (Duke), String worldsheets
- Johannes Walcher (Heidelberg), D-branes I
- Dave Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), The role of special holonomy in string/M/F compactification
- Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford), Gauge theories in M/string theory and Higgs bundles
- Johannes Walcher (Heidelberg), D-branes, II
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), The standard model of particle physics
- Jacques Distler (University of Texas at Austin), Geometric structures and supergravity theories
- Ronen Plesser (Duke), BPS and all that
- Dave Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), Calibrations and branes
- Frederik Denef (Columbia), Supergravity theories and their compactification, II
- Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford), M-theory on CY, singularities and resolutions
- Jim Halverson (Northeastern), More Gauge Enhancement in M on CY
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), Beyond the standard model
- Jim Halverson (Northeastern), Gauge Enhancement in M on G₂
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), Codimension seven singularities in M-theory compactifications
- Dave Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), Odds and ends
Inaugural Conference: September 6-9, 2016, SCGP, Stony Brook
Arrival date: Monday, September 5. Departure date (for first week attendees): Saturday, September 10.
Schedule:
| Tues. Sept. 6 | Wed. Sept. 7 | Thurs. Sept. 8 | Fri. Sept. 9 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration | – | – | – | |
| 9:15 | Welcome | – | – | – | |
| 9:30 | Simon Donaldson (Intro 1) | Simon Donaldson (Intro 2) | Dave Morrison | Mark Haskins | |
| 11:00 | Robert Bryant | Eleonora Di Nezza | Andriy Haydys | Simon Salamon | |
| 1:15 | Bobby Acharya | Thomas Walpuski | Anda Degeratu | Jeff Cheeger | |
| 2:30 | Johannes Nordström | Yng-Ing Lee | Sergei Gukov | Song Sun | |
| 4:00 | Sebastian Goette | Dominic Joyce | Lorenzo Foscolo | Simon Donaldson | |
| 5:00 | Business Meeting: Collaboration P.I.s |
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| 6:00 | – | Banquet | – | – |
NOTE: Blaine Lawson’s talk has been cancelled, but he has provided the slides he had prepared for the talk.
Speakers & Lecture titles:
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), G₂-manifolds and Particle Physics
- Robert Bryant (Duke University), On families of special holonomy metrics defined by algebraic curvature conditions
- Jeff Cheeger (NYU), Ricci curvature – Some recent progress and open questions
- Anda Degeratu (Frieburg and Stuttgart), Quasi-asymptotically conical geometries
- Sir Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London and SCGP)
- Eleonora Di Nezza (Imperial College London), The space of Kähler metrics on singular varieties
- Lorenzo Foscolo (Stony Brook), ALF spaces and collapsing Ricci-flat metrics on the K3 surface
- Sebastian Goette (Freiburg), Connected components of the moduli space of G₂ manifolds
- Sergei Gukov (Caltech), Mathematics of fivebranes on smooth 4-manifolds
- Mark Haskins (Imperial College London), Collapse and special holonomy metrics
- Andriy Haydys (Bielefeld), On degenerations of the Seiberg–Witten monopoles and G₂-instantons
- Dominic Joyce (Oxford), Derived differential geometry and moduli spaces in differential geometry
- Blaine Lawson (Stony Brook), Pluripotential theory on calibrated manifolds
- Yng-Ing Lee (National Taiwan University), On the existence of Lagrangians with special properties
- David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), Moduli, calibrations, and singularities
- Johannes Nordström (Bath), Complete and conically singular G₂-manifolds of cohomogeneity one
- Simon Salamon (King’s College London), Manifolds with holonomy Sp(n)Sp(1)
- Song Sun (Stony Brook), Degeneration of Calabi-Yau metrics
- Thomas Walpulski (MIT), From G₂ gauge theory to the ADHM Seiberg–Witten equation
