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Progress and Open Problems 2023: September 10-13, 2023, SCGP, Stony Brook

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:

SUN 10 SEP

MON 11 SEP

TUES 12 SEP

WED 13 SEP

9:30-10:30

J. Sawon L. Wang J. Fine L. Ma
(online lecture)

11:00-12:00

J. Grimminger C. Cifarelli D. Baldwin D. Platt

13:15-14:15

V. Tosatti

14:30-15:30

M. Li M. Aganagic
(online lecture)
14:30-15:00: J. Lente
15:00-15:30: J. Li

16:00-17:00

16:00-16:30 A. Payne
16:30-17:00 E. Sabag
J. Zhang O. Biquard  (Joint with
Stony Brook Geometry)

Speakers:

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

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

Calabi’s birthday!

We celebrate the occasion of Eugenio Calabi’s 100th birthday on May 11, 2023, and acknowledge the enormous influence of his work on that of the Collaboration.

Cvetic elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Collaboration P. I. Mirjam Cvetic has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is among 269 new members elected in 2023.

Read more here

Physics and Special Holonomy, KITP, 13-17 March 2023

Arrival date: Sunday, March 12.
Departure date: Friday, March 17.

All times are PDT. Organizers are Bobby Acharya (ICTP & King’s College London), Max Hübner (University of Pennsylvania), Dave Morrison (UCSB), and Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford).

The meeting will cover several topics: generalized symmetries (Monday and Tuesday), physics and special holonomy (Wednesday and Thursday), summary and future vision (Friday).

All talks are held in the Fred Kavli Auditorium.

Remote participants who would like to join via Zoom should please register at https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsc-2sqDkvH9D1ZSdjuqeLNhaFpAVsR7dq.

In-person participants are staying at the Best Western South Coast Inn (BWSCI), and KITP is running a shuttle between the hotel and the conference venue.

Schedule:

MON 13 MAR

TUE 14 MAR

WED 15 MAR

THUR 16 MAR

FRI 17 MAR

8:50-9:00

L. Bildsten
(welcome to KITP)

Morning
Session Chair

Dave Morrison Max Hübner Mark Haskins Jason Lotay Robert Bryant

9:00-9:45

C. Teleman F. Bonetti L. Foscolo T. Collins D. Joyce
(via Zoom)

9:45-10:30

T. Walpuski
(via Zoom)

10:30-11:00

Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break Morning Break

11:00-11:45

L. Bhardwaj L. Lin A. Braun S. Habibi Esfahani B. Acharya

11:45-12:30

M. Haskins

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break

Afternoon
Session Chair

Sakura Shafer-Nameki Bobby Acharya Thibault Langlais Simon Salamon

14:00-15:30

F. Apruzzi Y. Tanaka M. Hübner S. Sun (Shuttle)

15:30-16:00

Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break Afternoon Break

16:00-17:30

Discussion Discussion J. Wu J. Lotay

17:30-18:00

(Shuttle to BWSCI) Reception (Shuttle to BWSCI) Reception

18:00-20:00

Dinner Dinner

Speakers:

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

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

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).

Progress and Open Problems 2022: September 11-14, 2022, SCGP, Stony Brook

Arrival date: Saturday, September 10.
Departure date: Wednesday afternoon, September 14, or Thursday, September 15.

All times are EDT. Organizer is Robert Bryant (Duke University).

Schedule:

SUN 11 SEP

MON 12 SEP

TUES 13 SEP

WED 14 SEP

9:30-10:30

S. Goette H. Liu G. Bera J. Tian

11:00-12:00

A. Kennon I. Alonso M. Hübner Wrap-up session

13:15-14:15

G. Parker (SCGP Weekly Talk)

14:30-15:30

D. Baldwin F. Trinca L. Lin

16:00-17:00

D. Platt Y. Li

16:30-17:30

J. Lotay  (Joint with
Stony Brook Geometry)

Speakers:

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

Geometry, Topology and Singular Special Holonomy Spaces: 6-10 June 2022, Freiburg University

The collaboration will hold a meeting at Freiburg University (Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany) on June 6-10 2022, entitled “Geometry, Topology and Singular Special Holonomy Spaces”

Scientific Organizers:
Sebastian Goette, Mark Haskins, and Thomas Walpuski.

All talks will take place in Lecture Hall HS II in the Geology Building,
Albertstr. 23b.

The Reception and the coffee breaks will take place in the “Sozialraum” 331 of the Maths Institute,
Ernst-Zermelo-Str. 1, 3rd floor.

A map can be found here; HS II is in building no 13, the Math Institute is in building no 2 on that map.

Timetable

MON 6 JUNE

TUE 7 JUNE

WED 8 JUNE

THU 9 JUNE

FRI 10 JUNE

9:00 (CEST)

Reception Alec Payne/Ilyas Kahn Jonathan Heckman/Ethan Torres Johannes Nordström I Diarmuid Crowley (remote)

10:30 (CEST)

Hans-Joachim Hein Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee

11:30 (CEST)

Hongyi Liu Mirjam Cvetic/Max Hübner Anna Fino Johannes Nordström II

12:00 (CEST)

Lunch Break

13:00 (CEST)

Lunch Break END Lunch Break END

14:00 (CEST)

Chris Scaduto (remote)

15:00 (CEST)

Yang Li I (remote) Yang Li II (remote)

15:30 (CEST)

Coffee

16:30 (CEST)

Rafe Mazzeo (remote) END END

18:00 (CEST)

END

Speakers:

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


Bryant named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Collaboration Director Robert Bryant has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is among 564 new members elected for their efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society.

Read more here

Connections between String Theory and Special Holonomy: January 10-14, 2022, Virtual Meeting Online

The collaboration will hold a virtual meeting on January 10-14 2022, entitled “Connections between String Theory and Special Holonomy” (originally scheduled to be held at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK)

Scientific Organizers:
Dominic Joyce, Jason Lotay, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki.


Summary:
The programme will have three strands:

  • Enumerative invariants in algebraic and differential geometry.
  • 3d Coulomb branches and hyper-Kähler geometry.
  • Differential geometry related to special holonomy.

One of our goals is to promote understanding between mathematicians and physicists, so where relevant we will aim to have talks by mathematicians intended to be understood by physicists, and vice versa, with some coordination between the mathematics and physics talks.

Timetable

MON 10 JANUARY

TUE 11 JANUARY

WED 12 JANUARY

THU 13 JANUARY

FRI 14 JANUARY

12:00-13:00 (GMT)
7:00-8:00 (EST)

Nakajima

14:00-15:00 (GMT)
9:00-10:00 (EST)

Bourget Chiu Oh Kontsevich

15:15-16:15 (GMT)
10:15-11:15 (EST)

Kirwan Bullimore Manschot Aslan Singhal

17:00-18:00 (GMT)
12:00-13:00 (EST)

Dancer Closset Kool Thomas Foscolo

19:00-20:00 (GMT)
14:00-15:00 (EST)

Schulze Nekrasov Streets

Speakers:

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


Progress and Open Problems 2021: September 12-15, 2021, SCGP, Stony Brook

Arrival date: Saturday, September 11.
Departure date: Wednesday afternoon, September 15, or Thursday, September 16.

All times are EDT. Organizer is Mark Haskins (Duke University).

Schedule:

SUN 12 SEP

MON 13 SEP

TUES 14 SEP

WED 15 SEP

9:30-10:30

J. Heckman J. Wu Z. Liu D. Platt

11:00-12:00

G.Ball F. Lehmann S. He Wrap-up session

13:00-14:00

Y. Li (SCGP Weekly Talk)

14:00-15:00

S. Sun M. Hubner X. Chen

16:00-17:00

T. Collins Open problems discussion T. Walpuski  (Joint with
Stony Brook Geometry)

Speakers:

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