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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 […]

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Numerical and Geometric Methods for Ricci-flat Metrics and Flows, virtual meeting online, 24-28 May 2021

The collaboration will hold a VIRTUAL meeting on 24-28 May, 2021, entitled “Numerical and Geometric Methods for Ricci-flat Metrics and Flows”. Scientific Organizers: Bobby Acharya, Robert Bryant, and Jason Lotay. Summary: This workshop will survey some recent progress in understanding methods for constructing, analyzing, and classifying Ricci-flat metrics, Ricci solitons, and various flows. These methods […]

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Donaldson-Thomas invariants and Resurgence, virtual meeting online, 11-15 January 2021

The collaboration will hold a VIRTUAL meeting on 11-15 January, 2021, entitled “Donaldson-Thomas invariants and Resurgence”. Scientific Organizers: Dominic Joyce, Simon Salamon, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki. Summary: 3-Calabi-Yau triangulated categories T are a major area of research in Geometry and String Theory. Examples include derived categories Dbcoh X of coherent sheaves and the derived Fukaya category […]

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Special Holonomy and Branes (AIM workshop)

The collaboration co-sponsored a workshop with the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) on Special Holonomy and Branes on October 26-30 2020. The workshop was organized by Sergei Gukov, Rafe Mazzeo, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki. The workshop featured extensive discussions as well as lectures; we have preserved the lectures on this website. The entire conference was held […]

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Sun awarded 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

Collaboration Principal Investigator Song Sun (U. C. Berkeley) has been awarded a 2021 New Horizons in Mathematics prize. The other awardees are Bhargav Bhatt (University of Michigan) and Aleksandr Logunov (Princeton University). Sun is being recognized “for many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with moduli questions […]

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Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2020, virtual meeting online, 14, 16, and 18 Sept., 2020

The collaboration will hold a VIRTUAL meeting on 14, 16, and 18 Sept., 2020, entitled “Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2020”. Scientific Organizers: Bobby Acharya bacharya@ictp.it, Mirjam Cvetič cvetic@physics.upenn.edu, and Jason Lotay jason.lotay@maths.ox.ac.uk. Our schedule is as follows. – All times are given in British Summer Time as well as in Eastern Daylight Time. […]

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Moduli of special holonomy metrics and their periods: virtual meeting online, 1-5 June 2020

The collaboration will hold a VIRTUAL meeting June 1-5, 2020, on the general topic of Moduli of special holonomy metrics and their periods. Scientific Organizers: Mark Haskins mhaskins@math.duke.edu, Jason Lotay jason.lotay@maths.ox.ac.uk, David Morrison drm@math.ucsb.edu, Simon Salamon simon.salamon@kcl.ac.uk. The virtual meeting comes in two parts: Recorded lectures which can be viewed by participants at any time, […]

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Donaldson awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Collaboration Principal Investigator Sir Simon Donaldson, as well as Stanford’s Yakov Eliashberg, have been awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in Mathematics Awarded since 1978, the Wolf Prize recognizes “outstanding scientists and artists from around the world … for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples.” Along with the Fields Medal and […]

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Geometry and Analysis of Moduli Spaces, Imperial College, 6-10 January 2020

Arrival Date: Sunday January 5, 2020. Departure Date: Saturday January 11, 2020. All talks will be at Huxley Bldg 140.  [ click for map ] Registration and coffee/tea are in the Huxley 5th floor common room. Scientific Organizers: Dominic Joyce joyce@maths.ox.ac.uk, Aleksander Doan doan@math.columbia.edu. Timetable MON 6 JAN TUE 7 JAN WED 8 JAN THU […]

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Progress and Open Problems 2019: September 8-11, 2019, SCGP, Stony Brook

Arrival date: Saturday, September 7. Departure date: Wednesday afternoon, September 11, or Thursday, September 12. Schedule: SUN 8 SEP MON 9 SEP TUES 10 SEP WED 11 SEP 8:30 -9:30 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast 9:30-10:30 B. Lawson A. Hanany C. Hull C. Vafa 10:30-11:00 Coffee/tea Coffee/tea Coffee/tea Coffee/tea 11:00-12:00 M. Larfors R. Conlon G. Ball […]

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