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Robert Bryant delivers the McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture
Collaboration Director Dr. Robert Bryant delivered the 2018 McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture at the University of Miami on March 1, 2018. The lecture, entitled “From Mechanics, to Algebra, to Geometry: The Notion of Holonomy,” introduced a general mathematical audience to the main theme of this Collaboration. Further details about the lecture series and Dr. Bryant’s lecture […]
Gauge Theory and Special Holonomy, Imperial College, January 8-12, 2018
Arrival date: Sunday, January 7, 2018. Departure date: Saturday, January 13, 2018. Talks will take place at Huxley Building [ click for map ] — → Monday-Wednesday: Huxley Building room 140 → Thursday-Friday: Huxley Building room 340 & 139 (see chart below) Schedule MON 8 JAN TUE 9 JAN WED 10 JAN THU 11 JAN FRI […]
Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2017: September 10-13, 2017, SCGP, Stony Brook
Arrival date: Saturday, September 9. Departure date: Wednesday afternoon, September 13, or Thursday, September 14. Schedule Sun. Sept. 10 Mon. Sept. 11 Tues. Sept. 12 Wed. Sept. 13 8:30 BREAKFAST 9:30 Simon Salamon Bobby Acharya Aleksander Doan Gao Chen 10:30 MORNING BREAK 11:00 Jason Lotay Daniel Butter Sebastian Goette Joel Fine 12:00 LUNCH 1:15 Gavin […]
Constructions of Compact Exceptional Holonomy Spaces: Past, Present and Future, Imperial College, June 5-9, 2017
Arrival date: Sunday, June 4, 2017. Departure date: Saturday, June 10, 2017. All talks will take place at Huxley Building room 340 [ click for map ] Schedule MON 5 JUN TUE 6 JUN WED 7 JUN THU 8 JUN FRI 9 JUN 9.00 -9.30 Registration 9.30-10.30 Joyce Joyce Goette Lotay Donaldson 10.30-11.00 Q+A, Discussion […]
Sir Simon Donaldson receives honorary doctorate
Sir Simon Donaldson, one of our Collaboration’s Principal Investigators, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Professor Donaldson was presented with the degree at an award ceremony on January 20, 2017; he delivered a lecture entitled “Metrics on Algebraic Varieties” on the previous day. Details can be found here. […]
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 – – – – 10:00 Gilles […]
Dominic Joyce awarded the Fröhlich Prize
Dr. Dominic Joyce, one of our Collaboration’s Principal Investigators, has been awarded the 2016 Frölich Prize by the London Mathematical Society “for his profound and wide-ranging contributions to differential and algebraic geometry.” Dr. Joyce was presented with a certificate honoring this achievement at the Annual General Meeting of the LMS on Friday, November 11, 2016. Congratulations, […]
New! Papers & Preprints
We have added a new page and menu item to our website for the papers and preprints which have been supported by the collaboration. Go to “Papers & Preprints” in the main menu or click here.
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 […]
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 […]
