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Constructions of Compact Exceptional Holonomy Spaces: Past, Present and Future, Imperial College, June 5-9, 2017

By Victoria Hain in Meetings, News on February 10, 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	Q+A, Discussion	Q+A, Discussion	Q+A, Discussion	Q+A, Discussion
11.00-11.30	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
11.30-12.30	Nordström	Nordström	Kovalev	Pacini	Jacob
12.30-2.00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
2.00-3.00	Corti	Acharya	Li	Calibrated fibrations discussion	Gauge theory on G₂ / Spin(7) manifolds discussion
3.00-3.30	Coffee	Coffee	Discuss new constructions for (singular) compact G₂– and Spin(7)-manifolds
3.30-4.30	Karigiannis	Braun
4.30-5.00	Q+A, Discussion	Q+A, Discussion
7.00-9.00			Social dinner

Speakers:

Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), M-theorists’ fantasy shopping list for singular G₂ manifolds
Andreas Braun (Oxford), Mirror Symmetry for G₂ manifolds (see arXiv:1701.05202)
Alessio Corti (Imperial College London), (Weak) Fano 3-folds and CHNP
Sir Simon Donaldson (Imperial College and SCGP), 3+4 dimensional reductions of G₂ holonomy—collapsing and boundary value problems
Sebastian Goette (Freiburg), Disconnecting the G₂ moduli space
Adam Jacob (UC Davis), Hermitian Yang Mills connections on reflexive sheaves
Dominic Joyce (Oxford), Constructing compact 7-manifolds with holonomy G₂ (Monday), Constructing compact 8-manifolds with holonomy Spin(7) (Tuesday)
Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo), Constructing compact G₂ manifolds by resolving (Calabi-Yau 3-fold x S¹)/Z₂
Alexei Kovalev (Cambridge), Constructing compact, holonomy Spin(7) manifolds as generalised connected sums
Yang Li (Imperial College London), A new complete Calabi-Yau metric on C³ with maximal volume growth
Jason Lotay (UCL), Calibrated submanifolds of G₂ and Spin(7) manifolds with conical singularities
Johannes Nordström (Bath), Twisted connected sum G₂-manifolds (Monday), Topological invariants of G₂-manifolds (Tuesday)
Tommaso Pacini (Torino), Geometry and analysis of conifolds