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
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MON 10 JANUARY |
TUE 11 JANUARY |
WED 12 JANUARY |
THU 13 JANUARY |
FRI 14 JANUARY |
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12:00-13:00 (GMT) |
Nakajima | ||||
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14:00-15:00 (GMT) |
Bourget | Chiu | Oh | Kontsevich | |
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15:15-16:15 (GMT) |
Kirwan | Bullimore | Manschot | Aslan | Singhal |
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17:00-18:00 (GMT) |
Dancer | Closset | Kool | Thomas | Foscolo |
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19:00-20:00 (GMT) |
Schulze | Nekrasov | Streets |
Speakers:
The links will take you to abstracts, slides of lectures, and/or video recordings of the lectures (when available).
- Benjamin Aslan (UCL), Transverse J-holomorpic curves in nearly Kähler CP^3
- Antoine Bourget (ENS/Saclay), Magnetic quivers for singular hyperKähler spaces
- Mathew Bullimore (Durham), Moduli Stacks and Global Categorical Symmetry
- Shih-Kai Chiu (Oxford), Rigidity of Calabi-Yau metrics with maximal volume growth
- Cyril Closset (Birmingham), On SCFTs at canonical singularities
- Andrew Dancer (Oxford). Hyperkahler implosions and symplectic duality
- Lorenzo Foscolo (UCL), Examples of non-compact G2 manifolds
- Frances Kirwan (Oxford), Hyperkahler implosion
- Maxim Kontsevich (IHES), Enumerative invariants and not so special holonomy
- Martijn Kool (Utrecht), Counting surfaces on Calabi-Yau fourfolds
- Jan Manschot (TC Dublin), Topological correlators of N=2* Yang-Mills theory
- Hiraku Nakajima (Kavli IPMU), Symmetric bow varieties
- Nikita Nekrasov (SCGP), Some progress in unification of enumerative and differential geometry and quantization(s)
- Jihwan Oh (Oxford), G2 instantons in twisted M-theory
- Felix Schulze (Warwick), Progress in singularity analysis for Lagrangian mean curvature flow in Calabi-Yau 2-folds
- Ragini Singhal (King’s), Deformations of G2-instantons on nearly G2 manifolds
- Jeffrey Streets (UC Irvine), Singular sets of generalized Einstein metrics
- Richard Thomas (Imperial), Higher rank DT theory from rank 1
