Four regular, thematic Collaboration meetings are to be held annually, two in the US and two in the UK. One US meeting will take place at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and will be scheduled to coordinate with the annual Collaboration presentation at the Simons Foundation. In addition, subgroup meetings, teleconferences, and meetings held in cooperation with other groups will be planned in response to research developments. The current calendar of meetings sponsored by the Collaboration is given below. (Dates are approximate until meetings are announced with web pages of their own.)
06–10 Sep 2016, Simons Center | Inaugural Conference |
12–16 Sep 2016, Simons Center | Physics Background for Applications of Special Holonomy |
09–13 Jan 2017, Imperial College | Collapse, Adiabatic Limits and Special Holonomy |
05-09 June 2017, Imperial College | Constructions of Compact Exceptional Holonomy Spaces |
07-25 Aug 2017, Aspen Center for Physics* | G2 Working Group |
10-13 Sep 2017, Simons Center | Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2017 |
14-15 Sep 2017, Simons Foundation | First Annual Meeting |
08-12 Jan 2018, Imperial College | Gauge Theory and Special Holonomy |
26-30 Mar 2018, Texas A&M University* | String Theory and Special Holonomy Manifolds |
09-13 Apr 2018, Duke University | Structure of Collapsed Special Holonomy Spaces |
04-08 June 2018, Imperial College | Geometric Flows and Special Holonomy |
09-12 Sep 2018, Simons Center | Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2018 |
12 Sep 2018, Simons Foundation | Simons Foundation Lecture: An Excursion Through Geometry, Topology and Analysis in 4 Dimensions and Beyond, by Sir Simon Donaldson (Stony Brook and Imperial College London) |
13-14 Sep 2018, Simons Foundation | Second Annual Meeting |
07-11 Jan 2019, Imperial College | Special Holonomy and Algebraic Geometry (Organizers: Song Sun, Thomas Prince, David R. Morrison and Mark Haskins) |
08-12 Apr 2019, KITP, Santa Barbara | Physics and Special Holonomy (Organizers: David R. Morrison and Bobby Acharya) |
20-22 May 2019, King’s College London* | Kähler and special toric geometry |
03-07 June 2019, Imperial College | Special Holonomy and Calibrated Geometry (Organizers: Dominic Joyce and Mark Haskins) |
09-15 June 2019, Jersey* | British Isles Graduate Workshop III |
08-11 Sep 2019, Simons Center | Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2019 |
11 Sep 2019, Simons Foundation | Simons Foundation Lecture: Stringy Predictions for Our Universe, by Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) |
12-13 Sep 2019, Simons Foundation | Third Annual Meeting |
06-10 January 2020, Imperial College | Geometry and Analysis of Moduli Spaces (Organizers: Dominic Joyce and Aleksander Doan) |
01-05 June 2020, virtual meeting online | Moduli of special holonomy metrics and their periods (Organizers: Mark Haskins, Jason Lotay, David Morrison and Simon Salamon) |
9 September 2020, Simons Foundation | Fourth Annual Meeting (not public) |
9 September 2020, Simons Foundation | Simons Foundation Lecture: Existence of Canonical Metrics on Non-Kähler Geometry, by Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard and Tsinghua) |
14, 16, 18 September 2020, virtual meeting online | Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2020 (Organizers: Bobby Acharya, Mirjam Cvetič and Jason Lotay) |
26 – 30 October 2020, virtual meeting hosted by the American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, California* | Special Holonomy and Branes (Postponed from April) (Organizers: Sergei Gukov, Rafe Mazzeo, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki) |
11 – 15 January 2021, virtual meeting online | Donaldson-Thomas invariants and Resurgence (Organizers: Dominic Joyce, Simon Salamon, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki) |
24 – 28 May 2021, virtual meeting online | Numerical and Geometric Methods for Ricci-flat Metrics and Flows (Organizers: Bobby Acharya, Robert Bryant, and Jason Lotay) |
9-10 Sep 2021, Simons Foundation | Fifth Annual Meeting |
12-15 Sep 2021, Simons Center | Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2021 (Organizer: Mark Haskins) |
10-14 Jan 2022, virtual meeting online | Connections between String Theory and Special Holonomy (Organizers: Dominic Joyce, Jason Lotay, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki) |
6-10 June 2022, Freiburg University (Freiburg i. Brsg., Germany) | Geometry, Topology and Singular Special Holonomy Spaces (Organizers: Sebastian Goette, Mark Haskins, and Thomas Walpuski) |
8-9 Sep 2022, Simons Foundation | Sixth Annual Meeting |
11-14 Sep 2022, Simons Center | Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2022 (Organizer: Robert Bryant) |
9-13 Jan 2023, Oxford University | Algebraic Geometry, Gauge Theory and the Swampland Conjectures (Organizers: Dominic Joyce, Jason Lotay, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki) |
13-17 March 2023, KITP, Santa Barbara | Physics and Special Holonomy (Organizers: Bobby Acharya, Max Hübner, David R. Morrison and Sakura Schafer-Nameki) |
7-8 Sep 2023, Simons Foundation | Seventh Annual Meeting |
10-13 Sep 2023, Simons Center | Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2023 |
11-15 March 2024, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro* | Special Holonomy and Geometric Structures on Complex Manifolds |
13-17 May 2024, Durham NC | SCSHGAP meeting |
*Meetings of subgroups, or co-sponsored with other institutions. |
(Dates are approximate until meetings are announced with web pages of their own.)