Arrival Date: Sunday April 7, 2019. Departure Date: Saturday April 13, 2019.
All talks and discussions will be held in the Main Seminar Room at KITP on the UC Santa Barbara campus.
Shuttle service will be provided for conference participants between the Best Western South Coast Inn and KITP beginning at 7:45 a.m. each morning, with return shuttles beginning 15 minutes after the conclusion of the final event of the day.
Schedule
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MON 8 APR |
TUE 9 APR |
WED 10 APR |
THU 11 APR |
FRI 12 APR |
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9:00 -9:50 |
Haskins 1 | Halverson | Schafer-Nameki | Li | Fiset |
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9:50-10:20 |
COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE |
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10:20-11:10 |
Kachru | Del Zotto | Gukov 1 | Goette | Heckman |
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11:10-12:50 |
LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
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12:50-13:40 |
Haskins 2 | DISCUSSION | Gukov 2 | Kane | DISCUSSION |
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13:40-14:30 |
Acharya | Sun | Xie | Cvetic | COFFEE |
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14:30-15:00 |
COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE | END OF MEETING |
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15:00-15:50 |
Lotay | Braun | Barbosa | Kinsella | |
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15:50-16:40 |
DISCUSSION | DISCUSSION | DISCUSSION | DISCUSSION | |
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17:30-18:00 |
Reception | ||||
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18:00-? |
Conference Banquet |
Speakers:
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), New Local G2 Holonomy Spaces and their Gauge Theory Interpretations
- Rodrigo Barbosa (Univ. Pennsylvania), Deformations of G2-structures, String Dualities and Flat Higgs Bundles
- Andreas Braun (Oxford), Spin7 Connected Sums and String Theory Dualities
- Mirjam Cvetic (Univ. Pennsylvania), M3-branes and T-branes in G2 Backgrounds
- Michele Del Zotto (Durham, UK), Selected topics about 5d theories and geometry
- Marc-Antoine Fiset (Oxford), Mirror Symmetry for G2 Compactifications
- Sebastian Goette (Freiburg), Distinguishing G2-manifolds
- Sergei Gukov (Cal Tech), Lagrangian Disks in M-theory
- Jim Halverson (Northeastern), Cosmological Questions for G2 Landscapes
- Mark Haskins (Bath), Survey of Constructions of Local and Global G2 Holonomy Spaces
- Jonathan Heckman (Univ. Pennsylvania), F-Theory and Spin7 Manifolds
- Shamit Kachru (Stanford), K3 Metrics from Little String Theory
- Gordon Kane (Univ. Michigan), Hidden Sectors and Associated Physics — Supersymmetry Breaking, Dark Matter, de Sitter Vacuum
- Alex Kinsella (UC-Santa Barbara), Heterotic Duals of M-Theory on Joyce Orbifolds
- Yang Li (Imperial College London), Taub-NUT and Ooguri-Vafa in complex dimension 3
- Jason Lotay (Oxford), Bryant-Salamon metrics and coassociative fibrations
- David Morrison (UC-Santa Barbara), Lecture postponed
- Pavel Putrov (ICTP), Lecture cancelled
- Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford), Higgs Bundles in M Theory
- Song Sun (UC-Berkeley), Small complex structure limit of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces
- Dan Xie (Tsinghua), New Five Dimensional Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds and the ADS/CFT Correspondence
