Arrival date: Saturday, September 8.
Departure date: Wednesday afternoon, September 12, or Thursday, September 13.

Schedule:

Speakers:

• Gao Chen (IAS), G₂ manifolds with nodal singularities along circles
• Simon Donaldson (SCGP & Imperial College London), G₂-structures on manifolds with boundary and positive mean curvature.
• Anna Fino (Università degli Studi di Torino), Compact 7-manifolds with closed G₂-structures
• Sergei Gukov (Cal Tech), Nakajima-Yoshioka blow-up formula and VOA
• Mark Haskins (University of Bath), Complete noncompact metrics of special and exceptional holonomy: the first 40 years.
• Andriy Haydys (Frieburg University), Special Kaehler structures with isolated singularities in real dimension two.
• Hans-Joachim Hein (Fordham University), Higher-order estimates for collapsing Calabi-Yau metrics
• David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), G₂ spaces with K3 fibrations
• Simon Salamon (Kings College London), Generating equidistant points
• Eirik Svanes (Kings College London), String Dualities and an Infinity of Associative Submanifolds
• Yuuji Tanaka (Univerisity of Oxford),  On the Vafa-Witten theory on closed four-manifolds
• Markus Upmeier (Universität Augsburg),  Canonical Orientations for the Moduli Space of G₂-instantons
• Thomas Walpuski (Michigan State University), Super-rigidity and Castelnuovo’s bound.
• Yuguang Zhang (University of Bath), Adiabatic limits of anti-self-dual connections on collapsed K3 surfaces

This conference will be immediately followed by our Second annual meeting held at the Simons Foundation in New York City.