The collaboration co-sponsored a workshop with the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) on Special Holonomy and Branes on October 26-30 2020. The workshop was organized by Sergei Gukov, Rafe Mazzeo, and Sakura Schafer-Nameki.
The workshop featured extensive discussions as well as lectures; we have preserved the lectures on this website. The entire conference was held online.
The lecture schedule was as follows. (All times are given in California time.)
Timetable:
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MON 26 OCTOBER |
TUE 27 OCTOBER |
WED 28 OCTOBER |
THU 29 OCTOBER |
FRI 30 OCTOBER |
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08:00-09:30 (PDT) |
L. Anderson/ A. Braun |
L. Fredrickson/ D. Pei |
L. Foscolo | C. Lawrie | T. Walpuski |
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12:30-14:00 (PDT) |
D. Morrison/ J. Lotay |
A. Haydys/ J. Sparks |
R. Barbosa |
Speakers:
The links will take you to abstracts, slides of lectures, and/or video recordings of the lectures (when available).
- Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech), Higgs Bundles in String Compactifications
- Rodrigo Barbosa (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook), Coassociative ALE Fibrations and Spectral Covers of Riemannian Higgs Bundles
- Andreas Braun (Durham University), Higgs Bundles & Exceptional Holonomy
- Lorenzo Foscolo (University College London), QALF hyperkähler spaces
- Laura Fredrickson (University of Oregon), Branes in the moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, I
- Andriy Haydys (University of Freiburg), Special Kähler and related geometries
- Craig Lawrie (University of Pennsylvania), G2, Spin(7) BPS Equations and T-branes
- Jason D. Lotay (Oxford University), Special holonomy and branes: observations and themes
- David R. Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), Nonabelian Gauge Symmetry in String Theory and its Cousins, including an Introduction to Branes
- Du Pei (Harvard University), Branes in moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, II
- James Sparks (Oxford University), GK geometry
- Thomas Walpuski (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Problems with counting G2–instantons and associatives, and generalized Seiberg–Witten equations
