The collaboration will hold a VIRTUAL meeting on 14, 16, and 18 Sept., 2020, entitled “Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2020”.
Scientific Organizers:
Bobby Acharya bacharya@ictp.it,
Mirjam Cvetič cvetic@physics.upenn.edu, and
Jason Lotay jason.lotay@maths.ox.ac.uk.
Our schedule is as follows. – All times are given in British Summer Time as well as in Eastern Daylight Time. (Please refer to a time zone converter if you aren’t sure what time it will be in your time zone).
Timetable
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MON 14 SEPTEMBER |
WED 16 SEPTEMBER |
FRI 18 SEPTEMBER |
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13:00-14:00 (BST) |
Y. Li | S. Donaldson | D. Joyce |
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14:00-14:30 (BST) |
Discussion I | Discussion IV | Discussion VII |
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14:30-15:00 (BST) |
Break | Break | Break |
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15:00-15:30 (BST) |
M. Haskins/J. Nordström | K. Dixon | J. Lotay |
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15:30-16:00 (BST) |
Discussion II | M. Cvetic/G. Zoccarato | R. Bryant |
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16:00-16:30 (BST) |
Break | Discussion V | G. Ball |
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16:30-17:00 (BST) |
B. Acharya | Break | Break |
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17:00-17:30 (BST) |
Discussion III | T. Walpuski | D. Morrison |
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17:30-18:00 (BST) |
Discussion III | Discussion VI | Discussion VIII |
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18:00-18:30 (BST) |
Discussion VI | Discussion VIII |
Discussion Sessions:
- Discussion I: SYZ/Singular fibrations, led by Y. Li
- Discussion II: Singularities in G2-Laplacian flow, led by M. Haskins and J. Lotay
(with a contribution from Jason Lotay) - Discussion III: Constructions of G2-manifolds/Interfaces of Physics with Geometry, led by B. Acharya
- Discussion IV: Adiabatic coassociatives/counting associatives, led by S. Donaldson
- Discussion V: Physics of Spin(7)/G2 bundles, led by J. Heckman and M. Cvetič
- Discussion VI: Degenerations of G2-manifolds/Topology of G2-moduli space, led by S. Goette and T. Walpuski
- Discussion VII: Open problems on enumerative invariants/Codim>4 singularities in higher dim gauge theory, led by D. Joyce and T.Walpuski
- Discussion VIII: Open Problems in Special Holonomy from a Physics point of view, led by S. Schafer-Nameki
Speakers:
The links will take you to abstracts, slides of lectures, and/or video recordings of the lectures (when available).
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), New G2-manifolds and Their Field Theory Interpretations
- Gavin Ball (UQAM-Montreal), Closed G2-structures with conformally flat metric
- Robert Bryant (Duke), The geometry of pseudoholomorphic curves in the 6-sphere
- Mirjam Cvetič (U. Penn) / Gianlucca Zoccarato (U. Penn), Unification of Higgs Bundles
- Kael Dixon (King’s College London), Toric ALC G2-manifolds
- Simon Donaldson (SCGP and Imperial College London), Towards enumerative geometry for structures on 4-manifolds
- Mark Haskins (Duke) / Johannes Nordström (Bath), Complete cohomogeneity one solitons for Bryant’s closed G2-Laplacian flow
- Dominic Joyce (Oxford), Enumerative invariants in Algebraic Geometry and wall crossing formulae
- Yang Li (IAS), Weak SYZ conjecture
- Jason Lotay (Oxford), Deformed G2-instantons
- David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), Codimension seven revisited
- Thomas Walpuski (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), More examples of G_2–instantons on twisted connected sums
