The conference will feature several minicourses and
research lectures on current advances in moduli theory, special
geometry and superpotentials:
Minicourses
(click on a
title to see an abstract) :
- Tom
Bridgeland (University of
Sheffield)
"Stability conditions on derived
categories"
- Herbert
Clemens (Ohio State)
"Special properties of
Noether-Lefschetz loci on Calabi-Yau threefolds: Some examples and
questions"
- Michael
Douglas (Rutgers University)
"What physicists would like to know about the
superpotential"
- Sergei Gukov
(Caltech)
"Topological strings and
categorification of knot invariants"
- Amihai Hanany
(MIT)
"Quiver gauge theories and
Sasaki-Einstein manifolds"
- Conan
Leung (IMS, CUHK)
"Geometry of special holonomy"
- Edward
Witten (IAS)
"Gauge
theory and the Geometric
Langlands Program"
Lectures (click on a title to see an abstract) :
-
Alastair Craw (SUNY Stony Brook)
"On
quivers and exceptional
collections for projective toric manifolds"
-
Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu (Rutgers
University)
"A
vertex formalism for degenerate
torus actions"
-
Tohru Eguchi (University of Tokyo)
"Distribution of flux vacua near
singular loci in Calabi-Yau
moduli space"
-
Ezra Getzler (Northwestern)
"Modular operads revisited"
- Anton
Kapustin (Caltech)
"A-branes and noncommutative
geometry"
- Robert
Karp (Rutgers University)
"B-branes on quotient
stacks"
- Ludmil
Katzarkov (University of Miami)
"Homological mirror symmetry for Fano
manifolds and manifolds of general type"
- Yi Li
(Rutgers
University)
"Deformations of generalized complex
structures"
- Yuri
Manin (Northwestern)
"Formal deformations with
noncommutative base spaces and Maurer-Cartan equations."
- Claude
Sabbah (École Politechnique)
"Hermitian metrics on some Frobenius
manifolds"
- Kota
Yoshioka (Kobe University)
"Wall
crossing formula for the Euler
characteristic
of determinant line bundles"