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Workshop on physics,
D-branes, and special geometry
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Friday
3/15/02
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4-5pm |
Professor
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford/IAS) |
A few examples from symplectic field theory
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5:30-6:30pm |
Professor
Mikio Furuta
(Tokyo)
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Followed by a Reception at 7pm in the Clipper
Room in Shriver Hall
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Saturday
3/16/02 |
10-11am |
Professor
Duong H. Phong
(Columbia) |
The chiral superstring
measure
and modular forms |
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11:30-12:30pm |
Professor
Greg Moore
(Rutgers) |
Strings in a time-dependent
orbifold |
| Break for Lunch |
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2-3pm |
Professor
Dennis Sullivan
(Stonybrook/CUNY) |
Real and complex string topology |
| 1 Hour for Tea |
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4-5pm |
Professor
Edward Witten
(IAS) |
Gauge theory and its analog
for two-forms |
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5:30-6:30pm |
Professor
Tohru Eguchi
(Tokyo) |
Seiberg-Witten curve for
E-string theory |
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Sunday
3/17/02 |
10-11am |
Professor
Mike Douglas
(Rutgers) |
D-Branes and stability |
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11:30-12:30pm |
Professor
Hirosi Ooguri
(Caltech) |
Noncompact D-branes |
| Break for Lunch |
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2-3pm |
Professor
Kiyoshi Igusa
(Brandeis) |
Morse theory on complex manifolds |
| 1 Hour for Tea |
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4-5pm |
Professor
Kenji Fukaya
(Kyoto/IAS) |
Mirror symmetry from
singular toric fibration |
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5:30-6:30pm |
Professor
Ulrike Tillman
(Oxford) |
String and infinite loop
spaces |
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Monday
3/18/02 |
8:30-9:30am |
Professor
V. Yong-Geun Oh
(Madison/IAS) |
Large volume limit of
Floer's perturbed Cauchy-Riemann equations |
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10-11am |
Professor
Matthew Ando
(UIUC) |
Turning on the B-field
in elliptic cohomology |
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11:30-12:30pm |
Professor
Ryushi Goto
(Osaka) |
Moduli spaces of topological
calibrations, Calabi-Yau, Hyperk\"ahler, G_2, and Spin(7)
structures |
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| Break for Lunch |
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2-3pm |
Professor
Jim Bryan
(UBC) |
TQFT and the local
Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture |
| 1 Hour for Tea |
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4-5pm |
Professor
Ralph Cohen
(Stanford) |
Conformal field theory and
duality phenomena in loop spaces |
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5:30-6:30pm |
Professor
Tom Mrowka
(MIT) |
TBA |
| Followed by the
JAMI Banquet at 7pm in the Glass Pavillion |
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Workshop on low-dimensional topology
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Tuesday
3/19/02 |
10-11am |
Professor
Toshiyuki Akita
(Hokkaido) |
Finite subgroups of mapping
class groups and Morita-Mumford classes |
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11:30-12:30pm |
Professor
Koji Fujiwara
(Tohoku) |
Bounded cohomology of
subgroups of mapping class groups |
| Break for Lunch |
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2-3pm |
Professor
Nariya Kawazumi
(Tokyo) |
Harmonic magnus expansions
and their quasi-conformal variations |
| 1 Hour for Tea |
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4-5pm |
Professor
Yukio Matsumoto
(Tokyo) |
Monodromy calculus and
the quandle of cords |
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5:30-6:30pm |
Professor
C. Manolescu |
Seiberg-Witten-Floer stable
homotopy type for three-manifolds |
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Wednesday
3/20/02 |
10-11am |
Professor
Tomoyoshi Yoshida
(Tokyo Inst. Tech) |
An abelianization of SU(2)
conformal field theory and Witten invariant |
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11:30-12:30pm |
Professor
Dieter Kotschick
(Munich) |
Characteristic classes and
linking numbers of foliations |
| Break for Lunch |
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2-3pm |
Professor
Peter Ozvath
(Princeton) |
Holomorphic disks and
low-dimensional topology |
| 1 Hour for Tea |
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4-5pm |
Professor
Andras Stipsicz
(Budapest) |
Mapping class groups,
Lefschetz fibrations and Stein fillings |
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5:30-6:30pm |
Professor
Masashi Ishida
(Osaka) |
Spin 4-manifolds not
admitting Einstein metrics and Bauer-Furuta stable cohomotopy invariants |
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Thursday
3/21/02 |
9-10am |
Professor
Norihiko Minami
(Nagoya Inst. Tech) |
Properties of stable
homotopy Seiberg-Witten invariant |
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10:30-11:30am |
Professor
Yukio Kametani
(Keio) |
Equivariant e-invariants and
Seiberg-Witten equations |
