Special Holonomy: Progress and Open Problems 2017: September 10-13, 2017, SCGP, Stony Brook
This event is organized by the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy and Geometry. For more information and to see the schedule please visit their website at https://sites.duke.edu/scshgap/progress-and-problems-2017/
| Time | SUN. SEPT. 10 | MON. SEPT. 11 | TUES. SEPT. 12 | WED. SEPT. 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | BREAKFAST | |||
| 9:30 | Simon Salamon | Bobby Acharya | Aleksander Doan | Gao Chen |
| 10:30 | MORNING BREAK | |||
| 11:00 | Jason Lotay | Daniel Butter | Sebastian Goette | Joel Fine |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |||
| 1:15 | Gavin Ball | Lorenzo Foscolo | Sergei Gukov | Thomas Walpuski |
| 2:30 | Robert Bryant | Johannes Nordström | Samson Shatashvili | Song Sun |
| 3:30 | AFTERNOON TEA | – | ||
| 4:00 | Discussion | Discussion | Discussion | |
Speakers & Lecture titles:
- Bobby Acharya (ICTP and King’s College London), Aspects of M theory on G2 manifolds
- Gavin Ball (Duke University), SO(4)-structures on 7-manifolds
- Robert Bryant (Duke University), Algebraically special associative submanifolds and special holonomy metrics
- Daniel Butter (Texas A&M), Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity in 4D, N=1 Superspace
- Gao Chen (Institute for Advanced Study), Rate of asymptotic convergence near isolated singularity of a G2 manifold
- Aleksander Doan (Stony Brook), Singular Fueter sections on three-manifolds
- Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Hypersymplectic 4-manifolds and the G2 Laplacian flow
- Lorenzo Foscolo (Heriot-Watt University), ALC manifolds with special holonomy
- Sebastian Goette (Freiburg), The extended v-invariant — progress and problems
- Sergei Gukov (Caltech), Topological Phases and Special Holonomy
- Jason Lotay (University College London), Invariant coassociative 4-folds via gluing
- Johannes Nordström (Bath), New asymptotically conical G2-manifolds
- Simon Salamon (King’s College London), Quotients and hypersurfaces of model metrics
- Samson Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin and SCGP), G2 superconformal theories and mirror symmetry revisited
- Song Sun (Stony Brook), Singularities of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections
- Thomas Walpulski (Michigan State), The (1,k)-ADHM Seiberg-Witten equation and k-fold covers of associatives
This conference will be immediately followed by our First annual meeting held at the Simons Foundation in New York City.