A Workshop on Challenges at the Interface of Hitchin Systems and String Theory: March 18 – 22, 2019

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Organized by Lara Anderson and Laura Schaposnik

Co-organized by Rafe Mazzeo and Tony Pantev 

The workshop will be devoted to recent exciting developments related to Higgs bundles and the Hitchin fibration, and string theory. The purpose of the workshop is to bring key leading researchers of related fields together with young researchers to establish new directions and investigate shared challenges at the interface of physics and mathematics — including the theory of Hitchin Systems and singular geometry within string theory.

This workshop is associated with the program Geometry and Physics of Hitchin Systems: January 22 – June 21, 2019

The weekend before this workshop there will be a Workshop on the Geometry and Physics of Higgs bundles IV.  More information about this can be found here: https://schapos.people.uic.edu/Higgs-2019.html

 

 

Talk Schedule


Time Title Speaker Location
9:00am Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondences for periodic monopoles

Takuro Mochizuki

 SCGP 102
10:00am Coffee Break N/A SCGP cafe
10:30am Hitchin, Calabi-Yau and Mukai integrable systems. Ron Donagi SCGP 102
11:30am Lunch N/A SCGP cafe
1:00pm The asymptotic geometry of the Hitchin moduli space Laura Fredrickson N/A
2:00pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Lobby
2:30pm Hyperpolygons and Hitchin systems Steven Rayan SCGP 102