Conference on String Geometry
Snowbird, June 5-11
Sunday, June 6
9:00-10:00 Robert Bryant, Geometry of G2 and Spin(7) structures:1. Some exceptional linear algebra, See also (1, 2, 3).
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:30 Eric Sharpe, Notes on correlation functions in (0,2) theories
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Daniel Freed The C-field in M-theory
2:00-3:00 Paul Horja Toric Deligne-Mumford stacks and homological mirror symmetry
3:00-3:30 Coffee
3:30-4:30 Robert Bryant Geometry of G2 and Spin(7) structures:2. Local geometry: Existence, See also (1, 2, 3).
Monday, June 7
9:00-10:00 Robert Bryant Geometry of G2 and Spin(7) structures:3. Examples with symmetry, See also (1, 2, 3).
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:30 Sergei Gukov Perturbative Yang-Mills theory and moduli spaces of curves
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Michael Douglas Open problems in Calabi-Yau compactification of IIb string theory
2:00-3:00 Paul Aspinwall D-branes on del Pezzo surfaces
3:00-3:30 Coffee
3:30-4:30 Robert Bryant Geometry of G2 and Spin(7) structures:4. Compact manifolds with exceptional holonomy, See also (1, 2, 3).
Tuesday, June 8
Hiking in the Snowbird area
Wednesday, June 9
9:00-10:00 Robert Bryant Geometry of G2 and Spin(7) structures:5. Exceptional structures with torsion, See also (1, 2, 3).
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:30 Ron Donagi The particle spectrum of heterotic compactifications
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Marcus Spradlin Yang-Mills Amplitudes from String Theory in Twistor Space
2:00-3:00 Philip Candelas Arithmetic of Calabi-Yau manifolds
3:00-3:30 Coffee
3:30-4:30 Andrew Strominger Black hole attractors and the topological string
Thursday June 10
9:00-10:00 Axel Krause Flux Compactification Geometries and de Sitter in Heterotic M-Theory
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:30 Sheldon Katz GW, GV, DT Invariants on Calabi-Yau 3-folds
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Tamar Friedmann GUTs and dualities from singular G_2 geometry. See (1, 2).
2:00-3:00 Radu Tatar Geometric Transitions, Flops and Non-Kahler Manifolds
3:00-3:30 Coffee
3:30-4:30 Emanuel Diaconescu Extremal transitions in Gromov-Witten theory
5:00-6:00 Radu Roiban On spin chains and field theories
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