Organized by: Denis Auroux, Dan Freed, Helmut Hofer, Frances Kirwan, and Gang Tian
[Main workshop page - on MSRI's web site]
THIS IS A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THE SCHEDULE. THERE MAY BE CHANGES.
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome |
| 9:15-10:15 |
D. Salamon (ETH Zurich) Instanton Floer homology with Lagrangian boundary conditions |
| 10:15-10:45 | Tea |
| 10:45-11:45 |
Y. Ruan (U. of Wisconsin) Recent advances in orbifold theory (ABSTRACT) |
| 11:45-12:45 |
M. Aganagic (U. of Washington) Topological strings and integrable hierarchies |
| 12:45-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:30 | M. Hutchings (Berkeley) |
| 3:30-4:00 | Tea |
| 4:00-5:00 | Y. Eliashberg (Stanford) |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Y.G. Oh (U. of Wisconsin) The obstruction to the A-infinity algebra and the Landau-Ginzburg superpotential: the Fano toric case |
| 10:00-10:30 | Tea |
| 10:30-11:30 |
A. Givental (Berkeley) Quantum cobordisms and formal group laws |
| 11:30-12:30 |
D. McDuff (SUNY Stony Brook) Extensions of the Hamiltonian group (ABSTRACT) |
| 12:30-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:30 |
A. Kapustin (Caltech) Topological strings and generalized complex geometry |
| 3:30-4:00 | Tea |
| 4:00-5:00 |
F. Lalonde (U. de Montréal) A natural Floer theory without obstruction |
| 5:00 | Reception |
| 9:00-10:00 | G. Mikhalkin (Toronto) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Tea |
| 10:30-11:30 |
I. Smith (Cambridge) Symplectic geometry of the adjoint quotient I |
| 11:30-12:30 |
D. Joyce (Oxford) Abelian categories and stability conditions (ABSTRACT) |
| 12:30-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Y. Karshon (Toronto) Torus actions on blowups of CP^2 |
| 3:30-4:00 | Tea |
| 4:00-5:00 |
K. Hori (Toronto) Orientifolds - an introduction |
| 9:00-10:00 |
W.D. Ruan (UIC) Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein manifolds and minimal Lagrangian (coisotropic) vanishing cycles (ABSTRACT) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Tea |
| 10:30-11:30 |
B. Siebert (U. Freiburg) Toward combinatorial curve counting via maximal degenerations |
| 11:30-12:30 |
M. Gross (Warwick) Affine manifolds and degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds |
| 12:30-2:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:30 | P. Ozsvath (Columbia / IAS) |
| 3:30-4:00 | Tea |
| 4:00-5:00 |
R. Fintushel (MSU) Invariants for Lagrangian tori in 4-manifolds |
| 9:00-10:00 |
X. Liu (Notre Dame) Genus 2 Gromov-Witten invariants |
| 10:00-10:30 | Tea |
| 10:30-11:30 |
M. Usher (MIT) Lefschetz fibrations and pseudoholomorphic curves |
| 11:30-12:30 |
P. Seidel (U. of Chicago) Symplectic geometry of the adjoint quotient II |