The Talbot workshops






Organizers: John Francis, Owen Gwilliam , Sheel Ganatra.
Former organizers and founders: Chris Douglas, Andre Henriques, Mike Hill.
Faculty sponsors: Mike Hopkins, Haynes Miller.

The Talbot workshops 2008-2010 are supported by NSF grant DMS-0805838. The Talbot workshops 2005-2007 were supported by NSF grant DMS-0512714.


Talbot 2008 workshop: Affine Lie algebras and chiral structures.
Plenary speaker: Dennis Gaitsgory.
Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Dates: March 30 to April 5.
Participant list.
Preliminary talk schedule: schedule.
Preparation for the workshop: Chiral algebras seminar. MIT Pre-Talbot seminar.


Talbot 2007 workshop: Topological modular forms. Wikipedia entry.
Plenary speaker: Mike Hopkins.
Location: North Conway, New Hampshire.
Dates: March 25-31.
Participant list.
Talks: schedule.
Preparation for the workshop: MIT pretalbot seminar.
References.


Talbot 2006 workshop: Automorphisms of manifolds.
Plenary speaker: Michael Weiss.
Location: North Conway, New Hampshire.
Dates: February 26 to March 4.
Participant list.
Talks: schedule.
Preparation for the workshop: MIT pretalbot seminar; Notre Dame Pre-Talbot seminar; Muenster Talbotvorbereitungseminar.
References. Julia Weber's notes from the workshop.


Talbot 2005 workshop: The geometric Langlands program.
Plenary speaker: David Ben-Zvi.
Location: North Conway, New Hampshire.
Dates: February 27 to March 4.
Participant list.
Talks: schedule.
Pictures: a link.
Preparation for the workshop: MIT preTalbot seminar.
Geometric Langlands references. Megumi Harada's notes from the workshop.


Talbot 2004 workshop: The Stolz-Teichner model of elliptic cohomology.
Plenary speaker: Stephan Stolz.
Location: South Pomfret, Vermont at Talbot House.
Participant list.
Pictures: a link.
Reference: What is an elliptic object?