The Talbot Workshops

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

The Talbot workshops 2011-2013 will be supported by NSF grant DMS-1007096. The Talbot workshops 2008-2010 are supported by NSF grant DMS-0805838, and the Talbot workshops 2005-2007 were supported by NSF grant DMS-0512714.

Talbot 2011: Non-Abelian Hodge Theory (announcement)
Plenary speaker: Carlos Simpson.
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Dates: May 1 to May 7, 2011.
Deadline: January 31, 2011 at 11:59 PM EST.
Applications: If you are interested in participating, please fill out the online-application. The deadline is by January 31, 11:59 PM EST. Applicants will be notified by February 10th of whether they can attend.
We have posted responses to some frequently asked questions.
A syllabus for the week will be available at a later time.

Talbot 2010: Twisted K-Theory and Loop Groups (announcement)
Plenary speaker: Constantin Teleman.
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Dates: May 23 to May 29, 2010.
Participant list.
We have posted responses to some frequently asked questions.
A list of given talks, along with notes from the talks, is available here.

Talbot 2009: Fukaya Categories (announcement)
Plenary speaker: Paul Seidel.
Location: Nags Head, North Carolina
Dates: March 22 to March 28, 2009
Participant list.
A list of talks, with summaries, references, and notes here.

Talbot 2008: Affine Lie algebras and chiral structures.
Plenary speaker: Dennis Gaitsgory.
Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Dates: March 30 to April 5, 2008
Participant list.
Preliminary talk schedule: schedule.
Notes are still in very rough form, but available upon request (e-mail ganatra AT math DOT mit)
Preparation for the workshop: Chiral algebras seminar. MIT Pre-Talbot seminar.

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

Talbot 2006: Automorphisms of manifolds.
Plenary speaker: Michael Weiss.
Location: North Conway, New Hampshire.
Dates: February 26 to March 4, 2006
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: The geometric Langlands program.
Plenary speaker: David Ben-Zvi.
Location: North Conway, New Hampshire.
Dates: February 27 to March 4, 2005
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: 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?