MSRI Workshop on Symplectic Geometry and Mathematical Physics
March 22-26, 2004

Organized by: Denis Auroux, Dan Freed, Helmut Hofer, Frances Kirwan, and Gang Tian

[Main workshop page - on MSRI's web site]


Preliminary schedule

THIS IS A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THE SCHEDULE. THERE MAY BE CHANGES.

Monday, March 22

9:00-9:15Welcome
9:15-10:15 D. Salamon (ETH Zurich)
Instanton Floer homology with Lagrangian boundary conditions
10:15-10:45Tea
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
12:45-2:30Lunch
2:30-3:30 M. Hutchings (Berkeley)
3:30-4:00Tea
4:00-5:00 Y. Eliashberg (Stanford)

Tuesday, March 23

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
10:00-10:30Tea
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)
12:30-2:30Lunch
2:30-3:30 A. Kapustin (Caltech)
Topological strings and generalized complex geometry
3:30-4:00Tea
4:00-5:00 F. Lalonde (U. de Montréal)
A natural Floer theory without obstruction
5:00Reception

Wednesday, March 24

9:00-10:00 G. Mikhalkin (Toronto)
10:00-10:30Tea
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)
12:30-2:30Lunch
2:30-3:30 Y. Karshon (Toronto)
Torus actions on blowups of CP^2
3:30-4:00Tea
4:00-5:00 K. Hori (Toronto)
Orientifolds - an introduction

Thursday, March 25

9:00-10:00 W.D. Ruan (UIC)
Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein manifolds and minimal Lagrangian (coisotropic) vanishing cycles  (ABSTRACT)
10:00-10:30Tea
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
12:30-2:30Lunch
2:30-3:30 P. Ozsvath (Columbia / IAS)
3:30-4:00Tea
4:00-5:00 R. Fintushel (MSU)
Invariants for Lagrangian tori in 4-manifolds

Friday, March 26

9:00-10:00 X. Liu (Notre Dame)
Genus 2 Gromov-Witten invariants
10:00-10:30Tea
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