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London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium
Geometry, Conformal Field Theory and String Theory
Friday 22nd July - Monday 1st August 2005

Programme

All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre). Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Grey College.

Friday 22nd July
14:30Registration in Grey College JCR - closes at Dinner
19:00Dinner
Saturday 23rd July
09:45-10:30P.S. AspinwallD-Branes, Superpotentials and A-infinity Algebras.
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15P.S. AspinwallD-Branes, Superpotentials and A-infinity Algebras.
13:00Lunch - Grey College
14:15-15:00M. GaberdielMatrix factorisations and D-branes
15:00Coffee/Tea
15:45-16:30M. GaberdielMatrix factorisations and D-branes
17:00-18:00D. RoggenkampPermutation branes and linear matrix factorisations
19:00Dinner
20:00Wine Reception (after dinner)
Sunday 24th July
09:45-10:30T. GannonWhat knots can still teach RCFT
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15T. GannonWhat knots can still teach RCFT
13:00Lunch - Grey College
14:15-15:00F. SmirnovCorrelation functions for lattice exactly solvable models.
15:00Coffee/Tea
15:45-16:30F. SmirnovCorrelation functions for lattice exactly solvable models.
17:00-18:00E. SklyaninThe Q operator, Bäcklund transformation and separation of variables
19:00Dinner
Monday 25th July
09:45-10:30W. NahmMirror symmetry for cohomology with values in vector bundles?
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15W. NahmMirror symmetry for cohomology with values in vector bundles?
13:00Lunch - Grey College
14:00Conference Photograph
14:15-15:15A. CortiExamples of orbifold quantum cohomology
15:15Coffee/Tea
15:45-16:45M. ReidOrbifold RR and plurigenera
17:00-18:00C. LazaroiuTopological D-branes and noncommutative geometry
19:00Dinner
Tuesday 26th July
09:45-10:30G. FelderD-branes in Poisson sigma models
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15G. FelderD-branes in Poisson sigma models
13:00Lunch - Grey College
14:30Cathedral visit
19:00Dinner
Wednesday 27th July
09:45-10:30R. ThomasSpecial metrics and stability of algebraic varieties
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15R. ThomasSpecial metrics and stability of algebraic varieties
13:00Lunch - Grey College
14:15-15:15M. VerbitskyAn intrinsic volume functional on almost complex 6-manifolds and nearly Kähler geometry
15:15Coffee/Tea
15:45-16:45G. TravagliniFrom Twistors to Amplitudes
17:00Poster Session (in Grey College JCR)
J. M. BaptistaA topological gauged sigma-model
P. CookM-Theory solutions in multiple signatures from E11
B. CooperKoszul Duality and Fusion Rules
L. DowdyMatrix factorisations for topological D-branes in Landau-Ginzburg theory.
R. FieldingCurvature and Quantization of Compact Kähler Manifolds
S. GadhiaSupersymmetric spherical space forms.
O.W. GrayClassification of N=2 unitary superconformal field theory
A.E. HamiltonHomotopy algebras and Noncommutative Geometry
A. HaydysHyperKahler manifolds with hyperKahler potential and S1 symmetry.
S. KawaiFractional Space-like branes
P. LohrmannSpinorial geometry of supersymmetric backgrounds
S. Ní ChiagáinAlgebraic K-Theory and partition functions in conformal field theory
S. PhilipHomogeneity, Supersymmetry and Plane-wave limits.
J. SmithPicard-Fuchs differential equations for families of K3 surfaces
M. WestmuckettD8-branes and Space-Time Foam
19:00Dinner
Thursday 28th July
09:15Day trip to Alnwick, Holy Island and Bamburgh Castle
19:00Dinner
Friday 29th July
09:45-10:30N. Hitchin(featuring C. Hull): B-fields, gerbes and generalized geometry
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15N. Hitchin(featuring R. Thomas): B-fields, gerbes and generalized geometry
13:00Lunch - Grey College
14:15-15:15C. HertlingOscillating integrals and nilpotent orbits of twistor structures.
15:15Coffee/Tea
15:45-16:45C. HullGeneralised Geometry and Duality
17:00-18:00J. Figueroa--O FarrillGauged WZ terms in sigma models with boundary
19:00Dinner
20:00-21:00A.D. KingHow to knit a scarf
Saturday 30th July
09:45-10:30T. BridgelandSpaces of stability conditions
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15T. BridgelandSpaces of stability conditions
13:00Lunch - Grey College
14:15-15:15A. BondalDerived categories of toric varieties
15:15Coffee/Tea
16:00-16:45R. DonagiGeometric transitions, Calabi-Yau integrable systems, and open GW invariants
17:15-18:00R. DonagiGeometric transitions, Calabi-Yau integrable systems, and open GW invariants
19:00Drinks in Grey JCR followed by the Conference dinner at 19:30
Sunday 31st July
09:45-10:30B. DubrovinFrobenius manifolds and integrable hierarchies of the topological type
10:30Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:15B. DubrovinFrobenius manifolds and integrable hierarchies of the topological type
13:00Lunch - Grey College
15:00Coffee/Tea
19:00Dinner
Monday 1st August
Departure after breakfast