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The program will start with an introductory summer school and center
around four workshops on the following topics:
• Modular forms around string theory
• Enumerative geometry and Calabi–Yau varieties
• Physics around Mirror Symmetry
• Hodge theory in String Theory
Each workshop will be preceded by one week of introductory lectures;
during the remaining time we will run seminars, colloquia and other
activities. We anticipate that Workshop 2 and 3 will be held back-to-back
as joint activities with the Perimeter Institute. Workshop 4 is
organized jointly with PIMS CRG Program “Geometry and Physics”.
July 2 to August 30, 2013
Introductory summer school on Calabi-Yau varieties; Arithmetic,
Geometry and Physics
From July 2 to August 30, study sessions, study seminars, informal
lectures, research seminars, and working seminars will be organized
spontaneously, by students, Fields postdoctoral fellows and members
for the program.
From August
26-30, 2013, there will be an Introductory
Workshop on Calabi-Yau Varieties
(Bahen Building, Room
1180) which will prepare graduate students, postdoctoral fellows
and general members to a level where they can participate fully
in the program activities. The workshop speakers include Charles
Doran (Alberta), Mark Gross (San Diego), Klaus Hulek (Hannover),
Radu Laza (Stony Brook), Bernd Siebert (Hamburg), Johannes Walcher
(McGill), and Noriko Yui (Queen's) among others. Details of the
summer school will be posted on the thematic program webpage as
they become available.
Anyone who is interested in attending the summer school should
register online. Limited funding for local accommodation is available.
For travel expenses, participants are urged to seek funding from
their home institutions/countries.
Workshops
The program will center around four week-long workshops as focal
points of the thematic organization.
September 16-20, 2013
Workshop 1 Modular forms around string theory
Principal Organizers: Charles F. Doran,
Matthias Schütt and NorikoYui
Workshops 2 & 3 will be organized jointly
with the Perimeter Institute. In order to ease participation
in both workshops, they will be held back-to-back, one at the
Fields Institute and the other at the Perimeter Institute.
October
15-19, 2013
Workshop 2 Enumerative geometry and Calabi–Yau varieties
Topics : Algebraic geometry, Symplectic geometry, Tropical geometry.
Principal Organizers: Mark Gross, Radu Laza, Jaume Gomis, Shing-Tung
Yau.
October 21-25, 2013 to
be held at the Perimeter Institute
Workshop 3 Physics around Mirror Symmetry
Principal Organizers: Vincent Bouchard, Jaume Gomis, Sergei
Gukov, Johannes Walcher, Shing-Tung Yau.
November 18-22, 2013
Workshop 4 Hodge Theory in String Theory
(a joint workshop with PIMS CRG Program “Geometry and Physics”)
Principal Organizers: Charles F. Doran, Stefan Müller-Stach,
Radu Laza, Johannes Walcher.
Graduate courses
Each workshop will be preceeded by a 1-2 week graduate course
comprising 10-15 lectures by the principal organizers and workshop
attendees. While the courses can be attended just by themselves,
they are meant at the same time as a preparation for the upcoming
workshop.
Seminars and colloquia
In-between workshops we will run several regular seminars and
colloquia. There will be a weekly research seminar aimed at members
and postdoctoral fellows. It will be accompanied by study seminars
(mainly for postdocs and students) and mini-symposia as the need
arises. Colloquia will be organized on a roughly biweekly schedule
with the possible exception of workshops.
Special
Lectures
|
Week of November 11,
2013
Coxeter Lecture Series
Claire Voisin, CNRS, Centre de mathematiques Laurent
Schwartz
|
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Distinguished Lecture
Series
Maxim Kontsevich, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
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Postdoctoral Fellows and Program Visitors
The Thematic
Program on Calabi-Yau Varieties:Arithmetic, Geometry and Physics
is pleased to welcome the following
Postdoctoral Fellows to the Program:
| Fields Postdoctoral Fellows |
Sara Angela Filippini,
PhD (Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria)
Douglas Overholser, PhD (University of California, San Diego)
Andrija Perunicic, PhD (Brandeis University)
|
Simon Rose, PhD (University
of British Columbia)
Helge Ruddat, PhD (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Michel van Garrel, PhD (California Institute of Technology) |
|
Fields-Ontario Postdoctoral Fellow
|
|
Alan Thompson, PhD (University of Alberta)
|
Program Participants requesting support
or office space
All scientific events are open to the mathematical sciences community.
Visitors who are interested in office space or funding are
requested to apply by filling out the application
form.
Additional support is available to support junior US visitors to
this program.
Fields scientific programs are devoted to research in the mathematical
sciences, and enhanced graduate and post-doctoral training opportunities.
Part of the mandate of the Institute is to broaden and enlarge the
community, and to encourage the participation of women and members
of visible minority groups in our scientific programs.
For additional information contact thematic(at)fields.utoronto.ca
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