Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2004: Talks

(all talks in Math Common Room - Math Tower 4-125 unless otherwise stated)


July 26, 2004, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Cumrun Vafa, Harvard Topological Strings and their Physical Applications I
2:00PM - 4:00PM N. Nekrasov, IHES General Remarks on Localization
July 27, 2004, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM U. Lindstrom, Uppsala U. Generalized Complex Structures and Supersymmetric Sigma Models
2:00PM - 4:00PM S. Hartnoll, Cambridge U. Deforming Baryons into Confining Strings
July 28, 2004, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Cumrun Vafa, Harvard Topological Strings and their Physical Applications II
2:00PM - 4:00PM N. Nekrasov, IHES Moduli Spaces and Instanton Integrals
July 29, 2004, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM A. Sinkovics, U. of Amsterdam Universal Correlators from Geometry
2:00PM - 4:00PM A. Naqvi, U. of Amsterdam Topological G2 strings
July 30, 2004, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM N. Nekrasov, IHES Topological String Moduli Spaces
2:00PM - 4:00PM C. LeBrun, Stony Brook The Geometry of Twistor Space
August 2, 2004, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Cumrun Vafa, Harvard Topological Strings and their Physical Applications III
2:00PM - 4:00PM Martin Rocek, Stony Brook N=2 Supersymmetry and Twistors
August 3, 2004, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Nathan Berkovits, U. Estadual Paulista Introduction to Twistors in String Theory
2:00PM - 4:00PM Radu Roiban, UC Santa Barbara Amplitudes from Strings in Twistor Space
August 4, 2004, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Cumrun Vafa, Harvard Topological Strings and their Physical Applications IV
2:00PM - 4:00PM Warren Siegel, Stony Brook ADHM Supertwistors
August 5, 2004, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Disussion Group
2:00PM - 4:00PM Andrew Neitzke, Harvard Equivalence of Tree Level Twistor Computations
August 6, 2004, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Dario Martelli, Imperial College, London M-Theory on Complex P^1 Bundles and Calabi-Yau Relatives
2:00PM - 4:00PM Nicholas Halmagyi, Southern California Dualities in Affine Quiver Theories
August 9, 2004, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Cumrun Vafa, Harvard Topological Strings and their Physical Applications V
2:00PM - 4:00PM Prem Kumar, Cambridge U. Deformations of N=4 Theory, Duality Cascades and Matrix Models I
August 10, 2004, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Radu Roiban, UC Santa Barbara Integrable Structure in N=4 YM Theory
2:00PM - 4:00PM Nathan Berkovits, U. Estadual Paulista Multiloop Superstring Amplitudes Using the Pure Spinor Formalism
August 11, 2004, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Sergei Gukov, Harvard U. Special Holonomy Metrics and Hitchin's Actions
2:00PM - 4:00PM Pietro Antonio Grassi, Stony Brook Pure Spinors: Applications
August 12, 2004, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Tim Hollowood, Swansea U. Deformations of N=4 Theory, Duality Cascades and Matrix Models II
2:00PM - 4:00PM
August 13, 2004, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Stefan Vandoren, Utrecht U. Quantum Corrections and Hypermultiplets
2:00PM - 4:00PM
August 16, 2004, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Andrei Parnachev, U. of Chicago Localized Tachyons, RG Flows and Fractional Branes
2:00PM - 4:00PM
August 17, 2004, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM MinXin Huang, U. of Pennsylvania Giant Graviton and Open Strings from N=4 YM
2:00PM - 4:00PM
August 18, 2004, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Chris Beasley, Princeton U. New Instanton Effects in Supersymmetric QCD
2:00PM - 4:00PM Ludmil Katzarkov, UCI Mirror Symmetry for Fano Manifolds and Manifolds of General Type
August 19, 2004, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Hirosi Ooguri, CalTech Holomorphic Anomaly and Background Independence in Topological Strings
2:00PM - 4:00PM Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, YITP An Introduction to Conformal Supergravity
August 20, 2004, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM George Sterman, YITP Resummation for QCD Loops
2:00PM - 4:00PM
August 23, 2004, Monday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Peter Svrcek, Princeton U. MHV Vertices and Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theory
2:00PM - 4:00PM Anton Ryzhov, Brandeis U. Dilatational Operator in N=4 Super YM
August 24, 2004, Tuesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM S.T. Yau, Harvard U. Special Geometry with Torsion
2:00PM - 4:00PM Rahul Pandharipande, Princeton U. Local Theory of Curves
August 25, 2004, Wednesday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Greg Moore, Rutgers U. On M-theory 3-form
2:00PM - 4:00PM Greg Moore, Rutgers U. On M-theory 3-form
August 26, 2004, Thursday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Charles Doran, Columbia U. Attractive K3 Surfaces and the Mathematics of D=8 F theory/Heterotic String Duality
2:00PM - 4:00PM Andrei Okounkov, Princeton U. The Matrix
August 27, 2004, Friday
10:00AM - 12:00PM Dennis Sullivan, Stony Brook Background for Gromov-Witten Theory defined by Algebraic Topology and Transversality
2:00PM - 4:00PM Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Queen Mary College, London Brane Collapse and the Combinatorics of Non-Abelian DBI