Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
May 23-27, 2004
Sponsored by Northwestern University and the NSF
During the 2003-2004 academic year, the Department of Mathematics of
Northwestern University is hosting a special year in the geometry and
topology of string theory. As a culmination of this activity, we have
organized a conference bringing together mathematicians and physicists
working in different areas related to string theory.
The conference will be held on the campus of Northwestern University
in Evanston from Sunday, May 23 till Thursday, May 27. We are
providing travel and accommodation support to
junior participants. Senior participants are also welcome to apply for
support, but priority will be given to junior participants and
workshop attendees. For this reason, we encourage people to register their intention to attend, to enable
us to better estimate our levels of support.
We have reserved blocks of rooms for people
attending the conference, at two hotels.
From O'Hare Airport, take a 303 taxi to get
to Evanston, not a Chicago taxi. There is a flat rate of $23+tip
(those receiving reimbursement remember to obtain a receipt).
The previously advertised information below is
incorrect. On Saturday, your key will be held by Joseph Marshak, whose
cell phone number is (847) 269-7771. On Sunday, your key will be held
by Ezra Getzler, whose cell phone number is (773) 96-4947.
For those who are arriving outside office hours and staying at Garrett,
please contact the security officer Thomas John on his cell phone
(847) 644-9012 to obtain your room key.
Metromix has lots
of information on restaurants, bars and other good stuff in the
Chicago area, including Evanston. (Downtown Chicago is about 50
minutes away by public transport, but the North Side of Chicago is a
lot closer.)
There will be a mini-conference on noncommutative geometry and
mirror symmetry held following the conference, on the
afternoon of Friday, May 28. The speakers are
Dmitry Arinkin (U of Chicago) Families of
non-commutative Lagrangian tori over a commutative base
Speakers Mina Aganagic (Washington) Topological strings and integrable hierarchies
In the week before the conference, we are holding a workshop for graduate students. Everyone is
of course welcome to attend.
The organizers may be contacted by email at
Vadim Vologodsky (U of Chicago) Integrality of the canonical coordinates on the
moduli space of Calabi-Yau varieties
Alexander Braverman (Harvard/Brown) Geometric construction of
quantum group actions, quantum K-theory and instanton counting
Tom Bridgeland (Edinburgh)
Tom Coates (Harvard) Quantum extraordinary cohomology
Emanuel Diaconescu (Rutgers) Extremal transitions in Gromov-Witten theory
Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto)
Structure of generating function of holomorphic
disks bounding a special Lagrangian submanifold in Calabi-Yau 3 fold
Sergei Gukov (Harvard) Perturbative Yang-Mills
theory and moduli spaces of curves
Kentaro Hori (Toronto)
Anton Kapustin (CalTech) Remarks on topological Landau-Ginzburg models
Albrecht Klemm (Wisconsin)
The topological string on a compact Calabi-Yau and string duality
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Harvard)
A mathematical theory of the
topological vertex
Marcos Marino (CERN) Chern-Simons theory and
the topological vertex
Nikita Nekrasov (IHES)
Yong-Geun Oh (Wisconsin) Obstruction cycles and
Landau-Ginzburg potentials: the Fano toric case
Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton) Hodge integrals,
rubber integrals, and the quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of
points
Alexander Polishchuk (Oregon)
Quasicoherent sheaves on complex noncommutative 2-tori
Paul Seidel (Chicago)
Richard Thomas (Imperial
College)
getzler at math.northwestern.edu and
zaslow at math.northwestern.edu.