Workshop “Moduli Spaces and their Invariants in Mathematical Physics”

June 3-14, 2013

Program

 

Monday, June 3, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Hiraku Nakajima
(Kyoto University)
Perverse sheaves on instanton moduli spaces and AGT conjecture
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Paul S. Aspinwall
(Duke University)
Monodromy and singularities in homological mirror symmetry
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Kota Yoshioka
(Kobe University)
Bridgeland stability and stable sheaves on abelian surfaces
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Misha Verbitsky
(Glasgow University)
Holography principle and Moishezon twistor spaces
Abstract

 

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Murad Alim
(Harvard University)
Polynomial rings and topological strings
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Babak Haghighat
(Harvard University)
A ``$5d/2d/4d$'' correspondence
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Tony Pantev
(University of Pennsylvania)
On complex moduli for Landau-Ginzburg models
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Valerio Toledano Laredo
(Northeastern University)
From Yangians to quantum loop algebras via abelian difference equations
Abstract

16:30
Reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Sergey Cherkis
(The University of Arizona)
Moduli spaces of gravitational instantons and plane arrangements
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Andrew Dancer
(Oxford University)
Hyperkahler implosion
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Spiro Karigiannis
(University of Waterloo)
Moduli spaces of $G_2$ manifolds and $G_2$ conifolds
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Charles Doran
(University of Alberta)
Calabi-Yau moduli from the inside out
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Jonathan Fisher
(University of Toronto)
Higher rank analogues of polygon spaces
Abstract

 

Thursday, June 6, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Eckhard Meinrenken
(University of Toronto)
Verlinde formulas for non-simply connected groups
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Marco Gualtieri
(University of Toronto)
The Stokes groupoids
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Brent Pym
(University of Toronto)
Groupoids and meromorphic connections
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Boris Khesin
(University of Toronto)
Pentagram maps in any dimension
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Ruxandra Moraru
(University of Waterloo)
Hermitian-Einstein connections on balanced HKT manifolds
Abstract

 

Friday, June 7, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Jörg Teschner
(Universität Hamburg)
Quantized moduli spaces of flat connections from gauge theory
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Andrei Caldararu
(University of Wisconsin)
Non-Kähler moduli spaces
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Mauricio Romo
(Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo)
TBA
14:30 - 15:30
Tudor Dan Dimofte
(Institute for Advanced Study)
From framed flat connections on 3-manifolds to RG domain walls in 4d gauge theory
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Alexander Maloney
(McGill University)
Moduli of Riemann surfaces and 3D gravity
Abstract

 

Monday, June 10, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
(Columbia University)
Open-closed mirror symmetry for affine toric Calabi-Yau 3-orbifolds
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Tamas Hausel
(EPF Lausanne)
Betti numbers of large hyperkähler manifolds
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Michael Lennox Wong
(École Poly. Fédérale de Lausanne)
$E$-polynomials of wild character varieties
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Matt Kerr
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Algebraic cycles and local quantum cohomology
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Vivek Shende
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Legendrian knots and constructible sheaves
Abstract

 

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Bertrand Eynard
(CEA Centre d’études de Saclay)
Topological recursion for spectral curves and integrals over moduli spaces, integrable structures
10:30 - 11:00
Lunch break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
John Harnad
(Concordia University)
Tau functions as generating functions for modular invariants and random processes
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Vincent Bouchard
(University of Alberta)
Mirror symmetry for orbifold Hurwitz numbers
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Ron Donagi
(University of Pennsylvania)
Supermoduli space is not projected
Abstract

 

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Session - Field trip to the Gault Nature Reserve (Mont-Saint-Hilaire)

08:30
Shuttle bus - Departure in front of the Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
09:30 - 10:30
Philip Boalch
(École normale supérieure & CNRS)
Isomorphisms of moduli spaces of connections
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00
Brent Doran
(ETH Zurich)
Moduli of stable rational curves and nonlinearizable actions
Abstract
12:00
Lunch on site and Free afternoon

16:30
Shuttle bus - Return to Montreal

 

Thursday, June 13, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6214


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Jihye Seo
(McGill University)
Degeneration of hyper-elliptic curve
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Peng Gao
(Stony Brook University)
DRY conjecture and bundle moduli
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Can Kozcaz
(SISSA)
M-strings
Abstract
14:30 - 15:30
Benoit Charbonneau
(St. Jerome's University)
Nahm transform for spatially periodic instantons
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Joshua Lapan
(McGill University)
Gromov-Witten invariants from 2D gauge theories
Abstract

 

Friday, June 14, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Tom Baird
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Moduli spaces of vector bundles over a real curve
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Matthew B. Young
(University of New York at Stony Brook)
Hall modules of quivers
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Steven Rayan
(University of Toronto)
Partitions and moduli of twisted Higgs bundles
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Keshav Das Gupta
(McGill University)
Gauge/gravity duality in heterotic theory
Abstract