Workshop: Moduli spaces, integrable systems, and topological recursions

January 9-13, 2016

Program

 

Saturday, January 9, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Bertrand Eynard
(CEA Saclay)
Topological recursion and moduli spaces, a proof of the BKMP conjecture
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
Michael Shapiro
(Michigan State University)
Integrability in cluster algebra theory
Abstract
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:15
Paul Norbury
(University of Melbourne)
Spectral curves giving rise to Frobenius manifolds
Abstract
12:15 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Sergei Gukov
(Caltech)
Categorification and the Ising model
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Brad Safnuk
(Central Michigan University)
Topological recursion for open intersection numbers
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:30
Jinsung Park
(Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Liouville action functional for punctured Riemann surfaces
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Zhengyu Zong
(Columbia University)

 

Sunday, January 10, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Marco Bertola
(Concordia University and SISSA/ISAS)
Symplectic geometry on the moduli space of projective structures
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
Ian P. Goulden
(University of Waterloo)
Pfaffians, the BKP hierarchy, and asymptotics of maps in nonorientable surfaces
Abstract
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:15
Dimitri Zvonkine
(Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu)
Double ramification cycles
Abstract
12:15 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Andrea Brini
(Université Montpellier 2)
Quantum topology and curve counting invariants
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Yu-Shen Lin
(Stanford University)
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:30
Alexander Aleksandrov
(Université de Montréal)
Kontsevich-Penner matrix model and intersection numbers
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Ruifang Song
(UC Davis)

 

Monday, January 11, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Boris Dubrovin
(SISSA)
On Witten - Kontsevich tau-function and its generalisations
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
Vincent Bouchard
(University of Alberta)
A super topological recursion
Abstract
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:15
Albrecht Klemm
(Universität Bonn)
Elliptic CY 3-fold, refined BPS states and weak Jacobi Forms
Abstract
12:15 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Piotr Sulkowski
(University of Warsaw)
Quantum curves and conformal field theory
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Andrei Prokhorov
(Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis)
Connection problem for the isomonodromic tau-function of the Sine-Gordon reduction of Painlevé-III equation
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:30
Guillaume Chapuy
(Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
Hurwitz formulas and complex reflection groups
Abstract

 

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Katrin Wendland
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Simple singularities have an ADE-classification - what's next?
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
Andrew Neitzke
(The University of Texas at Austin)
WKB and the conformal limit
Abstract
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 11:45
Andrew McIntyre
(Bennington College)
Chern-Simons invariant on infinite volume manifolds and Bergman tau function
Abstract
11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Sergei K. Lando
(Higher School of Economics)
On Dubrovin's Frobenius structures on Hurwitz spaces
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Dustin Ross
(University of Michigan)
Donaldson-Thomas theory and crepant resolutions
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:30
Joujin (Jian) Zhou
(Tsinghua University)

 

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 10:00
Nicolas Orantin
(EPFL)
Global spectral curves from Dubrovin's superpotential
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
John Harnad
(Concordia University)
Weighted Hurwitz numbers, tau-functions and topological recursion
Abstract
11:00 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:15
Olivier Marchal
(Université Jean Monnet)
Perturbative expansion of the Painlevé tau-functions and topological recursion
Abstract
12:15 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Dmitry Zakharov
(New York University)
Bounded, non-vanishing solutions of KdV and a new class of potentials of the Schroedinger operator
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Anton Dzhamay
(University of Northern Colorado)
On the Geometry of Difference Painlevé Equations
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
Room(s) 6245