KITP - Geometry, Topology, and Strings(miniprogram)

Geometry, Topology, and Strings(miniprogram)

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There will be two lectures each morning of the program; the afternoons are free. Weeks 1, 3, and 4 will consist of two lecture series. During Week 3 there will be individual seminar talks(to be arranged at the program). The lecture series schedule is:

Week 1:

Michael Hopkins
Emanuel Diaconescu

Week 3:

Nigel Hitchin
Anton Kapustin

Week 4:

Paul Seidel
Robbert Dijkgraaf

Some talk titles include:

Kapustin: Mirror symmetry, derived categories, and D-branes
Seidel: Homological mirror symmetry
Robbert Dijkgraaf: Geometry and matrix models
Diaconescu: Large N duality and Gromov-Witten invariants
Hitchin: Geometry with B-fields
Hopkins: Algebraic topology and differential forms

Geometry, Topology, and Strings(miniprogram)

Coordinators: R. Dijkgraaf, D. Freed, T. Pantev

July 14, 2003 - August 8, 2003