Summer Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Physics

Summer Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Physics

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste

September 16-20, 1996


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This workshop is supported by:

S.I.S.S.A.
National Group for Algebra and Geometry (CNR)
National Group for Mathematical Physics (CNR)
International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Preliminary Programme


Monday 16 September
18:00 Informal gathering and reception in the Adriatico Guest House bar

Tuesday 17 September
9:00 E.Arbarello Pointed stable curves (I)
10:00 P. Candelas Elements of Toric Geometry with Application to Mirror Symmetry and Duality (I)
11:00 Coffe Break
11:30 A.K. Raina Projective structures, Sugawara representation and infinitesimal neighbourhoods
12:00 N. Teleman Conformal topology
12:30 G. Ottaviani Instanton bundles on P2n+1
13:00 Lunch
14:30 E.Arbarello Pointed stable curves (II)
15:30 C. Viallet Birational transformations of projective spaces from physics
16:00 Coffe Break
16:30 V. Fock Duality of Teichmüller spaces
17:00 M. Singer Nonabelian magnetic monopoles on hyperbolic space

Wednesday 18 September
9:00 E.Arbarello Pointed stable curves (III)
10:00 P. Candelas Elements of Toric Geometry with Application to Mirror Symmetry and Duality (II)
11:00 Coffe Break
11:30 Yu. Manin Geometry of Painlevé VI equations and Frobenius 3-manifolds (I)
12:30 A. Maciocia Generalized Fourier-Mukai transforms for tori and K3 surfaces
13:00 Lunch
14:30 R. Paoletti The crepant effective cone in families of 3-folds with big and nef canonical divisor
15:00 R. Silvotti On the Poincaré polynomial of a hypersurface complement
15:30 B. Kreussler On the algebraic dimension of twistor spaces
16:00 Coffe Break
16:30 M. Spera C*-algebraic and algebro-geometric aspects of the Hilbert space Grassmannian
17:00 A. Bondal Symplectic and Poisson structures related to bilinear forms
17:30 C. S. Chu Poisson Differential Algebra

Thursday 19 September
9:00 Yu. Manin Geometry of Painlevé VI equations and Frobenius 3-manifolds (II)
10:00 P. Candelas Elements of Toric Geometry with Application to Mirror Symmetry and Duality (III)
11:00 Coffe Break
11:30 B. Kim Quantum cohomology of G/B and Toda lattices
12:00 P.G. Grinevich The direct spectral transform for the KP equation is non-singular
12:30 K. Fukaya Propagation of the closed string around the isolated singularity
13:00 Lunch
16:00 Guided Tour of Trieste
20:00 Banquet

Friday 20 September
9:00 Yu. Manin Geometry of Painlevé VI equations and Frobenius 3-manifolds (III)
10:00 C. Bartocci Fourier transforms of stable pairs
10:30 C. Imbimbo Contact terms and sheaf cohomology in topological gauge theories
11:00 Coffe Break
11:30 H. Nakajima Hilbert schemes of points on a surface and symmetric functions
12:00 E. Aldrovandi Effective action in 2D quantum gravity on higher genus Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller spaces
12:30 M. Matone On the role of the Deligne-Knudsen-Mumford compactification in theoretical physics
13:00 Lunch
14:30 E. Aldrovandi Effective action in 2D quantum gravity on higher genus Riemann surfaces and Teichmüller spaces
15:00 G. Bonelli Nonperturbative relations form the quantum moduli space of N=2 SUSY Yang-Mills and WDVV equation
15:30 N. Teleman Conformal Topology
16:00 Coffe Break
16:30 T. Nitta Hypergeometric function and Yang-Mills moduli
17:00 H. Nakajima Instantons and affine Lie algebras


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