VBAC 2004
School and Workshop on Gromov-Witten Invariants
International School for
Advanced
Studies
and Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics
June 21-26, 2004
Supported by:
International
School for Advanced Studies, Abdus Salam International Centre for
Theoretical
Physics, Italian Research Project "Geometry of Algebraic Varieties",
Friuli-Venezia
Giulia Research Project "Geometry of moduli spaces and applications to
mathematical physics", Department of Mathematics of the Third University
of Rome
School and Workshop on Gromov-Witten invariants
The programme will include 4 lecture courses, 9
invited talks and a small number of contributed talks. School Lecturers:
B.
Dubrovin, Y. Eliashberg, B. Fantechi, E. Getzler
Workshop Speakers:
V. Batyrev, B.
Dubrovin, Y. Eliashberg, K. Fukaya, E. Getzler, L. Göttsche, T.
Graber, E. Ionel,
A. Vistoli (confirmed speakers)
Scientific
Committee: U.
Bhosle, S. Bradlow, L. Brambila-Paz, U. Bruzzo, O. García-Prada,
P. Gothen, D. Hernández Ruipérez, A. King, H. Lange, P.
Newstead
(chair), C. Pauly, A. Szenes
Local Organizers:
U. Bruzzo, B. Fantechi, F. Perroni
Prospective participants should fill in the
registration form and
send it to the e-mail address vbac04@sissa.it
by MARCH 31,
2004. Participants who wish to propose a talk should indicate
this in their form, providing a title and enclosing a short abstract.
The Scientific Committee will make a selection among the proposed
talks, and the proponents will be notified about the decision of the
Committee by the end of April.
All participants will be accommodated, whenever possible, in one of the
Guest Houses of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Those
who pre-register will receive an accommodation form for booking their
accommodation. Participants will be asked to pay a registration fee of 100 euros.
Information about travel to Trieste is available from the ICTP and
SISSA web pages http://www.ictp.trieste.it and http://www.sissa.it
SUPPORT:
The conference budget will be particularly tight, but some financial
support should be available to cover the local expenses of some young
researchers. If you think you need financial support please
mention this in your registration form. Please note that no support
will be available for travel expensens.
For more information about the
VBAC group you may consult
the VBAC
web page