New developments in the geometry and physics of Gromov-Witten theory

(May 22-26,2006)

Monday Morning
9:00 Opening
9:20 Rahul Pandharipande (Princeton University)
Title: How Strong Are Our Tools in Gromov-Witten Theory
Morning Tea
11:00 Albrecht Klemm (UW-Madison)
Title: Quasi-modular forms and Gromov-Witten Theory
Monday Afternoon
2:00 Jim Bryan (UBC)
Title: Gromov-Witten Invariants of Orbifolds and Their Crepant Resolutions
3:00 Aleksey Zinger (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Title: Reduced Genus-One Gromov-Witten Invariants and Applications
Afternoon Tea
4:30 Mina Aganagic (Berkeley)
Title: Topological Strings and (Almost) Modular Forms
Tuesday Morning
9:30 Anton Kapustin (California Institute of Technology)
Title: The half-twisted sigma-model and sheaves of chiral algebras
Morning Tea
11:00 Tyler Jarvis (Brigham Young University)
Title: Mirror Symmetry and New "Quantum" Invariants for Quasi-homogeneous Singularities
Tuesday Afternoon
2:00 Alexander Givental (Berkeley)
Title: On Quantum Cohomology of Abelian Quotients
3:00 Mark Gross (UC, San Deigo)
Title: From affine manifolds to complex manifolds: instanton corrections from tropical disks
Afternoon Tea
4:30 Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University)
Title: Constructible Sheaves and the Fukaya Category
Wed Morning
9:30 Melissa Liu (Northwestern University)
Title: A Mathematical Theory of The Topological Vertex
Morning Tea
11:00 Sergei Gukov (Harvard)
Title: Topological Reduction of Donaldson-Thomas Theory
Wed Afternoon
2:00 Dusa McDuff (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Title: Some Tpological Properties of Symplectomorphism Groups
3:00 Yuan-Pin Lee (Utah)
Title: Invariance of Quantum Cohomology under a Simple Flop
Afternoon Tea
4:30 R. Gopakumar (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
Title: Strebel Differentials and String Theory
Thursday Morning
9:30 Tian-Jun Li (Minnesota)
Title: Uniruled Symplectic Manifolds
Morning Tea
11:00 Albert Schwarz (UC, Davis)
Title: p-adic B-model, p-adic superspace and integrality of instanton numbers
Thursday Afternoon
2:00 Jun Li (Stanford)
Title: A Remark to Gromov-Witten Invariant
3:00 Kevin Costello (University of Chicago)
Title : Topological Conformal Field Theories and Calabi-Yau Categories
Afternoon Tea
4:30 Marcos Marino (CERN)
Title: Phase Transition in topological String Theory
Friday Morning
9:00 Chris Beasley (Harvard)
Title: Non-Abelian Localization For Chern-Simons Theory
10:00 Renzo Cavalieri (University of Michigan)
Title: Hurwitz Numbers and Admissible Covers
11:00 Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford)
Title: Algebraic Structures of Symplectic Field Theory