NCTS 2004 Mirror Symmetry Conference

Last updated: July 5, 2004

Program--Mirror Symmetry Conference

Place: Lecture Room A, NCTS, 4F, The 3rd General Building,

National Tsing Hua University

* Friday, 9 July 2004

15:30-16:30

Opening Lecture:
Shing-Tung Yau 丘成桐 (Harvard University)

Special Geometry with torsion

18:00

Banquet

* Saturday, 10 July 2004

10:00-11:00	Mark Gross (UCSD and Warwick) Affine geometry, log geometry, and mirror symmetry
11:10-12:10	John Loftin (Rutgers University Newark) Singular Semi-Flat Calabi-Yau Metrics on S²
Lunch
14:00-15:00	Bernd Siebert (Universitaet Freiburg) Discrete geometry in the large complex structure limit
Tea Time
15:30-16:30	Ilia Zharkov (Harvard University) Integral Kahler affine structures at the trivalent vertex

* Sunday, 11 July 2004

Taipei city tour

* Monday, 12 July 2004

10:00-11:00	Adrian Clingher (Stanford University) Mathematics Underlying the F-Theory/Heterotic Duality in Eight Dimensions
11:10-12:10	Shinobu Hosono (Graduate School of Sciences, University of Tokyo) Central charges and cohomology-valued hypergeometric series in local mirror symmetry
Lunch
14:00-15:00	Discussion Session
Tea Time

* Tuesday, 13 July 2004

10:00-11:00	Zhiqin Lu (UC Irvine) Hodge metrics and BCOV torsion
11:10-12:10	Alexei Kovalev (Cambridge University) On a special Lagrangian fibration of the Schoen Calabi-Yau 3-fold
Lunch
14:00-15:00	Naichung (Conan) Leung (University of Minnesota) Geometry of G₂ manifolds
Tea Time

Special lectures in topology

* Professor Dylan Thurston (Harvard University)

Monday, 12 July 15:30-16:30	Domino tilings and planar algebras generated by a 3-box
Tuesday, 13 July 15:30-16:30	How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?