UK-Japan Winter School

Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry

Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, 7-11 January 2008



PROGRAMME

Time MONDAY, 7 JANUARY
13:30 - 13:50 Registration
13:50 - 14:00 Opening
14:00 - 15:00 Alessio Corti (Imperial College London): The quantum cohomology of Fano stacks (I)
15:30 - 16:20 Daniel Huybrechts (Bonn University and Imperial College London): Derived equivalences of K3 surfaces and their deformations


Time TUESDAY, 8 JANUARY
9:30 - 10:30 Alessio Corti (Imperial College London): The quantum cohomology of Fano stacks (II)
11:00 - 12:00 Richard Thomas (Imperial College London): Algebro-geometric counting invariants (I)
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Yoshinori Namikawa (Osaka University): Poisson deformations and symplectic varieties
15:00 - 15:30 Tomoo Matsumura (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics): Stringy cohomology of the symmetric product of an orbifold
15:30 - 16:00 Yuji Sano (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques): On relationships between multiplier ideal subschemes and Futaki invariant on toric Fano manifolds
16:30 - 17:20 Egor Shelukhin (Tel Aviv University): The Futaki invariant and Hamiltonian dynamics


Time WEDNESDAY, 9 JANUARY
9:30 - 10:30 Nigel Hitchin (Oxford University): Generalized geometry (I): Skew torsion
11:00 - 12:00 Richard Thomas (Imperial College London): Algebro-geometric counting invariants (II)
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Frances Kirwan (Oxford University): Non-reductive geometric invariant theory and symplectic implosion
15:00 - 15:50 Andrei Mustata (University College Cork): Quantum cohomology and flops of rationally connected varieties
16:20 - 17:10 Toshiki Mabuchi (Osaka University): Kähler-Ricci solitons in Sasakian geometry
Memorial Dinner with Nan Eells


Time THURSDAY, 10 JANUARY
9:30 - 10:30 Nigel Hitchin (Oxford University): Generalized geometry (II): Generalized complex structures
11:00 - 12:00 Richard Thomas (Imperial College London): Algebro-geometric counting invariants (III)
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Tom Bridgeland (Sheffield University): Stability conditions and Stokes factors
15:00 - 15:50 Daisuke Matsushita (Hokkaido University): On remarks of terminations of D-flops on symplectic manifolds
16:20 - 17:10 Takehiko Yasuda (Kyoto University): Crepant resolution via Frobenius morphisms


Time FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY
9:30 - 10:30 Nigel Hitchin (Oxford University): Generalized geometry (III): Holomorphic Poisson manifolds
11:00 - 12:00 Richard Thomas (Imperial College London): Algebro-geometric counting invariants (IV)
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Balázs Szendrői (Oxford University): Enumerative invariants of non-commutative Calabi-Yau algebras
15:00 - 15:50 Ryushi Goto (Osaka University): Deformations of generalized Kähler structures, Poisson structures and bihermitian structures




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