UK-Japan Winter School
New Methods in Geometry
King's College London, 10-13 January 2011



PROGRAMME

Time MONDAY, 10 JANUARY (Venue: Room S-3.20, Strand Building)
13:00 - 13:55 Coffee and registration
13:55 - 14:00 Welcome
14:00 - 15:00 Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London): Exceptional holonomy, gauge theory and calibrated geometry (I)
15:15 - 16:05 Mark Haskins (Imperial College London): Compact G2 manifolds, associative submanifolds and complex 3-folds
16:05 - 16:35 Tea Break
16:35 - 17:25 Ryushi Goto (Osaka University): Holomorphic Poisson and generalized Calabi-Yau metrical structures
17:30 - 19:30 Wine Reception
TUESDAY, 11 JANUARY (Venue: Room S-2.08, Strand Building)
09:30 - 10:30 Keiji Oguiso (Osaka University): Classification of general singular fibers of proper holomorphic Lagrangian fibrations via characteristic curves (I)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 John Jones (Warwick University): String topology (I)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London): Exceptional holonomy, gauge theory and calibrated geometry (II)
15:15 - 16:05 Shinichiroh Matsuo (Tokyo University): Instanton approximation, non-degenerate ASD connections, and mean dimension
16:05 - 16:35 Tea Break
16:35 - 17:05 Yohsuke Imagi (Kyoto University): Energy of calibrated submanifolds of annuli
17:15 - 17:45 Shota Murakami (Keio University): On diffeomorphism classes of complex surfaces with first Betti number 1 and second Betti number 0
WEDNESDAY, 12 JANUARY (Venue: Edmund J Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Building)
09:30 - 10:30 Keiji Oguiso (Osaka University): Classification of general singular fibers of proper holomorphic Lagrangian fibrations via characteristic curves (II)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 John Jones (Warwick University): String topology (II)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London): Exceptional holonomy, gauge theory and calibrated geometry (III)
15:15 - 16:05 Dmitri Panov (King's College London): Polyhedral Kähler manifolds
16:05 - 16:35 Tea Break
16:35 - 17:25 Hiroshi Iritani (Kyoto University): Quantum cohomology and periods
17:30 - 18:00 Thomas Walpuski (Imperial College London): Fueter sections and G2-instantons
THURSDAY, 13 JANUARY (Venue: Room S-3.20, Strand Building)
09:30 - 10:30 Keiji Oguiso (Osaka University): Classification of general singular fibers of proper holomorphic Lagrangian fibrations via characteristic curves (III)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 John Jones (Warwick University): String topology (III)




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