Summer School Overview
This 5-day summer school, intended primarily for students, postdocs, and other junior researchers, aims to bring mathematicians and physicists together to better understand the role of algebraic geometry in high-energy physics, with a particular focus on applications of algebraic geometry to string theory and mirror symmetry and of physical techniques to enumerative geometry and classification of algebraic varieties. Topics will include topological and homological mirror symmetry, constructions of Calabi-Yau varieties, moduli spaces of curves and Higgs bundles, quiver varieties, integrable systems, algebraic structures arising in string scattering theory, mathematical consequences of M-theory and F-theory, and topological recursion.
The summer school will consist of special guest lectures and mini-courses by leading experts in their resepective fields. We hope that the lectures and mini-courses will foster interactions and discussions between established and junior researchers. The format of the summer school is designed to encourage questions and discussions.
All of the summer school activities will take place at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. Accommodation is available on campus and registration includes access to the conference dinner.
Mini-Course Lecturers
| Vincent Bouchard (Alberta) | |
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Counting Stuff with Airy Structures |
Elliptic Fibrations and String Geometry |
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| Elana Kalashnikov (Imperial) | |
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The Calabi-Yau Landscape |
Mirror Symmetry for GIT Quotients and Their Subvarieties |
Guest Lecturers
| Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) |
Charles Doran (Alberta)
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Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics, and Positive |
Mirroring Towers (2 Lectures) |
*Unfortunately, due to illness, Charles Doran's lectures did not take place.
Schedule
Registration
- Please visit this page for information regarding registration and accommodation.
- Registration is now closed.
Participants
- Karem Abdelgalil (University of Alberta)
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study)
- Shahab Azarfar (University of Western Ontario)
- Michael Baker (Concordia University)
- Kuntal Banerjee (IIT Gandhinagar)
- Babak Beheshti (University of Western Ontario)
- Vincent Bouchard (University of Alberta)
- Travis Black (University of Saskatchewan)
- Paul Budinski (University of Alberta)
- Minako Chinen (University of Alberta)
- Alan Cook (University of Saskatchewan)
- Robert Cornea (University of Saskatchewan)
- Thomas Creutzig (University of Alberta)
- Wei Cui (Virginia Tech)
- Dinamo Djounvouna (University of Manitoba)
- Charles Doran (University of Alberta)
- Anna Elliott (University of Saskatchewan)
- Jonathan Mboyo Esole (Northeastern University)
- Bardia Fahim (University of Saskatchewan)
- Logan Gates (University of Alberta)
- Brandon Gill (University of Saskatchewan)
- Zachariah Goldthorpe (University of Alberta)
- Yang-Hui He (City University London / University of Oxford / Nankai University)
- Ed Hirst (City University London)
- Irit Huq-Kuruvilla (UC Berkeley)
- Nicole Johnson (University of Kansas)
- Aniket Joshi (University of Alberta)
- Elana Kalashnikov (Imperial College)
- Aleksandr Karapetyan (University of Toronto)
- Pratik Kayal (IIT Gandhinagar)
- Omar Kidwai (University of Toronto)
- Matthew Koban (University of Saskatchewan)
- Jordan Kostiuk (Brown University)
- Jacob Kryczka (University of Angers)
- Jennifer Lam (University of Saskatchewan)
- Aidan Lindberg (University of Saskatchewan)
- Christopher Mahadeo (University of Saskatchewan)
- Robert Maher (University of Alberta)
- Alessandro Malusà (University of Saskatchewan-PIMS)
- Kieran Mastel (University of Alberta)
- Sheldon Miller (University of Indiana)
- Adrien Ooms (University of Alberta)
- Devin Patterson (University of Saskatchewan)
- Stephen Pietromonaco (University of British Columbia)
- Rina Rast (University of Saskatchewan)
- Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan)
- Andrew Riesen (University of Alberta)
- Brennan Rodgers (University of Saskatchewan)
- Marc Sellers (University of Alberta)
- Thomas Stanley (University of Saskatchewan)
- Devin Stockall (University of Alberta)
- Evan Sundbo (University of Saskatchewan)
- Jacek Szmigielski (University of Saskatchewan)
- Jacob Taylor (University of Saskatchewan)
- Edward Utama (University of Saskatchewan)
- Quinten Weller (University of Alberta)
- Peter Yuen (McGill University)
- Yihan Zhu (University of British Columbia)
- Nicole Zolkavich (University of Saskatchewan)
- Hao Zou (Virginia Tech)
Organizers
If you have any questions about this summer school, please do not hesitate to ask one of the organizers:
- Thomas Creutzig (University of Alberta)
- Steven Rayan (University of Saskatchewan)
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, the University of Saskatchewan, and the University's College of Arts & Science.
This event is an activity of the Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA) at the University of Saskatchewan.
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