String-Math 2016, Collège de France, Paris

from Monday 27 June 2016 (06:00) to Saturday 2 July 2016 (18:00)
Collège de France (Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Jun 2016
28 Jun 2016
29 Jun 2016
30 Jun 2016
1 Jul 2016
2 Jul 2016
AM
08:30 --- Registration ---
09:20 Welcome address  
09:30
Plenary session (until 10:55)
09:30 Framed BPS States In Two And Four Dimensions - Gregory Moore (Rutgers University)  
10:30 Exact WKB analysis, cluster algebras and Painlevé equations - Kohei Iwaki (University of Nagoya)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session (until 13:30)
11:30 Reduction for SL(3) pre-buildings - Carlos Simpson (Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis)  
12:30 Meromorphic connections and quivers - Daisuke Yamakawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)  
09:30
Plenary session (until 10:55)
09:30 Quantized Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 gauge theories and difference operators - Hiraku Nakajima (RIMS, Kyoto)  
10:30 3D supersymmetric gauge theories and Hilbert series - Stefano Cremonesi (King's college, London)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session (until 12:55)
11:30 Cohomological Hall algebra actions and Kac polynomials - Olivier Schiffmann (Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay)  
12:20 Plane partitions and W algebras - Mikhail Bershtein (Landau Institute, Moscow)  
09:30
Plenary session (until 10:55)
09:30 Period integrals of algebraic manifolds and their differential equations - Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)  
10:30 Hexagons and 3-point functions - Benjamin Basso (ENS Paris)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session (until 13:00)
11:30 A Vafa-Witten invariant for projective surfaces - Richard Thomas (Imperial College, London)  
12:30 Quantum Spectral Curve for AdS/CFT and its applications - Nikolai Gromov (King's College, London )  
09:30
Plenary session (until 10:55)
09:30 Moduli spaces of holomorphic and meromorphic differentials - Rahul Pandharipande (ETH Zurich)  
10:30 The Chern character of the Verlinde bundle - Dimitri Zvonkine (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session (until 13:00)
11:30 Correlation Functions in Superconformal Field Theories - Jaume Gomis (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)  
12:30 Conformal constraints on defects - Abhijit Gadde (IAS, Princeton)  
09:30
Plenary session (until 10:55)
09:30 Resurgence and exact quantization via holomorphic Floer cohomology - Maxim Kontsevich (IHES)  
10:30 Derived equivalences from a duality of non-abelian GLSM's - Jørgen Rennemo (Oxford)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Plenary session (until 13:00)
11:30 Analytical Approaches to Coalescing Binary Black Holes - Thibault Damour (IHES, Bures sur Yvette)  
12:30 Poisson-Lie T-duality - Pavol Severa (University of Geneva)  
10:00
General public session (until 12:15)
10:00 What is gravity ? - Prof. Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech)  
11:15 Catching monodromy - Prof. Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University)  
PM
14:30
Plenary session (until 15:55)
14:30 SUSY field theories and geometric Langlands: The other side of the coin - Joerg Teschner (DESY, Hamburg)  
15:30 Fredholm determinant and Nekrasov type representations for isomonodromic tau functions - Oleg Lisovyy (LMPT, Tours)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Plenary session (until 18:00)
16:30 Elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds: mirror symmetry and Jacobi forms - Sheldon Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  
17:30 Derivation of modular anomaly equation in compact elliptic Calabi-Yau spaces - Minxin Huang (University of Science and Technology of China)  
18:30 --- Welcome cocktail ---
14:30
Plenary session (until 15:55)
14:30 Spectral theory and topological strings - Marcos Marino (University of Geneva)  
15:30 Monopoles, Vortices, and Vermas - Mathew Bullimore (Oxford)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Plenary session (until 17:55)
16:30 Higgs branches, vertex operator algebras and modular differential equations - Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook University)  
17:30 What Chern-Simons theory assigns to a point ? - André Henriques (Oxford and Utrecht University)  
14:30
Plenary session (until 15:55)
14:30 Moduli spaces of curves with non-special divisors - Alexander Polischchuk (University of Oregon)  
15:30 Higgs bundles, branes and applications - Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Plenary session (until 18:30)
16:30 From the Hitchin component to opers - Olivia Dumitrescu (MPIM, Bonn)  
17:00 Chern–Simons theory on S^3/G and topological strings - Gaétan Borot (MPIM, Bonn)  
19:15 --- Conference dinner ---
14:30
Plenary session (until 15:55)
14:30 Two mathematical applications of little string theory - Mina Aganagic (UC Berkeley)  
15:30 Umbral symmetry groups and K3 CFTs - Sarah Harrison (Harvard)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Plenary session (until 17:30)
16:30 Geometric Langlands applications of boundary conditions for maximally supersymmetric Yang Mills theory - Davide Gaiotto (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo)  
14:00
General public session (until 15:00)
14:00 Quantum Geometry - Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf (IAS, Princeton)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
General public session (until 16:30)
15:30 Physics and Mathematics for the End of Spacetime - Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS, Princeton)