String-Math 2011

String-Math 2011

[Eric Sharpe]

String-Math 2011

Dates:  June 6-11, 2011
Location:  University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, US)
Website:  http://www.math.upenn.edu/StringMath2011/

This will be the inaugural meeting of a new series, bringing together
mathematicians and physicists working on string theory.

Topics to be covered include: homological mirror symmetry, categorical
constructions of topological field theories, mathematical string
phenomenology, F theory, wall crossing, geometric Langlands, arithmetic of
strings, Gromov-Witten theory and enumerative geometry, A-twisted
Landau-Ginzburg models, string topology, elliptic cohomology, heterotic
mirror symmetry, topological T duality, string measures, chiral de Rham
complexes, noncommutative geometry.

Invited speakers include:  Mina Aganagic, Paul Aspinwall, Tom Bridgeland,
David Ben-Zvi, Lev Borisov, Philip Candelas, Kevin Costello, Emanuel
Diaconescu, Dan Freed, Alexandre Givental, Sergei Gukov, Mike Hopkins,
Melissa Liu, Jacob Lurie, Greg Moore, Andy Neitzke, Nikita Nekrasov, Rahul
Pandharipande, Yongbin Ruan, Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Paul Seidel, Yan
Soibelman, Dennis Sullivan, Richard Thomas, Martijn Wijnholt, Cumrun Vafa,
ST Yau, Edward Witten

For more information, and to register, go to the conference website
listed above.




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