Workshop "Young Researchers in String Mathematics"

November 27 - 30, 2017

The workshop is an occasion to foster interactions and initiate new collaborations between young researchers active in Germany and nearby countries, who are all interested in mathematical aspects of string theory: mirror symmetry, enumerative geometry of curves (Gromov-Witten theory, Donaldson-Thomas, stable pair invariants, ...) and their modularity, integrability, and algebraic properties, tropical geometry, topological recursion, wall-crossing phenomena and Bridgeland stability conditions, relations to gauge theory, geometric quantization, conformal field theory, etc.

Organizers

Murad Alim (Universität Hamburg) and Gaëtan Borot (MPIM)

Speakers

Murad Alim (Universität Hamburg)
Gaëtan Borot (MPIM)
Andrea Brini* (CNRS Montpellier/Imperial College)
Miranda Cheng (University of Amsterdam)
Sara Angela Filippini (Cambridge University)
Michel van Garrel (Universität Hamburg)
Owen Gwilliam (MPIM)
Lotte Hollands (Heriot-Watt University, Edimburgh)
Victoria Hoskins (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
Hans Jockers (Universität Bonn)
Christian Lehn (Universität Chemnitz)
Jan Manschot (Trinity College Dublin)
Elli Pomoni (DESY Hamburg)
Johannes Rau (Universität Tübingen)
Thomas Reichelt (Universität Heidelberg)
Helge Ruddat (Universität Mainz)
Sarah Scherotzke (Bristol University)
Maxim Smirnov (Universität Augsburg/MPIM)
Piotr Sułkowski (University of Warsaw)
Di Yang (MPIM)

* = to be confirmed

Geometric quantities of a surface, like distance, angle, or area, change when the surface is deformed. Euler discovered a quantity, the Euler characteristic, which remains unchanged. The formula of Gauss-Bonnet, a landmark result of mathematics, relates Euler characteristic with geometry. In the talk, I will present ideas of Descartes, Euler, and Gauss related to this formula.

15:00-16:00
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16:00-16:30
Special tea

16:30-17:30
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