Texas algebraic geometry seminar and workshop

Conference Schedule

All conference talks will be in Blocker 158. This is a large conference room on the first floor of the building, at the south end.

Saturday, May 20

8:00-9:00: Breakfast and registration at mathematics department, Blocker 156

9:00-10:00: Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina
On the Cachazo-Douglas-Seiberg-Witten conjecture for simple Lie algebras

10:00-10:20: Coffee

10:20-11:20 Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University
Semi-invariants of quivers - new developments

11:30-12:30: John Little, College of the Holy Cross
Toric Codes

12:30-2:30: Lunch

2:30-3:30: Sándor Kovács, University of Washington
Higher dimensional generalizations of the geometric Shafarevich conjecture

3:30-4:00: Tea/cookies, Blocker 156

4:00-5:00: David Morrison, Duke University
Matrix factorizations and birational geometry

6:00-8:00: Conference Dinner at Cafe Excel

Sunday, May 21

8:30-9:30: Breakfast and coffee, Blocker 156

9:30-10:30: Laura Matusevich, Texas A&M University
Special Functions and Algebraic Geometry

10:30-11:00: Coffee

11:00-12:00: Alexander Givental, UC Berkeley
Twisted loop groups in Gromov-Witten theory