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May 13-15, 2011 (Friday-Sunday) Conference on Connections in Geometry and Physics GAP 2011 at the Fields Institute, Toronto
Organizers: Marco Gualtieri (University of Toronto), Spiro Karigiannis (University of Waterloo) Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute), Ruxandra Moraru (University of Waterloo) McKenzie Wang (McMaster University)

Conference Overview

The 3 themes for GAP 2011 are:

1) advances in Floer theory
2) geometric flows
3) the AdS/CFT correspondence

The primary objective of GAP is to bring together geometers, from Canada and around the world, who work at the interface between mathematics and physics. An important secondary objective is to further increase Canada's presence and visibility in geometry within the international mathematical community.

Each year, the format of the conference combines three separate but related themes in geometry and physics. This approach results in a very interesting mixture of talks. The aim of our conference is to present some of the exciting new developments in the areas of our chosen themes, as well as to expose local area graduate students and postdocs to these ideas. In fact, the previous two conferences involved heavy participation by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (over one third of all participants) from the universities of Toronto, Queen's, Waterloo, McMaster, and Western Ontario, the Perimeter Institute, as well as other institutions in Canada and around the world, and we expect that this will continue with GAP 2011.

Principal Speakers: (60 Minute Talks)
Michael Anderson (Stony Brook) Octav Cornea (Montréal) Robin Graham (Washington) François Lalonde (Montréal) John Lott (UC Berkeley) Robert McCann (Toronto)	Tom Mrowka (M.I.T.) Andre Neves (Imperial College) Natasa Sesum (Rutgers) Pedro Vieira (Perimeter) Katrin Wehrheim (M.I.T.) Xi Yin (Harvard)
Postdoctoral Speakers: (30 minute talks)
Ken Chan (Waterloo) Dezhong Chen (University of Toronto) Roman Golovko (Montreal) Hongnian Huang (CRM-Montreal)	Ben Mares (McMaster) Sinem Onaran (Waterloo) João Penedones (Perimeter)

Schedule:

Friday, May 13 Audio and Slides of talks
8:00 - 8:30	Onsite Registration and Morning Coffee
8:30 - 9:30	Francois Lalonde (Montreal) Homological Lagrangian monodromy
9:30 - 10:00	Coffee Break
10:00-11:00	Natasa Sesum (Rutgers) Solitons in geometric flows
11:00-11:15	15 minute break
11:15-11:45	Hongnian Huang (CRM) Symmetries of extremal metrics on projective bundles and stability
11:45-1:15	Lunch Break
1:15-1:45	Ken Chan (Waterloo) Floer theory of cleanly intersecting immersed Lagrangians
1:45-2:00	15 minute break
2:00-3:00	Octav Cornea (Montreal) Lagrangian Cobordism
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:30	Katrin Wehrheim (M.I.T.) Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences
4:30-4:45	15 minute break
4:45-5:45	Robert McCann (Toronto) Optimal multidimensional pricing facing informational asymmetry
5:45-6:45	Reception (Fields Atrium)
Saturday, May 14 Audio and Slides of talks
8:00-8:30	Morning Coffee
8:30-9:30	Andre Neves (Imperial) Singularities for Lagrangian mean curvature flow
9:30-10:00	Coffee Break
10:00-11:00	Michael Anderson (Stony Brook) The Dirichlet problem for Einstein metrics in AdS/CFT
11:00-11:15	15 minute break
11:15-11:45	Dezhong Chen (Toronto) Examples of Einstein manifolds in odd dimensions
11:45-1:15	Lunch Break
1:15-2:15	Robin Graham (Washington) Conformal geometry and metrics of holonomy split G2
2:15-2:30	15 minute break
2:30-3:00	Sinem Onaran (Waterloo) Legendrian Knots and Contact Structures
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4:00	Ben Mares (McMaster) Some analytic aspects of Vafa{Witten twisted N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
4:00-4:15	15 minute break
4:15-5:15	John Lott (UC Berkeley) Evolution of three-dimensional Ricci flow
Sunday, May 15 Audio and Slides of talks
8:00-8:30	Morning Coffee
8:30-9:30	Xi Yin (Harvard) Higher spin gauge theories and holography
9:30-10:00	Coffee Break
10:00-11:00	Pedro Vieira (Perimeter) Integrability in/and AdS/CFT
11:00-11:15	15 minute break
11:15-11:45	Joao Penedones (Perimeter) Writing CFT correlation functions as AdS scattering amplitudes
11:45-1:15	Lunch Break
1:15-1:45	Roman Golovko (Montreal) The cylindrical contact homology of universally tight sutured solid tori
1:45-2:00	15 minute break
2:00-3:00	Tomasz Mrowka (M.I.T.) Filtrations on Instanton Knot Homology
End of Conference

Travel Support

Funding application for student and postdoctoral fellows travel support, deadline to apply was March 31 .

List of Registered Participants

Full Name	University/Affiliation
Anderson, Michael	Stony Brook University
Anvari, Nima	McMaster University
Baird, Tom	Memorial University of Newfoundland
Bhuiyan, Md Abdus Samad	Brock University
Cappadocia, Christopher	McMaster University
Caviedes Castro, Alexander	University of Toronto
Chan, Yin Kwan	University of Waterloo
Charbonneau, Benoit	St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo
Charette, Francois	University of Montreal
Chen, Dezhong	University of Toronto
Chiang, River	National Cheng Kung University
Cornea, Octavian	Université de Montréal
Crooks, Peter	University of Toronto
D'Ambroise, Jennie	University of Minnesota Morris
Dixon, Kael	McGill University
Duncan, David	Rutgers University
Durand, Philippe	CNAM
Farooqui, Anusar	McGill University
Fisher, Jonathan	University of Toronto
Gao, Peng	SUNY Stony Brook
Golovko, Roman	Montreal/UQAM
Graham, C. Robin	University of Washington
Grigorian, Sergey	Stony Brook University
Gualtieri, Marco	University of Toronto
Guo, Zhouhang	McMaster University
Halacheva, Iva	University of Toronto
Halevy, Itamar	no affiliation
Huang, Hongnian	CIRGET, UQAM
Hyvrier, Clément	University of Montreal
Jain, Rohit	University of Texas Austin
Jeffrey, Lisa	University of Toronto
Jo, Jason	The University of Texas at Austin
Karigiannis, Spiro	University of Waterloo
Kolenderski, Piotr	Institute for Quantum Computing
Lalonde, François	Université de Montréal
Li, Travis S	University of Toronto
Lott, John	University of California, Berkeley
Makhmali, Omid	McGill University
Marathe, Kishore	CUNY Brooklyn College
Mares, Ben	McMaster University
McCann, Robert	University of Toronto
Momin, Al	Purdue University
Moraru, Ruxandra	University of Waterloo
Mrowka, Tomasz	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neves, Andre	Imperial College London
Nicas, Andrew J.	McMaster University
Nikolaev, Nikita	University of Waterloo
Odesski, Alexandre	Brock University
Onaran, Sinem	University of Waterloo
Park, Doug	University of Waterloo
Penedones, João	Perimeter Institute
Pinsonnault, Martin	University of Western Ontario
Pym, Brent	University of Toronto
Ravelomanana, Huygens	Université du Québec à Montréal
Rowe, Daniel	University of Toronto
Sagatov, Sergei	University of Toronto
Selick, Paul	University of Toronto
Sesum, Natasa	Rutgers University
Smith, Aaron	University of Pennsylvania
Smith, Benjamin	McGill University
Smith, Kathleen	University of Toronto
Spring, David	Glendon College, York University
Vass, Jozsef	University of Waterloo
Vieira, Pedro	Perimeter Institute
Wang, McKenzie	McMaster University
Wehrheim, Katrin	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yalcinkaya, Eyup	McMaster University
Yin, Xi	Harvard University
Young, Matthew	Stony Brook University
Zhang, Lucy Liuxuan	University of Toronto
Zhou, Qiao	University of Toronto

 

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