XIIth Oporto Meeting on Geometry, Topology and Physics


OMGTP XII Programme

July 17 · Thursday
 
08:30 - 09:30Opening and Registration
09:30 - 10:30 M. Mariño
Chern-Simons Theory and Enumerative Geometry - I
10:30 - 11:30 A. Klemm
Mirror Symmetry and the Topological String - I
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee
12:00 - 13:00 T. Gannon
Boundary Conformal Field Theory, Fusion Ring
Representations and Strings - I
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:30 M. Tierz
Soft Matrix Models and Chern-Simons partition functions
15:30 - 16:00 TBA
16:30 - 17:00 E. Aldrovandi
Hermitian-holomorphic classes and tame symbols related to
uniformization, the dilogarithm, and the Liouville Action
17:00 - 17:30 G. Mondello
Combinatorial classes on the moduli space of curves
are tautological
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
18:00 - 18:30 S. Vacaru
Nonlinear Connection Geometry and Exact Solutions in
String Gravity
18:30 - 19:00 K. O. Ozansoy
Geometric formulation of quantum mechanics
19:00  Registration
20:00  Reception
 
July 18 · Friday
 
09:00 - 10:00 T. Gannon
Boundary Conformal Field Theory, Fusion Ring
Representations and Strings - II
10:00 - 11:00 E. Sharpe
D-branes and Sheaves - I
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 M. Mariño
Chern-Simons Theory and Enumerative Geometry - II
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:30 V. Chernov
Affine linking and winding numbers and the study of
front propagation
15:30 - 16:00 A. Mikovic
Spin Foam Models of String Theory
16:30 - 17:00 P. Pinto
Fusion of sufferable modular invariant partition functions
17:00 - 17:30 A. Misra
("Barely")G_2 Manifolds, (Orientifolds of) a compact
Calabi-Yau and nonperturbative N=1 Superpotentials
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
18:00 - 18:30 E. Scheidegger
D4-branes on toric Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces
18:30 - 19:00 P. Grange
Star-products and open-string actions beyond the large-B limit
20:00  Conference Dinner at "Telégrapho", the restaurant of Palácio da Bolsa.
 
July 19 · Saturday
 
09:00 - 10:00 A. Klemm
Mirror Symmetry and the Topological String - II
10:00 - 11:00 E. Sharpe
D-branes and Sheaves - II
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 T. Gannon
Boundary Conformal Field Theory, Fusion Ring
Representations and Strings - III
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
 
July 20 · Sunday
 
09:00 - 10:00 E. Sharpe
D-branes and Sheaves - III
10:00 - 11:00 M. Mariño
Chern-Simons Theory and Enumerative Geometry - III
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:30 A. Klemm
Mirror Symmetry and the Topological String - III
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:30 J. Bertin
Coverings of algebraic curves, stacks, and
Gromov Witten invariants
15:30 - 16:00 V. Marenitch
Note on geometry of twistor spaces
16:30 - 17:00 R. Vila Freyer
Asymptotic Holonomy