String-Math 2012
Date: July 16 - 21, 2012
Venue: Bonn
Organizer: Sergei Gukov, Daniel Huybrechts, Hans Jockers, Albrecht Klemm, Wolfgang Lück, Hans-Peter Nilles, Catharina Stroppel, Peter Teichner, Don Zagier
Deadline to register for the conference is June 30, 2012.
The Parallel session is closed! No further applications can be accepted.
String and gauge theories in various dimensions and their duality relations have been a constant source of inspiration for mathematics over the last decades. Conjectures have been converted into theorems that underlie emerging mathematical fields. Application of new mathematical structures on the other hand is essential to understand the nature of string theory. String-Math is the annual conference that was founded to reflect the most significant progress at the interface of string theory and mathematics.
Topics include:
* Topological field - and string theory in various dimensions
* Homological mirror symmetry
* String topology
* Arithmetic of strings
* Gromov-Witten theory and enumerative geometry
* BPS state counting and Wall crossing formulas
* Geometric Langlands program
* A-twisted Landau-Ginzburg models
* Compactifications, special holonomy and special structure manifolds
* Heterotic strings, gauge bundle construction and (2,0) mirror symmetry
* Elliptic cohomology
* Large N-dualities and integrability
* Non-perturbative dualities, F-theory
* Topological T duality
* String measures
* Chiral de Rham complexes
* Noncommutative geometry
Confirmed speakers include:
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Tom Bridgeland
Sergio Cecotti
Clay Cordova
Tudor Dimofte
Ron Donagi
Edward Frenkel
Hiroyuki Fuji
Matthias Gaberdiel
Nigel Hitchin
Joel Kamnitzer
Maxim Kontsevich
Lionel Mason
Greg Moore
Horosi Ooguri
Andrei Okounkov
Rahul Pandharipande
Sara Pasquetti
Leonardo Rastelli
Ashoke Sen
Samson Shatashvili
Vivek Shende
Nicolas Sheridan
Matthias Staudacher
Catharina Stroppel
Jörg Teschner
Richard Thomas
Alessandro Torrielli
Anatasia Volovich
Johannes Walcher
Katrin Wendland
Edward Witten
Don Zagier
Public Talk:
Christophe Grojean - Quo Vadis LHC?
Thursday 19, 18:20, Wolfgang-Paul-Hörsaal, Kreuzbergweg 28
Previous String-Math conference:
Philadelphia 2011
Planned String-Math Conferences:
Simons Center, June 17-22, 2013
Alberta 2014
SMC 2014 on June 9-13, 2014, University of Alberta
Steering Committee:
Dan Freed, Nigel Hitchin, Maxim Kontsevich, David Morrison, Karen Uhlenbeck, Edward Witten, Shing-Tung Yau
International Advisory Board:
Mina Aganagic, Michael Atiyah, Niklas Beisert, Alexander Braverman, Kathrin Bringmann, Ilka Brunner, Kevin Costello, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Ron Donagi, Michael Douglas, Tohru Eguchi, Jörg Fröhlich, Jerome Gauntlett, Rajesh Gopakumar, Matthias Gaberdiel, Chris Hull, Wolfgang Lerche, Sheldon Katz, Juan Maldacena, Marcos Marino, Varghese Matthai, Peter Mayr, Greg Moore, Werner Nahm, Nikita Nekrasov, Hermann Nicolai, Rahul Pandharipande, Tony Pantev, Yongbin Ruan, Ingo Runkel, Jake Salomon, Volker Schomerus, Christoph Schweigert, Ashoke Sen, Eric Sharpe, Samson Shatashvili, Bernd Siebert, Alessandro Tanzini, Jörg Teschner, Stefan Theisen, Richard Thomas, Johannes Walcher, Katrin Wendland, Cumrun Vafa, Shing-Tung Yau, Eric Zaslow
