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
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
Tudor Dimofte
Edward Frenkel
Matthias Gaberdiel
Nigel Hitchin
Maxim Kontsevich
Lionel Mason
Greg Moore
Horosi Ooguri
Andrei Okounkov
Rahul Pandharipande
Ashoke Sen
Matthias Staudacher
Catharina Stroppel
Richard Thomas
Anatasia Volovich
Johannes Walcher
Edward Witten
Don Zagier
Public Talk:
John Ellis: Status of LHC Search
Previous String-Math conference:
Philadelphia 2011
Planned String-Math Conferences:
Simons Center 2013, Alberta 2014
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
