Summer School in Enumerative Geometry in Trieste - First announcement

[beorchia at units.it]

It is a pleasure to announce the school:

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                   SSiEG  -   Summer School in Enumerative Geometry

                                    Trieste,

                                July 3 - 7 2017.

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INVITED LECTURERS:


Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu   -  Columbia University

Course title: Gromov-Witten invariants, Fan-Jarvis-Ruan-Witten  
invariants, and Mixed-Spin-P fields


Cristina Manolache - Imperial College London

Course title: Boundary contributions to enumerative invariants


General description and aims of the school:

Gromov-Witten invariants, which "count" curves (with appropriate extra  
conditions) on smooth projective varieties, were introduced more than  
two decades ago; motivated by high energy physics, they ended up  
revolutionising enumerative algebraic geometry and provided a bridge  
to other branches of mathematics, such as integrable systems of  
differential equations.

Since then, their scope has been expanded in different directions  
(e.g. relaxing the smoothness conditions, replacing the variety by a  
stack, allowing torus actions), and techniques have been introduced  
for their computation; moreover, a plethora of other invariants using  
the same basic ideas has been introduced, leading to fruitful  
investigations on the relationships among them.

The aim of this school is to bring doctoral students, postdocs, and  
anyone interested from a review of the basic construction to current,  
state-of-the art research in this field, with a special focus on  
invariants for Calabi-Yau threefolds, the richest example both in  
algebraic geometry and in physics. Many important questions about  
these varieties are still unanswered, such as giving a mathematically  
rigorous definition of the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants (at the moment  
only available in the language of theoretical physics).

To maximise learning, the school will be very focused, with five  
lectures each from the two invited lecturers as well as afternoon  
tutoring sessions. A detailed program will be made available on the  
course website http://people.sissa.it/~aborale/ssieg/homessieg.html
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This school is part of an ongoing series to support
the participation of women in Mathematical Research.

Partial support will be available for a limited number of participants.
Women are expressly encouraged to apply.
Deadline for funding request: March 15th 2017

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There will be the possibility for short contributed talks.
The deadline for sending a talk proposal is March 15th 2017.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:


     Valentina Beorchia, Trieste
     Ada Boralevi, Sissa Trieste
     Barbara Fantechi, Sissa Trieste

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The conference will start on Monday 3rd July 2017, in the morning, and end
on Friday 7th July 2017 at lunch time.

Application deadline: May 31st 2017

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To register, apply for fundings, and to send a talk proposal, write an  
email to:

           SSiEG2017 at gmail.com

The School website is http://people.sissa.it/~aborale/ssieg/homessieg.html
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Valentina Beorchia, PhD
Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze
Universita' degli Studi di Trieste
Via Valerio 12/1
34127 Trieste, Italia

Stanza 236, II piano
e-mail: beorchia at units.it
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