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SCSHGAP23: Physics and Special Holonomy
(March 13, 2023 - March 17, 2023)
Coordinators: Bobby Acharya (ICTP & King's College London), Max Hubner (University of Pennsylvania), Dave Morrison (UCSB), and Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford)

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Conference Overview | Announcement by the Simons Foundation | Talks

Monday, March 13, 2023

8:50am Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome[Video]
9:00am Constantin Teleman (Berkeley) Introduction to topological symmetries and higher groups[Video]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Lakshya Bhardwaj (Oxford Univ.) Overview of Generalized Symmetries[Video]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Fabio Apruzzi (Padua Univ.) Generalized symmetries from string theory[Video]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm All Participants Discussion Session
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

9:00am Federico Bonetti (Durham Univ.) SymTFTs, Differential Cohomology, and Geometric Engineering[Video]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Ling Lin (Oxford Univ.) K3s at the intersection of Special Holonomy, Generalized Symmetries, and the Swampland[Video]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Yuuji Tanaka (Kyoto Univ.) A blowup formula for sheaf-theoretic virtual enumerative invariants on projective surfaces and its applications
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm All Participants Discussion Session
5:30pm

RECEPTION

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

9:00am Lorenzo Foscolo (Univ. College London) Hypertoric varieties, W-Hilbert schemes and Coulomb branches[Video]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Andreas Braun (Durham University) Geometrizing Domain Walls in 5D SCFTs[Embargoed]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Max Hübner (Univ. of Pennsylvania) SCFT Interfaces from G2 Orbifolds[Video]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Jingxiang Wu (Oxford Univ.) 3-manifolds and modular tensor categories[Embargoed]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, March 16, 2023

9:00am Tristan Collins (MIT) Some aspects of Sasaki-Einstein geometry and AdS/CFT[Video]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Saman Habibi Esfahani (Duke Univ.) Towards a Monopole Fueter Floer Homology[Video]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Song Sun (UC Berkeley) Singularity formations in Kahler geometry[Video]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Jason Lotay (Oxford Univ.) Geometric flows and special holonomy: past, present and future[Video]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

Friday, March 17, 2023

9:00am Dominic Joyce (Oxford Univ.)
via Zoom
Enumerative invariants: what we did, and where to go next[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am Thomas Walpuski (Humboldt University of Berlin)
via Zoom
Progress and open problems around associative submanifolds[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Bobby Acharya (ICTP & King's College London) Progress and open problems in the physics of special holonomy spaces[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am Mark Haskins (Duke Univ.) Progress and open problems in the construction of G2 holonomy metrics[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm

CONFERENCE END-SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location (See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY TO SIGN UP)

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