Last updated: July 1, 2004 

Program--Mirror Symmetry Conference

　

                 Place: Lecture Room A, NCTS, 4F, The 3rd General Building, National Tsing Hua University

          

           * Friday, 9 July 2004    

15:30-16:30

Opening Lecture:
Shing-Tung Yau 丘成桐 (Harvard University)

TBA 

18:00

Banquet
　 　

 

           * Saturday, 10 July 2004 

10:00-11:00

Mark Gross (UCSD and Warwick)

Affine geometry, log geometry, and mirror symmetry

11:10-12:10

John Loftin (Rutgers University Newark)

Singular Semi-Flat Calabi-Yau Metrics on S2

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Bernd Siebert (Universitaet Freiburg)

Discrete geometry in the large complex structure limit

15:00-15:30

Tea Time

15:30-16:30

Ilia Zharkov (Harvard University)
Integral Kahler affine structures at the trivalent vertex

 

           * Sunday, 11 July 2004                 

Taipei city tour

 

           * Monday, 12 July 2004    

10:00-11:00

Adrian Clingher (Stanford University)

Mathematics Underlying the F-Theory/Heterotic Duality in Eight Dimensions 

11:10-12:10

Shinobu Hosono (Graduate School of Sciences, University of Tokyo)

Central charges and cohomology-valued hypergeometric series in local
mirror symmetry

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Discussion Session

15:00-15:30

Tea Time
　 　

                                    * Tuesday, 13 July 2004

10:00-11:00

Zhiqin Lu (UC Irvine)

Hodge metrics and BCOV torsion 

11:10-12:10

Alexei Kovalev (Cambridge University)

Singular fibres of a special Lagrangian fibration of the Schoen Calabi-Yau 3-fold 

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Naichung (Conan) Leung (University of Minnesota)
Geometry of G2 manifolds

15:00-15:30

Tea Time
　 　

　

      

Special lectures in topology

                                    * Professor Dylan Thurston (Harvard University)

Monday, 12 July
15:30-16:30

Domino tilings and planar algebras generated by a 3-box

Tuesday, 13 July
15:30-16:30

How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?