Algebraic and Differential Geometry Conference: Agenda
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton,
Agenda
Algebraic and Differential Geometry, A Conference in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Phillip Griffiths
October 16-17, 2008
Organizer:
Mark Green, UCLA
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Messages for workshop guests may be left by calling (609) 734-8100 and will be placed on the bulletin board in Simonyi Hall.
All talks will be held in Simonyi Hall.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), Exploring the Hodge Problem
11:30 am - 12:30 James Carlson (Clay Mathematics Institute), Cubic Surfaces: Speculations on Hodge and Galois Theory
12:30 pm - 2:30 Lunch, Dining Hall
2:30 pm - 3:30 Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania), Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Geometric Langlands
3:30 pm - 4:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
4:00pm - 5:00 Joseph Harris (Harvard University), Brill-Noether Theory
Friday, October 17, 2008
10:00 am - 11:00 Robert Bryant (MSRI), Involutive Rational Normal Structures
11:30 am - 12:30 Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin), Twistors, Orthogonal Complex Structures and the Six-Quadric
12:30 pm - 2:30 Lunch, Dining Hall
2:30 pm - 3:30 Matthew Kerr (Durham University), Limits of Normal Functions
3:30 pm - 4:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
4:00 pm - 5:00 David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), The Abel-Jacobi Map and String Theory