Special Geometric Structures in String Theory
Programme
All lectures will take place in the "Großer Hörsaal",
Wegelerstr. 1, Mathematisches Institut, Universität Bonn
Sunday, 9th September, 2001
9:15 - 10:05 |
de Wit |
Hyperkähler cones and quaternion-Kähler geometry
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10:10 - 11:00 |
Swann |
Torsion and the Einstein equations |
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee |
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11.35 - 12:25 |
Alekseevsky |
A twistor construction of Kähler submanifolds of a quaternionic
Kähler manifold |
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch |
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14:30 - 15:20 |
Friedrich |
Geometric structures with skew-symmetric torsion tensor and string theory
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15:25 - 16:15 |
Baum |
Special spinor fields on Lorentzian manifolds |
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee |
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16:50 - 17:40 |
Bär |
Surgery and the spectrum of the Dirac operator |
Monday, 10th September, 2001
9:15 - 10:05 |
Van Proeyen |
Special geometries from real to quaternionic |
10:10 - 11:00 |
Dall'Agata |
Gauging of quaternionic isometries in supergravity theories |
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee |
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11.35 - 12:25 |
Louis |
Aspects of spontaneous N=2 -> N=1 Supersymmetry breaking
in Supergravity and String Theory |
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch |
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14:30 - 15:20 |
Papadopoulos |
Hermitian manifolds, vanishing theorems and black hole
moduli spaces |
15:25 - 16:15 |
Bergshoeff |
On non-commutative loop spaces |
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee |
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16:50 - 17:40 |
Klemm |
The geometry behind N=1 supersymmetric theories in four dimensions |
Tuesday, 11th September, 2001
9:15 - 10:05 |
Nahm |
The moduli space of CFTs on K3 |
10:10 - 11:00 |
Cortés |
Special Kähler manifolds and affine differential geometry |
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee |
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11.35 - 12:25 |
Zhiqin Lu |
Gradient estimates and special Kähler geometry |
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch |
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14:30 - 15:20 |
Baues |
Deformation spaces for affine crystallographic groups |
15:25 - 16:15 |
Figueroa-O'Farrill |
Supersymmetric solutions
to supergravity field equations |
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee |
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16:50 - 17:40 |
Devchand |
Yang-Mills fields on manifolds with Grassmann structure |