University of California
Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry
Santa Barbara
July 21-24, 1999
SCHEDULE
All lectures will be held in the Main Seminar Room of the Institute for Theoretical
Physics, Kohn Hall
JULY 21, WEDNESDAY
8:30-9:25 am Registration in ITP Lobby (and continue throughout the meeting)
9:25-9:30 am Welcoming Remarks
9:30-10:30 am R. Stern, UC Irvine
Title: Symplectic and Lagrangian surfaces in a fixed homology class
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 am K. Liu, Stanford
Title: Mirror Principle for Balloon Manifolds
Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm J. Li, Stanford
Title: Virtual moduli cycles
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 pm Y. Eliashberg, Stanford
Title: Introduction to Symplectic Field Theory
4:30-6:30 pm Wine and Cheese Reception at the ITP Lawn
JULY 22, THURSDAY
9:00-10:00 am J.-M. Bismut, Paris Sud
Title: Equivariant holomorphic torsions
10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 am R. Cohen, Stanford
Title: Stability for rational curves in
symplectic manifolds
Afternoon: Outing---hiking or sailing to Santa Cruz Island
JULY 23, FRIDAY
9:00-10:00 am D. Phong, Columbia
Title: Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Calogero-Moser systems
10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 am G. Segal, Cambridge
Title: Conformal field theory and non-cummutative
geometry
Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm K. Fukaya, Kyoto
Title: Floer homology and Gromov-Witten invariant over \Z
of general symplectic manifolds
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 pm D. McDuff, Stony Brook
Title: The quantum homology of fibrations over S^2
Conference Banquet: 6:30pm at China Castle
JULY 24, SATURDAY
9:00-10:00 am C. Taubes, Harvard
Title: 4-manifolds with inequivalent symplectic forms
10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 am D. Morrison, Duke
Title: Anomalies and the Euler characteristic of elliptic
Calabi-Yau threefolds