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