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


 
9:15 - 10:05 de Wit Hyperkähler cones and quaternion-Kähler geometry
10:10 - 11:00 Swann Torsion and the Einstein equations
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee
11.35 - 12:25 Alekseevsky A twistor construction of Kähler submanifolds of a quaternionic Kähler manifold
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:20 Friedrich Geometric structures with skew-symmetric torsion tensor and string theory
15:25 - 16:15 Baum Special spinor fields on Lorentzian manifolds
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee
16:50 - 17:40 Bär Surgery and the spectrum of the Dirac operator


 

Monday, 10th September


 
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
11.35 - 12:25 Louis Aspects of spontaneous N=2 -> N=1 Supersymmetry breaking in Supergravity and String Theory
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
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
16:50 - 17:40 Klemm The geometry behind N=1 supersymmetric theories in four dimensions


 

Tuesday, 11th September


 
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
11.35 - 12:25 Zhiqin Lu Gradient estimates and special Kähler geometry
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
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
16:50 - 17:40 Devchand Yang-Mills fields on manifolds with Grassmann structure

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