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Schedule for: 17w5149 - The Analysis of Gauge-Theoretic Moduli Spaces

Beginning on Sunday, August 27 and ending Friday September 1, 2017

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, August 27
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, August 28
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:30 - 08:40 Introduction by the BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
08:40 - 09:30 Jacques Hurtubise: Algebraic geometry of instantons over a Taub-NUT manifold (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:30 Hiraku Nakajima: Cherkis bow varieties and affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:00 Interaction/Collaboration Period (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:50 Frédéric Rochon: New examples of complete Calabi-Yau metrics on \mathbb{C}^n for n\ge 3 (TCPL 201)
14:50 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:20 Andriy Haydys: On limits of the Seiberg-Witten monopoles with two spinors (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:20 Lorenzo Foscolo: Non-compact G2-manifolds from asymptotically conical Calabi-Yau 3-folds (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, August 29
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:30 - 09:20 Jan Swoboda: The large-scale geometry of Higgs bundle moduli spaces (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:20 Laura Fredrickson: The ends of the Hitchin moduli space in higher rank (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:00 Interaction/Collaboration Period (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:20 Mark Stern: Monotonicity and Betti Number Bounds (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 14:50 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
14:50 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:20 Sergey Cherkis: Instantons, Bows, and Gauge Theory Mirror Symmetry (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:20 Amihay Hanany: Coulomb branch, Higgs branch, and minimally unbalanced quivers (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, August 30
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:30 - 08:55 Georgios Kydonakis: A gluing construction for maximal \text{Sp(4}\text{,}\mathbb{R}\text{)}-Higgs bundles. (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:25 Siqi He: The Extended Bogomolny Equations, Knot Singularites and SL(2,R) Higgs bundle (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:20 Katrin Wendland: Hodge Elliptic Genera (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:50 Roger Bielawski: Basu-Harvey-Terashima equations and double covers of spectral curves (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, August 31
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:30 - 09:20 Michael Singer: Corners of the monopole moduli space (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:20 Andy Royston: Holography for Yang--Mills solitons (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:00 Interaction/Collaboration Period (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:20 Nicholas Manton: Vortices and Cones (TCPL 201)
14:20 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:20 Steven Rayan: Asymptotics of hyperpolygons (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:20 Xuwen Zhu: Deformation theory of constant curvature conical metrics (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, September 1
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:50 Laura Schaposnik: On Cayley and Langlands type correspondences for Higgs bundles (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:50 Steve Bradlow: Exotic components of surface group representation varieties, and their Higgs bundle avatars (TCPL 201)
10:50 - 11:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)