Photo courtesy of Prof Yoshihiro Ohnita.

This was the 18th UK-Japan Winter School in Mathematics, and brought together researchers in symplectic geometry, mirror symmetry, calibrated submanifolds and geometric analysis.

Organisation

Wednesday to Friday: Talks were held at University College London in the Roberts Building G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre. Coffee and registration were held in the foyer of the Roberts Building, just outside the lecture theatre. The reception on Thursday evening was in the Wilkins Garden Room

Saturday: Talks were held at University College London in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre.

Timetable and titles/abstracts

About the conference

The topic this year was the interface between symplectic topology and geometric analysis, including mirror symmetry and calibrated submanifolds. The winter school provides a forum for both young and established researchers, particularly from the UK and Japan, to meet, exchange ideas and to learn about current developments in an active area of mathematics from leading experts in the field.

There were three minicourses, a variety of research talks and a poster session for PhD students to present their work.

List of speakers

• —  D. Joyce (minicourse speaker)
• —  A. Keating (minicourse speaker)
• —  K. Ueda (minicourse speaker)
• —  C. Bellettini
• —  S. Donaldson
• —  K. Hattori
• —  H. Iriyeh
• —  K. Krasnov
• —  Y. Lekili
• —  R. Miyaoka
• —  T. Nishinou
• —  K. Ono
• —  A. Ritter

Hotel suggestions

Charlotte Street Hotel, Crescent, Imperial, President or Strand Continental.

Scientific (organising) committee:

• —  Jonny Evans (UCL) - j.d.evans@ucl.ac.uk
• —  Akito Futaki (Tokyo) - afutaki@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• —  Jason Lotay (UCL) - j.lotay@ucl.ac.uk
• —  Reiko Miyaoka (Tohoku) - r-miyaoka@math.tohoku.ac.jp
• —  Yoshihiro Ohnita (Osaka City & OCAMI) - ohnita@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp

Standing committee for UK-Japan winter schools:

• —  Jurgen Berndt (King's College London)
• —  John Bolton (Durham University)
• —  Martin Guest (Waseda University)
• —  Yoshiaki Maeda (Keio University)

Scientific (advisory) committee:

• —  David Elworthy (University of Warwick)
• —  Yuji Ito (Keio University)
• —  Hideki Omori (Tokyo University of Science)
• —  Miles Reid (University of Warwick)
• —  Alexander Veselov (Loughborough University)

Past UK-Japan Winter Schools.

We gratefully acknowledge support and cooperation from EPSRC, the London Mathematical Society, University College London, and the Keio Core-to-Core Program