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G 2 Days 2014

14--16 July 2014

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in G₂ geometry as well as in other related areas.

The main themes of the meeting will be gauge theory and topology.

The meeting will also include introductory talks for researchers interested in learning about the latest developments in this exciting subject.

Talks will take place at University College London. The workshop will start in the morning on Monday 14 July and finish at lunchtime on Wednesday 16 July.

Registration Please register in advance by sending an email to Jason Lotay.

Registration is free but places are limited so we would like to encourage early registration. We would like to particularly encourage postdocs and graduate students to attend. Limited funds to support graduate students are available, so if you are interested in these funds please mention this during registration.

Speakers

Katrin Becker (Texas A&M): The α' expansion on a compact manifold of exceptional holonomy

Robert Bryant (Duke): On G₂ and complex and almost-complex structures on 6-manifolds

Diarmuid Crowley (MPI Bonn/Aberdeen): New invariants in G₂ topology

Sebastian Goette (Freiburg): Analytic invariants of G₂ manifolds

Andriy Haydys (Bielefeld): A compactness theorem for the Seiberg-Witten equations with multiple spinors

Goncalo Oliveira (Imperial/Duke): Monopoles in G₂ manifolds

Johannes Nordström (Bath): Disconnecting the G₂ moduli space

Simon Salamon (King's): Index theory and special geometries in dimension 8 [slides]

Short talks

Olga Bogoyavlenskaya (Sobolev Institute): Complete holonomy G₂ metrics on deformations of cones over S³×S³

Diego Conti (Milano Bicocca): G₂ metrics from SO(3)-structures

Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo): Octonionic algebra structure on the moduli space of G₂ metrics

Tommaso Pacini (SNS, Pisa): A different viewpoint on Lagrangian mean curvature flow

Program

The schedule is given below.

Monday: Gauge theory	Tuesday: Topology	Wednesday: Open session
09:00 Coffee/tea, pastries and registration	09:00 Coffee/tea and pastries	09:00 Coffee/tea and pastries
09:30 Bryant	10:00 Salamon	10:00 Bogoyavlenskaya/Conti
11:00 Coffee/tea	11:00 Coffee/tea	11:00 Coffee/tea
11:30 Oliveira	11:30 Nordström	11:30 Karigiannis/Pacini
12:30 Lunch	12:30 Lunch	12:30 Close
14:00 Haydys	14:00 Crowley
15:00 Coffee/tea	15:00 Coffee/tea
15:30 Becker	15:30 Goette

Talks will all take place in the Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre at UCL (25 Gordon Street).

Morning refreshments and breaks will all be in the 5th Floor Common Room in the Mathematics Department at UCL (25 Gordon Street).

Printable (preliminary) schedule and abstracts.

Solution of Hitchin flow from SO(3) structure

Further information

Registered participants.

Please direct any enquiries to Jason Lotay.

Hotel suggestions: Charlotte Street Hotel, Crescent, Imperial, President or Strand Continental. Lower budget options are available through UCL, including Schafer House.

Local transport: Transport for London for tube and bus information and the helpful UCL Campus Route Finder.

Restaurant suggestions.

Organising committee

Imperial College London (IC)

King's College London (KCL)
Simon Salamon

University College London (UCL)
Jason Lotay

Funded by

Imperial College London, King's College London, University College London, EPSRC