Gauge Theories, Monopoles, Moduli Spaces and Integrable Systems. A Conference honouring Jacques Hurtubise on his 60th birthdayAugust 21-25, 2017Program |
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Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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08:30 - 08:55
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Registration and Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-330, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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08:55 - 09:00
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Welcoming addresses
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09:00 - 10:00
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Nigel J. Hitchin
(University of Oxford) The Critical Locus of the Higgs Bundle Integrable System | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen
(Aarhus University) The Verlinde Formula for Higgs Bundle Moduli Spaces | Abstract |
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11:30 - 12:30
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Oscar García-Prada
(ICMAT) Action of the Mapping Class Group on Character Varieties and Higgs Bundles | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Richard A. Wentworth
(University of Maryland) Higgs Bundles and Pleated Surfaces | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30 - 16:30
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Marcos B. Jardim
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)) Instanton Sheaves and Complex Instantons | Abstract |
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16:30 - 17:30
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Philip P. Boalch
(Université Paris-Sud) Nonabelian Hodge Spaces and Nonlinear Representation Theory | Abstract |
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17:30
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Opening reception
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Room(s) Salon Maurice-l’Abbé, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-330, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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09:00 - 10:00
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TBA
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10:00 - 11:00
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Tony Pantev
(University of Pennsylvania) BPS States, Torus Links, and Wild Character Varieties | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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11:30 - 12:30
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Frances Kirwan
(University of Oxford) Applications of Non-Reductive Geometric Invariant Theory | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Andrew Dancer
(Oxford University) Integrability and Riemannian Geometry | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30 - 16:30
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Ruxandra Moraru
(University of Waterloo) Moduli Spaces of Stable Bundles on Non-Kähler Complex Manifolds | Abstract |
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16:30 - 17:30
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Roger Bielawski
(Leibniz Universität Hannover) Hilbert Schemes, Rational Maps, and Hyperkaehler Metrics |
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-330, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Benoit Charbonneau
(University of Waterloo) Nahm Transform for Monopoles with Arbitrary Symmetry Breaking | Abstract |
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10:00 - 11:00
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Sergey Cherkis
(The University of Arizona) Yang--Mills Instantons on Gravitational Instantons: Index and Monads | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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11:30 - 12:30
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Marco Gualtieri
(University of Toronto) Holomorphic Poisson Structures and Generalized Kähler Metrics | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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William M. Goldman
(University of Maryland) Dynamics on Spaces of Flat Connections | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30 - 16:30
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Reminiscences by Malcolm Adams and Steven Shnider
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19:00
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Banquet at "Le Cercle" (HEC Montréal)
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Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-330, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Ron Donagi
(University of Pennsylvania) Hitchin's System and Geometric Langlands Conjecture | Abstract |
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10:00 - 11:00
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Eric M. Rains
(California Institute of Technology) The Noncommutative Geometry of Difference Equations | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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11:30 - 12:30
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Marco Bertola
(Concordia University Montréal, Canada & SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Symplectic Geometry of the Moduli Space of Projective Structures on Riemann Surfaces | Abstract |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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John Harnad
(Concordia University) Weighted Hurwitz Numbers and Topological Recursion | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30 - 16:30
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Christiane Rousseau
(Université de Montréal) The Geometry behind the Stokes Phenomenon | Abstract |
Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-330, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Brent Pym
(University of Edinburgh) Holonomic Poisson Manifolds | Abstract |
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10:00 - 11:00
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Charles P. Boyer
(University of New Mexico) The Kähler Geometry of Bott Manifolds | Abstract |
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11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
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11:30 - 12:30
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Indranil Biswas
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Logarithmic Connections on Principal Bundles over a Riemann Surface | Abstract |
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