Algebraic and Differential Geometry Conference: Agenda

Institute for Advanced Study

School of Mathematics

Princeton, New Jersey

Algebraic and Differential Geometry, A Conference in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Phillip Griffiths

October 16-17, 2008

Organizer:

Mark Green, UCLA

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Messages for workshop guests may be left by calling (609) 734-8100 and will be placed on the bulletin board in Simonyi Hall.

All talks will be held in Simonyi Hall.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

10:00 am - 11:00 Herb Clemens (Ohio State University), Exploring the Hodge Problem

11:30 am - 12:30 James Carlson (Clay Mathematics Institute), Cubic Surfaces: Speculations on Hodge and Galois Theory

12:30 pm - 2:30 Lunch, Dining Hall

2:30 pm - 3:30 Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania), Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Geometric Langlands

3:30 pm - 4:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room

4:00pm - 5:00 Joseph Harris (Harvard University), Brill-Noether Theory

Friday, October 17, 2008

10:00 am - 11:00 Robert Bryant (MSRI), Involutive Rational Normal Structures

11:30 am - 12:30 Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin), Twistors, Orthogonal Complex Structures and the Six-Quadric

12:30 pm - 2:30 Lunch, Dining Hall

2:30 pm - 3:30 Matthew Kerr (Durham University), Limits of Normal Functions

3:30 pm - 4:00 Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room

4:00 pm - 5:00 David Morrison (UC Santa Barbara), The Abel-Jacobi Map and String Theory