ESI Workshop on

Mathematical and Physical Aspects
of Branes in Calabi-Yau Spaces

ESI, Vienna April 29 - May 11, 2004

Program

Thursday, April 29
11:00	K. Wendland	On degeneration phenomena in geometry and conformal field theory I
14:30	P. West	Symmetries of M-theory I
16:00	P. West	Symmetries of M-theory II

Friday, April 30
11:00	K. Wendland	On degeneration phenomena in geometry and conformal field theory II
16:00	A. Kapustin	Topological D-branes I

Monday, May 3
11:00	A. Kapustin	Topological D-branes II
14:30	K. Wendland	On degeneration phenomena in geometry and conformal field theory III
16:00	P. Kaste	Generalised discrete torsion and mirror symmetry for G₂ manifolds

Tuesday, May 4
11:00	A. Kapustin	Topological D-branes III
14:30	B. Szendroi	Recent advances in mirror symmetry and Calabi-Yau geometry I
16:00	W. Lerche	Mirror symmetry and quantum geometry of D-branes

Wednesday, May 5
11:00	B. Szendroi	Recent advances in mirror symmetry and Calabi-Yau geometry II
14:30	A. Szenes	The mirror residue conjectures of Batyrev and Materov
16:00	A. Kapustin	Topological D-branes in LG models

Thursday, May 6
11:00	B. Szendroi	Recent mathematical advances in mirror symmetry III
16:00	R. Schimmrigk	Arithmetic geometry of bulk and boundary CFTs

Friday, May 7
11:00	P. Bouwknegt	T-duality for principal torus bundles
16:00	S. Fredenhagen	D-brane charges in Coset models

Monday, May 10
11:00	*I. Runkel ()**	An algebraic approach to conformal field theory
15:00	P. Aschieri	Gerbes and Branes I
16:30	B. Jurco	Gerbes and Branes II

Tuesday, May 11
11:00	J. Figueroa-O'Farrill	Time-dependent string backgrounds via quotients I
14:30	J. Figueroa-O'Farrill	Time-dependent string backgrounds via quotients II
15:30	coffee
16:00	E. Scheidegger	An introduction to the topological vertex

(*)= to be confirmed