Photo: OIST/Jeff Prine

Day 1 

7 September 2026

9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.   Hiraku Nakajima: Bow varieties and 3d mirror symmetry 1

Break 10:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.   Jianfeng Lin:  The family Seiberg-Witten invariants and diffeomorphisms on 4-manifolds 1

Lunch 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m.   Mike Miller Eismeier:  Froyshov's invariant and slice surfaces

Break 2:30 p.m. -3:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.   Takuro Mochizuki: Limiting configurations of $G$-Higgs bundles

Day 2 

8 September 2026

9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.   Clifford H. Taubes: Analysis for the Vafa-Witten equations 1

Break 10:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.   Hiraku Nakajima: Bow varieties and 3d mirror symmetry 2

Lunch 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m.   Jennifer Hom: Distinguishing exotic R^4's with Heegaard Floer homology

Break 2:30 p.m. -3:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.   Jianfeng Lin: The family Seiberg-Witten invariants and diffeomorphisms on 4-manifolds 2  

Day 3 

9 September 2026

9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.   Clifford H. Taubes: Analysis for the Vafa-Witten equations 2

Break 10:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.   Hiraku Nakajima: Bow varieties and 3d mirror symmetry 3

Lunch 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m.   Jianfeng Lin: The family Seiberg-Witten invariants and diffeomorphisms on 4-manifolds 3

Break 2:30 p.m. -3:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.   Yi-Jen Lee

Day 4 

10 September 2026

9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.   Tomas Walpuski: Z/2Z harmonic spinors: progress and open problems, I 

Break 10:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.   Aleksander Doan: Gauge theory on Eguchi-Hanson fibrations 

Lunch 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m.   Du Pei: 6d theories and 4-manifolds

Break 2:30 p.m. -3:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.   Heeyeon Kim: Partition Functions of 5d SCFTs and K-Theoretic Four-Manifold Invariants

Day 5 

11 September 2026

9:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.   Thomas Walpuski: Z/2Z harmonic spinors: progress and open problems, II

Break 10:30 a.m. -11:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.  Matthew Stoffregen:  An exact triangle in monopole Floer spectra

Lunch 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m.   Lorenzo Foscolo: Solutions to the IIA and the IIB systems

Break 2:30 p.m. -3:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.   Jason Lotay: The heterotic SU(3) moduli space

Break 4:00 p.m. -4:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m. -5:30 p.m.  (Public Lecture)   Tadashi Tokieda: A world from a sheet of paper