Conference

Schedule.  Talks will be held in JWB 335.  Breakout sessions in rooms JWB 208, 308, 333 and LCB 215, 121. 

Tuesday May 28th

9:30am - 10:30am.  Talk, Mike Stillman, An Introduction to Calabi--Yau threefolds and Computations in Macaulay2.

Break 

11:00am - 12:00.  Talk, James Gray, Yukawa and Higher Couplings in Calabi-Yau Compactifications.

12-1:30. Lunch.

1:30 - 2:30.  Translation and interpretation session.

Break

3:00 - 5:00.  Problem session.

Wednesday May 29th

9:30am - 10:30am.  Talk, Jakob Moritz, Calabi-Yau Moduli Spaces, Mori Cones and Effective Cones.

Break 

11:00am - 12:00.   Talk, Lara Anderson, Characterizing backgrounds and geometric transitions in string compactifications.

12-1:30. Lunch.

1:30 - 2:30. Problem/translation session. 

Break

3:00 - 5:00.  Problem and computation session.

Thursday May 30th

9:30am - 10:30am.  Talk, Eric Sharpe, Yukawa couplings and generalizations of Gromov-Witten invariants. 

Break 

11:00am - 12:00.  Talk, Mina Aganagic.

12-1:30. Lunch.

1:30 - 2:30.  Talk, Rachel Webb, Manifolds from Representations of Matrix Groups.

Break

3:00 - 5:00.  Problem and computation session.