Workshop on Geometry

(including the Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium)

 

November 26, 2011

Room 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

 

 Abstracts (in PDF format)

Morning Schedule       (Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium)

 

10:00 - 11:00

Variety of minimal rational tangents of codimension 1

Jun-Muk Hwang (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea)

Tea / Coffee break

11:20 - 12:20

The scalar curvature flow

Xingwang Xu (National University of Singapore)

Lunch Break

 

 

Afternoon Schedule

 

 

14:00 - 15:00

 

Symplectic and complex geometry of G ¡Ñ h

Meng-Kiat Chuah (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu)

15:10 - 16:10

Degeneration technique in local Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas invariants

Jianxun Hu (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou)

Tea / Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30

Geometry of D-branes and twisted index theorem
Bai-Ling Wang (Australian National University, Canberra)

 

 

Organizers: Ngaiming Mok and Siye Wu