Workshop on Geometry and Mathematical Physics

(including the Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium)

30 November - 1 December, 2012

Room 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Abstracts (in PDF format)

Morning Session, Friday, 30 November
10:00 - 11:00	Peter Bouwknegt (Australian National University, Canberra) On the K-theory classification of topological states of matter
11:15 - 12:15	Xinwen Zhu (Northwestern University, Evanston and HKUST, Hong Kong) Hitchin fibrations and Langlands duality
Lunch
Afternoon Session, Friday, 30 November
14:30 - 15:30	Mathai Varghese (University of Adelaide, Adelaide) New deformations of geometric elliptic complexes
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:05	Man Ho Ho (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) A condensed proof of the Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem in differential K-theory
Workshop Dinner
Morning Session (Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium), Saturday, 1 December
10:00 - 10:05	Ngaiming Mok (Director, Institute of Mathematical Research, HKU) Remarks
10:05 - 11:05	Xiaochun Rong (Capital Normal University, Beijing and Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Continuity of extremal transitions and flops for Calabi-Yau manifolds
Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20	James Fullwood (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) On topological invariants of elliptic fibrations
Lunch

Organizer: Siye Wu