Geometry & Physics of Monopoles

Timetable

10.00
Coffee served at 11.00
11.30
Lunch served at 12.30
14.00 15.15
Coffee served at 16.15
Tue 24/8 Atiyah
The geometry and physics of classical particles
Weinberg
Clouds of massless monopoles
Gibbons
A Bogomolnyi equation for domain wall junctions
Hitchin
Gerbes and moment maps
Wed 25/8 Manton
Constraints on spectral curves
Yi
Classical and quantum 1/4 BPS dyons: dynamics of monopoles in misaligned vacua
Gauntlett
Branes on branes
Pauly
A twistor description of monopoles on the 3-sphere
Thu 26/8 Olive
Spin and electro-magnetic duality
Stern
Non-renormalisation and the Euler characteristic of monopole moduli spaces
Bais
Electric-magnetic symmetry and its breaking in 3 and 4 dimensions, Part I
Schroers
Electric-magnetic symmetry and its breaking in 3 and 4 dimensions, Part II
Sasakura
Moduli space dimensions of 1/4 BPS state in N=4 SYM theory
Fri 27/8 Douglas
An overview of branes and geometry
Tong
Potentials on monopole and instanton moduli spaces
Lambert
Branes, fluxes and generalised calibrations
Hitchin
L² cohomology of hyperkähler quotients
Galtsov
Sphalerons without Higgs
Sutcliffe
Monopoles and harmonic maps
         
Mon 30/8 Harvey
Tension is dimension
Cherkis
Moduli spaces of instantons on self-dual spaces, I
Goldhaber
Dual confinement of grand unified monopoles?
Houghton
Nahm data and 1/4-BPS mass
Figueroa-O'Farrill
G2-monopoles, calibrations and cohomological field theory
Tue 31/8 Murray
Bundle 1- and 2-gerbes
West
Brane dynamics and quantum field theory
Douglas
New geometries in string theory
Kapustin
Moduli spaces of instantons on self-dual spaces, II
Wed 1/9 Bak
Comments on the moduli dynamics of 1/4BPS dyons
Bielawski
Asymptotics of monopole metrics and the Sen conjecture
Nahm
Monopoles and theta-divisors
Ioannidou
Non-Bogomolnyi SU(N) BPS monopoles
Norbury
Asymptotic values of hyperbolic monopoles
Thu 2/9 Pidstrigatch
Invariants of smooth 4-dimensional manifolds
Dancer
Einstein manifolds with large symmetry groups
Kraan
Calorons and monopoles
Mason
A Hyperkaehler hierarchy and solutions with higher symmetries
Fri 3/9 Discussion session Discussion session

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