Workshop on Donaldson-Thomas Invariants

March 17-20, 2005

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule of talks

Lectures will be held in 190 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB), 1101 W. Springfield
Thursday, March 17
8:45 - 9:45 a.m.

Registration
Note: registration will take place right outside the lecture hall.
9:45 -10:00 a.m. Orientation  
10 a.m. Richard Thomas
 Counting Curves
2 p.m. Andrei Okounkov Descendents in DT theory
4 p.m. Jun Li Dimension zero Donaldson-Thomas invariants for threefolds
Friday, March 18
10 a.m.

Rahul Pandharipande

 Relative DT theory
2 p.m. Mike Douglas Some questions on classifying and counting superstring vacua
4 p.m. Dominic Joyce Counting coherent sheaves on Calabi-Yau 2- and 3-folds
Saturday, March 19
10 a.m. Davesh Maulik
 A topological view of Gromov-Witten theory
2 p.m. Jim Bryan The equivariant GW/DT correspondence
4 p.m. Tom Graber A refinement of a conjecture of Ruan
Sunday, March 20
9 a.m.

Melissa Liu

 Formulae of two-partition and three-partition Hodge integrals
11 a.m. Kai Behrend Symmetric Obstruction Theories: An attempt to see Donaldson-Thomas invariants as Euler characteristics