Workshop on Donaldson-Thomas Invariants

March 17-20, 2005

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

Donaldson-Thomas Workshop
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
dt@math.uiuc.edu

Last modified March 15, 2005