Timetable for
1st Odense Winter School on
Geometry and Theoretical Physics

University of Southern Denmark
Sunday 6th to Sunday 13th January, 2008

All talks take place at Dalum Landbrugsskole, Odense.

Summary

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
09:15-09:30	Henrik Pedersen
09:30-10:15	Lindström	Lindström	Cortés	DiVecchia	Bielawsky	Stoica
10:30-11:15	Lindström	Lindström	Cortés	DiVecchia	Bielawsky	Stoica
11:30-12:15	Short talks	Short talks	Short talks	Short talks	Short talks	Short talks
14:00-14:45	Ferapontov	Ferapontov	DiVecchia	Cortés	Short talk	Bielawsky
15:00-15:45	Ferapontov	Ferapontov	DiVecchia	Cortés	Zwicky	Bielawsky
16:00-16:45	Short talk	Short talk	Short talk	Zwicky	Zwicky
17:00-17:45				Zwicky

9:15-9:30 Henrik Pedersen (Dean, SDU): Welcome
9:30-10:15 & 10:30-11:15 Ulf Lindström (Uppsala): Supersymmetric non-linear sigma models and (generalized) complex geometry
11:35-12:05 Nuno Romao (Aarhus): Spectral data of singular monopoles
12:45: Lunch
14:00-14:45 & 15:00-15:45 Eugene Ferapontov (Loughborough): Geometry and integrability of multi-dimensional dispersionless systems
16:00-16:30 Eduardo Guendelman (Ben Gurion University, Israel): Child Universe Production and its impact on Quantum Gravity

9:30-10:15 & 10:30-11:15 Ulf Lindström (Uppsala): Supersymmetric non-linear sigma models and (generalized) complex geometry
11:35-12:05 Rui Pacheco (Beira, Portugal): Harmonic tori in rank one symmetric spaces
12:15: Lunch
14:00-14:45 & 15:00-15:45 Eugene Ferapontov (Loughborough): Geometry and integrability of multi-dimensional dispersionless systems
16:00-16:30 Marco Kuehnel (Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany): The Kaehler cone of complete Calabi-Yau manifolds

9:30-10:15 & 10:30-11:15 Vicente Cortés (Hamburg): Cones and pseudo-Riemannian holonomy
11:35-12:05 John Wood (Leeds): Deformations of harmonic maps
12:15: Lunch
14:00-14:45 & 15:00-15:45 Paolo di Vecchia (NORDITA): A basic introduction to string theory and its application to particle phenomenology
16:00-16:30 Niels Leth Gammelgaard (Aarhus): TQFT and Hitchin's connection

9:30-10:15 & 10:30-11:15 Paolo di Vecchia (NORDITA): A basic introduction to string theory and its application to particle phenomenology
11:35-11:50 Thomas Ryttov (SDU): Beta-functions and conformal windows
11:55-12:10 Mads Frandsen (SDU): Non-linear sigma-models and dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking
12:15: Lunch
14:00-14:45 & 15:00-15:45 Vicente Cortés (Hamburg): Cones and pseudo-Riemannian holonomy
16:00-16:45 & 17:00-17:30 Roman Zwicky (Durham): Unparticles

9:30-10:15 & 10:30-11:15 Roger Bielawski (Leeds): Magnetic monopoles, L²-metrics and L²-cohomology
11:35-12:05 Guillermo Horcajada Reales (Compultense, Madrid): Quantization of the open string on a non-singular pp-wave background and non-conmutativity
12:45: Lunch
14:15-14:45 Andriy Haydys (Bielefeld): HyperKahler and quaternionic Kahler manifolds with S1-symmetries
15:00-15:45 & 16:00-17:00 Roman Zwicky (Durham): Unparticles
18:00: Conference dinner

9:30-10:15 & 10:30-11:15 Florea Stoica (Imperial): Introduction to Cosmology and Brane Inflation
11:35-12:05 Erik Jan de Vries (Heriot-Watt): Supersymmetric quantum mechanics of magnetic monopoles
12:15: Lunch
14:00-14:45 & 15:00-15:45 Roger Bielawski (Leeds): Magnetic monopoles, L²-metrics and L²-cohomology