The workshop will feature two minicourses, research lectures and mentoring sessions on current advances in:

• moduli problems and wall crossing phenomena in algebraic and symplectic geometry
• special geometry and superpotentials
• free energy functions and computations of quantum invariants
• mathematical aspects of string phenomenology, heterotic and F-theory model building
• homological and Hodge theoretic aspects of mirror symmetry
• gauge theories and topological quantum field theory
• (0,2) string compactifications
• geometry of Painleve equations
• non-commutative geometry and dualities

The mentoring sessions will cover the following specific topics:

Week 1

• Mohammed Abouzaid
  "SYZ fibrations and Homological Mirror Symmetry"
  DRL 4C8
• Andrei Caldararu
  "Introduction to A infinity categories"
  DRL 4C6
• Emanuel Diaconescu
  "Moduli spaces and counting problems in String Theory"
  DRL 4C2
• Antonella Grassi
  "Introduction to toric geometry and geometric transitions"
  DRL 3C6
• Sheldon Katz
  "D-branes, Donaldson-Thomas invariants, and algebraic curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds"
  DRL 3C8
• Andy Neitzke
  "Mathematical applications of the Seiberg-Witten solution of N=2 theories"
  DRL 3C4
• Johannes Walcher
  "Mirror Symmetry with D-branes"
  DRL 4C4
• Katrin Wendland
  "Conformal field theory and dualities"
  DRL 3C2

Week 2

• Paul Aspinwall
  "D-branes and stability using quivers"
  DRL 4C8
• Matt Ballard
  "Triangulated categories, generators, representability and geometry"
  DRL 3C4
• Jonathan Block
  "T-duality and non-commutative geometry"
  DRL 4C6
• John Francis
  "Topological field theories"
  DRL 4C2
• Masa-Hiko Saito
  "Moduli theory of connections and Geometry of Riemann-Hilbert correspondences"
  DRL 3C6
• Michael Schulz
  "Nongeometric string theory compactifications and generalized complex geometry"
  DRL 3C2
• Eric Sharpe
  "Heterotic string compactifications and (0,2) quantum cohomology"
  DRL 4C4