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Host: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Sponsor: INI, CMI
Email: info@newton.cam.ac.uk
Organizers: Alessio Corti (Cambridge), Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam), Michael Douglas (Rutgers/IHES), Jerome Gauntlett (London), Mark Gross (Warwick), Chris Hull (London), Arthur Jaffe (Harvard), Miles Reid (Warwick)
Description:
The topics that will be covered are the following: Orbifolds and McKay correspondence,
Calabi-Yau 3 folds and mirror symmetry, hyperKähler and other geometries based on special holonomy,
and applications of these to the study of supersymmetric compactifications and brane configurations in
string/M theory
Mail Address:
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH, U.K. Tel.: +44 1223 335999, Fax.: +44 1223 330508
Date received: November 20, 2001
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