Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Workshop

Geometry and Physics of F-Theory
Heidelberg,

February 24-27, 2014
ESF MATCH HGSFP

Schedule

TimeMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursday
7:30-9:00RegistrationDeparture Organisation
9:00-10:30V. BraunMorrisonAndersonValandro
10:30-11:00Coffee BreakCoffee Break/
Poster Session
Coffee BreakCoffee Break
11:00-12:00Schafer-NamekiLukasWatariMayrhofer
12:00-13:00GrimmMarchesanoKleversGarcia-Etxebarria
13:00-14:30Lunch at IWHLunch at IWH/
Poster Session
Lunch at IWHLunch at IWH
14:30-15:30Savelli
14:30-16:00Grassi
Martucci
15:30-15:45Coffee Break
16:00-16:30Coffee Break/
Poster Session
Coffee Break
15:45-16:45A. Braun
16:30-17:30Halverson
Discussion
Poster Session
Reception
17:00-18:30 at IWH
Conference Dinner
19:00
(Restaurant Backmulde)


PDF-file of timetable avialable here.

Speakers:

Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech) "Geometric Constraints in Heterotic/F-theory Duality"
Andreas Braun (King's College, London) "Classifying Elliptic Fibrations on attractive K3 surfaces"
Volker Braun (Oxford University)"F-Theory With and Without Sections"
Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria (MPI Munich)"Towards Seiberg duality in F-theory"
Antonella Grassi (University of Pennsylvania) "Matter from geometry without resolution"
Thomas Grimm (MPI Munich) "Recent progress for F-theory effective actions”
James Halverson (KITP Santa Barbara)"Non-abelian Gauge Symmetry and the Higgs Mechanism in F-theory"
Denis Klevers (University of Pennsylvania) "Recent Progress on F-Theory with Multiple U(1)s"
Andre Lukas (Oxford)"Heterotic Line Bundle Models"
Luca Martucci (University of Padova)"Brane instantons in F-theory and the topological duality twist"
Fernando Marchesano (IFT-UAM/CSIC)"Yukawas in F-theory GUTs"
Christoph Mayrhofer (LMU, Munich)"U(1) Symmetries, SU(5)-Tops and Gauge Data from Chow groups"
Dave Morrison (UC Santa Barbara)“Affine Mac-Moody spectra and F-theory”
Raffaele Savelli (Saclay, Paris) "From M-theory higher curvature terms to α corrections in F-theory"
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki (King's College, London)"Box Graphs and Singular Fibers"
Roberto Valandro (ICTP Trieste) "Fluxes and U(1)s from stable Sen limit"
Taizan Watari (IPMU,Tokyo) "Noether-Lefschetz problem and gauge-group-resolved landscape"