Latest update: Mar 12, 2025

MIST 2025 Workshop
1. Schubert calculus and related topics
2. 2D & 3D Mirror Symmetry
(March 12 - 18, 2025)

Venue:5/F, Academic Building No. 1 , The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Organizers:Michael MCBREEN (CUHK), Leonardo C. MIHALCEA (Virginia Tech, USA), Conan LEUNG (CUHK), Changzheng LI (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Speakers:Yalong CAO (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Lorenzo FOSCOLO (University College London, UK)
Long GUO (Nankai University, China)
Babak HAGHIGHAT (Tsinghua University, China)
Elana KALASHNIKOV (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Syu KATO (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hitoshi KONNO (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan)
Takafumi KOUNO (Waseda University, Japan)
Eddie LAM (CUHK, Hong Kong)
Si LI (Tsinghua University, China)
Eric MARBERG (HKUST, Hong Kong)
James PASCALEFF (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Konstanze RIETSCH (King's College London, UK)
Mark SHIMOZONO (Virginia Tech, USA)
Nicolo SIBILLA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy)
Lauren K. WILLIAMS (Harvard University, USA)
Philsang YOO (Seoul National University, Korea)
Alexander YONG (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Partially supported:GS Charity Foundation Limited (旭日慈善基金有限公司)
S. T. Yau Foundation for Mathematical Research and Development Limited (丘成桐數學研究與發展基金會有限公司)

Program:
Mar 12, 2025 (Wednesday)
09:00 am - 09:30 amAB1 502aOpening ceremony and welcoming reception

09:30 am - 10:30 amAB1 501aAlexander YONG
Bicrystalline ideals
AB1 502aBabak HAGHIGHAT
Foams and KZ-equations in Rozansky-Witten theories

10:30 am - 11:00 amAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

11:00 am - 12:00 noonAB1 501aSyu KATO
Higher level BGG reciprocity for current algebras
AB1 502aNicolo SIBILLA
Elliptic cohomology and mapping stacks

12:30 pmLunch

02:30 pm - 03:30 pmAB1 501a & 502aDiscussion sessions

03:30 pm - 04:00 pmAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

04:00 pm - 04:30 pm501a & 502aDiscussion sessions

06:00 pmDinner

Mar 13, 2025 (Thursday)
09:30 am - 10:30 amAB1 501aMark SHIMOZONO
Divided difference definition for double k-Schur functions
AB1 502aLorenzo FOSCOLO
Hypertoric varieties, W-Hilbert schemes and QALF hyperkähler metrics of dihedral type

10:30 am - 11:00 amAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

11:00 am - 12:00 noonAB1 501aEric MARBERG
Extensions in type A of a formula of Brion to K-theory
AB1 502aEddie LAM
Coulomb Branch and Shift Operators

12:30 pmLunch

02:30 pm - 03:30 pm502aDiscussion sessions

03:30 pm - 04:00 pmAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

04:00 pm - 04:30 pm502aDiscussion sessions

06:00 pmDinner

Mar 14, 2025 (Friday)Excursion day

Mar 15, 2025 (Saturday)Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
09:30 am - 10:30 amAB1 G03Konstanze RIETSCH
A tropical Edrei Theorem
10:30 am - 11:00 amAB1 5B LobbyTea reception
11:00 am - 12:00 noonAB1 G03James PASCALEFF
Toward Higher Fukaya Categories

12:30 pmLunch

03:00 pm - 04:00 pmAB1 502aHitoshi KONNO
Elliptic Quantum Groups and Geometry of Quiver Varieties

Mar 16, 2025 (Sunday)Free discussion

Mar 17, 2025 (Monday)
09:30 am - 10:30 amAB1 501aLauren K. WILLIAMS
Mirror symmetry for the Grassmannian and its Schubert varieties
AB1 502aTBA

10:30 am - 11:00 amAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

11:00 am - 12:00 noonAB1 501aElana KALASHNIKOV
The Abelian/non-Abelian correspondence and Littlewood-Richardson rules for two-step flags
AB1 502aPhilsang YOO
Aspects of Topological Strings

12:30 pmLunch

02:30 pm - 03:30 pmAB1 501a & 502aDiscussion sessions

03:30 pm - 04:00 pmAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

04:00 pm - 04:30 pmAB1 501a & 502aDiscussion sessions

06:30 pmBanquet

Mar 18, 2025 (Tuesday)
09:30 am - 10:30 amAB1 501aLong GUO
The many facets of Schubert polynomials
AB1 502aYalong CAO
Critical pullback in K-theory

10:30 am - 11:00 amAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

11:00 am - 12:00 noonAB1 501aTakafumi KOUNO
Borel-type presentation of the torus-equivariant quantum K-ring of the flag manifold in type C and its application
AB1 502aSi LI
Stochastic Process and Noncommutive Geometry

12:30 pmLunch

02:30 pm - 03:30 pmAB1 501a & 502aDiscussion sessions

03:30 pm - 04:00 pmAB1 5B LobbyTea reception

04:00 pm - 04:30 pmAB1 501a & 502aDiscussion sessions

Direction:Please click here

Registration Fee:$3200 (only accept cash in HKD)

Enquiry: mist@ims.cuhk.edu.hk

~~~ All are Welcome ~~~


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