Announcement:

" D-branes and Mirror Symmetry "

Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences

February/5-February/8, 2002.

In recent developments in superstring theory D-branes and mirror symmetry have played significant roles and it turned out that it is important to have close communications with related developments in mathematics.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity of communications between string theorists and mathematicians and to discuss prospects of future developments.

[Outside Invited Speakers]

• Paul S. Aspinwall (Duke) : D-branes on Calabi-Yau three-folds
• Kentaro Hori (Harvard) : D-brane and mirror symmetry
• Dominic Joyce (Oxford) : Singularities of special Lagrangian and SYZ conjecture

[Domestic Invited Speakers]

• Tohru Eguchi (Univ. of Tokyo) : Seiberg-Witten curve for E-string theory
• Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto) : TBA
• Ryushi Goto (Osaka) : TBA
• Yukari Ito (Tokyo Metro. Univ) : G-Hilbert schemes and Gr\"obner basis
• Toshio Nakatsu (Osaka) : TBA
• Hiroshi Ohta (Nagoya) : From Lagrangian submanifold to A_{\infty} algebra
• Kyoji Saito (RIMS) : Highest integrable representations of an elliptic algebra
• Tadashi Takayanagi (Univ. of Tokyo) : D-branes in Melvin background
• Yukinori Yasui (Osaka City Univ.) : Cohomogeneity one metric with Spin(7) holonomy
  

[Date and Place]

Date:
From 5(Tues) to 8(Fri) of February, 2002

Place:
At Auditorium (Room 420) in Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

You can find an information of access to RIMS at
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kenkyubu/map/e-map.html

[Schedule]

Date	Morning (I)	Morning (II)	Afternoon (I)	Afternoon (II)
5 Feb.	no talk	no talk	Aspinwall	Goto
6 Feb.	Joyce (part 1)	Nakatsu	Ito	Yasui
7 Feb.	Hori (part 1)	Takayanagi	Ohta	Joyce (part 2)
8 Feb.	Fukaya	Eguchi	Hori (part 2)	Saito

[Organizing Committee]

T. Eguchi (Univ. of Tokyo), K. Fukaya (Kyoto), H. Kanno (Nagoya),

T. Kawai (RIMS), H. Nakajima (Kyoto), K. Saito (RIMS)