"Mathematicians are like a certain type of Frenchman: when you talk
to them they translate it into their own language, and then it soon turns
into something completely different."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, On Nature and Natural Science
| Speaker | Date | Title |
| Aug 28 | Organizing meeting | |
| Javier Fernandez | Sep 25 | Introduction to Calabi-Yau manifolds |
| Javier Fernandez | Oct 2 | Introduction to Calabi-Yau manifolds II |
| Javier Fernandez | Oct 9 | Introduction to Calabi-Yau manifolds III |
| Ben McKay | Oct 16 | Exceptional holonomy I |
| Ben McKay | Oct 23 | Exceptional holonomy II |
| Katrin Becker | Oct 30 | Heterotic strings, fluxes and complex manifolds with torsion |
| Alastair Craw | Dec 4 | Kahler reduction and quiver gauge theories |
| Alastair Craw | Jan 15 | Derived categories I: introduction |
| Renzo Cavalieri | Jan 22 | Derived categories II: construction |
| Alastair Craw | Jan 29 | Derived categories III: applications |
| Fumitoshi Sato | Feb 5 | The Virasoro conjecture for Gromov-Witten invariants |
| Aaron Bertram | Feb 12 | Quantum cohomology and flat connections |
| Paul Horja | Feb 18 | Derived categories and mirror symmetry
I
Unusual day and room: LCB 215, and time: 2:30pm |
| Paul Horja | Feb 19 | Derived categories and mirror symmetry II |
| Paul Aspinwall | Feb 24 | Derived categories and D-branes
Unusual day and room: JWB 333 |
| Paul Aspinwall | Feb 26 | Derived categories and D-branes II |
| Paul Aspinwall | Feb 28 | Derived categories and D-branes III
Unusual day |
| Michael Douglas | March 14 | Dirichlet branes and mirror symmetry
Unusual day |
| Paul Green | April 16 | The Krichever-Novikov algebras as universal intertwiners for conformal field theory |
| Speaker | Date | Title |
| Aaron Bertram | Sep 19 | Classical mechanics and classical field theory |
| Aaron Bertram | Sep 26 | Classical mechanics and classical field theory II |
| Ben McKay | Oct 10 | Path integrals in quantum mechanics |
| Ben McKay | Oct 17 | Path integrals in quantum mechanics II |
| Ben McKay | Oct 24 | Problem session |
| Jim Carlson | Oct 31 | Classical electrodynamics |
| Jim Carlson | Nov 7 | Classical electrodynamics II |
| Ben McKay | Nov 14 | General relativity |
| Ben McKay | Nov 21 | General relativity II |
| Ben McKay | Nov 28 | General relativity III |
| Jim Carlson | Jan 9 | Kaluza-Klein theories |
| Jim Carlson | Jan 16 | Kaluza-Klein theories II |
| Jim Carlson | Jan 23 | Kaluza-Klein theories III |
| Javier Fernandez | Jan 30 | Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams |
| Javier Fernandez | Feb 27 | Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams II |
| Anca Mustata | Mar 6 | Introduction to string theory |
| Javier Fernandez | Mar 20 | Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams III |
| Y. P. Lee | Mar 27 | Supersymmetry and geometry |
| Anca Mustata | Apr 3 | Introduction to string theory II |
| Anca Mustata | Apr 10 | Introduction to string theory III |
| Fumitoshi Sato | Apr 17 | Vertex operator algebras |
| Anca Mustata | Apr 24 | Conformal field theory |
| Anca Mustata | Fri
May 3 |
Conformal field theory II
(N.B. unusual day) |
"The Germans, and they are not alone in this, have the gift of making
the sciences inaccessible."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years
| Aaron Bertram | Classical Mechanics and Field Theory |
| Ben McKay | Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics |
| Ben McKay | Basic General Relativity |
| Paul Ginsparg | Applied Conformal Field Theory
(from famous 1988 Les Houches Lectures) |
| Ben McKay | A list of useful references. |
"You can't teach mathematicians anything". E. Witten