Physics and Geometry of F-theory 2015

European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Registration for the conference will take place in the entrance hall of the Max Planck Institute for Physics. There is a registration session from 8:00 to 9:15 on Monday, February 23.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
9:30-10:15	Weigand	Vafa	Morrison	Schäfer-Nameki
10:15-11:00	Klevers	Yonekura	Hebecker	Palti
11:00-11:30	Coffee
11:30-12:15	Grassi	Collinucci	Cvetič	Heckman
12:15-13:00	Rühle	Savelli	Taylor	Valandro
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Coffee
14:30-15:15	Klemm	Anderson	Lukas	Martucci
15:15-16:00	Watari	Halverson	Marchesano	Mayrhofer
16:00-16:30	Coffee
16:30-17:15	Braun		Gu	Discussion
			Gu
			Valenzuela
17:15-18:00	Hayashi	Colloquium by Vafa	Valenzuela	Discussion
			Kapfer
			Kapfer
18:00-19:00	Welcome Address and Reception
19:30			Conference Dinner

Speaker	Talk
Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech University)	Fibration Structures and Duality in F-theory
Andreas Braun (King's College London)	Anatomy of Calabi-Yau Fourfolds
Andres Collinucci (Université Libre de Bruxelles)	F-theory on Singular Spaces: Local Models
Mirjam Cvetič (University of Pennsylvania)	Discrete Gauge Symmetries and Multiple Phases of M/F-theory
Antonella Grassi (University of Pennsylvania)	Geometric String Junctions in F-theory
Jie Gu (Universität Bonn)	On Non-geometric Heterotic/F-theory Duality
James Halverson (KITP Santa Barbara)	Symmetry in the Strongly Coupled Landscape
Hirotaka Hayashi (IFT Madrid)	5d SCFTs and Instanton Partition Functions
Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)	Tuning and Backreaction in F-term Axion Monodromy Inflation
Jonathan Heckman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)	All 6d SCFTs from F-theory
Andreas Kapfer (MPI)	Anomaly Cancelation from Geometric Symmetries in F-theory
Albrecht Klemm (Bonn University)	The Period Geometry of Calabi-Yau Fourfolds and Landscaping with Fluxes
Denis Klevers (CERN)	Toric and Non-toric Higgs Branches of F-theory
Andre Lukas (Oxford University)	Hypercharge Flux in Heterotic Calabi-Yau Models
Fernando Marchesano (IFT Madrid)	Yukawa Couplings at the E8 point of F-theory
Luca Martucci (University of Padova)	Warping the Kähler Potential of F-theory/IIB Flux Compactifications
Christoph Mayrhofer (LMU, Munich)	Torsion in F-Theory and its Effect on Non-Abelian Symmetries
Dave Morrison (UCSB, Santa Barbara)	What is F-theory?
Eran Palti (University of Heidelberg)	On E8 and Global F-theory GUTs
Fabian Rühle (DESY, Hamburg)	F-theory Duals of Heterotic K3 Orbifolds
Raffaele Savelli (CEA Saclay)	F-theory on Singular Spaces: Global Models
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki (King's College London)	On Singular Fibers and U(1) Symmetries
Washington Taylor (MIT)	Gauge Groups and Matter in Generic F-theory Models
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)	Reflections on F-theory
Roberto Valandro (ICTP)	U(1)s, MF and Sen Limit
Irene Valenzuela (IFT UAM/CSIC)	Candidates for Inflation in Type IIB/F-theory Flux Compactifications
Taizan Watari (IPMU, Tokyo)	Geometry of Elliptic K3 and Heterotic-F Duality
Timo Weigand (University of Heidelberg)	Torsion and Discrete Symmetries in F-theory
Kazuya Yonekura (IAS, Princeton)	Anomaly Polynomial of General 6d SCFTs

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