Mathematical Challenges in String Phenomenology
Program of the second week: 
Monday    October 13, 2008

 9.30 - 11.00	James Gray: Aspects of algorithmic algebraic geometry in string phenomenology
11.00 - 11.30	coffee break
11.30 - 13.00	Maximilian Kreuzer: The Toric toolbox: Calabi-Yau constructions and data mining

16.00 - 16.45	Andres Collinucci: D-brane Deconstructions in IIB Orientifolds
16.45 - 17.30	Volker Braun: Calabi-Yau Metrics and the Spectrum of the Laplacian
17.30 - 18.15	Andre Lukas: Stringvacua and Algebraic Geometry: an algorithmic approach

Tuesday   October 14, 2008

 9.30 - 11.00	Alessandro Tomasiello: Supersymmetric flux vacua in string theory (and their CFT duals)
11.00 - 11.30	coffee break
11.30 - 12.30	Manfred Herbst: On matrix factorizations of complete intersections

14.00 - 15.00	Dimitry Orlov: On Derived category of Singularities
15.15 - 16.15	Emanuel Scheidegger: Towards Open String Mirror Symmetry for Compact Calabi-Yau Hypersurfaces
16.30 		Discussion 

Homological Mirror Symmetry and applications
Informal workshop (with A. Kapustin, L. Katzarkov, V. Prizhalkovskii, D. Orlov)
Wednesday October 15, 2008

11.15 - 12.15	M. Kreuzer: Conifold transitions and Mirror Symmetry

14.00 - 15.00	D. Orlov: Spectrum of a category
16.00 - 17.00	A. Kapustin: TBA

Thursday  October 16, 2008

10.00 - 11.00	V, Golyshev: On quantum motives
11.30 - 12.30	A. Iliev: Fano threefolds, cubics and algebraic integrable systems

14.00 - 15.00	A. Kapustin: TBA
15.30 - 16.30	V. Prizhalkovskii: On Landau Ginzburg Models of Fanos
16.45		Discussion

Friday    October 17, 2008

10.00 - 11.00	H. Iritani: Integral and integral structures in toric quantum cohomology I
11.30 - 12.30	V. Golyshev: How to discover Fano varieties

14.00 - 15.00	A. Kapustin: TBA
15.30 - 16.30	A. Iliev: Cubics, integrable systems, and varieties of type Fano-Calabi-Yau
16.45 - 17.45	A. Corti: On the quartic threefold

Saturday  October 18, 2008

11.00 - 12.00	L. Katzarkov: Conic bundles old and new
12.00 - 13.00	H. Iritani: Integral and integral structures in toric quantum cohomology II

14.30 - 15.30	C. Doran, Algebraic Cycles and Homological Mirror Symmetry
15.30 		Discussion

Sunday  October 19, 2008

11.00 - 12.00	C, Doran, TBA
12.30 		Discussion