Quivers, Clusters, Moduli and Stability

9th–13th January 2023, University of Oxford


Main Venue Participants Program Abstracts Getting Here

“Quivers, Clusters, Moduli and Stability” Program

All talks are in Mathematical Institute/Lecture Theatre L2


Mon 9th January


10:00 – 11:30           Registration

11:30 – 12:30           Gregory Sankaran (Bath)
                                 “Abelian surfaces, a famous list of primes and no group theory”

14:15 – 15:15           Alexandra Zvonareva (Stuttgart)
                                 “Derived equivalences of Brauer graph algebras and the action of spherical twists”

15:45 – 16:45           Sibylle Schroll (Cologne) (online)
                                 “Braid group actions on branched coverings and full exceptional sequences”

17:00 – 18:00           Markus Reineke (Bochum)
                                 “Some questions on quiver moduli”


Tue 10th January


10:00 – 11:00           Dominic Joyce (Oxford)
                                 “The structure of invariants counting coherent sheaves on complex surfaces”
                                  Slides (PDF)

11:30 – 12:30           Richard Thomas (Imperial)
                                 “Counting sheaves and representations of CY4 quivers”
                                  Slides (PDF)


12:30 – 14:15           Lunch

14:15 – 15:15           Luis Álvarez-Cónsul (ICMAT, Madrid)
                                 “Embedding superconformal vertex algebras from Killing spinors and \((0,2)\) mirror symmetry”

15:45 – 16:45           Oscar García-Prada (ICMAT, Madrid)
                                 “Vinberg pairs and Higgs bundles”

17:00 – 18:00           Tom Bridgeland (Sheffield)
                                 “Clusters and twistors”


Wed 11th January


10:00 – 11:00           Katrin Wendland (Trinity College Dublin)
                                 “An application of folding ADE to BCFG”

11:30 – 12:30           Wolfgang Schief (New South Wales)
                                 “Clifford lattices and a conformal generalization of Desargues’ theorem”


12:30 – 14:15           Lunch

14:15 – 15:15           Konstanze Rietsch (King’s College London)
                                 “Tropical Edrei theorem”

15:45 – 16:45           Yang-Hui He (London Institute for Mathematical Sciences)
                                 “Machine-learning algebraic geometry”
                                  Slides (PDF)

17:00 – 18:00           Amihay Hanany (Imperial)
                                 “Branes and Quivers”


19:00 –  . . . .            Conference Dinner at Mansfield College


Thu 12th January


10:00 – 11:00           Xiuping Su (Bath)
                                 “Grassmannian cluster category and mirror symmetry”

11:30 – 12:30           Michael Wemyss (Glasgow)
                                 “Spherical objects in dimension 2 and 3”


12:30 – 14:15           Lunch

14:15 – 15:15           Bernhard Keller (Paris) (online)
                                 “The blue vs. red game and applications”

15:45 – 16:45           Alastair Craw (Bath)
                                 “Birational geometry of quiver varieties”

17:00 – 18:00           Miles Reid (Warwick)
                                 “Remarks on the Tate–Oort group”


Fri 13th January


10:00 – 11:00           İlke Çanakçı (VU Amsterdam)
                                 “A super CC-map”

11:15 – 12:15           Victoria Hoskins (RU Nijmegen)
                                 “Projectivity of quiver moduli revisited”

12:30 – 13:30           Joseph Chuang (CU London)
                                 “Rank functions on triangulated categories”


13:30                       The End


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