Dear all,

could you please help us advertising this workshop, by forwarding this email to people you think might be interested in it?

Below you can find the announcement and a copy of it is attached.

This e-mail announces the 2013 MIT-RTG Mirror Symmetry Workshop, mentored by Prof. Mark Gross, on SYZ mirror symmetry.  It will be held on the week May 27--31 in Big Bear Lake, CA.  The workshop will constitute a weeklong retreat with talks, organized discussions, and problem sessions.  Prof. Gross will outline the program of talks to be given by the participants.  Most participants will be expected to give one of the talks.  A syllabus will be available shortly at http://math.mit.edu/conferences/geometryworkshop .

The goal of the workshop is to provide an introduction to the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture in mirror symmetry, leading up to a (partial) account of the Gross-Siebert program and, time allowing, aspects of recent works such as Gross-Panharipande-Siebert or Gross-Hacking-Keel.  The principal goal is to motivate and present Gross and Siebert's algebro-geometric interpretation of the SYZ conjecture, and the ingredients thereof.  As well as some primer lectures on SYZ, we expect topics to include affine manifolds, aspects of log geometry and tropical geometry, theta functions, and some of the work of Kontsevich and Soibelman.  The workshop discussions will have an expository nature and are aimed at graduate students and junior faculty interested in mirror symmetry.

For more detailed information, or to register for the workshop, please go to the website http://math.mit.edu/conferences/geometryworkshop .  *Our application deadline is April 5, 2013.*  We expect to be able to subsidize many participants' travel expenses.  Please note that the number of participants will be strictly limited to 25 for space reasons.

Any questions should be sent to the organizers at [log in to unmask] .

Regards from the organizers,

Nate Bottman

David Jackson-Hanen

Ailsa Keating

John Lesieutre

Tiankai Liu

Roberto Svaldi

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