UNIST International Workshop on Calabi-Yau Crystals and BPS Counting 2025

Schedule



The talks will take place at UNIST.
Natural Sciences Building 108, Mathematics Reading Room 320

All times are in Korea Standard Time (UTC +9 hours).



Thursday - October 30, 2025
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome - Registration - Tea Break
10:00 - 10:45 Talk 1: Dongmin Gang - "Torus Knots and Virasoro Minimal Models"
10:45 - 11:00 Q&A/Discussions
11:00 - 11:45 Talk 2: Go Noshita - "Gauge Origami and BPS qq-characters"
11:45 - 12:00 Q&A/Discussions
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 Talk 3: Saebyeok Jeong - "Refined open BPS invariants, quantum curves, and codimension-two defects in 5d gauge theory"
14:15 - 14:30 Q&A/Discussions
14:30 - 15:15 Talk 4: Woonam Lim - "Nekrasov’s gauge origami via DT4 theory"
15:15 - 15:30 Q&A/Discussions
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Colloquium: Sebastian Franco - "A Dual Tale of Physics and Geometry"
17:00 - 18:00 Discussions
18:00 - 20:00 Colloquium Dinner


Friday - October 31, 2025
09:30 - 10:00 Tea Break
10:00 - 10:45 Talk 5: Sebastian Franco - "4d Crystals for Toric Calabi-Yau 4-Folds: the Exploration Continues"
10:45 - 11:00 Q&A/Discussions
11:00 - 11:45 Talk 6: Jiakang Bao - "Quiver Algebras from Crystals"
11:45 - 12:00 Q&A/Discussions
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15 Talk 7: Hyeonjun Park - "Symplectic pushforwards and DT theory"
14:15 - 14:30 Q&A/Discussions
14:30 - 15:15 Talk 8: Cyril Closset - "Aspects of dualities in supersymmetric quantum mechanics and DT4 invariants from quivers"
15:15 - 15:30 Q&A/Discussions
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 16:45 Talk 9: Piotr Sulkowski - "Calabi Yau Lattice Paths and BPS Counting"
16:45 - 17:00 Q&A/Discussions
17:00 - 17:45 Talk 10: Murad Alim - "Non-perturbative quantum geometry of topological strings and BPS invariants"
17:45 - 18:00 Q&A/Discussions
18:00 - 20:00 Workshop Dinner


Saturday - November 1, 2025
09:30 - 10:00 Tea Break
10:00 - 10:45 Talk 11: Jeongseok Oh - "A pullback between sheaves on log Calabi-Yau 4-folds"
10:45 - 11:00 Q&A/Discussions
11:00 - 11:45 Talk 12: Yehao Zhou - "Stable envelope for critical loci"
11:45 - 12:00 Q&A/Discussions
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break