Conference and Program Organization
2024
KITP Semester Long Program on "What is String Theory? Weaving Perspectives Together"
With Mukund Ragnamani (UC Davis), Xi Yin (Harvard) and Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS-TIFR), I organized a semester long program designed to bring different sub-fields of string theory together. What is String Theory held at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), UC Santa Barbara. January-April 2024.
KITP workshop on Spacetime and String Theory
With Tom Hartman (Cornell), Xi Yin (Harvard) and Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS-TIFR), I organized a week long workshop on Spacetime and String Theory held at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), UC Santa Barbara. April 2-5, 2024.
2023
BIRS Workshop on the Geometry, Algebra and Physics of Higgs Bundles
With Laura Schaposnik (UIC), Steven Rayan (Saskatchewan) and Antoine Bourget (ENS Paris and IPhT Saclay), I organized workshop on the Geometry, Algebra and Physics of Higgs Bundles held at the UBC Okanagan Campus in Kalowna, British Columbia, Canada. May 28-June 2, 2023.
2022
SLMath Connections for Women Workshop
With Laura Schaposnik (UIC), I co-organized a Connections for Women
Workshop as part of the semester long program Analytic and Geometric
Aspects of Gauge Theory held at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath, formerly MSRI) Berkeley, CA in August 2022. The goal of this workshop was to
highlight the work of both prominent female mathematicians/physicists
working on gauge theory, as well as younger researchers. The primary aim of
the workshop was to provide support and mentorship for women and other
minorities in the field.
2019
Semester long program on Hitchin Systems at SCGP
Workshop on Challenges at the Interface of Hitchin Systems and String Theory
With Laura Schaposnik (UIC), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford) and Tony Pantev (UPenn), I organized this workshop, held March 18-22, 2019.
Graduate Summer School on the Mathematics and Physics of Hitchin Systems
With Laura Schaposnik (UIC), Sheldon Katz (UIC) and Joerg Teschner (Hamburg), I organized a one week long summer school held March 27-31, 2019.
Oberwolfach Workshop on the Geometry and Physics of Higgs Bundles
With Laura Schaposnik (UIC), Tamas Hausel (IST,EPFL) and Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford), I co-organized a one week long Oberwolfach Workshop held March 27-31, 2019.
A Three Workshop Series on the Mathematics and Physics of F-theory
- F-theory Workshops
An NSF supported three workshop series (2016 - 2019) rotating between Virginia Tech, Harvard University and Florida State University, that explored F-theory and singular Calabi-Yau geometry. The first workshop was held in September 2016 at Virginia Tech, the second at Harvard in 2018 and the final workshop in 2019 at Florida State University. Co-organized with Paolo Aluffi (Florida State), Mboyo Esole (Harvard), and Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard).
2018
Bethe Forum on Grand Unification in the Real World
- With Stuart Raby (Ohio), Kaladi Babu (Oklahoma) and Herbert Dreiner (Bonn), I organized a 2018 Bethe Forum workshop, held at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. May 28th to June 1, 2018.
2017
Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Virginia Tech
String Phenomenology 2017
A Working Group on String Phenomenology
2016
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Workshop
Current trends on spectral data for Higgs Bundles II
2014
SUSY 2014
2012
Bethe Forum 2012
- Part of the organizing committee for the 4th Bethe Center Workshop and Forum on Strings and Unification, at the University of Bonn (Germany).
2011
String Vacuum Project Meeting 2011
- Part of the organizing committee for the 2011 String Vacuum Project conference at the University of Pennsylvania.