SWAGP2017

[Ugo Bruzzo]

SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP ON ALGEBRAIC 
GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS

SISSA, Trieste
June 19 to 23, 2017

*** Second announcement — Extended Deadline ***

 https://indico.sissa.it/e/swagp2017 <https://indico.sissa.it/e/swagp2017>

SWAGP2017 is the 18th event of a series of Schools and Workshops that have been organized by the Mathematical Physics and Geometry group of the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste in conjunction with leading institutions around the world. Past events have taken place in Trieste, Como and Genova (Italy), Salamanca and Medina del Campo (Spain), Luminy and St Jean de Monts (France),  Lisbon (Portugal), Philadelphia (USA), Vienna (Austria), Seoul (Korea), Maresias (Brazil), Tianjin and Hangzhou (China), Leiden (Netherlands), Guanajuato (Mexico). 

This year's topic will be 

HIGGS MODULI SPACES AND CHARACTER VARIETIES

We plan to have some 4 hour courses, 4 one-hour talks and a small number of 30 minute contributed talks by young participants.

LECTURERS:

Marta Mazzocco (University of Loughborough, UK) Quantum Teichmuller spaces, cluster algebras and Painlevé equations <https://indico.sissa.it/event/15/contribution/1>

Tony Pantev (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Parabolic Hecke eigensheaves <https://indico.sissa.it/event/15/contribution/2>

Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (ICTP, Italy) Geometry of character varieties via arithmetic techniques  <https://indico.sissa.it/event/15/contribution/3>

Olivier Schiffmann (Université Paris-Sud and CNRS, France) Higgs stacks and Lie-like structures <https://indico.sissa.it/event/15/contribution/4>


SPEAKERS:

Erik Carlsson (UC Davis, USA)
Ben Davison (Glasgow University, UK)
Sven Meinhardt (University of Sheffield, UK)
Anton Mellit (IST Vienna, Austria)

Some funds should be available to support, at least partially, the participation of some young scientists. During this event the “Elsevier Young Scientist Award” will be granted. 

The web page of the conference is: https://indico.sissa.it/e/swagp2017 <https://indico.sissa.it/e/swagp2017>. Perspective participants are encouraged to register as soon as possible via the conference web page. During the registration process you can also submit a title and abstract for a contributed talk and apply for financial support. The deadline has been extended to MAY 15th, but those who already submitted a contributed talk and/or applied for financial support will be notified by the end of April.

Workshop email: wagpseries at gmail.com

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Scientific Committee: U. Bruzzo (SISSA, Italy), F. Rodríguez Villegas (ICTP, Italy), F. Sala (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, Japan), J. Stoppa (SISSA, Italy)

Organizing Committee: U. Bruzzo, F. Sala, J. Scalise (SISSA, Italy)

Supported by SISSA, the ERC Starting Grant 307119  “Stability and wall-crossing in algebraic and differential geometry” and the GNSAGA group of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica