Higgs moduli spaces and character varieties - SISSA, Trieste - June 19 to 23, 2017

[Ugo Bruzzo]

SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP ON ALGEBRAIC
GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS

SISSA, Trieste
June 19 to 23, 2017

*** Third announcement — Extended Deadline: June 8th, 2017 ***

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

Tony Pantev (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Parabolic Hecke eigensheaves

Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (ICTP, Italy) Geometry of character varieties via arithmetic techniques

Olivier Schiffmann (Université Paris-Sud and CNRS, France) Higgs stacks and Lie-like structures


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


The web page of the conference is: https://indico.sissa.it/e/swagp2017. Perspective participants are encouraged to register as soon as possible via the conference web page. The deadline for registration has now been extended to JUNE 8. Please note that registration is compulsory for attendance, as only registered participants will be allowed into the conference building.

Workshop email: wagpseries at gmail.com

CONFERENCE DINNER

There will be a conference dinner on Wednesday at Hostaria Malcanton, a restaurant specialized in seafood. The cost of the dinner amounts to 40€. It will consist of an appetizer, main course, dessert, and wine. A vegetarian menu will also be available.

If you plan to participate, please insert your name in the following doodle and choose between the fish and the vegetarian menu: 

http://doodle.com/poll/3mnhmbb3tv2df6zq

If you have special requirements (intolerances etc), please let us know as soon as possible.  Please include in the doodle also any accompanying person who will attend the dinner.

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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