Winter School

in Mathematical Physics - 2017

Place and date:

Les Diablerets, January 8 - January 13, 2017
(deadline for registration: November 27, 2016)

Speakers and subjects:

Minicourses:
Anton Alekseev (Geneva), "Non-commutative differential calculus and its applications in Lie theory and Poisson geometry"
Jürg Fröhlich (ETH Zurich), "Histories of Events in Quantum Mechanics"
Geoffrey Scott (Toronto), "An introduction to gerbes in classical field theory"

Colloquium:
Yuri Tschinkel (NYU Courant Institute, Simons Foundation), Mirimanoff lecture: "Rational and irrational varieties"

short talks by graduate students

Organizers:

Anton Alekseev (UNIGE), Anton.Alekseev (at) unige.ch
Alberto Cattaneo (UZH), alberto.cattaneo (at) math.uzh.ch
Giovanni Felder (ETHZ), felder (at) math.ethz.ch
Maria Podkopaeva (Chebyshev Lab, SPbSU & UNIGE), Maria.Podkopaeva (at) unige.ch
Thomas Strobl (UCBL) strobl (at) math.univ-lyon1.fr
Andras Szenes (UNIGE), Andras.Szenes (at) unige.ch

Supported by:

The Swiss university conference
European Research Council
NCCR SwissMAP