Geometry at the ULB

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CAST2017 to take place in Nantes, January 26-28

The 2017 edition of the CAST conference (on Contact and Symplectic Topology) will be held in Nantes, from January 26th to January 28th. Below is a message from the organisers.

Dear Colleagues,

This is a reminder that the CAST conference will be held in Nantes from January 26th to January 28th. Please register by November 20th if you wish to attend (we have limited funding and housing for students). The website for the conference is here.

The list of speaker is:

  • Guillem Cazassus (Université de Nantes)
  • Michael Hutchings (UC Berkeley)
  • Rémi Leclercq (Université Paris-Sud)
  • Kathrin Näf (ETH Zurich)
  • Nicolas Orantin (EPFL Lausanne)
  • Steven Sivek (Max Plank Institute, Bonn)
  • Lara Simone Suarez (Tel Aviv University)
  • Zachary Sylvan (IAS, Princeton)
  • Dmitry Tonkonog (Uppsala University)
  • Vera Vertesi (Université de Strasbourg)
  • Andy Wand (University of Glasgow)

Looking forward to see you in Nantes,
The organising committee,

Baptiste Chantraine, Vincent Colin, Paolo Ghiggini.

Getting here

The department of mathematics is in building NO, on the Campus de la Plaine, of the Université libre de Bruxelles. The geometry group is on the 7th floor. This map shows NO, as well as the metro station Delta and entrance 2, which is right by the stop for the number 71 and 72 buses. The number 95 also stops a short walk from the department. See the STIB website for more information on public transport in Brussels.

Image credits

Polished ammonite fossil, by Kara Stenberg, Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC 2.0.

Model of 3D projection of a 120-cell, by Edmund Harriss.

The root system of the exceptional Lie algebra E8. By Jared Tarbell, Creative Commons Licence CC BY 2.0.