The organisers of the Madrid leg of Hitchin70 have financial support for local expenses, especially for young participants. More information is in their email below.
Hitchin70: Celebrating 30 years of Higgs bundles and 15 years of generalized geometry
Dates: 12-16 September 2016
Venue: ICMAT, Madrid, Spain
Conference website.Extended registration deadline: 15 August 2016
This event, in celebration of Nigel Hitchin’s 70th birthday and in honour of his contributions to mathematics, is part of larger activity that will take place across three locations during the period 5-16 September 2016. It will begin in Aarhus (5-8 Sep 2016), continue in Oxford (9-11 Sep 2016) and end in Madrid (12-16 Sep 2016).
The Madrid event will celebrate 30 years of Higgs bundles and 15 years of generalized geometry. It will start around 14:30 on Monday 12th of September and will end by 13:30 on Friday 16th of September.
The following speakers have confirmed their participation in the Madrid component of Hitchin70:
- David Baraglia
- Olivier Biquard
- Philip Boalch
- Gil Cavalcanti
- Brian Collier
- Xenia de la Ossa
- Mario Garcia-Fernandez
- Peter Gothen
- Marco Gualtieri
- Sergei Gukov
- Tamás Hausel
- Jacques Hurtubise
- François Labourie
- Rafe Mazzeo
- Brent Pym
- Laura Schaposnik
- Anna Wienhard
More information, including registration, can be found at the conference website.
The deadline for registration is the 15th of August 2016. We encourage PhD students and early career researchers to apply for financial support at the conference website.
Sponsors:
- ICMAT Severo Ochoa Programme
- Clay Mathematics Institute
- NSF network GEAR
- EU Marie Curie IRSES project MODULI
This event is organised in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute.
We hope to see you in September in Madrid.
The organizing committee:
Luis Alvarez-Consul (ICMAT)
Steven Bradlow (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Oscar Garcia-Prada (ICMAT)
Yat Sun Poon (U. California at Riverside)