Poisson 2008: Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics

Month: July 2008

Date: July 7--11

Name: Poisson 2008: Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics

Location: Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli (CIB) EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Purpose

This 6th conference will focus on Poisson structures and Dirac structures, Poisson groupoids, Lie and Courant algebroids, generalized complex geometry, Hamiltonian systems and generalized momentum maps, deformation quantization, sigma models, and string theory.

Preliminary list of speakers

H. Bursztyn (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro), V. Dolgushev (UC Riverside), B. Dubrovin (SISSA, Trieste), P. Etingof (MIT), G. Felder (ETH Zurich), R. L. Fernandes (IST, Lisbon), V. Fock (ITEP, Moscow), V. Ginzburg (Univ. Chicago), N. Hitchin (Univ. Oxford), M. Kontsevich (IHES), B. Kostant (MIT), C. Laurent-Gengoux (Univ. Poitiers), J.-H. Lu (Hong Kong Univ.), K. Mackenzie (Univ. Sheffield), E. Meinrenken (Univ. Toronto), S. Sternberg (Harvard Univ.), X. Tang (Washington Univ., St. Louis), B. Tsygan (Northwestern Univ., Chicago), P. Vanhaecke (Univ. Poitiers), A. Weinstein (UC Berkeley), M. Yakimov (UC Santa Barbara), M. Zabzine (Uppsala Univ.), C. Zhu (Univ. Grenoble).

Information

Visit http://www.math.uzh.ch/poisson2008/;
e-mail: christiane.depaola@epfl.ch.

Other Information

A pre-school for this conference will be held from July 1 to July 4, 2008, at the Bernoulli Center situated on the campus of EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). Lecturers will be: M. Crainic (Univ. Utrecht), G. Felder (ETH Zurich), M. Gualtieri (MIT), R. Sjamaar (Cornell Univ.)