Higher Differential Geometry

International conference, organized by Matthias Ludewig and Konrad Waldorf (both University of Greifswald)

The international conference "Higher Differential Geometry" brings together researches from around the world to share recent developments and news about differential-geometric aspects of higher structures. Topics to be discussed include:

• Differential cohomology and charge quantization
• Higher gauge theory and M-theory
• Higher symmetries
• Representations of higher groups
• Smooth functorial field theories
• Stolz-Teichner program
• T-Duality

Speakers include:

• Dan Berwick-Evans (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) [tbc]
• Christian Blohmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn)
• Domenico Fiorenza (Università degli Studi di Roma „La Sapienza”)
• Gerd Laures (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Ulrich Pennig (Universität Cardiff)
• Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt-Universität, Edinburgh)
• Claudia Scheimbauer (TU München) [tbc]
• Alexander Schenkel (Universität Nottingham)
• Urs Schreiber (NYU Abu Dhabi) [tbc]
• Carlos Shahbazi (UNED, Madrid)
• Bernardo Uribe (Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla)
• Mayuko Yamashita (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo)
• Mahmoud Zeinalian (City University of New York)
• Chenchang Zhu (Universität Göttingen) [tbc]

We have opened an early call for contributed talk applications, with potential financial support available. Contributions may be short talks by PhD students or early-career postdocs, as well as longer talks by more experienced researchers. Please apply using this short form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFqrkX3Sa29Lsu05fqO2pQpMxPV_WK1Vfp2YMedZbsFcSXfA/viewform?usp=dialog