Programme

Schedule

  Monday, 12 Tuesday, 13 Wednesday, 14 Thursday, 15 Friday, 16
09:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:50 S. Bradlow O. Biquard R. Wentworth T. Pantev S. Ramanan
10:50-11:20 Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee
11:20-12:10 J. Hurtubise A. Dancer M. Garcia-Fernandez J. Heinloth P. Gothen
12:20-13:10 C. Simpson D. Salamon B. Collier I. Biswas N. Hitchin
13:20-15:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch End of conference
15:00-15:50 A. Peón-Nieto J. E. Andersen I. Mundet i Riera
15:50-16:20 Coffee Coffee Coffee
16:20-17:10 A. Oliveira T. Hausel M. Santander
17:15-18:45 Wine reception

Lectures

Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen (QM, Univ. Southern Denmark): The Automorphism Equivariant Hitchin Index
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Olivier Biquard (Sorbonne & Univ. Paris): Milnor–Wood inequalities and Higgs bundles
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Indranil Biswas (TIFR, Mumbai): Holomorphic connections on the trivial vector bundle
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Steven Bradlow (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign): From vortices to magical components: a 30-year ramble
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Brian Collier (Univ. California Riverside): Holomorphic curves and cyclic G2-Higgs bundle
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Andrew Dancer (Univ. Oxford): Implosion and contraction in hyperkahler geometry
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Mario Garcia-Fernandez (ICMAT–UAM Madrid): Futaki invariants and harmonic metrics for the Hull–Strominger system - Slides
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Peter Gothen (Univ. Porto): Components of G-Higgs bundle moduli and the Cayley correspondence - Slides
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Tamás Hausel (IST Austria): Hitchin map on very stable and even very stable upward flows - Slides
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Jochen Heinloth (Univ. Duisburg-Essen): Proper quotients for torus actions
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Nigel Hitchin (Univ. Oxford): Higgs fields in low genus - Slides
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Jacques Hurtubise (McGill Univ.): Degenerations of bundle moduli
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Ignasi Mundet i Riera (Univ. Barcelona): Actions on topological manifolds: finite abelian groups vs tori - Slides
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André Oliveira (Univ. Porto & UTAD): Lagrangians of Hecke cycles
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Tony Pantev (Univ. Pennsylvania): Geometry and Topology of Wild Character Varieties - Slides
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Ana Peón-Nieto (Univ. Birmingham & Côte d'Azur): Geometry of the nilpotent cone
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S. Ramanan (CMI Chennai): Some rationality results on Hyper-elliptic curves - Slides
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Dietmar Salamon (ETZ Zürich): Almost complex structures and Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms - Slides
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Mariano Santander (Univ. Valladolid): Newtonian gravitation as curvature of a space-time: Newton-Cartan gravitation and beyond. What if the idea of connection had been defined in 1900? - Slides
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Carlos Simpson (CNRS, Univ. Côte d'Azur): Twistor space and parabolic structures - Slides
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Richard Wentworth (Univ. Maryland): Some remarks on Yang–Mills type equations in higher dimensions
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Video recordings

Video recordings are now available on the ICMAT YouTube channel.

Posters

David Alfaya (Univ. Pontificia Comillas): Lie algebroid connections, twisted Higgs bundles and motives of moduli spaces - Poster
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Erroxe Etxabarri-Alberdi (Loughborough Univ.): Fano 3-folds with 1-dimentional moduli - Poster
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Natsuo Miyatake (IMI, Kyushu Univ.): Toda lattice with opposite sign on Riemannian manifolds and the variational method - Poster
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Ronald A. Zúñiga-Rojas (Univ. Costa Rica): Stratifications on the Nilpotent Cone of the moduli space of Hitchin pairs - Poster
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Social dinner

The (optional) social dinner will take place on Wednesday 14 September, 20:00, at Restaurante Panamera in Madrid. The price is €55 per person. To confirm your participation and payment, please contact the local organizers and specify whether you have any special diet requirement (such as vegetarian or vegan).

Address of Restaurante Panamera: Calle de Fernández de la Hoz, 57, Madrid