Nigel Hitchin and Ngô Bảo Châu are the directors of one of the ICMAT – Severo Ochoa laboratories. Images: ICMAT

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) will host a special activity throughout the month of June organised by the Institute’s Hitchin–Ngo Laboratory: the Extended Special Workshop of the Hitchin–Ngo Laboratory. On 10, 12, 13, 17, 24 and 26 June, international experts in the fields of geometry and mathematical physics will deliver lectures. Among them are one of the Lab’s directors, Nigel Hitchin (University of Oxford), as well as Richard Wentworth (University of Maryland), Asia Mainenti (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Graeme Wilkin (University of York), Miguel González (ICMAT), Ramiro Lafuente (University of Queensland), Panagiotis Dimakis (University of Maryland), Gabriele Rembado (Université de Montpellier and University of Maryland), Guillermo Gallego (FU-Berlin), Guillermo Barajas (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) and Jacques Hurtubise (McGill University).

In addition, this special period will also include visits by researchers such as Brian Collier (University of California at Riverside), Nerea Alonso Garcia (University of California, Riverside), Jacques Hurtubise (McGill University, Montreal), Peter Gothen (University of Porto) and Steven Bradlow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Bradlow will also be one of the speakers at the outreach event on art and mathematics An Invitation to Ethnomathematics, taking place on 19 June at ICMAT.

Nigel Hitchin and Ngô Bảo Châu Laboratory

The Laboratory, co-directed by Nigel Hitchin (University of Oxford) and Ngô Bảo Châu (University of Chicago), and coordinated by Oscar García-Prada (ICMAT-CSIC), focuses on various areas of geometry, topology, and mathematical physics such as the Hitchin system, Langlands duality, mirror symmetry, Higgs bundles, character varieties, higher Teichmüller spaces, gauge theories, moduli spaces, and geometric structures.

Nigel Hitchin is Savilian Professor of Geometry emeritus at the University of Oxford (UK). Hitchin is renowned for his contributions to differential and algebraic geometry and gauge theories, including the development of the Hitchin equations and their applications to surface geometry and string theory. He was awarded the Shaw Prize in 2016 for his work in geometry and topology. He has also received the Whitehead Prize (1980), the Berwick Prize (1990), and the Polya Prize (2002), as well as the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society (2000).

Ngô Bảo Châu, currently Professor at the University of Chicago (USA) and Scientific Director of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, is an expert in number theory and algebraic geometry. He is known for his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the Langlands programme, which earned him the Fields Medal in 2010. He has also been honoured with the Clay Research Award (2004), the Sophie Germain Prize (2007), the Oberwolfach Prize (2007), and the Légion d’honneur (2011).

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