Topics in Noncommutative Geometry

Location

BUENOSAIRES
,
Argentina

Dates

to

Presentation

This Winter School will cover different topics in Non Commutative Geometry, and its connections with other areas of Mathematics and Physics, such as Operator Index Theory, Strings, Representations, Operator Algebras, and K-Theory.

Administrative and scientific coordinators

Guillermo Cortiñas (Université Buenos Aires,
Argentina
,
gcorti@dm.uba.ar
)
Boris Tsygan (Northwestern University,
United States
,
tsygan@math.northwestern.edu
)

Scientific program

Course 1: "Introduction to deformation quantization", Henrique Bursztyn (IMPA, Brazil) & Stefan Waldmann (Univ. Freiburg, Germany)

Course 2: "Noncommutative geometry and Calabi-Yau algebra", Victor Ginzburg (Univ. Chicago, USA)

Course 3: "Vertex algebras and Poisson vertex algebras", Victor Kac (MIT, USA)

Course 4: "Various forms of Bott periodicity theorem and applications", Max Karoubi (Institut de Jussieu, France)

Course 5: "Actions of higher categories on C*-algebras ", Ralf Meyer (Univ. Göttingen, Germany)

Course 6: "Index theory and characteristic classes of noncommutative spaces", Henri Moscovici (Univ. Ohio State, USA)

Course 7: "An introduction to algebraic K-theory", Holger Reich (Univ. Düsseldorf, Germany)

Course 8: "Examples and applications of noncommutative geometry and K-theory", Jonathan Rosenberg (Univ. Maryland, USA)

Course 9: "Introduction to noncommutative calculus", Boris Tsygan (Univ. Northwestern, USA)

Course 10: "Automata groups", Andrzej Zuk (Univ. Paris VII, France)

Website of the school

http://www.cimpa-icpam.org/archivesecoles/20101208101638/index.html

How to participate