Opening Conference for the Program on Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics

Organiser(s):

Michael Batanin, Christian Blohmann, Ralph Kaufmann, Martin Markl

Date:

Mon, 18/01/2016 - 08:00 - Fri, 22/01/2016 - 22:00

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Details:

Program [3] and Abstracts [4] of Opening Conference for the Program on Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics

Speakers

Dennis Borisov (MPIM)

Larry Breen (Paris 13)

Carles Casacuberta (Universitat de Barcelona)

Tobias Dyckerhoff (University of Bonn)

Nora Ganter (University of Melbourne)

Ezra Getzler (Northwestern)

Owen Gwilliam (MPIM)

André Joyal (Université du Québec, Montréal)

Mikhail Kapranov (Kavli IPMU)

Stephen Lack (Macquarie)

Michael Makkai (McGill)

Georges Maltsiniotis (Paris 7)

Sergey Merkulov (Luxembourg)

Ieke Moerdijk (Utrecht)

Simona Paoli (Leicester)

Niranjan Ramachandran (University of Maryland)

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins)

Travis Schedler (Imperial College London)

Stefan Schwede (University of Bonn)

Boris Shoikhet (Antwerpen)

Jim Stasheff* (UNC Chapel Hill/University of Pennsylvania)

Hiro Lee Tanaka (Harvard)

Bruno Vallette (Paris 13)

Mark Weber (Macquarie)

(*teleconference talk)

Proceedings: There will be no formal proceedings, but the participants are invited to submit their contributions to the new journal "Higher structures" , see web.science.mq.edu.au/~weber/HS.html [5]

Program

Program [6] and abstracts [7]

Preliminary schedule

**Opening Conference January 18 - 22, 2016**
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10:00-11:00 Joyal	10:00-11:00 Breen	10:00-11:00 Gwilliam	10:00-11:00 Ramachandran	10:00-11:00 Moerdijk
11:00-11:15 Tea	11:00-11:15 Tea	11:00-11:15 Tea	11:00-11:15 Tea	11:00-11:15 Tea
11:15-12:15 Maltsiniotis	11:15-12:15 Schwede	11:15-12:15 Tanaka	11:15-12:15 Dyckerhoff	11:15-12:15 Kapranov
Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 Makkai	13:45-14:45 Riehl	13:45-14:45 Schedler	13:45-14:45 Weber	13:45-14:45 Getzler
14:45-15:00 Break	14:45-15:00 Break	14:45-15:00 Break	14:45-15:00 Break	14:45-15:30 Tea
15:00-16:00 Lack	15:00-16:00 Casacuberta	15:00-16:00 Borisov	15:00-16:00 Merkulov	15:30-16:30 Shoiket
16:00-16:30 Tea	16:00-16:30 Tea	16:00-16:30 Tea	16:00-16:30 Tea
16:30-17:30 Paoli	16:30-17:30 Stasheff*	16:30-17:30 Vallette	16:30-17:30 Ganter

(*teleconference talk)

Organizing committee

Michael Batanin (Macquarie University)

Christian Blohmann (MPIM Bonn)

Ralph Kaufmann (Purdue University)

Martin Markl (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Registration

To register please use this registration webform [8]. There is no registration fee. For any further inquiries please send an email to conf2016_01@mpim-bonn.mpg.de [9].

Hotel reservations

If you would like us to make a hotel reservation for you, please state this on the registration webform. We can only honor requests for hotel reservations made by December 15. If you would like to make a hotel reservation by yourself you will find a list of hotels here [10].

Attachment	Size
[11]poster-conference201601_MPIM.pdf [12]	3.66 MB

Video:

20160119_stasheff3.mp4 [13]