The workshop has two overall goals:
• Bring together mathematicians and physicists working on topics related to Higgs bundles;
• Promote Higgs bundles and their applications in the south american mathematical community.
The schedule will be updated in 2018 with the speaker list.
We hope that young mathematicians -- PhD and early career post-docs -- will join us by presenting their work in a poster session. If you're interested in contributing, please apply to present your poster here.
We might also have space for contributed talks (20 min): if you're intersted please indicate this in the form too.
We expect to have support to cover local expenses of PhD and early career post-docs from Argentina and from the US. To participate of the meeting, please register here - if finantial support is needed, registration should be done before June 1st 2018.
If you have any questions please contact:
Higgs2018@gmail.com
The meeting: The meeting will start on Monday December 17 morning, and finish on Friday December 21st lunch time. Talks will be 40 minutes long, and there will be blackboards and projectors. The meeting will be mostly in Ciudad Universitaria (in Buenos Aires), and we will go for 1 day to have the meeting at the National University of La Plata (40 minutes drive away from downtown Buenos Aires). Transportation from Buenos Aires to La Plata will be provided.
Accomodation: There are several hotels that are convenient (10~20 min taxi drive to the university) in Buenos Aires. We suggest you book hotels in "centro" (near Av. Corrientes or Av. Santa Fe), Rocoleta or Palermo (note that whilst some other neighbourhoods are extremelly pretty, as San Telmo, the trip to the university could be of 40 minutes or more...). Some high end suggestions are:
- Savoy hotel (about US$100 a night w/ breakfast)
- Hotel Panamericano (about US$150 a night w/ breakfast, w/ pool)
- Broadway Hotel (about US$100 a night w/ breakfast, w/ pool)
. We also recomend checking AirBnB as beautiful houses and apartments are available.
The workshop will take place mainly in La Plata, a beautiful university city in Argentina. The lectures will be at the
Universidad Nacional de la Plata
Calle 49 and 115.
Three days & two nights exploring the glaciers in the Patagonia, the south of Argentina. (Hotel, ground and air transportation as well as excursions included).
Details: US$ 400 (approx.).
Departure: Aeroparque National Airport.
Three days & two nights exploring the waterfalls in the north of Argentina, both from the Argentinian and Brazilian sides. (Hotel, ground and air transportation as well as excursions included).
Price: US$ 400 (approx.).
Departure: Aeroparque National Airport.
Organizers:
(Chair) Laura Schaposnik (UIC, USA)
Marina Logares (Plymouth, UK)
Ben Davison (Oxford & Glasgow, UK)
Romina Arroyo (FaMaf, Argentina)
For questions about the workshop or travelling in Argentina, please contact Laura at schapos@uic.edu.
Local Advisory Committee:
Gaston Garcia (UNLP, Argentina)Marcela Zucalli (UNLP, Argentina)
Martin Mereb (UBA, Argentina)
Support: The conference is supported by
- the University of Illinois at Chicago;
- the National University of La Plata;
- the National University of Buenos Aires;
- Centro de Matemática de La Plata;
- the U.S. National Science Foundation grants DMS 1107452, 1107263, 1107367 ”RNMS: GEometric structures And Rep- resentation varieties” (the GEAR Network).
- the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award DMS 1749013 (PI: L.P. Schaposnik)
This conference supports the Non-Discrimination Statement of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and is run in Cooperation with AWM.
