SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

The Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics is an annual international conference in the field of mathematical physics and mathematics, organized by the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Białystok, Poland.

The topics covered at the meetings span wide areas of classical and quantum physics, geometry, topology, analysis and algebra, inspired by geometric approaches to problems arising in physics.

The conference offers an excellent opportunity for the exchange of ideas between physicists and mathematicians, in an informal and inviting setting. We especially encourage the participation of early career scientists.

Participants should arrive on Sunday, June 29. Scientific activities will run from Monday, June 30, to Saturday, July 5, with departure on Sunday, July 6.

The 2025 Workshop will take place on the campus of our University in Białystok at Ciołkowskiego 1M, Białystok.

Scientific programme of the conference

The programme consists of invited plenary lectures (55 minutes) and additional invited or contributed talks (40 or 25 minutes). Participants may also present their contributions as posters. Online participation will be possible for those who are unable to attend in person.

• Ricardo Correa da Silva (Erlangen) - Twisted Araki–Woods Algebras: structure and inclusions
• Rita Fioresi (Bologna) - Geometric Deep Learning meets Quantum Groups: a quantum differential calculus approach to differential geometry on graphs for machine learning
• Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala) - Infinite Dynkin diagrams and monoidal actions in Lie-theoretic context
• Vincenzo Morinelli (Rome) - From local nets to Euler elements
• Philip Morrison (Austin) - Metriplectic Geometries: Definitions and Applications
• Réamonn Ó Buachalla (Prague) - Levi-Civita Connections for the Irreducible Quantum Flag Manifolds
• Alexander Smith (Anselm) - Time observables, relational dynamics, and quantum time dilation
• Alice Barbara Tumpach (Vienna/Lille) - The restricted Grassmannian and its cotangent space from various points of view

Special Session and Wigner Medal

This year, a special session will be dedicated to the memory of Arno Bohm, who passed away in 2024. He was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the founder of the Wigner Medal. He participated in WGMP multiple times, most recently in 2011.

During the Workshop, there will be a ceremony to present the Wigner Medal. It is an award created by the Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation in 1977/78 to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics and chemistry through precise mathematical tools in the spirit of Eugene Wigner.

School for Young Researchers (June 23-27)

The School on Geometry and Physics is addressed to young researchers and graduate students. This year, it takes place in Białystok over the week before the Workshop, on the Campus of our University. The School will start on June 23 and end June 27 (arrival is planned for June 22, departure on June 28).

Please note that the School is an in-person only event. No online transmission is planned.

During the School, the following 3-hour courses will be presented by leading experts in domains of mathematics related to mathematical physics:

• Francisco Correa (Santiago) - Geometric pathways: From integrable models to black hole physics
• Laszlo Feher (Szeged) - Integrable Hamiltonian systems from reductions of doubles of compact Lie groups
• Jean-Pierre Gazeau (Białystok/Paris) - Quantum formalism in lower-dimensional real and complex Hilbert spaces
• Piotr Kielanowski (Białystok) - Renormalization group
• Karen Strung (Prague) - TBA

As always, please refer to the School section of the webpage for the most recent information.

Proceedings volume

Over the past several years, we have published a volume of selected participant contributions in the series Trends in Mathematics by Birkhäuser, see here for more information. The volume will also be published this year. Details will be announced during the conference.

Registration fee

The conference fee for the Workshop is €350 (if paid before June 1) / €400 (after June 1). It covers the conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches, conference dinner and the social programme. The fee for online participants is €200. Please email confirmation of the transfer to the organizing committee.

The cost of the School is €150 (includes conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches, as well as the social programme). Note that there is no virtual participation possible for the School.

There are many hotels and pensions in Białystok to choose from in various price ranges. You can check out the travel page for a map of Białystok with approximate locations of some of the hotels.

Fees should be paid by wire transfer. In special cases, cash payments (also the equivalent in USD or PLN) may be accepted. We cannot accept other payment methods such as credit cards or checks. Wire transfer should be sent to the following bank account:

Account holder: UNIWERSYTET W BIAŁYMSTOKU UL ŚWIERKOWA 20B
Account number: PL 61 1160 2202 0000 0002 4179 4419
SWIFT code: BIGBPLPW
Bank Name: Bank Millennium S.A.
Bank Address: ul. Stanisława Żaryna 2A, 02-593 Warszawa, Poland
Purpose of the wire transfer: XLII WGMP, full name

In some cases we offer participants a reduction of the conference fee (e.g. for graduate students). Please contact us by email if you are interested.

Warning: some registered participants have received fraudulent emails from scammers posing as booking agencies. Please do not to respond to such emails and do not send your private data or money unless you are sure it is not a scam. If in doubt, please contact us.

Social events

During the Workshop we will organize several special events. On Tuesday evening we plan to have a campfire with grilled meat and other traditional dishes. On Thursday there will be a conference dinner. We intend also to organize a guided excursion on Wednesday afternoon.

Getting from Warsaw to Białystok

Several options are available to travel from Warsaw to Białystok, with trains being the most convenient. The trip from Warsaw Central train station takes just under 2 hours. There are around a dozen trains to Białystok each day. There are no trains departing late at night, though. The best way to get to the Warsaw Central train station from the Chopin Airport is to take a train at the airport to Warsaw Central (Warszawa Centralna) or Railway Station "Śródmieście". The trip takes around 30 minutes.

There are also several buses to Białystok, some of which depart directly from the Chopin Airport. Some buses also depart late at night when trains are unavailable. More details can be found in the Travel section of the webpage.