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.

The 2026 Workshop will take place on the campus of our University in Białystok at Ciołkowskiego 1M, Białystok. Participants should arrive on Sunday, June 28. Scientific activities will run from Monday, June 29, till Saturday, July 4, with departure on Sunday, July 5.

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.

• Dietrich Burde (Vienna) - Crystallographic actions on Lie groups and post-Lie algebra structures
• Javier de Lucas (Warsaw) - Introduction to $k$-contact geometry and applications
• Yuji Hirota (Sagamihara) - Lie algebroid symmetry with bundle-valued $n$-plectic geometry
• Shahn Majid (London) - Quantum and classical geodesic flows on a black-hole background
• Francesco Toppan (Rio de Janeiro) - A colored look at anyons and parastatistics
• Alejandro Varela (Buenos Aires) - The Riemann Sphere of Operators on Hilbert Space
• Karol Życzkowski (Kraków)

School for Young Researchers (June 22-26)

The School on Geometry and Physics is addressed to young researchers and graduate students. The School will start on Monday morning June 22 and last till Friday early afternoon June 26 (arrival is planned for June 21, departure on June 27).

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:

• Suvrajit Bhattacharjee (Białystok) - Groups, $C^*$-algebras and $K$-theory
• Eduardo Chiumiento (La Plata) - Infinite Grassmanians and operator theory
• Manuel Gadella (Valladolid) - Contact potentials in quantum mechanics
• Krzysztof Marciniak (Linköping) - Stäckel systems, soliton hierarchies and Painlevé-type systems

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 €400 (if paid before June 1) / €450 (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: XLIII WGMP [participant's 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 respond to such emails and do not send your personal 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.