XXXVI Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics 2-8.07.2017
VI School on Geometry and Physics 26-30.06.2017
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Scientific programme of the conference

Plenary lectures:

  • Fedor Bogomolov (New York) - Symmetric tensors and the geometry of subvarieties of P^N
  • Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford) - Classical and quantum integrable systems arising from Symplectic Field Theory
  • Miroslav Engliš (Prague/Opava) - Quantization with Twareque Ali
  • Dmitry Gurevich (Valenciennes) - Cayley-Hamilton Identity in quantum algebras
  • Toshiyuki Kobayashi (Tokyo) - Conformally covariant symmetry breaking operators on differential forms and some applications
  • Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (Paris) - Beyond recursion operators
  • Gabriel Larotonda (Buenos Aires) - The geometric significance of Toeplitz kernels in the restricted Grassmannian
  • Eugene Lytvynov (Swansea) - Gauge-invariant quasi-free states on the algebra of the anyon commutation relations
  • Andrey Mironov (Novosibirsk) - Integrable magnetic geodesic flows on 2-torus: new example via quasi-linear system of PDEs
  • Gerard Misiolek (Notre Dame) - Information Geometry on diffeomorphism groups
  • Nicolai Reshetikhin (Berkeley) - Limit shape phenomenon in statistical mechanics
  • Nikolai Tyurin (Dubna) - Special Bohr-Sommerfeld geometry: from Geometric Quantization to Mirror Symmetry
  • Alexander Zheglov (Moscow) - Quantum integrable systems and torsion free sheaves on algebraic varieties
Please refer to the list of participants for more details.

Special Session

This year a Special Session will be dedicated in memory of S. Twareque Ali, a distinguished mathematical physicist at Concordia University in Montreal who passed away in January 2016. For many years Professor Ali gave generously of his time and effort to provide organizational leadership and support to the WGMP series. The organizing committee of the Special Session consists of A. Odzijewicz (Białystok) and G. Goldin (Rutgers) - co-chairs, J.-P. Antoine (Louvain-la-Neuve), T. Bhattacharyya (Bangalore), J. P. Gazeau (Paris), J. Harnad (Montreal), and F. Schroeck (Denver).

Białowieża volume

We plan to publish a Białowieża volume containing select contributions of participants of the Workshop. In the last years we published in the series Trends in Mathematics by Birkhäuser, see here for more information. If the financial situation is good enough, the volume will also be published this year. Details will be announced during the conference.

School for Young Researchers (June 26-30)

In this year the School takes place in the week preceeding the Workshop. The School is addressed to the young researchers and graduate students. The School on Physics and Geometry will start on June 26 and last till June 30 (arrival is planned for June 25, departure on July 1). The total cost of the School is 300 EUR (includes transportation, board, and accommodation).

During the School the following 3h courses will be presented by leading experts in mathematical physics such as
  • Marián Fecko (Bratislava) - Integral invariants (Poincare-Cartan) and hydrodynamics
  • Bartosz Kwaśniewski (Białystok) - Invitation to actions of C*-correspondences
  • Yuri Neretin (Moscow/Vienna) - TBA
  • Andrei Shafarevich (Moscow) - Extensions of symmetric operators and evolution equations on singular spaces
  • Alice Barbara Tumpach (Lille) - Lecture on Hilbert, Banach and Frechet manifolds
The list of the lecturers is not final yet and additional speakers are to be included. Please refer to the webpage for the most recent information.

Transportation

From Warsaw to Białowieża and back by the conference bus

The free conference bus from Warsaw to the Workshop site in Białowieża will be available to the participants. The bus will depart from Warsaw on Saturday, July 1 at 16:00. It will be waiting in front of the Palace of Culture and Science (Parade Square / Plac Defilad) on the parking at Marszałkowska str. (about 500 meters from the Warsaw Central Railway Station) - look for the conference posters on the bus. It will arrive around 12:00. Members of the local organizing committee will be at hand near the bus. Please consult the map in section travel guide on our webpage.

The best way to get there from the airport is to take a direct train to Central Railway Station (Warszawa Centralna) or Railway Station "Śródmieście". The trip takes around 20 minutes.

We shall also arrange a free bus trip back from Białowieża to Warsaw on Sunday, July 9. The bus will depart from Białowieża not later than 7:00 (A.M.) and it will arrive to Warsaw about 12:00.

Please note that there will be also a bus from Warsaw to Białowieża on June 25 and back on July 1 for the participants of the School. Details will be announced later. Participants of the School are kindly asked to inform us about their arrival time in Warsaw.

From Warsaw to Białowieża by means of public transport

There is a direct bus from Warsaw to Białowieża departing from bus station Warszawa Wschodnia (East) at 14:50 (and on some days at 9:30). Return bus departs from Białowieża at 5:05 (and on some days at 6:35 and 18:03). The ticket price is around 40 zl / 10 euro. The timetable can be checked on-line: e-podroznik.pl and you can also buy a ticket there.

There are also alternate ways to reach Białowieża from Warsaw: one through Siedlce or Czeremcha and other through Białystok. For details and train/buses schedules as well as maps please check the travel guide.

From Moscow to Białowieża by means of public transport

There is a very good train connection from Moscow to Grodno and then to Białystok. It may be cheaper and faster than connection through Warsaw.

There is also a possibility to go to Brest, Belarus and take a bus from there to Kamyanyuki. There is a border crossing point nearby which allows foot crossing. It is only several kilometers from Białowieża and someone from organizing committee can pick you up from there by car.

Hotels in Warsaw

The organizers can book a hotel room in Warsaw, either before or after the Workshop. Moreover there are many convenient hotels you can book on-line, see e.g. Hotel Gromada Warszawa Centrum "Dom Chłopa".

Registration fee

The conference fee is 150 EUR. The cost of living expenses is 350 EUR. It covers full board and lodging (double room) within walking distance of the lecture hall, and transportation from Warsaw to Białowieża and back. The accommodation in a single room costs additional 100 EUR. However due to the limited hotel service in Białowieża it may not be possible in all cases. There is the cost of 300 EUR for each accompanying person.

Fees should be paid in cash and we can accept the equivalent in USD or PLN. Unfortunately we cannot accept credit cards, personal checks, bank drafts or travelers checks. In some cases we offer participants a reduction of the conference fee (e.g. for graduate students).

The participants are kindly asked to notify us in advance about any dietary restrictions.

Technical equipment

There will be a computer projector available for your talks. You can use your own laptop or the one supplied by the organizers. We are able to process pdf, ps, and powerpoint-compatible presentations.

There will be a wireless internet connection available to participants in the lecture room and in some hotels.

Social events

During the Workshop we will organize several special events. On Monday evening we plan to have a campfire with roasted meat and traditional music. On Thursday there will be a banquet, and the Friday morning is planned to be free from lectures. We intend to organize a guided excursion to the Białowieża preserve during that morning.

Grants

We are grateful to the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal, Canada, for partial support of the Special Session in memory of S. Twareque Ali, and to the University of Bialystok for its continuing support each year of the Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics.




Address of the organizing committee

XXXVI WGMP
Institute of Mathematics
University of Białystok
ul. Ciołkowskiego 1M
15-245 Białystok, Poland
e-mail: wgmp@uwb.edu.pl






Event sponsored by:
Centre de recherches mathématiques          University
of Bialystok		 University of Bialystok






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