Workshop "Higgs Bundles in Geometry and Physics"

February 29 - March 3, 2016

Venue

IWH Heidelberg
Hauptstraße 242
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
Directions, Map

Speakers

Daniele Alessandrini (Heidelberg), "Maximal components of the character variety of PSp(4,R)", Abstract
Roger Bielawski (Hannover), "Towards the asymptotics of the L^2 metric on the monopole moduli space"
Steve Bradlow (Urbana-Champaign), "Higgs bundles, spectral data, and fiber products of curves", Abstract
Laura Fredrickson (Austin)
Jochen Heinloth (Duisburg-Essen), "Some results on the cohomology of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles", Abstract
Sebastian Heller (Tübingen), "Deformation theory for higher genus CMC surfaces", Abstract
Ludmil Katzarkov (Wien), "Categorical Donaldson Uhlenbeck Yau correspondence"
Qiongling Li (QGM Aarhus), "Properties of Minimal surfaces in symmetric space for Hitchin representations", Abstract
Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford), "Toward the asymptotics of the L^2 metric on the Hitchin moduli space", Abstract
Andrew Neitzke (Austin), "Opers and the Hitchin component", Abstract
Du Pei (Caltech), "Verlinde formula for Higgs bundles"
Ana Peon (Heidelberg), "Mirror symmetry for Cartan branes", Abstract
Steven Rayan (Toronto), "Partitions and moduli of twisted Higgs bundles", Abstract
Laura Schaposnik (Chicago), "Higgs bundles, branes and applications"
Carlos Simpson (Nice), "On WKB problems and harmonic maps to buildings", Abstract
Michael Wolf (Rice), "Degenerating Harmonic Maps and Frontiers of Spaces of Representations", Abstract

Schedule

Time	Mon Feb 29	Tue Mar 1	Wed Mar 2	Thu Mar 3
09:00-10:00 h	Steve Bradlow	Roger Bielawski	Steven Rayan	Qiongling Li
11:00-12:00 h	Laura Schaposnik	Andy Neitzke	Jochen Heinloth	Daniele Alessandrini
14:00-15:00 h	Rafe Mazzeo	Du Pei	Ludmil Katzarkov	Ana Peón-Nieto
15:30-16:30 h	Laura Fredrickson	Discussion session	Carlos Simpson	Michael Wolf
17:00-18:00 h	Sebastian Heller		Discussion session
19 h			Conference dinner

All talks will take place at IWH Heidelberg. The conference dinner is at Restaurant Backmulde which is a short walk away from IWH (see Map).

Registration

If you are not an invited speaker, please register by email to Jan Swoboda. There is no registration fee. Please indicate if you intend to participate in the conference dinner (students: 20 EUR, non-students: 35 Euro).

Reimbursement for the speakers

Reimbursement forms are available from the organizers, and for download as pdf and doc files. The secretary, Anja Kamp, will be present during the coffee break on Wednesday morning to collect receipts and to assist with the paperwork. Please return the documents to her via e-mail or postal mail to the following address:

Anja Kamp
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Philosophenweg 16
D-69120 Heidelberg
Germany

Participants

Ademola Adeifeoba (Heidelberg)
Daniele Alessandrini (Heidelberg)
Shinpei Baba (Heidelberg)
Roger Bielawski (Hannover)
Steve Bradlow (Urbana-Champaign)
Peter-Simon Dieterich (Hamburg)
Richard Eager (Heidelberg)
Laura Fredrickson (Austin)
Jochen Heinloth (Duisburg-Essen)
Lynn Heller (Tübingen)
Sebastian Heller (Tübingen)
Ludmil Katzarkov (Wien)
Gye-Seon Lee (Heidelberg)
Qiongling Li (QGM Aarhus)
Niccolò Lora Lamia (Hannover)
Benedetto Manca (Cagliari)
Felix Martins (Heidelberg)
Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford)
Ian McIntosh (York)
Thomas Mettler (Frankfurt)
Martin Möller (Frankfurt)
Andrew Neitzke (Austin)
Sebastian Nill (Heidelberg)
Andreas Ott (Heidelberg)
Jinsung Park (KIAS, Seoul)
Du Pei (Caltech)
Ana Peón-Nieto (Heidelberg)
Steven Rayan (Toronto)
Robin Raymond (Göttingen)
Oskar Riedler (Heidelberg)
Ingmar Saberi (Caltech)
Laura Schaposnik (Chicago)
Sebastian Schulz (Austin)
Carlos Simpson (Nice)
Florian Stecker (Heidelberg)
Tom Sutherland (Pavia)
Jan Swoboda (Heidelberg/LMU München)
Áron Szabó (Hamburg)
Hartmut Weiß (Kiel)
Anna Wienhard (Heidelberg)
Frederik Witt (Stuttgart)
Michael Wolf (Rice)
Dominik Wrazidlo (Heidelberg)

Organizers

Andreas Ott (Heidelberg)
Jan Swoboda (Heidelberg/LMU München)
Hartmut Weiß (Kiel)
Anna Wienhard (Heidelberg)
Frederik Witt (Stuttgart)