This workshop will explore current themes in noncommutative geometry, including topics that lie at the interfaces of noncommutative geometry with Riemannian geometry, sub-Riemannian geometry, mathematical physics, random matrix theory, representation theory, cyclic homology, number theory and arithmetic geometry. The workshop will feature Alain Connes' series of 3 Coxeter Lectures with the title&
The University of New Mexico is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with research experience in some area of C*-algebras that is connected to current research in topological physics. This included many areas within NCG.Here is the full advertisement:https://unm.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/18/home/requisition/27112?c=unm
After two earlier meetings with a similar theme in Muenster and London, Ontario, we are pleased to announce the third meeting to take place at Erwin Schroedinger Institute in Vienna in late April 2023.
The Max Planck Institute held this week a special event that officially closed down Manin's Seminar, after its continued existence since 1969, first in Moscow and then in Bonn. The event hosted a brief overview by Misha Kapranov on the history of the seminar, followed by two lectures, one by Don Zagier and one by myself. The videos of the lectures are available at this link:Seminar on
This hybrid workshop is supported by the Fields Institute. All talks will be broadcast online. To gain access to the talks, please register free of charge here. Workshop description: Topological recursion is a method for counting maps of a certain topology using only planar maps. The theory arose from work in 2D quantum gravity and the discovery that matrix integrals are related to
After a very successful first year, Global Noncommutative Geometry Seminar (Americas) starts again this Friday at 3 PM (Toronto time), 9 PM (Paris time) with a talk by Alain Connes. Title: On the Notion of Space.Here is the Zoom link: Join Zoom Meetinghttps://wustl.zoom.us/j/95154904208?pwd=ajA2azAxK1ZwMlJUeXBEWlh5UG5WQT09Meeting ID: 951 5490 4208Passcode: 446996Added Sept 7:
The year 2021 will mark the 40th anniversary of the discovery and development of Cyclic Cohomology Theory by Alain Connes. Its further flourishing fostered by many mathematicians including Dan Quillen, Jean Louis Loday, Boris Tsygan, Boris Feigin, Joachim Cuntz, Ib Madsen, Max Karoubi, and many others has brought a remarkable development of the subject in many distinct directions, in particular
We plan to run the workshop in hybrid form with a considerable number of participants present in Münster and video transmission to the outside world.This workshop intends to be a first meeting point for specialists and young researchers active in noncommutative geometry, free probability, and topological recursion. In the two first areas, one often wants to compute expectation values of a large
An online summer school on K-Theory and Representation Theory, organized by N. Higson, R. Plymen and H. Sengun and sponsored by the London Mathematical Society and the Isaac Newton Institute, will take place 19-23 July 2021. There will be four lecture series: – Basic representation theory of p-adic Lie groups, by Anne-Marie Aubert – Basic representation theory of
My book SHELL BEACH - the search for the final theory is now out. In the book, which is written for a general audience, I discuss topics such as noncommutative geometry, loop quantum gravity and the question of a final theory - mixed with a dose of whitewater kayaking and massive (intellectual) waterfallsBest wishes, Jesper Grimstruphttps://www.amazon.com/
Starting in January 2021, the Fields Institute in Toronto is going to run various advanced graduate courses in collaboration with Ontario universities. Students from all over the world can either take these courses, or just audit them. For details see here &
In a recent series of papers [1-3], we have discovered a connection between non-perturbative quantum field theory and the (noncommutative) geometry of configuration spaces. In this blog-post, we would like to outline our findings in a non-technical manner intended for readers, who are familiar with the basics of noncommutative geometry and high-energy physics.The noncommutative standard
With YouTube and Zoom playing a much bigger role now in disseminating knowledge across the globe, it is only natural to have a YouTube channel dedicated to posting talks in an ongoing global noncommutative geometry seminar. The seminar is a collective effort with three nodes in Europe, Americas and Asia. There are many details that still has to be worked out and currently many people are
We all learned with immense sorrow that Vaughan Jones died on Sunday September 6th.I met him in the late seventies when he was officially a student of André Haefliger but contacted me as a thesis advisor which I became at a non-official level. I had done in my work on factors the classification of periodic automorphisms of the hyperfinite factor and Vaughan Jones undertook
The Noncommutative Geometry SeminarThis is a virtual seminar on topics in noncommutative geometry, which is open to anyone anywhere interested in noncommutative geometry.Starting September 22 we meet on Tuesdays at 15:00-16:00 (CET) via zoom (link will be distributed via mail)Organizers: Giovanni Landi, Ryszard Nest, Walter van Suijlekom, Hang WangMore infomation on the schedule, and
While noncommutative geometry is entering into its fifth decade, we are sure some of this blog's readers were thinking would be appropriate to have a volume of articles by experts looking at its main developments in the past 40 years and looking ahead.The book, Advances in Noncommutative Geometry, dedicated to Alain Connes' 70th birthday, published by Springer late last year, certainly fills
Sir Michael Atiyah was considered one of the world’s foremost mathematicians. He is best known for his work in algebraic topology and the codevelopment of a branch of mathematics called topological 𝐾-theory, together with the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, for which he received the Fields Medal (1966). He also received the Abel Prize (2004) along with Isadore M. Singer for their discovery and
The Johns Hopkins Mathematics Department jointly with the Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute (JAMI) plan to organize a workshop on the weekend of October 18-20 2019. The interactions between the fields of noncommutative arithmetic geometry, tropical geometry, the theory of toposes and mathematical logic, optimization and game theory have matured quite rapidly in the last few years
It is not surprising that all the honourable men who are manning (what else) this blog did not find it proper to comment on the passing of Sir Michael Atiyah, so I am offering a link to my own: https://listeningtogolem.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-polar-star-and-life-endgame-elegy.html
This weeklong workshop will be an opportunity for young researchers in noncommutative geometry to share their ideas with their peers and with some of the leaders of the field. Apart from lectures by young researchers there will be mini-courses by Pierre Albin, Nigel Higson and Shmuel Weinberger. Topics will include the analysis and geometry of hypoelliptic operators, group actions on