Hitchin 70

This event, in celebration of Nigel Hitchin's 70th birthday and in honour of his contributions to mathematics, will take place across three locations and consist of two specialized workshops and a conference aimed at a general audience of geometers:

• Hitchin 70: Differential geometry and quantization, Aarhus, September 5-8
• Hitchin 70, Oxford, September 9-11
• Hitchin 70: Celebrating 30 years of Higgs bundles and 15 years of generalized geometry, Madrid, September 12-16

The workshops in Aarhus and Madrid will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and current PhD students to learn about recent exciting developments and exchange ideas in some of the areas most closely associated with Hitchin's name and most influenced by his work.  The speakers at the Oxford event will include towering figures in mathematics whose own research has been influenced by Hitchin's.
 

Oxford, September 9-11, 2016

Speakers: Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh), Sasha Beilinson (Chicago), Fedor Bogomolov (CIMS), Philip Candelas (Oxford), Bill Goldman (Maryland), Klaus Hulek (Leibniz), Maxim Kontsevich (IHES), Marta Mazzocco (Loughborough), Shigefumi Mori (Kyoto)

Local organizers:  Andrew Dancer and Frances Kirwan

Registration:
Standard registration:  £45.00, includes daily coffee breaks, Friday and Saturday sandwich lunch, Friday reception
Friday only:  £20.00, includes coffee breaks, sandwich lunch, reception
Saturday and Sunday only:  £25.00, includes daily coffee breaks, Saturday sandwich lunch
Celebratory dinner, Friday at Balliol College:  £60.00 (optional)

Registration is now closed.

Participants requiring accommodation may book college rooms directly with Balliol and St. Hugh's colleges.  Please note availablity is limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Balliol College:  https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/conference-facilities/accommodation
St. Hugh's College:  www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/bed-and-breakfast

As part of their generous support for this event, the London Mathematical Society is providing funding to help up to 20 UK-based research students attend the meeting.  LMS support is for research students studying at universities in the UK who do not have other means of suppot (for example, from Doctoral Training Awards).  To apply for this financial support, please email Naomi Kraker and include a brief letter of reference from your academic supervisor.  Deadline for financial aid applications is 1 July 2016.

The London Mathematical Society administers a Childcare Supplementary Grant for parents working in mathematics who might otherwise be unable to attend conferences and research meetings due to childcare costs.  Further information about this scheme can be found on the LMS website.