Higher Spin Gauge Theories, Topological Field Theory and Deformation Quantization
workshop
Over the recent years several fascinating connections have been discovered between Higher Spin gauge theories, Deformation Quantisation and Topological Field Theory. As it often happens, many concepts and structures are independently (re)discovered by mathematicians and theoretical physicists from different perspectives.
The workshop is designed to bring together, for the first time, leading experts in these fields so as to foster cross-fertilization of ideas between the communities and trigger the production of new lines of research.
Invited Speakers
Xavier Bekaert (U. de Tours, France)
Pierre Bieliavsky (UC Louvain, Belgium)
Nils Carqueville (U. of Vienna, Austria)
Alberto Cattaneo (U. Zürich, Switzerland)
Chiara Esposito (U. of Salerno, Italy)
Larisa Jonke (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia)
Branislav Jurčo (Charles U., Prague, Czech Republic)
Alexei Kotov (U. of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic)
Vladimir Rubtsov (U. of Angers, France)
Ivo Sachs (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Peter Schupp (Jacobs U., Bremen, Germany)
Alexey Sharapov (TSU, Tomsk, Russia)
Harold Steinacker (U. of Vienna, Austria)
Per Sundell (U. Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile)
Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt U., Edinburgh, UK)
Xian Tang (Washington U. USA)
Mikhail Vasiliev (LPI, Moscow, Russia)
Andrew Waldron (UC Davis, California, USA)
Scientific and Organising Committee
Glenn Barnich (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Pierre Bieliavsky (UC Louvain, Belgium)
Nicolas Boulanger (UMONS, Belgium)
Boris Feigin (HSE & Landau Institute, Moscow, Russia)
Maxim Grigoriev (LPI & ITMP MSU, Moscow, Russia)
Evgeny Skvortsov (Max Planck, Germany)
Michel Van Den Bergh (U. Hasselt, Belgium)
Marco Zambon (KU Leuven, Belgium)
