Conference Invitation: Higher Structures Lisbon, 24-27 July 2017

Conference Invitation: Higher Structures Lisbon, 24-27 July 2017

[b.gohla]

Dear Colleagues,

Some of you may be interested in a conference we are organising. Please 
feel free to sign up through our website at the earliest opportunity:

	http://hsl2017.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/

*Higher Structures Lisbon (deformation theory, operads, higher categories 
developments & applications)*

Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, 24-27 July 2017

The aim of this meeting is to stimulate interaction between people, who  are 
working in higher structures interpreted in the broad sense (to mean higher 
stacks, L∞- and A∞-algebras, Batalin–Vilkovisky  algebras, higher category 
theory, operad theory and related areas). Such flavours of higher structures 
have appeared in

     differential geometry (non-abelian and higher gerbes),
     rational homotopy theory,
     algebraic topology (string structures, extended topological quantum  field 
theories),
     persistent homology,

and have found a number of applications in mathematical physics, such as

     higher gauge theory,
     topological quantum field theory, possibly with defects,
     homological methods in quantum field theory,
     strings and branes,
     topological phases of matter,

among others. 

On behalf of the organising committee:
Aleksandar Miković (GFM/Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade Lusófona)
Benjamin Alarcón Heredia (CMA/Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Björn Gohla (GFM/Universidade de Lisboa)
John Huerta (CAMGSD/Universidade de Lisboa)
João Faria Martins (University of Leeds)
Roger Picken (CAMGSD/Universidade de Lisboa)

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Kind regards,
Björn Gohla


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