Dear all,

Karl-Hermann Neeb asked me to forward the following announcement.

Best,

Christoph Wockel

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From: Karl-Hermann Neeb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Sophus] Fall school on Quantum Geometry in Erlangen
Date: 6. Juni 2012 11:38:39 MESZ
To: [log in to unmask], Karl-Hermann Neeb <[log in to unmask]>


1. Announcement of the 
 
First Erlangen Fall School on Quantum Geometry 08.10.-12.10.2012

Recently, the FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg initiated the Emerging Field Programme that supports research fields which have demonstrated a promising development but are just beginning to establish themselves in the scientific landscape. One of these "emerging fields" is "Quantum Geometry". In this Emerging Field Project, the expertise of both mathematicians and physicists are brought together in order to make progress in our understanding of Quantum Gravity. From the physics perspective, the task of combining the principles of General Relativity with those of Quantum Theory is one of the most important research problems in foundational physics. This requires novel mathematical input since the standard techniques of Quantum Field Theory fail in the case of the gravitational interaction. From the mathematical perspective, the new mathematical structures that arise in this effort may trigger progress in various mathematical disciplines such as infinite dimensional geometry, representation theory and related areas of Mathematical Physics. The interaction between mathematicians and physicists is therefore quite natural in this research field but but it poses a challenge due to the different backgrounds that these two research communities have. It is therefore the aim of this school to introduce the concepts and techniques of the respective research programme in a "bilingual" form from which both mathematicians and physicists can profit and can start interacting with each other.

The school will cover the following topics:


	• Group Valued Momentum Maps
	• QFT on Curved Spacetimes
	• Loop Quantum Gravity
	• Infinite Dimensional Poisson Geometry
Lecturers


	• Anton Alekseev (Geneva U.)
	• Klaus Fredenhagen (Hamburg U.)
	• Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U.)
	• Tudor Ratiu (EPFL, Lausanne)


More information can be found under the link 

www.gravity.physik.fau.de/school/school.shtml

where it is also possible to register and apply for financial support. 



Please forward this email to anyone who may be interested. 

With best regards,
Karl-H. Neeb 

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