Dear colleagues,

we cordially invite you to participate in the workshop "Infinite-dimensional Structures in Higher Geometry and Representation Theory", which will be hosted at the University of Hamburg February 16-20, 2014.

The conference homepage can be found here: http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/ids2015/

Some topics that we want to emphasise in the workshop are:

	• mapping spaces and mapping groups of manifolds and of orbifolds
	• representations of mapping groups and of diffeomorphism groups
	• (bundle) gerbes and smooth stacks
	• Lie 2-groups and Lie 2-algebras derived from the above structures
	• representations of the latter
	• relations of the above topics to C*-algebras

Speakers will include:

	• Beltita, Daniel (University of Bucharest)
	• Carey, Alan (Australian National University, Canberra)
	• Glöckner, Helge (University of Paderborn)
	• Grundling, Hendrik (University of New South Wales)
	• Hekmati, Pedram (University of Adelaide)
	• Janssens, Bas (Utrecht University)
	• Karshon, Yael* (University of Toronto)
	• Meyer, Ralf (University of Göttingen)
	• Mickelsson, Jouko (KTH Stockholm)
	• Nest, Ryszard (University of Copenhagen)
	• Pronk, Dorette (Dalhousie University)
	• Roberts, David (University of Adelaide)
	• Salmasian, Haddi (University of Ottawa)
	• Schmeding, Alexander (NTNU Trondheim)
	• Vozzo, Raymond* (University of Adelaide)
	• Wagemann, Friedrich (Université de Nantes)
	• Wagner, Stefan (KTH Stockholm)
	• Waldorf, Konrad (University of Greifswald)
	• Wang, Bai-Ling* (Australian National University, Canberra)
	• Zhu, Chenchang (University of Göttingen)
    *to be confirmed 

We would be happy to meet you in Hamburg. Please come back to me with all kinds of questions.

Best wishes,

Christoph Wockel

on behalf the organisers  Karl-Hermann Neeb, Michael Murray, Christoph Schweigert, Danny Stevenson and Christoph Wockel

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Christoph Wockel

Bereich Algebra und Zahlentheorie
Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Hamburg
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0) 40 / 42838 - 5194
Fax: +49 (0) 40 / 42838 - 5190

www.wockel.eu

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