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"Geometry and Physics 2012" (GAP 2012)

Date: May 5-7, 2012

Location: The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Waterloo; in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Each year, the GAP conference combines three separate but related themes in geometry and physics. This approach results in
a very interesting mixture of talks. GAP 2012 is now the fourth installment in what has become an annual tradition. The history
of GAP and more information about this year's conference can be found here: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gap/

***The year's themes are: special holonomy; generalized geometry; and integrable systems.***

Organizers: Marco Gualtieri (Toronto), Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo), Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo),
Rob Myers (Perimeter), Pedro Vieira (Perimeter), and McKenzie Wang (McMaster).

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Principal speakers include:

• David Baraglia (Australia National University)
• Robert Bryant (UC Berkeley and MSRI)
• Nigel Hitchin* (University of Oxford)
• Jacques Hurtubise (McGill University)
• Boris Khesin (University of Toronto)
• Naichung Conan Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Gang Tian (Princeton and Beijing)

* to be confirmed.

MORE SPEAKERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON.

Registration information is also coming very soon. Please see the conference website for the most up-to-date information.

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gap/

There will also be short talks by local area postdocs (to be announced)

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