CRCG Miniworkshop - Higher Structures in Differential Geometry
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Contents |
Higher Structures in Differential Geometry
Organizers
Chenchang Zhu, Giorgio Trentinaglia.
Schedule
| Time | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | REGISTRATION | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Prof. Dr. Ping Xu (Penn State) | Groupoids extension and Non-abelian gerbes |
| 11:00-12:00 | Dr. Mathieu Stienon (Penn State) | Gerbes, principal 2-group bundles and characteristic classes |
| LUNCH | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Prof. Dr. Christian Blohmann (Regensburg) | Groupoid symmetry of general relativity |
| 15:00-16:00 | Dr. Rajan Mehta (Washington University) | On models for the adjoint representation of a Lie algebroid |
| COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:30-17:30 | Dr. Urs Schreiber (Hamburg) | Non abelian differential cohomology |
Room: Göttingen Mathematics Institute, Sitzungszimmer.
Registration
Please contact Ms. Venema, venema@uni-math.gwdg.de, +49 0551 39 7691. In order to reimburse travel expenses original tickets are needed. Train tickets must be stamped. If tickets are needed for the journey back, we will first make a copy of them while you are here. You can send the originals to us when you are back home.
Bookings of hotel rooms should be coordinated by Ms. Venema.
