Applied Newton-Cartan Geometry

11 May 2020, 09:00 → 15 May 2020, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago), Eric Bergshoeff (Groningen University), Niels Obers (Nordita and NBI), Petr Horava (UC Berkeley)

Venue

Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden

The workshop has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A new date will be set once there is more clarity on the global situation.

 

Recent developments have revealed that non-relativistic gravity encapsulates much more than Newton’s law of gravity. Central to this has been Newton-Cartan geometry and avatars. Similar interesting structures have been observed in the opposite, ultra-relativistic regime. Models of non-relativistic gravity using non-relativistic geometry have shown that they are not only useful to describe the gravitational force in the non-relativistic regime but can also be applied as novel tools in a wide variety of fields, including holography, string theory, condensed matter and biophysical systems, hydrodynamics, double field theory and mathematics. This workshop aims to build on these recent applications of Newton-Cartan type geometries in such a wide variety of areas and collect researchers from different backgrounds to interact and exchange new ideas.

Earlier editions of this workshop have taken place in Simons Center, Stony Brook (2017), MITP, Mainz (2018) and Edinburgh (2019).

Confirmed invited speakers include

• Jan de Boer (Amsterdam)
• Tomas Brauner (Stavanger)
• Shira Chapman (Amsterdam)
• Jing-Yuan Chen (Stanford)
• Laura Donnay (Ecole Polytechnique/Harvard)
• Jose Figueroa-O’Farrill (Edinburgh)
• Quim Gomis (Barcelona)
• Kevin Grosvenor (Wurzburg)
• Troels Harmark (Copenhagen)
• Jelle Hartong (Edinburgh)
• Sergej Moroz (Munich)
• Gerben Oling (Copenhagen)
• Philip Phillips (Illinois)
• Valentina Puletti (Iceland)
• Jan Rosseel (Vienna)
• Marika Taylor (Southampton)
• Dieter Van den Bleeken (Istanbul)
• Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht)
• Ziqi Yan (Perimeter Inst.)

Interested participants can apply using the application form (deadline for application March 3, 2020).

(Note: the workshops starts Monday at 9.00 am and ends Friday at lunch time)

The workshop has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A new date will be set once there is more clarity on the global situation.

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