Shapes of thought: geometry, mathematical physics, and philosophy - A conference in honor of Claudio Bartocci's 60th birthday

Oct 24, 2022, 2:00 PM → Oct 28, 2022, 7:00 PM Europe/Rome

Zoom link (Online)

Valeriano Lanza (GAN - IME (Universidade Federal Fluminense))

Claudio Bartocci is a scientist whose wide interests range from geometry to mathematical physics to the philosophy of science.

This online conference will be an opportunity to celebrate Claudio’s 60th birthday and will gather experts who will highlight some recent research developments.

Book of abstracts.pdf

Claudio Bartocci's webpage

General overview.pdf

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Timetable (Brazil).pdf

Timetable (CET).pdf

Zoom link

Monday, October 24

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Opening - Igor Mencattini

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Piergiorgio Odifreddi, "Reminiscences"

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM 3 topics, 40 years, and lots of fun

Speaker: Ugo Bruzzo (SISSA/UFPB)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break + 1st photo of the conference

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Instanton sheaves, the next frontier

Speaker: Marcos Jardim (Unicamp)

5:30 PM → 6:30 PM How to integrate the quantum differential equations of varieties?

Speaker: Giordano Cotti (Universidade de Lisboa)

Tuesday, October 25

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis manifolds and integrable systems

Speaker: Marco Pedroni (Università di Bergamo)

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Unitarization of the Radon transform

Speaker: Filippo De Mari (Università di Genova)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM On the amenability problem for path and loop groups

Speaker: Vladimir Pestov (UFPB/uOttawa)

Wednesday, October 26

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Fukaya category of surfaces and pants decomposition

Speaker: Nicolò Sibilla (SISSA)

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM How theoretical models may shape sociality: the case of multi-messenger astrophysics

Speaker: Luca Guzzardi (Università di Milano)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM SUSY Nori Motives

Speaker: Daniel Hernández Ruipérez (Universidad de Salamanca)

Thursday, October 27

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Atiyah sequences of braided Lie algebras and their splittings

Speaker: Giovanni Landi (Università di Trieste)

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Generalized Wronskians, Schubert Calculus and integrals on the Sato Universal Grassmann Manifold

Speaker: Letterio Gatto (Politecnico di Torino)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break + 2nd photo of the conference

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM The moduli space of linear control systems

Speaker: Alberto Tacchella (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

5:30 PM → 6:15 PM Giuseppe Bruzzaniti, "Ricordi di una rivoluzione"

*in Italian

Friday, October 28

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Hamiltonian integrable systems: methods and results

Speaker: Gregorio Falqui (SISSA/Università di Milano-Bicocca)

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Remarks on Penrose integral transform

Speaker: Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (HPS, Laboratoire SPHERE)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Break

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Lagrangian fibrations on hyper-Kähler fourfolds

Speaker: Emanuele Macrì (Université Paris-Saclay)

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Closing - Giuseppe Bruzzaniti and Ugo Bruzzo