Recent Advances in T/U-dualities and Generalized Geometries
6-9 June 2017, Zagreb, Croatia

Scientific Programme

Invited speakers:

  • Gleb Arutyunov (University of Hamburg)
  • Eric Bergshoeff (University of Groningen)
  • David S. Berman (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Mariana Graña (University of Paris-Saclay)
  • Yolanda Lozano (University of Oviedo)
  • Emanuel Malek (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU, Munich)
  • Eoin Ó Colgáin (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang)
  • Jeong-Hyuck Park (Sogang University, Seoul)
  • Erik Plauschinn (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU, Munich)
  • Soo-Jong Rey (Institute for Basic Sciences, Daejeon and Seoul National University)
  • Christian Sämann (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
  • Peter Schupp* (Jacobs University Bremen)
  • Charles Strickland-Constable (IHES and University of Paris-Saclay)
  • Pavol Ševera (University of Geneva)
  • Zoran Škoda (University of Zadar)

*to be confirmed

Topics include:

  • Extended formalisms for T- and U-dualities
  • Non-geometric string backgrounds and non-standard branes
  • Noncommutative and nonassociative structures in string and M theories
  • Applications of Lie and Courant algebroids in field and string theories
  • Worldsheet/Worldvolume approaches to T- and U-dualities
  • Non-Abelian T-duality and integrability