## Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics 2014 ## *** October 27--31, Geneva at [Villa Battelle](http://www.unige.ch/math/infos_en.html) For the conference this year, we would like to have a focus on interaction between higher structures and field theory. *** ####Speakers#### * Yuri Berest (Cornell) * Adrien Brochier (Edinburgh) * David Carchedi (MPI, Bonn; UBC, Vancouver) * Alberto Cattaneo (Zurich) * Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala) * Giovanni Felder (ETH, Zurich) * Pavel Mnev (St.Petersburg) * Claudia Scheimbauer (ETH, Zurich) * Florian Schätz (Aarhus) * Christopher Schommer-Pries (MPI, Bonn) * Christoph Schweigert (Hamburg) * Thomas Strobl (Lyon) * Hiro Tanaka (Harvard) * Peter Teichner (MPI, Bonn) * Konrad Waldorf (Greifswald) * Katrin Wendland (Freiburg) *** ####Organisers#### [Anton Alekseev](http://www.unige.ch/math/people/alekseev_en.html), [Chenchang Zhu](http://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/zhu/) *** ####Scientific Committee#### Alberto Cattaneo, Ezra Getzler, Giovanni Felder *** ####Registration#### [Online registration](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QrzhyYwo_ALWR--7bEOtNpzsWQJj2ip_0l78GC9lohQ/viewform?usp=send_form) Deadline for registration with funding application is 30.09.2014, and that in general is 10.10.2014. *** ###Schedule (preliminary) ### | | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday|Thursday |Friday| | ------------- | -------------| -------- | ---------| --------|------| | 9:30--10:30 | |[[Berest]] | [[Tanaka]] |[[Wendland]]|[[Cattaneo]] | | 10:30--11:00 | |Break|||| | | 11:00--12:00 | |[[Felder]]| [[Scheimbauer]]|[[Teichner]]|[[Mnev]]| | 12:00--13:00 | |Lunch | [[Ekholm]] |Lunch | | | 13:00--14:00 | Registration |Lunch | [[Excursion]]|Lunch | | | 14:00--15:00 | [[Strobl]] |[[Schweigert]]| [[Excursion]]|[[Waldorf]]| | | 15:00--15:30 | Break || [[Excursion]]|Break | | | 15:30--16:30 |[[Brochier]] |[[Carchedi]] |[[Excursion]]|[[Schätz]]| | | 16:45--17:45 | | [[Qiu]] |[[Excursion]]|[[Schommer-Pries]]| | Thursday 18:30 Banquet If you are curious about [Cern](http://outreach.web.cern.ch/outreach/visites/index.html), you may do it during this week since the public tour will be closed down starting from next month to prepare experiment related to string theory. *** ####Previous Conferences#### This series of conferences started in 2007 and here are some past events: [Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics, Paris](http://www.math.psu.edu/ping/IHP07/) [Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics, Lausanne](http://cib.epfl.ch/higherstructures/) [Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics, Zurich](http://www.math.uzh.ch/higherstructures2009/) [Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics, Vienna](http://www.unige.ch/math/folks/podkopaeva/hs2010/) [Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics, Goettingen](http://www.crcg.de/wiki/Higher_Structures_2011) [Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics, Newton Institute](http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/GDO/gdow02.shtml) *** ####Sponsors#### Swiss Map , European Research Council (erc), [University of Geneva] (http://www.unige.ch/math/index_en.html)  