Jean-Luc Brylinski is a French mathematician now working in the USA. He has developed gerbes in a differential geometric context.
Explicit Čech cohomology-construction of the first Pontrjagin class:
and more generally of characteristic classes:
On loop spaces, characteristic classes and geometric quantization (and on bundle gerbes and on Deligne cohomology):
On the cyclic homology of the groupoid convolution algebra of étale Lie groupoids, hence of orbifolds:
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