Two-year report (01/09/2002 Ð 31/08/2004) on the Pionier-project ÔQuantization, noncommutative geometry, and symmetryÕ

of N.P. Landsman (no. 616.062.384)

 

Financial statement: attached

 

Appointments 01/09/2002 Ð 31/08/2004

 

Prof.dr. N.P. Landsman, 01/09/2002-31/08/2007 (principal investigator)

 

Dr. C. Carvalho, 01/09/2003-31/08/2005 (postdoc)

 

Drs. P.Hochs, 01/04/2003-31/03/2007 (oio)

 

Drs. N. Kowalzig , 01/09/2003-31/08/2007 (oio)

 

Dr. M. MŸger, 01/07/2003-30/06/2006 (postdoc)

 

Guests

 

Drs. W. van Suijekom, 01/09/2002-31/10/2002

 

Dr. R. Popescu, 12/05/2003-10/06/2003

 

Drs. E. van Erp, 17/05/2003-15/06/2003 and 11/11/2003-26/11/2003

 

Scientific Report

 

So far, the project has largely been carried as outlined in the proposal. A coherent team of scientists has  been formed to investigate the subprojects listed in the proposal, viz. Quantization of singular spaces (N. Kowalzig), Functoriality of quantization (P. Hochs and N. Kowalzig), Quantization and index theory (C. Carvalho), and Quantum symmetry (M. MŸger); see above for details of their appointments. The principal investigator (PI) mainly concerns himself with the first three themes, MŸger being a senior postdoc with whom the fourth project is in good hands. All project members have built up an impressive record of conference attendances (as detailed below) and scientific activities in general, including attending and reporting on their work at the PIÕs  Seminar on Noncommutative Geometry at Amsterdam during the academic year 2002-2003 (joint with E.M. Opdam, see http://remote.science.uva.nl/~npl/BC.html) as well as at his Seminar on Quantization, noncommutative geometry, and symmetry during 2003-2004 (see http://remote.science.uva.nl/~npl/group.html). More generally, it should be mentioned that especially the oioÕs on the project have learnt a great deal of new mathematics during the early phase of their appointments.

               Functoriality of quantization. The main achievement of the PI during the report period has been a precise version of the conjectural functoriality of quantization: he proposes that geometric quantization of symplectic manifolds is the arrow part of a functor, whose object part is deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds. The Ôquantization commutes with reductionÕ conjecture of Guillemin and Sternberg for compact Lie groups acting on compact symplectic manifolds then becomes a special case of the functoriality of quantization. In fact, this formulation yields almost unlimited generalizations of the Guillemin--Sternberg conjecture, extending it, for example, to arbitrary Lie groups or even Lie groupoids. Technically, this involves symplectic reduction and Weinstein's dual pairs on the classical side, and Kasparov's bivariant K-theory for C*-algebras (KK-theory) on the quantum side. Thus the huge project Functoriality of quantization has now branched off into two manageable subprojects, each probably worth a PhD thesis (hence the role of the oioÕs involved):

               i) The Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture for noncompact Lie groups acting on noncompact symplectic manifolds (PI and P. Hochs). This version of the conjecture has now been formulated in a precise way, and has almost been proved for the special case that the group in question has a discrete normal subgroup with compact quotient group, whereas the group action is cocompact. This result has been announced and discussed in a large number of talks by the PI (listed below) in front of all relevant experts, such as Guillemin (at Utrecht) and Weinstein (at Paris). Hochs and the PI are currently working on a publication on this result, in which also various attractive examples will be added. Consequently, the Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture, subject to a whole industry already in the compact case, has now been freed of the limitation of compactness, and has been proved in an important special case in the noncompact setting.

               ii) The Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture for Lie groupoids (PI, N. Kowalzig, and R. Bos Ð an oio not funded by the Pionier project but by FOM-GBE in the context of the FOM-GBE Mathematical Physics Program). This has been more speculative so far, attention focusing on finding examples rather than theorems. The first step involves a generalization of the so-called orbit method in representation theory from Lie groups to Lie groupoids (PI and Bos), and the second step is an attempt to find a direct quantization method for reduced spaces (also known as Mikami-Weinstein quotients) defined by actions of Lie groupoids on symplectic manifolds (PI and Kowalzig). The main insight so far has been been that the coadjoint action in the Lie group case suitably generalizes to the groupoid case. The third step, to be carried out with the help of C. Carvalho, will be to develop the theory of groupoid-invariant Spinc Dirac operators and their index theory.

               Quantization of singular spaces N. Kowalzig started his appointment with the elaboration of his Diplomarbeit on the quantization of regular symplectic quotients that are symplectic leaves of Poisson manifolds of the type (T*P)/G (where a given manifold P is a G-space for some Lie group G). This led to his first publication listed below. He is currently studying the singular case, in which the G-action is not free.  He attempts to combine the ideas in Xiang Tang, ÔDeformation Quantization of Pseudo Symplectic(Poisson) GroupoidsÕ, arXiv:math.QA/0405378, which uses the formalism of star-products or formal deformation quantization, with those in the PIÕs paper ÔDeformation quantization and the Baum--Connes conjectureÕ, Commun. Math. Phys. 237, 87-103 (2003), which uses operator-algebraic techniques and noncommutative geometry: the quotient (T*P)/G is desingularized in the spirit of Connes by the semidirect product groupoid T*P x G. In the C*-algebraic framework used by the PI, quantization of both the quotient and its desingularization is known. This appears to be a promising strategy.

               Quantization and index theory. In the past year C. Carvalho  carried out a research project in index theory in the framework of almost differentiable groupoids. She spent some time getting a clear grasp on the objects involved, namely on the general theory of pseudodifferential operators on groupoids and on the significance of the analytic index in this setting. For the time being, she has  been focusing mostly on groupoids associated to manifolds with corners. In particular, she devoted some time understanding Melrose's b-calculus approach to the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem on manifolds with boundary, which somehow  encapsulates the general philosophy of the role of groupoids in index theory. In order to deal with the more general case of manifolds with corners one should however replace Melrose's heat kernel approach by different techniques, such as constructing 'shriek' maps suited to the b-tangent spaces (this seems to be work in process by Monthubert and Nistor, with whom Carvalho (who is a former PhD student of Nistor) might collaborate in the near future). She now plans to explore further other settings where groupoids seem to play a significant role, such as Atiyah's L2-index theorem, and to place it properly in the groupoid framework, while still looking at the techniques used in the proof of the Connes-Skandalis index theorem for foliations. Finally, she hopes to develop techniques to deal with these index problems by combining the so-called 'shriek' methods with the asymptotic morphisms approach of Higson to the classical index theorem; this will involve using suitable quantisations of the algebras of symbols.

           Quantum symmetry. MŸgerÕs ongoing research revolves mostly about fusion categories, i.e., semisimple tensor categories that are linear over a field, in relation to subfactor theory, quantum field theory and representation theory, in particular categories and the study of algebras in and module categories over such categories. In the study of this area many subjects interact in a fascinating manner, and there is a host of interesting structural and classification problems. In "On the structure of modular categories" he proved a double commutant theorem for modular categories and deduced that every modular category is a direct product of prime ones. In "Galois extensions of braided tensor catgegories and braided crossed G-categories", a sequel to his  "Galois theory for braided tensor categories and the modular closure", he proved that Galois extensions of braided tensor categories give rise to braided crossed G-categories and studied the latter. These results to answer several long-standing questions in quantum field theory (CFT). His papers "On the center of a compact group" and "Representations of algebraic quantum groups and reconstruction theorems for tensor categories" are concerned with issues in the representation theory of groups and quantum groups, respectively. In the first, MŸger proves that the center of a compact group can be recovered from the representation ring, and in the second, written jointly with L.Tuset and J.E.Roberts, he give a streamlined presentation of the Tannaka reconstruction theory of discrete quantum including some new results. MŸger is presently working on another joint paper with L.Tuset "Regular representations of algebraic quantum groups and embedding theorems", which will give a considerably simplified proof of the abstract reconstruction theorem for compact groups, due originally to P.Deligne and S.Doplicher/J.E.Roberts. "Extensions and modular invariants of rational conformal field theories" will be

concerned with an approach to the classification of 'modular invariants', which play a central role in the construction of two-dimensional CFTs.

 

Other activities

 

During 2002-2003 the PI organized two workshops on topics central to the pionier project: a Workshop on the Quantization of Singular Symplectic Quotients at Oberwolfach, 20-26/01/2003, and a  Mini-Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry, Amsterdam, 21-23/05/2003. With R. Sjamaar (Cornell) and J. Sniatycki (Calgary), he prepared a proposal for a succesor to the first one, to be held at BIRS (Banff) in 2005 or 2006 (application pending).

           In 2002 he PI set up a Master Program in Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam, which should educate students in part for the kind of reserach in this pionier project. During 2003-2004 the PIÕs main activity outside the project was the MRI Masterclass on Noncommutative Geometry, organized jointly with I. Moerdijk (Utrecht). This had a similar goal. With considerable investment of time and energy, the PI supervised a PhD Thesis, as well as a number of M.Sc Theses on topics related to the pionier project: ÔQuantization of Hamiltonian loop group actionsÕ by H. Postuma (doctorate awarded 17/09/2003), and ÔQuasicrystals, C*-algebras and K-theoryÕ by F. Ypma and ÔCoarse Geometry and K-HomologyÕ by B.NorouzizadehÕ (the latter a Masterclass essay). Other project members were active in teaching as well: MŸger taught courses on algebraic and differential topology, Carvalho led the exercise class on C*-algebras and K-theory during the above mentioned Masterclass, and Hochs led various exercise classes in elementary mathematics during his appointment.

               Spring and Summer of 2004 were largely occupied with the preparation of the proposal The Fellowship of Geometry and Quantum Theory for an NWO Wiskundecluster, whose success or failure will become known shortly (ans probably is already known at the time the GBE reads this report). If successful, about one third of the research proposed in this cluster will be closely related to the present pionier project, the remainder still being relevant. More generally, this cluster would provide an enormous impetus to the areas of mathematical physics and mathematics the PI is interested in.

               As may be inferred from his list of talks below, the PI spent considerble effort on Outreach activities, addressing audiences from highschool students to retiring ÔPR-medewerkersÕ. These activities culminated in his popular book ÔRequiem for NewtonÕ to appear shortly (which, however, was entirely written during evenings, weekends and holidays).

               Finally, the move of the PI and the pionier project from the UvA to the RUN took effect on 01/09/2004 and took a longt ime to prepare. For reasons outlined in more detail in his recent letter to the GBE, the PI expects the move to significantly benefit the project, largely because of the reduction in travel time as well as the presence of mathematicians such as Heckman and Maassen at Nijmegen, whose expertise will undoubtedly be important to the project (this expectation has been realized already, as Heckman is currently writing a conference paper in collaboration with project member P. Hochs). Also, since the RUN is part of MRI, the PIÕs ties with Crainic and Moerdijk at Utrecht will be facilitated.

 

 

Nijmegen, 7 October, 2004                                           

N.P. Landsman                                

              

Publications 01/09/2002 Ð 31/08/2004

 

N.P. Landsman:

 

Refereed:

 

1. Quantization as a functor. In: Quantization, Poisson Brackets, and Beyond, ed. T. Voronov, Contemporary Mathematics 315, pp. 9-24 (AMS, Providence, 2002). arXiv:math-ph/0107023.

 

2. Quantization and the tangent groupoid. In: Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics

eds. J.-M. Combes, et al., pp. 251-265  (Theta Foundation, 2003). arXiv:math-ph/0208004

 

3. Deformation quantization and the Baum-Connes conjecture. Communications in Mathematical Physics 237, 87-103 (2003). arXiv: math-ph/0210015.

 

4. Functorial quantization and the Guillemin--Sternberg conjecture. In: Proc. XXth Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics (Bialowieza, 2002), eds. S.T Ali et al. arXiv:math-ph/0307059.

 

5. Quantum mechanics and representation theory: the new synthesis. Acta Applicandae Math. 81, 167-189 (2004).

 

Popular (in Dutch):

 

Wiskunde aan de grenzen van de natuurkunde (oratie). Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 5/3, 24-32 (2002).

 

Wie was Thomas Young? Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde 69, 40-44 (2003).

 

De dramatiek van de natuurkunde: Toneelstukken van Frayn en Rijnders onder de loep.

Kunst en Wetenschap 12 (2), 5-8  (2003).

 

Briljante gifmenger: een portret van Isaac Newton. Academische Boekengids 39 (juni), 13-14 (2003).

 

De indexstelling van Atiyah en Singer. Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 5/5, 207-211 (2004).

 

Requiem voor Newton (Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam, 2005, 400 p.).

 

C. Carvalho:

 

A K-theory proof of the cobordism invariance of the index, arXiv.math.KT/0408260.

 

N. Kowalzig:

 

Phase Space Reduction of Star Products on Cotangent Bundles. Ann. Inst. H. Poincare, in press. arXiv:math.SG/0403239.

 

M. MŸger:

 

1. On the structure of modular categories. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 87, 291-308 (2003).

 

2. Galois extensions of braided tensor catgegories and braided crossed G-categories. J. Alg. 277, 256-281 (2004).

 

3. On the center of a compact group. Intern. Math. Res. Notes. 2004:51, 2751-2756 (2004)

 

4. M. Mueger, L. Tuset, J.E. Roberts: Representations of algebraic quantum groups and reconstruction theorems for tensor categories. Alg. Repres. Theor. (2004) in press. arXiv:math.QA/0203206.

 

5. Conformal orbifold theories and braided crossed G-categories. Commun. Math. Phys. in press. arXiv:math.QA/0403322.

 

Project guests:

 

R. Popescu, Equivariant E-theory for groupoids acting on C*-algebras. J. Funct. Anal. 209, 247-292 (2004).

 

W. D. van Suijlekom, The noncommutative Lorentzian cylinder as an isospectral  deformation.  J. Math. Phys. 45, 537-556 (2004).

 

 

Talks  01/09/2002 Ð 31/08/2004

 

N.P. Landsman:

 

2004:

 

Friday, 9 July, 16:00-17:00, Paris

(K-theory and Noncommutative Geometry)

The  ÔQuantization commutes with  reductionÕ conjecture for noncompact groups

 

Tuesday, June 29, 20:00-22:00, Leusden

(Wiskunde en Werkelijkheid)

Wiskunde of Religie: Spinoza versus Newton

 

Wednesday, June 23, 15:30-16:30. Utrecht

(MRI Workshop on Lie Groups in Analysis, Geometry, and Mechanics)

The Guillemin--Sternberg  conjecture for noncompact groups

 

Wednesday, June 16, 15:00-16:00. Frankfurt

(Workshop zu Indextheorie und Quantisierung)

Die Vermutung von Guillemin--Sternberg  fŸr nichtkompakte Gruppen

 

Thursday, May 27, 15:30-17:00, Utrecht

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem (with J.J. Duistermaat)

 

Thursday, 13 May, 9:15-11:00, Amsterdam

(Highlights-College)

De indexstelling van Atiyah en Singer voor eerstejaars verklaard

 

Wednesday, 12 May, 11:15-12:15. Amsterdam

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem

 

Wednesday, 12 May, 15:15-16:00. Amsterdam

Wiskunde en de Verlichting: Descartes - Spinoza - Newton

 

Tuesday, 30 March, 14:00-16:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

Geometric quantization III

 

Tuesday, 16 March, 14:00-15:00, Marseille-Luminy

(Geometric Analysis)

Quantization,  the analytic assembly map, and the Guillemin--Sternberg conjecture for noncompact groups

 

Tuesday, 9 March, 14:00-16:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

Geometric quantization II

 

Tuesday, 17 February, 14:45-15:45, Marseille-Luminy

(Noncommutative Geometry in Mathematics and Physics)

Functoriality of quantization and the Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture

 

Tuesday, 3 February, 14:00-16:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

Geometric quantization I

 

2003:

 

Tuesday, October 14, 14:00-16:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

From index theory to (geometric) quantization

 

Tuesday, October 7, 14:00-16:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

From (deformation) quantization to index theory

 

Wednesday, August 20, 10:00-17:00, Villigst

(Welle trifft Teilchen)

Klassische und Quantenmechanik

 

Thursday, August 21, 20:00-22:00, Villigst

(Welle trifft Teilchen)

Werner Heisenberg und die deutsche Atombombe

 

Friday, July 11, 15:00-16:00, Aachen

Quantum mechanics and  representation theory: the new synthesis

 

Wednesday, 11 June, 16:00-16:30, Amsterdam (CWI)

Kansen en valkuilen bij de popularisering van de wiskunde

 

Friday, 23 May, 15:30-16:30 Amsterdam

(Mini-Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry)

Functoriality of quantization, KK-theory, and the Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture

 

Wednesday, 21 May, 15:15-16:00, Amsterdam

Wiskunde en de Verlichting: Descartes - Spinoza - Newton

 

Friday, 9 May, 14:00-14:45, Amsterdam

(Leve de Wiskunde)

De wiskunde achter de kwantumtheorie: Van atoomspectra tot niet-commutatieve meetkunde

 

Thursday, 1 May, 11:00-11:45, Nijmegen

(Nederlands Mathematisch Congres)

Quantum mechanics and  representation theory: the new synthesis

 

Friday, April 11, 11:00-13:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Noncommutative Geometry)

The general Baum-Connes conjecture

 

Friday, 4 April, 11:15-12:15, Utrecht

The royal path to quantization

 

Tuesday, 11 March, 12:45-13:45, Delft

De wiskunde achter de quantumtheorie: Van atoomspectra tot  niet-commutatieve meetkunde

 

Wednesday, 5 March, 16:00-17:30, Amsterdam

Eerste drukken van boeken van Newton, Huygens and Descartes in de UBA

 

Wednesday, 5 March, 20:00-22:00, Amsterdam

Uit het raam staren (gesprek met Gerardjan Rijnders)

 

Thursday, 13 February, 15:30-17:30, Utrecht

Quantization as a functor

 

Friday, 31 January, 11:00-11:45, Amsterdam

Isaac Newton: de eerste moderne wiskundige

 

Thursday, 23 January, 10:00-12:00, Oberwolfach

(Workshop on the Quantization of Singular Symplectic Quotients)

Quantization as a functor

 

Wednesday, 15 January, 11:15-12:45, Hamburg

Quantization as a functor

 

2002:

 

Friday, 6 December, 11:00-13:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Noncommutative Geometry)

KK-theory

 

Wednesday, 13 November,14:00-15:00, Amsterdam

Isaac Newton: de eerste mathematisch fysicus

 

Friday, 1 November, 14:00-16:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Noncommutative Geometry)

Connes's proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem II

 

Friday, 18 October, 11:00-13:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Noncommutative Geometry)

Connes's proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem I

 

Friday, 20 September,  11:00-13:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Noncommutative Geometry)

The  Atiyah-Singer index theorem

 

Friday, 6 September,   11:00-13:00, Amsterdam

(Seminar on Noncommutative Geometry)

Overview: from Atiyah-Singer to V. Lafforgue

 

C. Carvalho:

 

Index theory on noncompact manifolds I,  Amsterdam, 21-10-03

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

Index theory on noncompact manifolds II, UvA,  Amsterdam, 4-11-03

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

Index theory for groupoids I, UvA,  Amsterdam, 18-06-04

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

Index theory for groupoids II, RU, Nijmegen, 07-08-04

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

Index theory for groupoids III, RU, Nijmegen, 14-08-04

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

P. Hochs:

 

 Localisation at fixed point sets I, 11 november 2003

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

Localisation at fixed point sets II, 2 december 2003

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

Symplectic reduction as a map on K-homology I, 21 september 2004

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

Symplectic reduction as a map on K-homology  II, 28 september 2004,

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

N. Kowalzig:

 

9 December 2003:, Reduction of star products on cotangent bundles I

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

18 December 2003, 14:15-16:00: Reduction of star products on cotangent bundles II

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

M. MŸger:

 

The noncommutative-geometry approach to the Novikov conjecture I, 13 January 2004

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

The noncommutative-geometry approach to the Novikov conjecture II, 20 January 2004

(Seminar on Quantization, Noncommutative Geometry, and Symmetry)

 

The idempotent conjecture and the conjectures of Novikov and Baum/Connes, Aachen,

November 2003 (6 hour lecture series)

 

Conformal orbifold models and braided crossed G-categories, held at:

University 'Tor Vergata', Rome (May 2004)

Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna (Program on Tensor categories in mathematics and physics 14.-26.06.2004)

University of Hamburg: 14th Workshop on Foundations and Constructive Aspects of QFT  02.-03.7.2004)

 

 

Conference Attendances 01/09/2002 Ð 31/08/2004

 

N.P. Landsman:

 

Workshop on the Quantization of Singular Symplectic Quotients, Oberwolfach, 20-26/01/2003 (Organizer and speaker)

 

Mini-Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry, Amsterdam, 21-23/05/2003 (Organizer and speaker)

 

Nederlands Mathematisch Congres, Nijmegen, 1-2/05/2003 (Invited speaker)

 

Welle trifft Teilchen, Villigst, 18-22/08/2003 (Invited speaker)

 

Noncommutative Geometry in Mathematics and Physics, Marseille-Luminy, 16-20/02/2004 (Invited speaker)

 

Geometric Analysis, Marseille-Luminy, 15-19/03/2004 (Invited speaker)

 

Workshop zu Indextheorie und Quantisierung, Frankfurt, 16/06/2004 (Invited speaker)

 

Wiskunde en Werkelijkheid, Leusden, 28-31/06/2004 (Invited speaker)

 

MRI Workshop on Lie Groups in Analysis, Geometry, and Mechanics, Utrecht, 21-25/06/2004 (Invited speaker)

 

K-theory and Noncommutative Geometry, Paris, 5-9/07/2004 (Invited speaker)

 

C. Carvalho:

 

Non-commutative Geometry in Mathematics and Physics: K-theory, CIRM Marseille, 9-02-04 to 13-02-04

 

Non-commutative Geometry in Mathematics and Physics: Non-commutative Geometry in Physics, CIRM Marseille, 16-02-04 to 20-02-04;

 

Geometric Analysis: CIRM Marseille, Marseille, 15-03-04 to 19-03-04;

 

K-theory and Non-commutative geometry, IHP Paris, 4-07-04 to 15-07-04.

 

P. Hochs:

 

The Clay mathematics institute conference and spring school on noncummutative geometry and applications, Vanderbilt university, Nashvill, Tennessee, VS, 2 Ð13/05/2003

 

School and conference PQR 2003 on Poisson geometry, Quantization and group Representations, Vrije universiteit Brussel, België, 13 Ð22/06/2003

 

Noncommutative geometry in mathematics and physics, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Marseille, Frankrijk, 9 - 20/02/2004

 

Spring school Lie groups in analysis, geometry and physics, Universiteit Utrecht, May-June 2004

 

N. Kowalzig:

 

Poisson Geometry, Deformation Quantisation and Group Representations (Bruxelles June 2003, prior to appointment)

 

DMV-Tagung (Rostock, September 2003)

 

K-Theory and Cyclic Cohomology: Noncommutative Geometry in Mathematics and Physics (Luminy/Marseille February 2004)

 

K-Theory and Noncommutative Geometry School followed by a conference

the same topics  (Paris,  May-June-July 2004, on unpaid leave from the UvA).

 

M. MŸger:

 

 25.-31.1.2004 Oberwolfach-Seminar: `The Novikov Conjecture: Geometry

   and Algebra'

 

08.-12.3.2004: University of Muenster: Workshop `L2-Invariants,

  Measure Theory and Geometric Group Theory'

 

14.-26.06.2004: Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna: Program on

   `Tensor categories in mathematics and physics'

 

02.-03.7.2004: University of Hamburg: 14th Workshop "Foundations and

    Constructive Aspects of QFT"

 

05.-16.7.2004: Institute Henri Poincare', Paris: Conference

   `K-Theory and Noncommutative geometry'

 

19.-21.7.2004: Saclay Paris: Symposium in honor of J. Bros `Rigorous Quantum Field Theory'