All talks will take place in the Huygens building (HG00.303) of Radboud University Nijmegen. A list of abstracts can be found here. Click on the links below to access the speakers’ pdf slides and video recordings of their presentations.
Monday 4 April
09:00 – 9:30 Registration and coffee/tea
09:30 – 10:30 José Gracia-Bondía: Light-like String Localized Quantum Fields, video
10:30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 – 12:00 Latham Boyle: The Standard Model as a Differential Graded Super-Algebra, video
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break (3rd floor, wing 7/8)
13:30 – 14:30 Fedele Lizzi: Wick Rotation, Fermion Doubling and Lorentz Symmetry for the
Spectral Action, video
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee/tea break
15:00 – 16:00 Mairi Sakellariadou: Spectral Action and Cosmology, video
16:00 – 17:00 Ali Chamseddine: Unification of Gravity and Gauge Interactions, video
17:00 – 18:00 Drinks, refreshments and piano music (by Olga Pashchenko)
18:00 – 19:00 Public lecture by Alain Connes (HG00.307): Geometry and the Quantum, video
19:00 – 19:30 Further drinks, refreshments and piano music (by Olga Pashchenko)
(Pictures of the public event can be found here)
Tuesday 5 April
09:30 – 10:30 Shane Farnsworth: The Underlying Algebraic Structure Behind the Standard Model of Particle Physics, video
10:30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 – 12:00 Patrizia Vitale: The Gribov Problem in Noncommutative QED, video
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break (3rd floor, wing 7/8)
13:30 – 14:30 Thierry Masson: Generalized Connections and Higgs Fields on Lie Algebroids, video
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee/tea break
15:00 – 16:00 Giovanni Landi: Line Bundles over Noncommutative Spaces, video
16:00 – 17:00 Francesca Arici: Cuntz-Pimsner Algebras and Mapping Cone Exact Sequences, video
17:30 – 21:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 6 April
09:30 – 10:30 Jens Kaad: Morita Equivalences of Spectral Triples, video
10:30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 – 12:00 Bram Mesland: Hecke Operators and K-Homology of Arithmetic Groups, video
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break (3rd floor, wing 7/8)
13:30 – 14:30 Magnus Goffeng: Detecting Regularity Using Cyclic Cocycles and Singular Traces, video
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee/tea break
15:00 – 16:00 Peter Hochs: A Fixed Point Theorem on Non-Compact Manifolds, video
16:00 – 17:00 Victor Gayral: From Equivariant Quantization to Locally Compact Quantum Groups, video
Thursday 7 April
09:30 – 10:30 Nadir Bizi: The NC Standard Model: Lorentzian Signature and NC Differential Forms, video
10:30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 – 12:00 Michał Eckstein: Hidden Causal Structure of Gauge Theories, video
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break (3rd floor, wing 7/8)
13:30 – 14:30 Koen van den Dungen: The Fermionic Action, video
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee/tea break
15:00 – 16:00 Farzad Fathizadeh: Modular Forms in the Spectral Action of Bianchi-IX
Gravitational Instantons, video
16:00 – 17:00 John Barrett: The Noncommutative Geometry of Defects, video
Friday 8 April
09:30 – 10:30 Francesco D’Andrea: The Standard Model in Noncommutative Geometry: Fermions as Internal Dirac Spinors? video
10:30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 – 12:00 Anna Pachoł: Hopf Algebroids, Drinfeld Twists and Quantum Space-Times, video
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break (3rd floor, wing 7/8)
13:30 – 14:30 Tomasz Brzeziński: Noncommutative Geometry of Generalised Weyl Algebras, video