Oporto Meetings on
Geometry, Topology and Physics

The aim of the Oporto meetings is to bring together mathematicians and physicists interested in the inter-relation between geometry, topology and physics and to provide them with a pleasant and informal environment for scientific interchange.

• XXI Meeting (February, 4-7, 2015) at IST, Lisbon
  Main Theme: Applications of Topology
  Main speakers: Ulrich Bauer (IST Austria), Michael Farber (University of Warwick), Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov (Universität Bremen) and Piotr Sulkowski (University of Warsaw and California Institute of Technology)
• XXth Meeting (July, 19-22, 2012) at the Oporto University
  Main Theme: Noncommutative Geometry and Conformal Field Theory
  Main speakers: Jurgen Fuchs (Karlstads University), Terry Gannon (University of Alberta), Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (University of Tokyo) and Roberto Longo (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
• XIXth Meeting (July 19-23, 2010) at the Algarve University
  Main Theme: Categorification
  Main speakers: Sabin Cautis (Columbia University), Aaron Lauda (Columbia University), Catharina Stroppel (University of Bonn), Dylan Thurston (Barnard College) and Ben Webster (MIT)
• XVIIIth Meeting (July 8-12, 2009) at the Oporto University
  Main Theme: Symplectic and Poisson Geometry
  Main speakers: Paul Biran (Tel-Aviv University), Henrique Bursztyn (IMPA), Yael Karshon (University of Toronto) and Alan Weinstein (U.C. Berkeley)
• XVIIth Meeting (July 10-13, 2008) at the Oporto University
  Main Theme: Approaches to Quantum Gravity
  Main speakers: Ali Chamsedinne (American U. of Beirut), Steven Giddings (University of California, Santa Barbara), Renate Loll (Utrecht University) and Thomas Thiemann (Albert Einstein Max Planck Institute, Golm)
• XVIth Meeting (July 5-8, 2007) at the Algarve University
  Main Theme: The Combinatorics, Geometry, Topology and Physics of Knot Homology
  Main speakers: Sergei Gukov (California Institute of Tecnology), Peter Ozsváth (Columbia University), Jacob Rasmussen (Princeton University) & Paul Turner (Heriot-Watt University).
• XVth Meeting (July 20-23, 2006)
  Main Theme: Mathematical Aspects of Supersymmetry
  Confirmed main speakers: Frank Ferrari, Dan Freed, Nicholas Manton, Albert Schwarz & Veeravalli S. Varadarajan.
• XIVth Meeting (July 21-24, 2005)
  Main Theme: Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory
  Main speakers: Klaus Fredenhagen, Gerald Johnson, David McComb & Graeme Segal
• XIIIth Meeting (July 16-19, 2004)
  Main Theme: Recent Developments in Chern-Simons Theory
  Main speakers: D. Bar-Natan, S. Gukov, J. Roberts & C. Woodward
• XIIth Meeting (July 17-20, 2003)
  Main Theme: Mathematics and String Theory
  Main speakers: T. Gannon, A. Klemm, M. Marińo & E. Sharpe
• XIth Meeting (July 12-15, 2002)
  Main Theme: Geometry of Differential Equations
  Main speakers: I. Anderson, Ph. Griffiths, N. Kamran, J. Krasil'shchik, A. Verbovetsky & A. Vinogradov
• Xth Meeting (September 20-24, 2001)
  Main speakers: J. Barrett, S. Sawin, Tsou Sheung Tsun & B. Westbury
• IXth Meeting (September 29-October 2, 2000)
  Main speakers: M. Akivis, V. Goldberg, J. Landsberg, S. Salamon & R. Sharpe
• VIIIth Meeting (July 2-5, 1999)
  Main speakers: R. Donagi, J. Froehlich & E. Getzler
• VIIth Meeting (June 5-8, 1998)
  Main speakers: J. Baez, B. Greene, L. Takhtajan, B. Tsygan & D. Yetter
• VIth Meeting (July 4-7, 1997)
  Main speakers: M. Blau, R. Dijkgraaf, P. Fre & L. Kauffman
• Vth Meeting (April 19-22, 1996)
  Main speakers: J. Gervais, C. Kassel, J. Labastida & V. Turaev
• IVth Meeting (June 19-22, 1995)
  Main speakers: J. Baez, A. Cattaneo, L. Crane & G. Masbaum
• IIId Meeting (June 6-8, 1994)
  Main speakers: J. Nelson, J. Sousa Ramos, E. Ręgo & J. N. Tavares
• IInd Meeting (June 14-17, 1993)
  Main speakers: A. Ya. Helemskii, C. Menezes, R. Picken & E. Ręgo
• Ist Meeting (February 24-27, 1992)
  Main speakers: R. Picken, E. Ręgo & J.N. Tavares

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