The Legacy of Deformation Quantization

Conference at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona

Centro Stefano Franscini

26 June-1 July 2011

Deformation Quantization has its origin in the transition from classical to quantum mechanics: commutative coordinates on phase space representing physical quantities are replaced by operators that fail to be commutative.
Recent developments in the mathematical treatment of quantization led to a mathematical discipline which has little to do with the original physics problem, but turns out to have applications to many fields of mathematics, including complex and algebraic geometry, representation theory of Lie algebras, homotopical algebra and quantum field theory.
The aim of the conference is to discuss these developments and explore future directions of research based on the idea of quantization.

Date and place:

The conference takes place in the Centro Stefano Franscini, on the top of the Monte Verità in Ascona (Switzerland), from 26 June to 1 July 2011.
The arrival day is Sunday, 26 June. There will be a free shuttle service on Sunday from the Locarno train station to the Centro Stefano Franscini. Here you find the schedule as well as check-in information.

List of speakers:

• Anton Alekseev (Geneva)
• Martin Bordemann (Mulhouse)
• Andrei Caldararu (Madison, Wisconsin)
• Owen Gwillian (Northwestern)
• Ivan Losev (MIT)
• Marco Manetti (Rome)
• Sergei Merkulov (Stockholm)
• Pietro Polesello (Padova)
• Ajay Ramadoss (ETH Zürich)
• Pierre Schapira (Jussieu)
• Paolo Stellari (Milano)
• Boris Tsygan (Northwestern)
• Michel Van Den Bergh (Hasselt)
• Thomas Willwacher (Harvard)
• Ping Xu (Luxembourg)
• Amnon Yekutieli (Beer-Sheba)