This is the third edition of the "Beyond Lorentzian Geometry" workshops. The first and second were held in Edinburgh in October 2019 and February 2023, respectively, and they were a resounding success.
This meeting will be spread over three days: the first two days are devoted to non-lorentzian geometry/physics and a third day celebrating the 63rd birthday of José Figueroa-O'Farrill.
Background
It is by now well-established that various notions of non-Lorentzian geometry (such as Newton-Cartan and Carrollian geometries) are commonplace in various areas of high-energy physics and beyond. For example in General Relativity they appear as boundary geometries, on certain hypersurfaces inside a Lorentzian geometry and near singularities. In field theory they appear when one couples a non-Lorentz invariant theory to a curved background. They also appear when making approximations such as in the context of the post-Newtonian expansion in General Relativity or when approximating a field theory near some BPS bound. They finally also appear in String Theory for example as the T-dual description of a discrete light cone quantisation of a relativistic closed string, but also for example near BPS bounds in AdS/CFT, and in many other places and contexts.
In this workshop we would like to bring together researchers working on both mathematical and physical aspects of these upcoming exciting geometries.
Speakers
- Stefano Baiguera
- Eric Bergshoeff
- Laura Donnay
- Joaquim Gomis
- Troels Harmark
- Emil Have
- Neil Lambert
- Sucheta Majumdar
- Niels Obers
- George Papadopoulos
- Simon Pekar
- Stefan Prohazka
- Jan Rosseel
- Andrea Santi
- Stefan Vandoren
- Katrin Wendland
- Ziqi Yan
- Céline Zwikel
Organisers
For questions please contact:
José Figueroa-O'Farrill (j.m.figueroa@ed.ac.uk)
Jelle Hartong (j.hartong@ed.ac.uk)
Sponsors
We are grateful for the financial support from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust Learning and Research Support Fund, the London Mathematical Society and from the Royal Society.
