Oporto Meetings on
Geometry, Topology and Physics
The aim of the yearly 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.
Next Meeting
Previous Meetings
Main Theme: Symplectic and Poisson Geometry
Confirmed 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
Confirmed 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
Confirmed 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