Noncommutative Shapes: A conference in honor of Michel Van den Bergh's 60th birthday

University of Antwerp

September 12–16, 2022

The schedule is given in Antwerp's local time zone, so GMT+2.

08:30–10:00: registration
10:00–10:50: Bounded t-structures on the category of perfect complexes; Amnon Neeman (Australian National University)
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11:00–11:30: break
11:30–12:20: Grothendieck classes of quadric hypersurfaces and involution varieties (remote); Gonçalo Tabuada (University of Warwick)
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12:20–14:00: lunch
14:00–14:50: Perverse sheaves and schobers on symmetric products.; Mikhail Kapranov (Yale University)
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15:00–15:30: break
15:30–16:20: The noncommutative minimal model program (remote); Daniel Halpern-Leistner (Cornell University)
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17:00–19:30: reception

09:00–09:50: Noncommutative crystalline cohomology; Boris Tsygan (Northwestern University)
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10:00–10:30: break
10:30–11:20: Convolution algebras via Chow groups (remote); Catharina Stroppel (University of Bonn)
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11:30–12:20: Categorical absorption of singularities; Alexander Kuznetsov (Steklov Mathematical Institute)
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12:20–14:00: lunch
14:00–14:50: Noncommutative Enriques surfaces (remote); Alexander Perry (University of Michigan)
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15:00–15:30: break
15:30–16:20: Generalized Kähler metrics and double symplectic groupoids (remote); Marco Gualtieri (University of Toronto)
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16:30–17:20: Non-Fourier-Mukai functors and counterexamples in algebraic geometry; Alice Rizzardo (University of Liverpool)
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09:00–09:50: Comparing Calabi-Yau and quasi-bisymplectic structures for multiplicative preprojective algebras; Damien Calaque (University of Montpellier)
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10:00–10:30: break
10:30–11:20: Blowing down noncommutative cubic surfaces (remote); Sue Sierra (University of Edinburgh)
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11:30–12:20: Invariant holonomic systems for symmetric spaces (remote); Toby Stafford (University of Manchester)
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19:00–...: conference dinner

09:00–09:50: Spherical objects in dimension 2 and 3; Michael Wemyss (University of Glasgow)
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10:00–10:30: break
10:30–11:20: Bihamiltonian Feigin-Odesskii structures (remote); Alexander Polishchuk (University of Oregon)
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11:30–12:20: Categorical Donaldson-Thomas theory of $\mathbb{C}^3$; Tudor Pădurariu (Columbia University)
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12:20–14:00: lunch
14:00–14:50: Fukaya categories and functoriality in mirror symmetry; Denis Auroux (Harvard University)
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15:00–15:30: break
15:30–16:20: Deformations of Calabi–Yau varieties in mixed characteristic; Lenny Taelman (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
16:30–17:20: On Amiot's conjecture (remote); Bernhard Keller (Université Paris Cité)
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09:00–09:50: Coherent sheaves on the Hilbert scheme of points, revisited; Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
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10:00–10:30: break
10:30–11:20: An analog of the Beilinson-Drinfeld Grassmannian for surfaces (remote); Gabriele Vezzosi (University of Firenze)
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11:30–12:20: Mirrors of adjoint orbits and deformations; Elizabeth Gasparim (Universidad Católica del Norte)
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12:20–14:00: lunch
14:00–14:50: Non-commutative cristalline cohomology; Dmitry Kaledin (Steklov Mathematical Institute and Higher School of Economics)
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15:00–16:00: drinks