2010 TALBOT WORKSHOP: TWISTED K-THEORY AND LOOP GROUPS 
May 23-29, 2010
Breckenridge, Colorado

This posting announces the 2010 Talbot Workshop, Twisted K-theory and Loop
Groups, mentored by Constantin Teleman.

The workshop will constitute a weeklong retreat with talks and organized
discussions during the mornings and evenings; the afternoon schedule will be
kept clear for informal discussions and collaborations. The workshop will
generally focus on understanding the relationship between the representation
theory of a loop group LG and the equivariant twisted K-theory of G.
Specifically, talks will develop the geometric approach to the representation
theory of loop groups, K-theory and its twisted variant, basic computations
of K-theory, Dirac operators and the families index theorem, extended
topological field theories and Chern-Simons theory, conformal field theory and
the WZW model, and recent work on extending Chern-Simons and gauged
Gromov-Witten theory.

The workshop discussions will have an expository character and will be aimed
at graduate students and junior faculty interested in this area.

Further information about the workshop will become available at:

http://math.mit.edu/talbot

This website also contains information about the past Talbot workshops: Fukaya
categories (mentored by Paul Seidel), Affine Lie algebras and chiral
structures (mentored by Dennis Gaitsgory), Topological modular forms (mentored
by Michael Hopkins), Automorphisms of manifolds (mentored by Michael Weiss),
Geometric Langlands (mentored by David Ben-Zvi), and Geometric models of
elliptic cohomology (mentored by Stephan Stolz).

If you are interested in participating or would like to receive further
information about the workshop, please go to math.mit.edu/talbot. We may be
able to subsidize participants' travel expenses. Please note that the number
of participants will be strictly limited for space reasons.

Organizers:

Sheel Ganatra (ganatra(at)math.mit.edu)
Owen Gwilliam (gwilliam(at)math.northwestern.edu) 
Hiro Tanaka (htanaka(at)math.northwestern.edu)