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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">"Geometry and Physics 2014" (GAP 2014)</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Date: May 29 - 31, 2014</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Location: Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">***This year's theme is: geometry and supersymmetry.***</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Every year, the GAP conference focuses on a current hot research topic at the interface between geometry and physics.</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">The conference usually consists of 4 or 5 mini-courses on different aspects of the chosen theme.</div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">This year, GAP 2014 will kick off a few weeks of intense activity at the interface of geometry and physics in Western Canada,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">continuing with the </span>String Math Summer School [June 2 – 6, 2014; University of British Columbia] and culminating with the</div>
<div>String Math 2014 conference [June 9 – 13, 2014; University of Alberta].</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Our schedule will also allow ample time between talks for discussions.</div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">GAP 2014 is now the sixth installment in what has become an annual tradition. The history of GAP and more information about</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">this year's conference and links to related activities can be found here: <a href="http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gap/">http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gap/</a></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Organizers:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>Charles Doran (Alberta), Marco Gualtieri (Toronto), Tristan Hübsch (Howard),</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Spiro Karigiannis (Waterloo), Ruxandra Moraru (Waterloo), and McKenzie Wang (McMaster).</div>
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<div>Mini-courses will be given by the following speakers:</div>
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<li>Chris Brav (Institute for Advanced Study)</li><li>Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania)</li><li>José Figueroa-O'Farrill (University of Edinburgh)</li><li>Daniel Waldram (Imperial College London)</li></ul>
<div>In addition, an introductory lecture and a special public lecture will be given by:</div>
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<li>James Gates (University of Maryland)</li></ul>
<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Registration is not required. Some financial support may be available for graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Please see the conference website for the most up-to-date information.</span></div>
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