The conference aims to bring together leading senior researchers and promising early career scholars working in the field of Geometry and to popularize recent developments and new achievements in this field. The event also seeks to provide an opportunity for young scholars from South-Eastern Europe to engage with cutting edge research in this area and to meet and interact with leading experts from around the world. The event is jointly organized by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute for the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA) at the University of Miami.

Organisers: Ludmil Katzarkov (IMI Sofia & University of Miami); Leonardo Cavenaghi (IMI Sofia); Tony Pantev (University of Pennsylvania); Velichka Milousheva (IMI Sofia).

Sponsors: Simons Foundation Grants of ICMS-Sofia and IMSA-Miami; National Science Foundation; Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria; University of Miami.

More information is coming soon.

9:30 am — Fabrizio Catanese (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

10:30 am — Leonardo Francisco Cavenaghi (IMI Sofia)

11:30 am — Pedro Muniz (University of Campinas, Brazil)

4:30 pm — Giovane Galindo (IMI Sofia)

5:30 pm — Helge Ruddat (University of Stavanger, Norway)

6:30 pm — Richard Paul Horja (University of Miami, USA)

9:30 am — Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

10:30 am — Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University and Simons Center, USA)

11:30 am — Kyoung-Seog Lee (POSTECH, South Korea)

4:30 pm — Lino Grama (University of Campinas, Brazil)

5:30 pm — Alexander Vitanov (IMI Sofia)

6:30 pm — Samir Santamaria Albus (University of Miami, USA)

9:30 am — Ernesto Lupercio (IMI Sofia and Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico)

10:30 am — Mikhail Shkolnikov (IMI Sofia)

11:30 am — Ilia Itenberg (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche, Sorbonne Université)

Excursion (afternoon)

9:30 am — Andras Szenes (University of Geneva)

10:30 am — Stefan Ivanov (Sofia University and IMI Sofia)

11:30 am — Oren Ben-Bassat (University of Haifa, Israel)

4:30 pm — Jae Hwang Lee (BICMR, China)

5:30 pm — Mina Teicher (Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Director WIMSA, USA)