Conferences and talks


Carlos Simpson 


Conferences:



Conference Journées Homotopiques in honor of Clemens Berger's 60th birthday,
Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Université Côte d'Azur, December 7-9, 2022


Also not an organizer of CATS-60 !  Toulouse, June 20th to 24th, 2022


Workshop Duality and More, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Université Côte d'Azur, May 16-20, 2022


Not an organizer, but a happy participant of CATS-5 in Lisbon, September 26th to October 5th, 2018


The wildly successful CATS-4 conference
Higher Categorical Structures and their Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic Topology and Algebra,
was organized in Luminy, July 2-6, 2012, by the ANR Hodag


I was mentor of the 2011 Talbot Workshop on Non-Abelian Hodge theory, Utah, May 1-7, 2011.
Thanks specially to Hiro Tanaka, Sheel Ganatra and Owen Gwilliam for organizing the workshop with amazing flair,
and thanks to everybody for their wonderful participation, it was great fun!


Mini-workshop on algebraic geometry, Nice, May 10-16th 2011,
organized in the ANR Hodag by C. Simpson (had no time for jet-lag)


Conference GAD-I on higher categories and derived algebraic geometry, Montpellier, May 24-30, 2010,
organized in the ANR Hodag by T. Pantev, C. Simpson, B. Toen, M. Vaquié, G. Vezzosi


The Workshop on Tensors and Interpolation, Nice, June 10-12, 2009, organized by P. Comon, B. Mourrain, C. Simpson


Groupes fondamentaux en géométrie algébrique, workshop of the ANR Sediga,
organized by A. Dimca, C. Simpson in Nice, May 25-27, 2009


The next in the popular Cats series, Cats 3, was organized by T. Pantev, C. Simpson, B. Toen and G. Vezzosi
at the Centro Ennio de Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, 1-5 septembre 2008



The conference Algebraic Geometry and Categories in honor of André Hirschowitz's 61st birthday! June, 2005 


Alessandro Chiodo organized the Journées orbifold in April 2006.


An intermezzo in the tradition of the Cats1,2 conferences was the workshop on Higher stacks in algebraic geometry

Organized by C. Simpson, B. Toen and G. Vezzosi, May 15-19, 2006.


Eugenia Cheng organized the The 85th Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic in Nice, March 2007


I was on the scientific commitee of the Conférence de Géométrie Algébrique, I.H.P., Paris, organised by  O. Debarre, Y. Laszlo et C. Voisin (Colloque Anniversaire d'Arnaud Beauville, juin 2007)


Une page pour la Fete de la Science 2005



Talks:


---Twistor space and parabolic structures, Moduli spaces and geometric structures, ICMAT, September 12-16, 2022

in honor of Oscar Garcia-Prada's 60th birthday

---Learning classification proofs for finite structures, Joint AMS/EMS/SMF meeting, Artificial Intelligence section

Grenoble, July 21st 2022

---Perspectives for computation in theoretical mathematics, Algebra 2022 and Beyond, Bloomington, June 3-5, 2022

in honor of Michael Larsen's 60th birthday

---Machine learning for optimizing certain kinds of classification proofs for finite structures, (video), Machine Learning

for the Working Mathematician, Sydney online, April 28th, 2022

---On the geometry at infinity for rank 2 connections on P^1 minus 5 points, Algebraic Geometry and  Integrable Systems 2022,

Kobe  University online, February 8-11, 2022, for Masa-Hiko Saito's retirement

---Moduli of quasi-parabolic logarithmic connections of rank 2, and construction of a twistor space, Kobe University online,

October 8th, 2021

---A twistor space for moduli of logarithmic connections of rank 2 on an open curve, GADEPS online, IMPA, September 24th, 2021

---FRG Lecture series Moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces, organized at UIC online by Izzet Coskun, June 10-11, 2021

---Hodge theory and local systems, ICMS Sofia, March 3-5, 2020

---Exploring Moduli: Basic constructions and examples, 5-lecture series, Moduli of Bundles and Related Structures

ICTS, Bangalore, February 10-14, 2020

---The Donagi-Pantev program for the geometric Langlands correspondence, AGAG 2019, USTC Hefei, December 2019


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--- Spectral networks and harmonic maps to buildings,
3rd Itzykson Colloquium: Wall crossing and Hitchin integrable systems, FMJH, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, 7 november 2013

--- Towards the boundary of the character variety,
Recent progress in the theory of Painlevé equations: algebraic, asymptotic and topological aspects, CNRS-JSPS, IRMA, Strasbourg, 4-8 november 2013

---Images directes supérieure des systemes locaux et fibrés de Higgs,
Workshop Théorie de Hodge, Jussieu, 19-21 décembre 2012

---Structure at infinity of the moduli space of representations,
Algebraic Geometry seminar, UC Berkeley, le 8 aout 2012

---Restriction of unipotent logarithmic connections and twistor structures,
Conférence Singularités des Equations Différentielles en Géometrie Algébrique,
organisé par l'ANR SEDIGA, Luminy, 4-8 juin 2012

---Structure at infinity of the moduli space of flat connections, parts 1 and 2,
Geometry and Quantization of Moduli Spaces, CRM, Bellaterra, Barcelona, les 17 et 18 avril, 2012

---Homotopy theory of higher categories,
Algebraic stacks: progress and prospects, BIRS, Banff, 26-30 mars 2012

---Local systems on P1 minus 4 points, Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Mainz, le 9 février 2012

---Topological structure at infinity of moduli spaces of flat connections,
Conference on Homological Mirror Symmetry, Miami, 23-27 janvier 2012

---Higher nonabelian cohomology of algebraic varieties,
Arithmetic, Motives and Moduli Spaces, IHP Paris, du 9 au 13 janvier 2012

---The Painlevé VI moduli spaces, Seminar Algebraic Geometry, Max-Planck Institute, le 8 décembre 2011

Here are some abstracts for 2010 and 2011.

---Harmonic bundles--Moduli of representations--Higher nonabelian Hodge theory--Local systems on noncompact varieties,
these were my own talks at the 2011 Talbot Workshop, Draper, Utah, May 1-7, 2011;
see the Talbot website for a list of everybody else's awesome talks!


---Théorie de Hodge pour la cohomologie nonabélienne, Algebraic Analysis seminar, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, March 28th, 2011

---Fibrations on the moduli of parabolic connections on P1 minus 4 points, Newton Institute ``Moduli Spaces'' program, Satellite Workshop MOSW02, ``Representations of surface groups and Higgs Bundles'', Oxford, March 14-18, 2011 (talk March 18th)

---Structures on nonabelian cohomology, Algebra and Geometry seminar, University ``La Sapienza'', Rome, March 9th, 2011

---Moduli of local systems on Deligne-Mumford stacks, COW Seminar, Newton Institute, Special Program on Moduli Spaces, Cambridge March 3rd, 2011

---Higher cohomology stacks over the twistor space Rencontre à l'ENS, ANR ``Sediga'', Paris, February 8th, 2011

---Vers l'infini dans l'espace de connexions, Algebraic geometry seminar, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, February 3rd, 2011

---Foliations on moduli spaces of regular connections, Rencontre à l'ENS, ANR ``Sediga'', Paris, September 21-22, 2010 (talk September 21st)

---Nonabelian cohomology as a shape theory for higher homotopy typesConference GAD-I, Géométrie Algébrique à la Dérive, ANR Hodag, Montpellier, May 24-30, 2010 (talk May 24th)

---Mixed Hodge theory for the local structure of representation spaces, Cohomology of Algebraic Varieties, Hodge Theory, Algebraic Cycles, Motives, IHP, Paris, April 26-30, 2010 (talk April 28th)

---Catégories de modèles pour les n-catégories de Segal, Groupe de travail ``Algèbre et Topologie Homotopiques'', Chevaleret, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, March 10th, 2010

--- Partial Opers,
Geometry and Analysis Seminar, Oxford, October 26, 2009

--- The theory of n-categories and applications to algebraic geometry,
Colloquium, July 27, 2009, Tohoku University, Sendai

--- Differential equations and the topology of algebraic varieties,
video, Colloquium,
July 24, 2009, University of Tokyo

--- Higher stacks and moduli problems: basic notions; moduli of perfect complexes,
video
, Workshop on Geometry of moduli spaces, Kobe, July 20-22, 2009

--- Lectures on nonabelian Hodge theory I-IV,
notes, video, RIMS workshop on nonabelian Hodge theory and the geometry of twistor structures, Kyoto, July 13-16, 2009

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Descent, Aspects de la géométrie algébrique: la postérité mathématique de Grothendieck, IHES, du 12 au 16 janvier 2009

--- Algèbre homotopique, n-champs, infini-champs,  Grothendieck: Biographie, Mathématiques, Philosophie, Peyresq, France, du 24 au 29 aout 2008

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 Iterated destabilizing modifications of vector bundles with connection, Conference on vector bundles in honor of S. Ramanan, Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, du 16 au 20 juin 2008

---  The role of various structures in nonabelian Hodge theory, Workshop on Noncommutative Constructions in Arithmetic and Geometry, University College, London, 7-8 juin 2008

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Phénomènes de monodromie à l'infini: fibrés paraboliques et twisteurs de poids 2, Séminaire de géométrie algébrique, Nice, les 24 et 31 janvier 2008

---  Régulateurs des extensions canoniques, Séminaire autour des cycles algébriques, IMJ Chevaleret, Paris, le 9 janvier 2008 (programme)

---  The shape of an algebraic variety, 68th Kuwait Foundation lecture, University of Cambridge, November 1st, 2007

---  Regulators of canonical extensions, Geometry seminar,
University of Cambridge, October 31st, 2007      (abstracts for the two talks at Cambridge)

---  Topics in the classification of local systems, First French-Spanish mathematical congress, Zaragoza, July 2007

---  A weight 2 property for monodromy at infinity, Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, Firenze, du 30 mai au 2 juin 2007  (schedule)

---  On computer theorem-proving, Colloquium, Columbia University, April 2007

---  Local systems on Deligne-Mumford stacks, Algebraic geometry seminar, Columbia University, April 2007

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Espaces de modules de connexions sur P^1 et l'algorithme de Katz
 
     ---Séminaire de géométrie algébrique Paris-Nantes, IMJ Chavaleret, le 1er février 2007
     ---Journée Géométrie Algébrique Nice-Gênes, le 11 mai 2007 (abstracts of everybody's talks)


--- Things to compute, Computational Algebraic Geometry and Applications (André Galligo's 60th birthday), Nice, June 2-6, 2006

---  Geometricity of the Hodge filtration on the infinity-stack of perfect complexes over X_DR
a talk at the Deligne conference in Princeton, Oct. 18th, 2005
slides (in jpg images)  (see the preprint  ps, pdf)

---  Computer theorem proving in math,
PQR 2003 conference: Possion geometry, deformation quantization and group representations,  Brussels, June 13-22, 2003


alternate conference pagesah pssl nice-genes


Research networks:

European research network:EAGER;

French research network: GAG;

Agence Nationale de la Recherche:
ANR G-Fib    
ANR Sediga     ANR Hodag