Porto, Portugal, 30 January – 3 February 2017
The workshop will take place from the 30th January to the 3rd of February 2017 at Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto. Porto is the second largest town in Portugal.
This workshop will address various aspects of noncommutative geometry (NCG) as covered by the COST Action MP1405 “Quantum Structure of Spacetime (QSpace)”:
- Connection of NCG with realistic phenomenological models, including the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology
- New constructions of fields, matter and quantum spacetimes in NCG
- Connections between NCG and other models of gravity
Invited speakers: Giovanni Amelino, Nadir Bizi, Latham Boyle, Gabriel Lopes Cardoso, Michele Cirafici, Marija Dimitrijevic Ciric, Miguel Costa, Capitolina Diaz, Gabor Etesi, Lisa Glaser, Monica Guica, Razvan Gurau, Owen Gwilliam, Jens Hoppe, Nick Hugget, Alfredo Iorio, Igor Kanatchikov, Minna Salminen Karlsson, Giovanni Landi, Andrey Lazarev, Jerzy Lewandowski, Martin Markl, Alex Nielsen, Denjoe O’Connor, Mairi Sakellariadou, Carlos Perez Sanchez, Guglielmo Tino, Martin Wolf.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Porto.
Scientific Organizing Committee: Paolo Aschieri, John Barrett, Orfeu Bertolami, Branislav Jurco, Olaf Lechtenfeld (Chair), Fedele Lizzi, José Manuel Mourão, Mairi Sakellariadou, Martin Schlichenmaier, Harold Steinacker, Richard Szabo, George Zoupanos.
Local Organizing Committee: José Manuel Mourão, Miguel Costa, Orfeu Bertolami, Florbela Martins, João Viana Lopes.