The main theme of this workshop is Index Theory and its various generalisations and applications. Index Theory, which originated nearly 55 years ago with the fundamental work of Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer (Abel Prize winners in 2004), is a highly active area of research that acts as a bridge between topology, geometry, analysis with significant applications to mathematical physics.
A key focus of the workshop is applications of index theory to positive scalar curvature, where the famous Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture has been a guiding principle in the research on positive scalar curvature for over thirty years.
Another key focus is the applications to representation theory of Lie groups, and yet another is applications to String Theory and condensed matter physics.
A key focus of the workshop is applications of index theory to positive scalar curvature, where the famous Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture has been a guiding principle in the research on positive scalar curvature for over thirty years.
Another key focus is the applications to representation theory of Lie groups, and yet another is applications to String Theory and condensed matter physics.
