Konferenzservice Mandl

Zusammenfassung: First Announcement: The importance of configuration spaces has been growing steadily in central areas of mathematics often related to theoretical physics, hyperplane arrangements, and combinatorics. Despite their simple definition, configuration spaces admit important, broad applications with deep classical ties to knot theory, homotopical algebra, the theory of operands as well as conformal field theory. The theory of configuration spaces also has links to the study of low dimensional topology, and combinatorics. The aim of this initiative is to bring together in Pisa some of the leading experts in these different, but significantly overlapping areas, and to inform on the current state of the art, also promoting interaction among experts in order to foster new developments. This period includes minicourses, seminars, and two workshops May 24-26 and June 21-25 and is part of the CRM PISA 2010 scientific programme.