"Conference
on Geometry and Strings"
July 22 - 27,
2018
Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee
Venue
The conference will take place at Ringberg
Castle, which is
located on Mount Ringberg
and overlooks Lake Tegernsee,
one of the most picturesque locations to be found in all of
southern Bavaria.
The castle, which is owned and operated by the
Max-Planck-Society, represents an ideal venue for scientific
conferences, offering impressive architecture, displays of fine
art, a music room, excellent food, spectacular views of the
surrounding mountains, not to mention the fresh air and great
walks. More specific information on the Ringberg
Castle, including
colored photographs, is available from Ringberg Castle site. The distance
to the next village, Rottach-Egern,
is about 3 km.
Address: Schloß Ringberg
Schloßstraße 20
D-83708 Kreuth
Germany
Phone: +49/8022/279-0 (reception);
Fax: +49/8022/279-259
Philosophy:
The aim of
this conference is to bring together leading experts
working on geometric aspects of string theory in the broader sense.
This conference is moreover the final event of the
ERC grant "Strings & Gravity, ERC Adv. Grant no.320045".
Arrival and Departure
The
arrival date to the conference site is July 22 and the departure
date is July 27 after lunch. Talks will start on Monday morning, July 23, and
end at noon on Friday, July 27.
Participation is by
invitation
only.
Contact: blumenha@mpp.mpg.de or dieter.luest@lmu.de
Costs
There will be no
conference
fee. Living expenses of the participants at Ringberg Castle
will be covered by the MPI Munich, the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical
Physics and the ERC Adv. Grant no.320045.
Beverages taken at the self-service bar and outside calls from
the
room telephones will be billed to the participants.
Organizers
Ralph Blumenhagen,
Ilka Brunner,
Michael Haack
and Dieter Lüst
Email: blumenha@mpp.mpg.de, Ilka.Brunner@physik.uni-muenchen.de,
Michael.Haack@physik.lmu.de and dieter.luest@lmu.de