Hectic days ahead! Today, there is the Ph.D. defense of Stijn Symens and the following two days there is a meeting in Ghent where Jacques Alev and me organize a special session on non-commutative algebra. Here is the programme of that section

Session 1 (Friday 20 May) — chair : Jacques Alev (Univ. Reims)

15.30-16.25 : Iain Gordon (Glasgow, United Kingdom) : “Rational Cherednik algebras and resolutions of symplectic
singularities”

16.25-16.35 : break

16.35-17.30 : Olivier Schiffmann (ENS Paris, France) : “Elliptic Hall algebras and spherical Cherednik algebras”

Session 2 (Saturday 21 May) — chair : Lieven Le Bruyn (Univ. Antwerp)

14.30-15.15 : Markus Reineke (Munster, Germany) : “Geometry of Quiver Moduli”

15.15-16.00 : Raf Bocklandt & Geert Van de Weyer (Antwerp, Belgium) : “The power of slicing in noncommutative geometry”

Afterwards it will be time to take a short vacation (and do some cycling in the French mountains). Here is my reading list for next week :

The dark Eye – Ingrid Black : Simply because I read her previous novel The dead

Brass – Helen Walsh : I read the first 3 or 4 pages in the shop and couldn\’t stop …

Fleshmarked Alley – Ian Rankin : Hey, it\’s vacation!

geometry, moduli, non-commutative, noncommutative