Report 38/2005: Mini-workshop: Gerbes, twisted \(K\)-theory and conformal field theory (August 14th -- August 20th, 2005) (Q870680)

Summary: The aim of the mini-workshop was to bring together people whose work in mathematics and mathematical physics centers around geometry and topology applicable in modern string theory. More specifically, whose interests are in one or another way connected to gerbes and twisted K-theory and their applications in topological field theory, conformal field theory and M-theory. Contributions: {\parindent=5mm \begin{itemize}\item[--]Jarah Evslin and Hisham Sati; M-Theory, Type II string theory, and (refinements of ) twisted K-theory (p. 2145) \item[--]Christoph Schweigert (joint with Konrad Waldorf); Introduction to the WZW theory and bundle gerbes (p. 2149) \item[--]Urs Schreiber; Holonomy and aspects of Deligne-cohomology for nonabelian gerbes (p. 2150) \item[--]Dale Husemöller; Stacks and gerbes (p. 2154) \item[--]Varghese Mathai (joint with P. Bouwknegt, A. Carey, J. Evslin, K. Hannabuss, M. Murray, J. Rosenberg, D. Stevenson); Global aspects of T-duality in string theory and twisted K-theory (p. 2154) \item[--]Ulrich Bunke (joint with Thomas Schick); T-duality for orbispaces (p. 2157) \item[--]Paolo Aschieri (joint with Branislav Jurčo); Nonabelian bundle gerbes (p. 2158) \item[--]Branislav Jurčo; Classification of nonabelian bundle gerbes (p. 2160) \item[--]Jouko Mickelsson; Quillen superconnection, supersymmetric WZW model, and twisted K-theory (p. 2161) \item[--]Krzysztof Gawedzki; WZW Models with non-simply connected targets via gerbes and gerbe Modules (p. 2162) \item[--]Sakura Schafer-Nameki; Twisted equivariant K-theory and D-brane charges in coset models (p. 2166) \item[--]Volker Braun, Computation of some K-groups (p. 2168) \item[--]Alan L. Carey (joint with Bai-Ling Wang); Twisted K-theory and bundle gerbes (p. 2170) \item[--]Peter Bouwknegt; Generalized geometry, mirror symmetry and T-duality (p. 2173) \item[--]Michael Murray (joint with Alan Carey, Stuart Johnson, Danny Stevenson, Bai-Ling Wang); Chern-Simons and Wess-Zumino-Witten theories (p. 2176) \item[--]Daniel Stevenson; The string gerbe (p. 2180) \item[--]Hendryk Pfeiffer; 2-Groups, Trialgebras and their Hopf categories of representation (p. 2181) \end{itemize}}