BMC2026 Programme
Mon 30th March, 2026
| noon – 2:00pm | Registration and welcome |
| 1:30pm – 2:00pm | Opening @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Cristiana de Filippis (Parma) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm | Sections |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Coffee break |
| 4:30pm – 6:00pm | Sections (continued) |
| 6:00pm - 9:00pm | LMS Social and Drinks Reception |
Tue 31st March, 2026
| 9:00am – 10:00am | Gui-Qiang Chen (Oxford) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 9:00am – 10:00am | Ivan Nourdin (Luxembourg) @ Abacws/2.26 |
| “Quantitative CLT for deep neural networks” (abstract) | |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Enrico Le Donne (Freiburg) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Imperial) @ Abacws/2.26 |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Coffee break |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Dennis Gaitsgory (MPIM, Bonn) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm – 1:45pm | BMC AGM Meeting @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 1:45pm – 3:00pm | LMS Lecture and Society Meeting: Péter Varjú (Cambridge) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm | Sections |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Coffee break |
| 4:30pm – 6:00pm | Sections (continued) |
| Evening | Conference dinner |
Wed 1st April, 2026
| 9:00am – 10:00am | Giovanna Citti (Bologna) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 9:00am – 10:00am | Dustin Clausen (IHES, Paris) @ Abacws/2.26 |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Daniel Huybrechts (Bonn) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Luisa Beghin (Sapienza, Rome) @ Abacws/2.26 |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Coffee break |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Mikhail Kapranov (IPMU, Tokyo) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Johannes Schmidt-Hieber (Twente) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 3:00pm – 4:00pm | Sections |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Coffee break |
| 4:30pm – 6:00pm | Sections (continued) |
| 6:00pm – 7:30pm | Pizza buffet |
| 7:30pm – 8:30pm | Public lecture: Jens Marklof (Bristol) @ Centre for Student Life/2.06 |
Thu 2nd April, 2026
| 9:00am – 10:00am | ICMS Lecture: Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (Tokyo) @ Abacws/0.01 |
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“Quantum symmetries in operator algebras and
mathematical physics” (abstract) |
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| 9:00am – 10:00am | Pavel Kurasov (Stockholm) @ Abacws/2.26 |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Cyril Houdayer (ÉNS, Paris) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Christoph Schweigert (Hamburg) @ Abacws/2.26 |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Coffee break |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Yoshiko Ogata (RIMS, Kyoto) @ Abacws/0.01 |
| 12:30pm – 1:00pm | Closure @ Abacws/0.01 | 1:30pm – 5:00pm | Extra talks in the Geometry section |
Abstracts
- Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (Tokyo): Quantum symmetries in operator
algebras and mathematical physics
A group gives a classical notion of symmetry. We have seen a new type of “quantum symmetries” in many different fields in mathematics and physics over the last four decades. I will present recent advances in this area connected to the Jones theory of subfactors, conformal field theory, and two-dimensional condensed matter physics. This is a general talk without any particular prerequisites.
- Ivan Nourdin (Luxembourg): Quantitative
CLT for deep neural networks
I will discuss the asymptotic behavior at initialization of fully connected deep neural networks with Gaussian weights and biases when the widths of the hidden layers go to infinity.
This talk is addressed to a broad mathematical audience. Apart from a basic knowledge of probability theory, no specific prerequisites are required, and all the necessary notions will be introduced progressively throughout the presentation.
This is based on joint work with S. Favaro, B. Hanin, D. Marinucci and G. Peccati.