PL - Hitchin systems and their quantization by Prof. Pavel Etingof (MIT, USA) (2026)

Speakers and Syllabus

Plan of lectures: Professor Etingof will give a series of 10 lectures each of 1 hour duration. Two lectures will be given on each day of the program, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

The topics covered will include Principal G-bundles, Moduli stacks of G-bundles on smooth projective curves and their double quotient realization, stable bundles and Higgs fields, Hitchin integrable systems, parabolic structures and quantization of Hitchin systems. The relationship with Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov connections, monodromy representations and quantum groups will also be discussed.

Apart from the lectures by Prof. Etingof, some discussion sessions will also be organized.

Time Table

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