Ricevo e volentieri inoltro. Nel caso vi fossero persone interessate, gli organizzatori suggeriscono di fare iscriversi in fretta, a causa del fatto che i posti disponibili sono pochi. Roberto Con preghiera di diffusione agli aderenti al GNSAGA Grazie                              A Marzuoli e F Bonsante ========================================================= Chromatic and colored structures in geometry and statistical physics   INdAM Meeting Palazzone SNS,Cortona (Italy) May 24-30, 2015 Organizers: Annalisa Marzuoli & Francesco Bonsante (Pavia) Silvia Benvenuti (Camerino)     Topics include: chromatic functions on graphs, exactly solvable models, colored polynomials of knots and 3-manifolds, finite-type invariants, the volume conjecture, colored state sum models, moduli spaces, mapping class group and handlebody presentations, spin-networks in relativistic and topological quantum field theories, algorithmic aspects.   There will be mini-courses, talks, informal seminars and discussion-groups, leaving to focus-groups specific background arguments. Mini-courses François Costantino (Toulouse) : “Non semisimple spin networks and TQFTs” Martin Loebl (Prague): “Chromatic-type polynomials on graphs” Roland van der Veen (Amsterdam): “Planar spin networks: chromatic, hyperbolic and superconformal” Speakers Vincenzo Aquilanti (Perugia); Silvia Benvenuti; Francesco Bonsante; Gaetan Borot (Bonn); Mauro Carfora (Pavia); Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia); Robert Littlejohn (Berkeley); Annalisa Marzuoli; Riccardo Piergallini (Camerino); Mario Rasetti (Torino); Nicolai Reshetikhin (Berkeley). No fees are required and a limited number of travel grants are available for PhD students and postdocs   Deadline for applications: February 6, 2015 Please contact:  chrocos2015@unipv.it