Summer school on Involutions
May 30–June 2, 2023
University of Nantes

There will be two mini-courses: one by Matilde Manzaroli (University of Tübingen) on real algebraic curves and one by Christopher Scaduto (University of Miami) on gauge theory. There will be an exercise session for each course.

Topics: Real algebraic curves, 4-manifolds with boundary, involutions.

Schedule: All lectures will be held at the Campus Sciences of the University of Nantes, in Building 26, Room 112 (Bâtiment 26, Amphithéâtre 112).
Title and abstracts for all talks are available here.
Lunch will be at the university cafeteria, but you're free to look for alternatives (you can ask me or the locals once you're here).

	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:30-10:45	Manzaroli	Manzaroli	Scaduto	Scaduto
10:45-11:15	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:15-12:30	Scaduto	Scaduto	Manzaroli	Manzaroli
12:30-14:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Yan	Framba	Exercises M	Saint-Criq
15:00-15:30			Coffee break
15:30-16:30			Exercises S

Travel information: Nantes has an international airport and a train station that is well connected to Paris. Note that Google Maps might not have accurate or complete data on local transportation within Nantes; you can look up bus and tram schedules on the TAN webpage, where you can also plan a trip. Notably, from the airport to the centre there are two options.

• The cheap option (1.70 EUR each way): take bus 48 to Neustrie (it only goes one way, so no chance of getting it wrong), and then tram 3 towards Marcel Paul (Neustrie is the end of the line, so there's no chance of getting this wrong either). This takes about 45 minutes to Commerce.
• The fast option (9.00 EUR each way): take the Navette Aéroport; this takes you to Commerce (via the train station and Lieu Unique, which are the only two intermediate stops). This takes about 20 minutes.

In both cases you can buy a ticket on board, and it remains valid for an hour.

Organisers: Erwan Brugallé and Marco Golla. You can email us at (math.summer-school (at) univ-nantes.fr) for further information.

Acknowledgments: We acknowledge support from ALL, CNRS, the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray, the Région Pays de la Loire (Étoile Montante PSyCo), the Centre Henri Lebesgue, the GDR Tresses, the ANR projects CoSy.