Sonja Hohloch

There will be five minicourses around Poisson geometry and related topics (more details TBA):

• "Introduction to Poisson geometry" by Jiang-Hua Lu (University of Hong Kong, China).
• "Introduction to Integrable Systems" by Alexey Bolsinov (Loughborough University, UK).
• "Hamiltonian Group Actions and Fixed Points" by Tara Holm (Cornell University, USA).
• "Symplectic connections" by Simone Gutt (ULB, Belgium).
• "Differential Graded Manifolds and Shifted Poisson" by Kai Behrend (University of British Columbia, Canada).

Moreover, there will be a poster session where junior participants may present their results via a poster to the other participants.

Here is the REGISTRATION LINK for the Poisson 2026 Summer School in Antwerp/Belgium. 

Registration deadlines:

• March 8th, 2026 for junior participants applying for funded accommodation.
• June 28th 2026 for all other participants.

We have a certain amount of funding at our disposal to cover housing for junior participants, in particular, to encourage participation of underrepresented groups (like, for example, female participants) and to support attendance when the financial means of the home university/country are insufficient. 

The funded accommodation is in a double room in the ASH (one of the two Antwerp youth hostels) including breakfast together with either somebody of the same gender or (when so declared mutually by 2 funded participants) with the preferred other funded participant. The funded housing covers the period between arrival on Sunday 2nd of August 2026 and departure on Saturday 8th of August 2026 --- unless the funded participant registered also for the subsequent Poisson 2026 Conference in Leuven, then departure is Sunday 9th of August 2026. 

The Poisson 2026 Summer School will take place during August 3-7, 2026 "on campus only", i.e., there will not be any online/hybrid options for participation!

• Summer school venue:​ in the very city center of Antwerp/Belgium on the campus "stadscampus" of the University of Antwerp. The exact building and lecture halls will be announced soon. Here is a map of campus "Stadscampus". ATTENTION: the summer school does thus NOT take place on Campus Middelheim where the math department is located!
• Summer school lecture halls: TBA soon.

See HERE for travel information to Antwerp/Belgium. Additional info TBA soon!

Local organizing committee:​

• Sonja Hohloch (University of Antwerp)
• Federico Zadra (University of Antwerp)
• Marco Zambon (KU Leuven)
• Melanie Bertelson (ULB, Advisor)
• Peter De Maesschalck (University of Hasselt, Advisor)

Scientific committee:

• Anton Alekseev (University of Geneva)
• Henrique Bursztyn (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro)
• Marta Mazzocco (UPC, Barcelona)
• Eva Miranda (UPC, Barcelona) – Chair
• Brent Pym (McGill University, Montreal)
• Chenchang Zhu (University of Göttingen)​​
• Advisors: Sonja Hohloch (University of Antwerp) and Marco Zambon (KU Leuven)

To be announced soon!

• Click HERE for some information (touristic and otherwise) provided by the Tourist Information of Antwerp.
• Click HERE for what wikipedia claims to know about Antwerp.
• Click HERE for some information about the park & fortress "Fort 4" in Mortsel, about 25min by tram 15 from Antwerp City center.

The Poisson Summer School 2026 is sponsored by 

• University of Antwerp, its Doctoral School, and its Department of Mathematics,
• KU Leuven and its Doctoral School,
• FNRS via Walloon Doctoral School,
• FWO-FNRS Excellence of Science (EoS) project "Beyond symplectic geometry",
• Francqui Foundation.

And here are the logos of the above sponsors: