Dr Marina Logares has been invited to speak at the workshop “Singular Geometry and Higgs Bundles in String Theory” in San Jose in California in October/November 2017. This meeting is organised by the American Institute of Mathematics and participation is by invitation only.
https://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/singularhiggs/
Marina’s research is on the geometry of singular curves as used in physics theories in and beyond the Standard Model.