The conference Moduli and Friends II will take place at the Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (IMAR), Bucharest, during the week 24-28 August 2026.

This conference is focused on topics related to moduli spaces, including configuration spaces, hyperplane arrangements, homological representations and geometric aspects of quantum invariants. The goal is to bring together researchers from different domains under the general umbrella of "moduli spaces" and to encourage the discovery of new connections between these areas. It is a successor to the conference "Moduli and Friends", which took place in September 2023. For more details, see the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/moduliandfriends2

Registration is open until 10 August 2026 or until the maximal number of participants is reached. We have (limited) funding to cover accommodation costs. If you would like to request funding for accommodation, please register by the earlier deadline of 15 June 2026.

Invited speakers include:

• Takuro Abe (Rikkyo University)
• Enrique Artal Bartolo (Universidad de Zaragoza)*
• Karin Baur (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)*
• José Ignacio Cogolludo Agustín (Universidad de Zaragoza)
• Adrian Diaconu (University of Minnesota)
• Olivia Dumitrescu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Louis Funar (Université Grenoble Alpes)
• Pierre Godfard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Rinat Kashaev (Université de Genève)
• Aaron Landesman (Harvard University)*
• Ishan Levy (Institute for Advanced Study)
• Erik Lindell (University of Copenhagen)
• Gwénaël Massuyeau (Université Bourgogne Europe)
• Rosa Maria Miró-Roig (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Motohico Mulase (University of California, Davis)
• Jun Murakami (Waseda University)
• Sam Nariman (Purdue University)
• Ralf Schiffler (University of Connecticut)
• Andreas Stavrou (University of Chicago)
• Ulrike Tillmann (University of Oxford / Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge)
• Christine Vespa (Aix-Marseille Université)

[*=to be confirmed]

Organisers:

• Cristina Anghel (Université Clermont Auvergne, France / IMAR, Romania)
• Anca Măcinic (IMAR, Romania)
• Martin Palmer (IMAR, Romania)
• Arthur Soulié (CNRS - Université Caen Normandie, France)