Mathai, Varghese (ed.); Thiang, Guo Chuan (ed.); Hekmati, Pedram (ed.); Bursztyn, Henriques (ed.); Bouwknegt, Peter (ed.); Baraglia, David (ed.) Foreword: String geometries, dualities and topological matter. (English) Zbl 1427.00077 J. Geom. Phys. 138, 331-332 (2019). From the text: Over the last three decades, string theory has had a profound impact in pure mathematics, including generalized geometry, vertex algebras, topological T-duality and related topics.Part of this Journal of Geometry and Physics Virtual Special Issue is based on the proceedings of the Institute for Geometry and its Applications/AMSI funded workshop entitled, Topological Matter, Strings, K-theory and related areas, held at the University of Adelaide, 26–30 September 2016.The other part of this JGP VSI is based on the proceedings of the IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) conference entitled, String Geometries and Dualities (Australia-Brazil meeting), December 12–16, 2016 on the String theory and T-dualities aspects. MSC: 00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest 00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest 53-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to differential geometry 81-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to quantum theory 83-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{V. Mathai} (ed.) et al., J. Geom. Phys. 138, 331--332 (2019; Zbl 1427.00077) Full Text: DOI References: [1] Mathai, V.; Thiang, G. C., Differential topology of semimetals, Comm. Math. Phys., 355, 2, 561-602, (2017) · Zbl 1376.82101 This reference list is based on information provided by the publisher or from digital mathematics libraries. Its items are heuristically matched to zbMATH identifiers and may contain data conversion errors. It attempts to reflect the references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible without claiming the completeness or perfect precision of the matching.