Aarhus Topology 2002
Conference in honour of Ib Madsen.
June 10 (arrival date) - June 16 (departure date) 2002, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aarhus
This is the 6th in a series of `Topology'-conferences hosted by University of Aarhus. The tradition started in 1962 and the first 5 conferences were held in the week prior to the ICM, when this was located in Europe, but this time it is in June to celebrate Ib Madsen's 60-year birthday.
Invited Speakers
| Gunnar Carlsson. Ralph Cohen. Yakov Eliashberg. Tom Goodwillie. Jesper Grodal. Karsten Grove. Lars Hesselholt. |
Mike Hopkins. Wolfgang Lück. Mike Mandell. Fabien Morel. Bob Oliver. Erik K. Pedersen. |
Graeme Segal. Dennis Sullivan. Zoltan Szabo. Peter Teichner. Ulrike Tillmann. Vladimir Turaev. Michael Weiss. |
Organizing Committee:
See pictures from the conference.
Further information:
Scientific programme
| Monday, 10 June | ||
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| 12.00 - 17.00 | Day of arrival and registration | |
| Tuesday, 11 June | ||
| 09.30-10.30 | Dennis Sullivan | The n string theory completions of Mg,n+1 |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Ralph L. Cohen | Duality phenomena in loop spaces and conformal field theory |
| 12.00-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.00 | Lars Hesselholt | Algebraic K-theory and traces |
| 15.00-15.45 | Coffee break | |
| 15.45-16.45 | Gunnar Carlsson | The mathematical work of Ib Madsen |
| 17.00 | Departure Ny Munkegade to the Mayor's Welcome Reception at the City Hall | |
| Wednesday, 12 June | ||
| 09.30-10.30 | Graeme Segal | Loop group representations, conformal field theory, and low-dimensional topology |
| 10.30-11.30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Peter Teichner | String structures on Riemannian manifolds |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30-14.30 | Fabien Morel | Quadratic forms and Sq2 |
| 14.30-15.00 | Coffee break | |
| 15.00-16.00 | Wolfgang Lück | Equivariant Chern characters and applications to K- and L- theory |
| 16.30-17.30 | Erik K. Pedersen | Squeezing |
| Thursday, 13 June | ||
| 09.30-10.30 | Thomas E. Goodwillie | Spaces of graphs and some fundamental examples in the functor calculus |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Michael A. Mandell | Tensor product of permutative categories |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30-14.30 | Gunnar Carlsson | Modified descent in algebraic K-theory |
| 14.30-15.00 | Coffee break | |
| 15.00-16.00 | Bob Oliver | Fusion systems for compact groups and p-compact groups |
| 16.30-17.30 | Jesper K. Grodal | The classification of p-compact groups for p odd |
| Friday, 14 June | ||
| 09.30-10.30 | Vladimir Turaev | Norms on 1-cohomology in dimensions 2 and 3 |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Zoltan Szabo | Holomorphic disks and invariants for 3-manifolds and smooth 4-manifolds |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.30-14.30 | Yakov Eliashberg | Quantizing symplectic topology |
| 14.30-15.00 | Coffee break | |
| 15.00-16.00 | Ulrike L. Tillmann | Strings and infinite loop space |
| 16.30-17.30 | Michael Weiss | Cohomology of the stabilized mapping class group and the Mumford-Madsen conjecture |
| Saturday, 15 June | ||
| 09.30-10.30 | Karsten Grove | Nonnegative and positive curvature in the presence of symmetries |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.00 | Michael J. Hopkins | The multiplicative group of elliptic cohomology |
| 18.30 | Conference Dinner | |
Social Programme:
| Tuesday: | Mayor's Welcome Reception at the City Hall |
| Saturday: | Dinner at the Department of Mathematics |
Abstracts: Either as pdf, as dvi or print this postscript file .
Aarhus map and travel information: See this link Aarhus
The Abel conference in Oslo is June 2.-8.-2002, so you could attend both conferences.
You may also want to attend the 2002 Barcelona Conference on Algebraic Topology.. (July 2-6 2002.)
General visitor information: See this link.
Conference secretary: Pia Abrahamsen
Department of Mathematics, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Phone: +0045 8942 3459, Mail: pabr@imf.au.dk