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| November 4, 2025 | 
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Homotopy Theory ProgramWorkshop on Homotopy, Geometry and Physics
        
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| 2:00 pm: | John Jones, Warwick | 
| Operad Theory | |
| 3:30 pm: | Jacques Hurtubise, McGill | Moduli spaces and particle spaces. II | 
| 9:30 am: | Raoul Bott, Harvard | 
| Topological aspects of the Feynman rules | |
| 11:00 am: | Fred Cohen, University of Rochester, | 
| Configuration Spaces and Mapping Class groups | |
| 2:00 pm: | Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico | 
| Stability Theorems for Spaces of Rational Curves | |
| 3:30 pm: | Pawel Gajer, Texas A&M | 
| Geometry of higher line bundles, Deligne cohomology, and algebraic cycles | 
| 9:30 am: | Jim Milgram, Stanford | 
| Holomorphic maps from a Riemann surface to complex projective space | |
| 11:00 am: | Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University | 
| The homology of the moduli spaces M_{1,n} and their compactifications | |
| 2:00 pm: | Takashi Kimura, Boston University | 
| Moduli Spaces, Graph Complexes, and Their Representations | |
| 3:00 pm: | Alexander A. Voronov, University of Pennsylvania | 
| Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras in topological field theory | |
| 4:30 pm: | John Jones, Warwick | 
| Equivariant maps between spheres and the 11/8 conjecture | 
Sunday, April 21
        
| 9:30 am: | Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins | 
| Topological gravity and quantum cohomology | |
| 11:00 am: | Lisa Jeffrey, McGill | 
| Quantization commutes with reduction | |
| 2:00 pm: | Stefan Stolz, Notre Dame | 
| Manifolds of positive scalar curvature -- a survey | |
| 3:00 pm: | Ruth Lawrence, Michigan | 
| A Holomorphic version of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant | |
| 4:30 pm: | Robert MacPherson, IAS, (Fields Distinguished Lecture) | 
| Topology of Spaces with Torus Action | 
| 9:30 am: | TBA | 
| 11:00 am: | Paulo Lima-Filho, Texas A&M | 
| Euler-Chow series and projective bundle formulas | |
| 2:00 pm: | Michael Kapranov, Northwestern University | 
| Rational curves in flag varieties, Eisenstein-Langlands series and affine quantum groups | |
| 3:30 pm: | Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina | 
| Compactifications of configuration and moduli spaces |