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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES |
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December 25, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |