Schedule

A pdf copy of the meeting schedule is available here.

A list of abstracts is available here.

Monday 6th September

2 - 3pm, Arrival and registration

3 - 4pm, Ralph Cohen, Sring topology and the symplectic topology of the cotangent bundle

4:15 - 5:15pm, John Roe, Large scale methods in topology and functional analysis

Tuesday 7th September

9 - 10am, Ursula Hammenstaedt, Curves, discs, spheres and mapping class groups

10:30 -11:30am, Vladimir Marcovic, TBA

11:30 - noon, Qusay al-Zamil, Witten-Hodge theory for manifolds with boundary

1:30 - 2:30pm, Tara Brendle, An introduction to the hyperelliptic Torelli group

2:30 - 3:15pm, Chris Braun, Moduli spaces of Klein surfaces and related operads

3:15 - 3:45pm, tea break

3:45 - 4:30pm, Florin Dumitrescu, Topological 2-dimensional field theories

4:30 - 5:15pm, Rustam Sadykov, The bordism version of the h-principle

5:30 - 6pm , Arjun Malhotra, The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg Conjecture for some finite groups

7pm, Conference dinner

Wednesday 8th September

9 - 10am, Michael Weiss, Smooth maps to the plane and Pontryagin classes

10:30 - 11:30am, Pascal Lambrechts, The real homotopy type of semi-algebraic sets

11:30 - noon, Khaira Mira, Ossa's Theorem via the Kunneth Theorem

1:30 - 2:15pm, Liz Hanbury, Configuration spaces of graphs

2:15 - 3pm, Richard Hepworth, Groups, cacti, and framed little discs

3 - 3:45pm, tea break

3:45 - 4:30, Woijech Chacholski, Representation of spaces