Schedule

Friday, April 17, 2009


Saturday, April 18, 2009

TimeRoom B130Room B239Room B102
8:30-9:30Registration and Refreshments on 9th Floor
9:30-10:30Categorification and Topology
John Baez
University of California - Riverside
10:45-11:15Quillen (co)homology
Martin Frankland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bismut's Hypoelliptic Laplacian and Loop Spaces
Bradley Custer
CUNY Graduate Center
Link Floer Homology and Linking Number
Jennifer Hom
University of Pennsylvania
11:30-12:00Computations in Motivic Stable Homotopy Theory
Kyle Ormsby
University of Michigan
Loop Group Representations and Twisted K-Theory
Braxton Collier
University of Texas at Austin
Categorification and Slarc Algebra
Radmila Sazdanovic
George Washington University
12:00-1:45Lunch
1:45-2:15Buildings: From the Ground Up
Matthew C. B. Zaremsky
University of Virginia
Localization Formulae in Odd K-theory
Daniel Cibotaru
University of Notre Dame
A Homotopy-Theoretic View of Bott-Taubes Integrals
Robin Koytcheff
Stanford University
2:30-3:00Graph Theory on Surfaces and Galois Theory
Louis Thrall
CUNY Graduate Center
The Atiyah-Segal Theorem and Generalized Character Theory
Jennifer French
Massachsetts Institute of Technology
Exotic Group Actions on 4-Manifolds
Nathan Sunukjian
Michigan State University
3:15-3:45An Introduction to String Topology
Eric Malm
Stanford University
Space Curves and Their Tangent Planes
Emi Arima
University of California - Davis
The Topological Structure of the Unit Octonions and the Quantum Theory of Games
Aden Ahmed
Portland State University
4:00-5:00Categorification and Topology, continued
John Baez
University of California - Riverside

Sunday, April 19, 2009

TimeRoom B130Room B239Room B102
8:30-9:30Refreshments on 9th Floor
9:30-10:30Lagrangian Fibrations and Mirror Symmetry
Denis Auroux
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:45-11:15Cohomology and K-theory of Abelian Symplectic Reductions
Chi-Kwong Fok
Cornell University
TQFTs and Higher Categories
Ben Hummon
University of California - San Diego
Geometry of the Fermat Quartic Surface
Jason Hadnot
Boston University
11:30-12:00L-infinity Algebras and Symmetric Braces
Mindy Martin
North Carolina State University
Quasi-isometric Rigidity -- A Short Overview
Victor Kostyuk
Cornell University
Non-connective K-theory of Schemes
Patrick Szuta
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:15-12:45FJRW-ring and Mirror Symmetry of Singularities
Marc Krawitz
University of Michigan
Stable Embedded Minimal Spheres in 3-Manifolds
Joel Kramer
Johns Hopkins University
Shum's Theorem
Eitan Chatav
SUNY Stony Brook