Schedule
Friday, April 17, 2009
- Denis Auroux (MIT) will give the topology seminar on "Mirror Symmetry for Blowups" at 1:20 in room B235.
- Partha Niyogi (Chicago) will give the department colloquium on "Geometry, Perception, and Learning" at 4:00 in room B102.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
| Time | Room B130 | Room B239 | Room B102 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:30 | Registration and Refreshments on 9th Floor | ||
| 9:30-10:30 | Categorification and Topology John Baez University of California - Riverside | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | Quillen (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 |
| 11:30-12:00 | Computations 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 |
| 12:00-1:45 | Lunch | ||
| 1:45-2:15 | Buildings: 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 |
| 2:30-3:00 | Graph 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 |
| 3:15-3:45 | An 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 |
| 4:00-5:00 | Categorification and Topology, continued John Baez University of California - Riverside | ||
Sunday, April 19, 2009
| Time | Room B130 | Room B239 | Room B102 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:30 | Refreshments on 9th Floor | ||
| 9:30-10:30 | Lagrangian Fibrations and Mirror Symmetry Denis Auroux Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | Cohomology 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 |
| 11:30-12:00 | L-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 |
| 12:15-12:45 | FJRW-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 |