Special Year on Algebraic Geometry and Topology

with partial financial support provided by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute

Scientific Events

Workshop on Representation Theory 30 June - 4 July, 2003 Topics Main speakers Other information Conference on Topology 14 July - 25 July, 2003 Topics Main speakers Other information Minimal Models Activity 18 August - 29 August, 2003 Topics Main speakers Other information

Workshop on Representation Theory

Monday 30 June - Friday 4 July, 2003

Main theme: Interaction between representation theory and topology

Topics covered:

1. group representations and cohomology
2. A-infinity theory
3. derived categories and tilting

Organizers: David Benson and Henning Krause

Confirmed main speakers
Jonathan Alperin (Chicago)
Jonathan Carlson (Georgia)
Bernhard Keller (Paris)
Idun Reiten (Trondheim)
Peter Symonds (Manchester)
Peter Webb (Minnesota)


Conference format, other speakers:
There will be invited lectures by the main speakers and further talks by other participants. In addition, there will be the opportunity for informal discussions, possibly including a problem session. The program will be arranged shortly before the meeting on the basis of submitted abstracts.

Conference on Topology

Monday 14 July - Friday 25 July, 2003

This conference will be on all aspects of topology.

Confirmed Plenary speakers
Matthew Ando (Illinois)
Stephen Bigelow (UCSB)
Danny Calegari (Caltech)
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford)
Lars Hesselholt (MIT)
Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins)
Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford)


Each plenary speaker will give a series of three one hour talks, aimed at a wide audience of all branches in topology.

Scientific Committee:
Ib Madsen
Mark Mahowald
Jack Morava
Andrew Ranicki
Hyam Rubinstein


Minimal Models Activity

Special topics featured in the 3-fold activity include minimal models, derived categories, McKay correspondence, birational geometry, and other topics continuing the activity of last year's Newton Institute program. Categorical methods also feature prominently among the topics of the topology conference, including people such as Bridgeland and Toen, and of course Amnon Neeman himself.

Known participants of the 3-fold activity include:
Gavin Brown (Warwick)
Alessio Corti (Cambridge)
Andrei Caldararu (Pennsylvania)
Ivan Cheltsov (Georgia)
Igor Dolgachev (Michigan)
Gavril Farkas (Michigan)
Tommaso de Fernex (Michigan)
Brendan Hassett (Rice)
Masayuki Kawakita (Tokyo)
Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo)
Sandor Kovacs (Washington)
Amnon Neeman (ANU)
Miles Reid (Warwick)
Jason Starr (MIT)
Francesco Zucconi (Udine)


The activity runs through Aug 2003, with a more concentrated workshop period during the last two weeks Mon 18th--Fri 29th Aug. However, participants may also be interested in the wide-ranging topology workshop Mon 14th Jul--Fri 25th Jul. Reid, Neeman and others will be there from 20th Jul to ensure continuity.
Organizer:Miles Reid (miles@maths.warwick.ac.uk)