Special Year on Algebraic Geometry and Topology

with partial financial support provided by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute

Program for the Conference on Topology

Monday 14 July - Friday 25 July, 2003

Abstracts (100k PDF)

Talks were in the Manning Clark Centre and the John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building.

Morning and afternoon coffee breaks and the Reception on Monday 14 July were all held in the Common Room on the first floor of the John Dedman Building.

Monday 14 July
09:30-10:30 MCC6	Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford Three Lectures on Applications of Holomorphic Curves
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 MCC6	Lars Hesselholt, MIT The cyclotomic trace
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 MCC4	Simone Borghesi, SNS Pisa Homotopy theory and degree formulae
15:00-16:00 MCC4	Wojciech Chacholski, U. Minnesota and KTH  v-torsion spaces
16:00-	Reception for conference participants
Tuesday 15 July
09:30-10:30 MCC6	Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford Three Lectures on Applications of Holomorphic Curves
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 MCC6	Lars Hesselholt, MIT Laurent polynomial extensions
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 MCC6	Henning Krause, U. Leeds and Paderborn The telescope conjecture for derived categories
15:00-16:00 MCC6	Alexei Davydov, Macquarie Rational homotopy types and Hochschild cohomology
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30 MCC6	Bernhard Keller, Paris 7 Derived invariance of higher structures on the Hochschild complex
Wednesday 16 July
09:30-10:30 MCC6	Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford Three Lectures on Applications of Holomorphic Curves
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 MCC6	Lars Hesselholt, MIT Motivic complexes
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 MCC6	Jonathan Hillman,  U. Sydney Minimal models for certain PD4-complexes
15:00-16:00 MCC6	Mina Teicher, Bar Ilan Topological algorithm for the Braid Word Problem and applications
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:00 MCC6	Bea Bleile, U. New England Homotopy Classification and Realization of PD3-Pairs
Thursday 17 July
09:30-10:30 JD102	Ulrike Tillmann, Oxford Topology of strings and the stable cohomology of mapping class groups
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 JD102	Stephen Bigelow, UC Santa Barbara The Lawrence-Krammer representation of braid groups
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 JD102	Mark Mahowald, Northwestern Some applications of the spectrum TMF in homotopy groups of spheres and cobordism
15:00-16:00 JD102	Gus Lehrer, U. Sydney The topology of the variety of regular semisimple elements of a Lie group
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30 JD102	Kenshi Ishiguro, Fukuoka Homotopy fixed point sets and actions on homogeneous spaces of p-compact groups
Friday 18 July
09:30-10:30 MCC6	Matthew Ando, UIUC Elliptic curves and algebraic topology
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 MCC6	Ulrike Tillmann, Oxford Topology of strings and the stable cohomology of mapping class groups
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 MCC6	Walter Neumann, Columbia The Casson Invariant Conjecture
15:00-16:00 MCC6	Jon Berrick,  U. Singapore Recent  progress on the Bass trace conjecture
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30 JD102	Diarmuid Crowley, Penn State Quadratic modules and surgery theory
Monday 21 July
09:30-10:30 JDG35	Matthew Ando, UIUC Elliptic curves and algebraic topology
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 JDG35	Ulrike Tillmann, Oxford Topology of strings and the stable cohomology of mapping class groups
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 JDG35	Jack Morava, JHU Two-categories of four-manifolds
15:00-16:00 JDG35	Sayed Roushon, Tata Institute Vanishing of Whitehead group of a class of group
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30 JDG35	Joost van Hamel, U. Sydney Towards intersection homology for real algebraic varieties
Tuesday 22 July
09:30-10:30 JDG35	Matthew Ando, UIUC Elliptic curves and algebraic topology
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 JDG35	Stephen Bigelow, UC Santa Barbara The Lawrence-Krammer representation of braid groups
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 JDG35	Hyam Rubinstein, U. Melbourne Cubical models for 3-manifolds
15:00-16:00 JDG35	Andreas Rosenschon,  Duke The Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjecture at the prime 2
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30 JDG35	Andreas Rosenschon,  Duke The Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjecture at the prime 2
Wednesday 23 July
09:30-10:30 JDG35	Danny Calegari, Caltech Foliations and asymptotic geometry
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 JDG35	Stephen Bigelow, UC Santa Barbara The Lawrence-Krammer representation of braid groups
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 JDG35	David Blanc, U. Haifa Rectifying homotopy commutative diagrams of spaces
15:00-16:00 JDG35	Ian Grojnowski, Cambridge Hilbert schemes and integrable systems
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:00 JDG35	James Coffey, U. Melbourne 3-manifolds built from three handlebodies
17:10-17:40 JDG35	Andrew Percy, U. New England Eckmann-Hilton duality of primary homotopy and cohomology operations
Thursday 24 July
09:30-10:30 JDG35	Danny Calegari, Caltech Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 JDG35	Jack Morava, JHU Two-categories of four-manifolds
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 JDG35	Paul Norbury, U. Melbourne Closed geodesics on Riemmanian spheres
15:00-16:00 JDG35	Ben Andrews, ANU Ricci curvature flows and the geometrization conjecture
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:00 JDG35	Fernando Muro, U. Sevilla On the proper homotopy classification of locally compact  An2-polyhedra
17:10-17:40 JDG35	Stephan Tillmann, U. Melbourne Boundary slopes and the logarithmic limit set
Friday 25 July
09:30-10:30 JDG35	Danny Calegari, Caltech Planar groups and circular groups
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00 JDG35	Frank Neumann,  U. Leicester Etale homotopy of moduli stacks of algebraic curves with symmetries
12:00-13:40	Lunch break
13:45-14:45 JDG35	Ben Andrews, ANU Ricci curvature flows and the geometrization conjecture
15:00-16:00 JDG35	Andrew Kricker, U. Toronto Non-commutative localisation and the Kontsevich integral of a boundary link
16:00-16:30	Coffee break