Wednesday, 23rd May, 10AM - 5PM, ICMS Maxwell
Institute Colloquium on Conformal Field Theory and Topology
10.00--11.00 Dan Freed (Texas) Pions and generalized
cohomologyAbstract
11.30--12.30 Vassily Gorbounov (Aberdeen) Overview of the chiral de Rham complex
14.30--15.30 Peter Teichner (Berkeley) Quantum Field Theory and
Generalized Cohomology, Part I
16.00-17.00 Stephan Stolz (Notre Dame) Quantum Field Theory and
Generalized Cohomology, Part II
Organized by Andrew Ranicki, Richard Szabo and Constantin Teleman. Participants.
Please email a.ranicki@ed.ac.uk
if you wish
to attend, as space is limited.
Friday, 18th May, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Peter Teichner (Berkeley) Four-manifolds with Baumslag-Solitar fundamental groups
Friday, 11th May, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Erik Pedersen (Copenhagen) TOP/PL via bounded topology
Friday, 4th May, 2.30-3.30PM and 4-5PM, ICMS
Tony Pantev (Penn) Langlands Duality for Hitchin Systems
Visit supported by LMS.
Please email the local organizer
Elizabeth
Gasparim if you wish
to attend, as space is limited.
Friday, 23rd March, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Ivan Smith (Cambridge) Exact Lagrangian submanifolds of cotangent bundles
Thursday, 8th March, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
(CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME)
Richard Hepworth (Sheffield) Chen-Ruan cohomology
Monday, 15th January, 2.30PM, Room 4311, JCMB
Marc Lackenby (Oxford) The crossing number of composite knots
(Also a colloquium on Property Τ, 4.10PM,
Room 6301, JCMB)
Autumn 2006
Tuesday, 28th November, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Alexander Shumakovitch (George Washington University) Khovanov Homology and its Torsion Abstract
Thursday, 26th October, 3.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Johan Dupont (Arhus) Gerbes, simplicial forms, and invariants for families of
foliated bundles Abstract
Friday, 13th October, 3.00PM, Room 7.01, David
Hume Tower
Catharina Stroppel (Glasgow) The idea of categorification, cobordisms and extended Khovanov
homology
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