Surgery Theory Past, Present and Future

A celebration of the 70th birthday of C.T.C. Wall

ICMS, Edinburgh, 3 - 5 July, 2006

The meeting will start on the morning of Monday 3rd July and finish in the afternoon of Wednesday 5th July. All the lectures will take place at ICMS 14 India Street.

Timetable

Monday 3 July

09.30-10.00	Registration
10.00-11.00	Frank Quinn (Virginia Tech) The history of manifolds
11.00–11.30	Tea/Coffee
11.30–12.30	Erik Pedersen (Binghamton) Bounded and controlled topology
12.30-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.30	Diarmuid Crowley (Heidelberg) Highly connected manifolds and bordisms
15.30-16.00	Tea/Coffee
16.00-17.00	Shmuel Weinberger (Chicago and Jerusalem) Surgery on stratified spaces

Tuesday 4 July

9.30-10.30	Tom Farrell (Binghamton) The Borel and Novikov conjectures
10.30-11.00	Tea/Coffee
11.00- 12.00	Matthias Kreck (Heidelberg) The classification of manifolds: homotopy equivalences v. diffeomorphisms
12.00-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.30	Michael Weiss (Aberdeen) Automorphisms of manifolds
15.30-16.00	Tea/Coffee
16.00-17.00	Graeme Segal (Oxford) Structure of spaces and manifolds
19.00	Conference Dinner (further information at meeting)

Wednesday 5 July

10.00-11.00	Sylvain Cappell (NYU) Characteristic classes: from surgery to algebraic geometry
11.00–11.30	Tea/Coffee
11.30–12.30	Ian Hambleton (McMaster) Surgery obstructions: computations and applications
12.30-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.30	Wolfgang Lueck (Muenster) Equivariant homology theory and assembly maps
15.30-16.00	Tea/Coffee
16.00-17.00	Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh) Quadratic structures in surgery theory
19.00	Garden Party (further information at meeting)