Math Research Institute Programs, 1999-2000

OSU GEOMETRY - TOPOLOGY CONFERENCE

Columbus, Ohio

December 4-5, 1999

Speakers:

The talks will be held in EA 170, in the (still relatively) new Educational Annex building adjacent to the Mathematics Tower, 231 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210.

Accommodations and Other Useful Information:



For further information please contact:

D. Burghelea (burghele@math. ohio-state.edu)

Z.Fiedorowicz (fiedorow@math. ohio-state.edu)



General Information




Program:

Saturday December 4, Room EA170

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. COFFEE IN MW 724
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Nigel Higson (Penn. State)
The Novikov Conjecture and K-theory for Group C*-algebras
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tim Cochran (Rice)
Knot Concordance and L2-signatures
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Steve Zelditch (Johns Hopkins)
Everything About Holomorphic and Almost-Holomorphic Sections
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. COFFEE IN MW 724
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Misha Kapovich (Utah)
Group Actions on Coarse Poincare Duality Spaces
6:30 p.m. Banquet - China Dynasty
7:30 p.m. Party - to be announced



Sunday December 5, Room EA170

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Thomas Parker (Michigan State)
Symplectic Invariants and Symplectic Sums
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Andrzej Derdzinski (OSU)
Totally Real Immersions





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