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Algebraic Topology
to be held in the afternoon on 19 and 20 of April
Organizers
- Andrey Lazarev, University of Leicester
- Andrew Baker, University of Glasgow
Information:
This research workshop forms part of the British Mathematical Colloquium 2011 held at the University of Leicester from 18th April to 21st April 2011. The BMC webpage is here where details about registration, location, accommodation and a programme of events can be found.
The meeting is preceded by the 78th TTT meeting.
At the Algebraic Topology Workshop there will be four invited talks in the afternoons of Tuesday 19th April and Wednesday 20th April. There will also be a small number of contributed talks. If you would like to offer a short talk at this workshop please follow the instructions here on the BMC webpage.
Registration:
Those who plan to attend the workshop must register at the BMC; please see the BMC webpage for further details. Note that the opportunity to register at the reduced fee ends on 21st March.
Invited speakers
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Pascal Lambrechts (Louvain-la-Neuve)
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Christian Schlichtkrull (Bergen)
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Oliver Roendigs (Osnabrueck)
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Alexander Vishik (Nottingham)
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Jeff Giansiracusa (Swansea)
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John Pridham (Cambridge)
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Dave Barnes (Sheffield)
Programme
Tuesday, 19 April
13:20-14:00 Christian Schlichtkrull, University of Bergen
Applications of diagram spaces
14:10-14:50 Oliver Roendigs, Osnabrueck
15:00-15:40 Jeffrey Giansiracusa, University of Bath
The geometry of the Miller-Morita-Mumford characteristic classes of surface bundles
15:50-16:30
Dave Barnes, University of Sheffield
Monoidality of Exotic Models for Localised Spectra
Wednesday, 20 April
13:30-14:10 John Pridham, Cambridge
n-types, higher Lie groupoids and higher stacks
14:20-15:00 Alexander Vishik, University of Nottingham
Symmetric operations in Algebraic Cobordism
15:10-15:50 Pascal Lambrechts, Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstracts of the talks are available here.
Travel:
Travel information can be found here.
