Programme

 

Talks will take place in Building 56 in the Student Centre, while tea/coffee will be served on the fourth floor of Building 54 in the Ketley Room.

 

 

14 December 2015

13:00-13:30

Registration

13:30-14:30

Ralph Cohen

Topological Field Theories, and how to compare them

 

Tea/Coffee

15:00-16:00

Jie Wu

Combinatorial approaches to classical homotopy

 

Tea/Coffee

16:30-17:30

Ian Leary

Uncountably many groups of type FP

18:00

Wine Reception

 

 

15 December 2015

16 December 2015

17 December 2015

10:00-11:00

John Greenlees

Rational equivariant cohomology theories with toral support

Brendon Owens

Intersection lattices of 4-manifolds with boundary: some applications and problems

Sarah Whitehouse

Derived A-infinity algebras

 

Tea/Coffee

Tea/Coffee

Tea/Coffee

11:30-12:30

Svjetlana Terzic

The foundation of  (2n, k)-manifolds

Piotr Beben

LS-category and Moment-Angle Complexes

Alexander Berglund

Rational homotopy theory of automorphisms of manifolds

 

Lunch

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Oscar Randal-Williams

Infinite loop spaces and positive scalar curvature

Natalia Castellana

Cellular properties of fusion systems, Lie groups and p-compact groups

 

 

Tea/Coffee

Tea/Coffee

 

15:30-16:30

Nansen Petrosyan

Spin structures on almost-flat manifolds

Samson Saneblidze

The cup-one product and homotopy commutativity of loop spaces

 

19:00

Dinner