Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds

March 26 - 28, 2004

Dept. of Mathematics
The Ohio State University

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Important Note: The location of the lectures has been changed to the Math Biology Inst. Lecture Hall (abbreviated MBILH) on the second floor of the old Math Building. The coffee and registration will be there as well.

Friday March 26, 2004

9:30 - 10:15 am
MBI Lobby
Coffee and Registration
10:15 - 10:30 am
MBILH Opening Remarks
10:30 - 11:30 am
MBILH M. Karoubi
Quasi-commutative differential graded algebras
and homotopy types
11:30am  - 1:30  pm
Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm
MBILH W. Lueck
Rational injectivity of the Farrell-Jones assembly
map for algebraic K-theory
2:45 - 3:45 pm
MBILH C. Tomei
Critical sets of first and second order nonlinear
ordinary differential equations
4:00 - 5:00 pm
MBILH M. Farber
Homotopy invariants in dynamics
5:30 - 7:00 pm
MW 724
Reception




Saturday March 27, 2004

9:30 - 10:30 am
MBILH S. Novikov
Discrete connections and discrete complex analysis
11:00am - 12:00 pm
MBILH M. Rothenberg
L<2>-torsion classes
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 pm
MBILH J.-L. Loday
On the structure of cofree Hopf algebras
3:15 - 4:15 pm
MBILH S. Tolman
The combinatorics of Hamiltonian circle actions
4:30 - 5:30 pm
MBILH R. Lashof
1. A visit to Burghelea in Romania during the
Ceausescu Era; mathematics and politics.

2. A brief history of topological and smooth
manifolds and their automorphisms.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Banquet at 
The Blackwell
(information to follow)
8:30 - 10:00 pm
Dessert Party
(information to follow)



Sunday March 28, 2004

9:30 - 10:30 am
MBILH S. Haller
Smooth perfectness of diffeomorphism groups
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
MBILH H. Moscovici
Transverse Geometry and Modular Forms




Additional Information:

The Math Biology Institute is in the old Math building just West of the Math Tower http://www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/mathematicstower.html .