Geometrical methods in high-dimensional topology

Ohio State University, Columbus OH

Workshop: May 16th-20th, 2010

Weekend conference: May 21st, 2010

Organized by: Jean-Francois Lafont (OSU) and Ian Leary (OSU)




Workshop speakers and titles:


Weekend conference speakers and titles:


Schedule (workshop talks in Cockin Hall 240, conference talks in Math Tower 154):



Monday, May 16

Time
Speaker
Title
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Tom Farrell, I
Smooth versus topological rigidity
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arthur Bartels, I
The Farrell-Jones Conjecture
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Craig Guilbault, I
Tools for studying the end of the universe (and other noncompact manifolds)

Tuesday, May 17

Time
Speaker
Title
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Stacy Hoehn
Obstructions to Fibering Maps (Topology Seminar)
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arthur Bartels, II
Controlled topology
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Tom Farrell, II
The best of all possible maps


Wednesday, May 18

Time
Speaker
Title
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arthur Bartels, III
Proofs of the Farrell-Jones Conjecture - Part I
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Craig Guilbault, II
Some classical applications of the fundamental group at infinity to manifold topology
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Crichton Ogle
Introduction to weighted algebraic topology (Intro. to Research Seminar)


Thursday, May 19

Craig Guilbault, III
Time
Speaker
Title
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arthur Bartels, IV
Proofs of the Farrell-Jones Conjecture - Part II
3:30 - 4:30 pm
End structures and Z-compactifications


Friday, May 20

Time
Speaker
Title
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Tom Farrell, III
The space of negatively curved metrics
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Craig Guilbault, IV
End properties of spaces admitting free group actions

Saturday, May 21 (Talks in MW 154)

Zhixu Su
Time
Speaker
Title
10:00 - 11:00 am
Piotr Nowak
Isoperimetric inequalities and controlled coarse homology
11:15 - 12:15 pm
Stacy Hoehn
Mapping Cylinder Neighborhoods in Manifold Stratified Spaces
1:45 - 2:45 pm
Jim Fowler
Weighted algebraic topology
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Rational homotopy types of high dimensional manifolds
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Dan Farley
On the lower algebraic K-theory of three-dimensional crystallographic groups





Registering for the Conference:

There is no formal registration for this conference. However, if you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to one of the organizers. This will allow us to add you to the mailing list, and keep you informed of any activities during the weekend of the conference.


Funding:

The conference is partially funded by the NSF grant DMS-0752826. Some limited funds will be available to help cover the costs of attending the conference. If you are interested in attending, please contact the organizers to inquire about funding.


Contacting the organizers:

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the organizers:
  • Ian Leary (Ohio State University), leary@math.ohio-state.edu


This conference is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0752826, and by the OSU Mathematics Research Institute (MRI).
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.