Homotopical Group Theory and Topological Algebraic Topology

Bonn, Germany

June 23-27 2008

All talks take place in the Grossen Hörsaal of the Mathematisches Institut, Wegelerstrasse 10.

Schedule of talks and events

Monday
9:15		Reception
9:30	Burt Totaro	Obstruction theory in algebraic geometry
		Coffee and Tea
11:00	Stephan Stolz	Supersymmetric Euclidean field theories and generalized cohomology
		Lunch and Discussion Time
15:00	Dennis Sullivan	Compactified String Topology
		Coffee and Tea
16:30	Bertrand Toen	Chern character, loop spaces and derived algebraic geometry

Tuesday
9:30	Natalia Castellana	Mod p Noetherian loop spaces
		Coffee and Tea
11:00	Birgit Richter	The separable closure of the K_n-local sphere
		Lunch and Discussion Time
15:00	Bob Oliver	Fusion systems of groups of Lie type via homotopy theory
		Coffee and Tea
16:30	Jean Lannes	Kervaire Invariant And Manifolds With Corners
		Excursion to the Zoo of Cologne.

Wednesday
9:00	Nitu Kitchloo	Kac-Moody groups over the last decade
		Coffee and Tea
10:30	Bill Dwyer	The work of Haynes Miller in algebraic topology (Part I)
11:30	Mike Hopkins	The work of Haynes Miller in algebraic topology (Part II)
		Excursion to Linz/Conference Dinner

Thursday
9:30	Tilman Bauer	On the K(n)-based Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence
		Coffee and Tea
11:00	Mark Behrens	Congruences amongst modular forms and the divided beta family
		Lunch, Discussion Time
15:00	Charles Rezk	The Frobenius congruence for power operations in Morava E-theory
		Coffee and Tea
16:30	Jeff Smith	TBA
		Guided tour in Bonn on „Historical Figures“, Conference Soccer

Friday
9:30	Kasper Andersen	Reduced fusion systems over 2-groups
		Coffee and Tea
11:00	Jacob Lurie	Algebraic Groups over the Sphere Spectrum
		Lunch and Discussion Time
14:00	Vassily Gorbounov	Divergent series and invariants of projective varieties
		Coffee and Tea
15:30	Jack Morava	To the left of the sphere spectrum
		Conference Soccer