11. NRW Topology Meeting


BIELEFELD (GERMANY)

Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9, 2009


Schedule of talks

Friday, May 8


11.00


Brent Doran
(Oxford)
Applications of A¹-topology to problems in classical algebraic geometry
12.00


Fabian Morel
(München)
Serre classes of A¹-homotopy sheaves and the Friedlander-Milnor conjecture



Lunch break
14.30


Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen
(Aarhus)
The Hitchin connection, Toeplitz operators and TQFT
15.30


Selman Akbulut
(East Lansing, Michigan)
Corks, Plugs and exotic structures on 4-manifolds



Tea/Coffee break
17.00


Aravind Asok
(Los Angeles)
Rational connectivity and A¹-connectivity
 
Saturday, May 9
  9.00


Matthias Wendt
(Freiburg)
Homotopy theory of algebraic groups
10.00


Edward Segal
(London)
B-branes in Landau-Ginzburg models



Tea/Coffee break
11.30


Andriy Haydys
(Bielefeld)
Instantons, monopoles and dualities
12.30


Andrei Teleman
(Marseille)
Donaldson classes on instanton moduli spaces over negative definite 4-manifolds

The sessions will take place at lecture hall H 3 Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld .

There is no formal registration, but please send an email so that we can estimate the number of participants; please indicate whether you want to join us for dinner on May 8.  There will be a buffet dinner at the Rosenhof on 8 May, starting at 6.30 pm (Euro 17,- + beverages per person), with a party at Waldhausen's afterwards.


2009/02/16   Stefan Bauer and Markus Rost