Young Women in Topology

Bonn (Germany)

Friday, December 09 to Sunday, December 11, 2011

This was the second meeting of our new series of weekend-long workshops aimed in particular at female Master students, PhD students and Postdocs in topology. The meeting took place at the Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn, Endenicher Allee 60. The workshop centered around a series of three lectures by Prof. Nathalie Wahl (University of Copenhagen) on Homological stability for geometric groups. The lectures have been complemented by contributed talks and ample time for discussion. All talks where open to the public. Schedule of talks Mathematikzentrum (Endenicher Allee 60), Lipschitzsaal 1.016 Friday, December 9 15.00 Welcome 15.15 - 16.00 N.Wahl (U.Copenhagen) Homological stability for geometric groups I Coffee break 17.00 - 17.30 L. Stein (U. Bonn) Moduli spaces of flat G-bundles on Riemann surfaces 17.40 - 18.10 L. Lamberti (ETH Zuerich) Repetitive cluster categories of type A_n 18:30 - Conference Dinner Restaurant "DelikArt" Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn   Saturday, December 10 10.00 - 10.45 N.Wahl (U.Copenhagen) Homological stability for geometric groups II Coffee break 11.30 - 12.00 D. Egas Santander (U.Copenhagen) Fat graphs and Open closed cobordisms Lunch break Lunch will be served in the HAUSDORFF-RAUM, Mathematical Institute, University Bonn   14:30 - 15:00 A. Klamt (U.Copenhagen) Some vanishing in homological conformal field theories 15:10 - 15:40 O. Varghese (U. Muenster) Fixed points for actions by isometries of the automorphism group of free group on CAT(0) spaces Coffee break 16:15 - 16:45 A. Rovi (U. Glasgow) Lie algebroids. Poisson cohomology   Sunday, December 11 10.00 - 10.45 N.Wahl (U.Copenhagen) Homological stability for geometric groups III Coffee break 11.30 - 12.00 C. Rovi (U. Edinburgh) SK and SKK-groups: an introduction 12.10 - 12.40 St. Ziegenhagen (U. Hamburg) Additional structures on E_n cohomology The workshop was organized by the Graduiertenkolleg Homotopy and Cohomology and funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).