10:15–10:30 Opening of the conference
10:30–11:15 Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland),
“The Yamabe invariant for
manifolds with finite fundamental group”
11:30–12:15 Andrzej Zuk (ENS, Lyon),
“L2
Betti numbers of closed manifolds”
12:15–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45 Akio Kawauchi
(Osaka City University),
“On pseudo-ribbon surface-links”
15:00–15:45 Alan Carey (University of Adelaide and Clay Mathematics Institute),
“Twisted K-theory and the K-theory of bundle gerbes.”
15:45–16:15 Coffee
16:15–17:00 Yuval Peres (Hebrew University),
“How is the geometry of a lattice reflected in the structure of typical
spanning trees? (a survey)”
17:15–18:00 Amos Nevo (Technion, Haifa),
“Rigidity of entropy for semisimple Lie group
actions”
16:15–17:00 Desmond Sheiham (University of Edinburgh),
“Algebraic Boundary Link
Cobordism.”
17:15–18:00 Yoav Moriah (Technion,
Haifa),
“Incompressible surfaces and Heegaard splittings
of 3-manifolds.”
9:15–10:00 Dan
Burghelea (Ohio
State University),
“Dirichlet series,
Novikov theory and spectral geometry”
10:10–10:55 Steve Ferry (Rutgers
University),
“Topology
of degeneration”
10:55–11:10 Coffee
11:10–11:55 Maxim Braverman (Northeastern University),
“An
Index theorem for transversally elliptic operators on open manifolds.”
12:00–12:45 Semyon Alesker (Tel Aviv
University),
“Linear
algebra of quaternionic matrices with applications to quaternionic analysis and
geometry.”
12:45– Lunch
11:10–11:55 James R. Hughes (Elizabethtown College),
“Peripheral
Structures in Link Homotopy.”
12:00–12:45 Tahl
Nowik (Bar Ilan University)
“Finite
order invariants of immersions”
12:45– 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - Bus tour
9:30–10:15 William Browder (Princeton University),
“Finite dimensional
G-spaces.”
10:30–11:15 Sylvain Cappell (New York University),
“Holonomy
and characteristic classes of singular varieties”
11:15–11:45 Coffee
11:45–12:30 Nigel Higson (Pennsylvania State University),
“On the Baum-Connes conjecture.”
12:30–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:15 Jürgen Eichhorn (Universität Greifswald),
“Bordism theory for open manifolds.”
15:30–16:15 Zlil
Sela (Hebrew University),
“Diophantine geometry over groups and the
elementary theory of a free group.”
16:30–17:15 Yehuda
Shalom (Hebrew University),
“Cohomology of arithmetic groups and
non-positively curved spaces.”
14:30–15:15 Diarmuid
Crowley (Indiana University),
“The classification of highly connected
manifolds in dimensions 7 and 15.”
15:30–16:15 Gyo Taek Jin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology),
“Pseudo
trivial laces”
16:30–17:15 Larry
Smolinsky (Louisiana State
University),
“Algebraically integrable systems and
finite groups.”
9:15–10:00 Tadeusz
Januszkiewicz (University of Wroclaw),
“Equivariant cohomology of buildings.”
10:10–10:55 Julius Shaneson (University of
Pennsylvania),
TBA
10:55–11:10 Coffee
11:10–11:55 Erik
Leichtnam (CNRS, Paris),
TBA
12:05–12:50 Michael Polyak (Tel Aviv
University)
“Milnor's mu-invariants and rooted trees”
12:50–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45 Min Yan (Hong Kong),
“Positive Hopf algebras and
set-theoretical Yang-Baxter equation.”
14:55-15.40 Shahar Mozes (Hebrew University)
”Uniform exponential growth for linear groups”
11:10–11:55 Ki Hyoung Ko (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology),
“Parametrizations
of 1-bridge torus knots.”
12:05–12:50 S.
Kamada (Osaka City University),
“Quandle homology and knot invariants.”
12:50– 14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Yosef Yomdin
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
”Center-Focus problem, Generalized Moments and Algebraic Curves".
9:15–10:00 Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Institute of Technology),
“Graphs, automata and boundary links.”
10:15–11:00 Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University),
“Magnetic Schrödinger
operators: discreteness of spectrum and strict positivity criteria”
11:00–11:15 Coffee
11:15–12:00 John Klein (Wayne
State University),
“Tate cohomology, Poincaré duality and string topology.”
12:15–13:00 Ulrich Bunke (Georg-August-University),
“Secondary index theory for flat bundles with duality structure.”
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:15 Mikhail
Katz (Bar Ilan University),
“Mass inequalities associated to cup products.”
15:30–16:15 Paul
Kirk (Indiana University),
“A splitting formula for the eta-invariant.”
16:30–17:15 Robert
Brooks (Technion, Haifa),
“Riemann surfaces and 3-regular graphs.”
14:30-15:15 Oziride
Manzoli-Neto (Universidade de São Paulo),
“A
theorem of classification for open book structures on (n-1)-connected (2n+1)-manifolds.”
15:30–16:15 Martin
Olbrich (Georg-August-University),
“Dynamics and cohomology of infinite volume
hyperbolic manifolds.”
16:30–17:15 Ruth Lawrence (Hebrew
University),
“Structure in quantum 3-manifold invariants.”
9:15–10:00 Kent Orr (Indiana University),
”Some new results on the knot slice problem.”
10:10–10:55 Jim Davis (Indiana University),
“Classification of certain torus bundles over lens spaces.”
10:55–11:10 Coffee
11:10–11:55 Gabriel
Katz (MIT),
“Harmonic Morse theory, volume-minimizing cycles, and the Thurston norm.”
12:05–12:50 Izu
Vaisman (University of Haifa),
”Transversal Twistor Spaces of Foliations.”
11:10–11:55 David
Blanc (University of Haifa),
“The moduli space of homotopy types.”
12:05–12:50 Emanuel Farjoun (Hebrew
University),
“Classification: the topology
and algebra of homotopy limits.”