6. NRW Topology Meeting


Düsseldorf (GERMANY)

Friday, November 24 and Saturday, November 25, 2006


Schedule of talks

Friday, November 24
11.05 - 11.50 Johannes Ebert
(Bonn)
Spin structures on surface bundles
12.00 - 13.00 Jean Lannes
(Palaiseau)
The degree of rational functions
Lunch break
14:50 - 15:35 Joachim Grunewald
(Münster)
The behavior of nil-groups under localization
and the relative assembly map
15:45 - 16:30 Andriy Haydys
(Bielefeld)
HyperKähler manifolds with symmetries
and low dimensional topology
Tea/Coffee break
17.15 - 18.15 Yves Félix
(Louvain-la-Neuve)
Rational string topology
 
Saturday, November 25
9:15 - 10:00 Thilo Kuessner
(Siegen)
Simplicial volume and invariants of laminations
10:10 - 10:55 Fernando Muro
(MPI Bonn)
The 1-type of Waldhausen K-theory
Tea/Coffee break
11:25 - 12:10 Tibor Macko
(Münster)
Automorphisms of some manifolds
and algebraic theory of surgery
12:15 - 13:00 Fritz Grunewald
(Düsseldorf)
The cohomology of arithmetic
hyberbolic space forms

The sessions will take place at lecture hall 5 E, Heinrich-Heine-Universität , Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf.


26.10.2006 -- Christian Löffelsend