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"Submanifolds,
Singular Varieties and Stratified Spaces"
2005
(Julius'
Ides of March Topology Festival)
Courant
Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
New York
University, New York, NY
March 13 - March 16, 2005
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| IDES OF MARCH FEST DATES,
TIMES, AND LOCATION |
| Submanifolds, Singular Spaces and Stratified Sets
will be
held at the Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New
York University from Sunday, March 13 through Wednesday,
March 16, 2005.
The talks will take place at the Courant
Institute, which is located
at 251
Mercer Street (corner of Mercer Street and West 4th Street) in
Manhattan.
Everyone is invited to the Julius's IOMT Fest,
especially
graduate students.
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| ORGANIZING COMMITTEE |
| William Browder, Sylvain Cappell, Kent
Orr, Shmuel
Weinberger,
If you have any question, please feel free to
contact us at:
Julius's
IOM
Topology Fest
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| SPEAKERS |
| The following speakers will give hour talks: |
Markus Banagl, Heidelberg University
"Computing Twisted L-classes of Non-Witt Spaces"
Jeff Cheeger, Courant
Institute, NYU
"Singular Einstein $4$-manifolds'"
Tim Cochran, Rice University
"Concordance of Classical Knots"
Dennis DeTurck & Herman Gluck, University
of Pennsylvania
"Harmonic Cohomology"
Mikhail Farber, University of
Durham
"Topology in Robot Motion Planning"
Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
"Pulling Manifolds Together in Gromov-Hausdorff Space"
Greg Friedman, Yale University
"Singular chains in interesection homology"
Shelly Harvey, MIT
"Homology Cobordisms of Manifolds and L2
Signatures"
Helmut Hofer, Courant
Institute, NYU
Polyfolds and Fredholm Theory with Operations
Blaine Lawson, SUNY-Stony Brook
"Projective linking and Boundaries of Varieties in ${\bold P}^n$."
Robert MacPherson, Institute for
Advanced Study
"On Spec of the Equivariant Cohomology"
Laurentiu Maxim, University of
Pennsylvania
"Alexander invariants of hypersurface complements"
Frank Quinn, Virginia Tech
"Topology of 4-manifolds"
Jacob Rasmussen, Princeton
University
"Deformations of the Khovanov Homology"
Rob Schneiderman, Courant
Institute,
NYU
"Pulling Apart 2-Spheres in 4-Manifolds"
Peter Teichner, University of
California at Berkeley
"Whitney Towers and Milnor Invariants"
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| CHECK-IN AND SCHEDULE |
Please refer to the Program
page for the schedule of events.
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| PARKING |
| Please check here
for details on parking garages close to the Courant Institute. |
| REGISTRATION AND
RECEPTION INFORMATION |
Participants are asked to register in
advance. For registration, please
fill out the online
registration form.
The reception will be held at:
The
Village Crown
96
Third Avenue
New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-2061
On Sunday, March 13, 2005 from 7 pm until 11 pm
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Some inexpensive housing has been reserved for the conference. Please
contact Club Quarters at 212-443-4700 for more information.
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| FINANCIAL SUPPORT |
| The Julius's Ides of March Topology Fest is
supported in part
by a grant from the National
Science Foundation and The
Courant Institute. Limited funds will be
available for partial reimbursement of travel and hotel costs for some
of the participants. Preference will be given to graduate students and
younger faculty who do not have NSF or other grant or school
support.
People interested in applying for travel
funds should click on this link for
registration.
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| REMARKS |
| If you have special needs that we should be
aware of, please contact us via email at Julius's IOM Topology Fest
If you would like to change any information
on your registration form, please send email to Julius's IOM Topology Fest
A banquet will be held on Sunday evening.
For those who would like to attend, the cost of the banquet is $35,
payable to the Courant Institute, New York University. Send to:
Submanifolds, Singular Varieties
and Stratified Spaces
c/o Anne Seaton
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
251 Mercer St.
New York, NY 10012
Please note that seating is not guaranteed for those who have not made
advanced reservations. Please send your payment as soon as
possible
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| ANOTHER CONFERENCE OF
INTEREST |
On March 17 -20, there is another special
event Braids,
Links and the Mapping Class Group: A conference in honor of Joan
Birman
at nearby Columbia University & Barnard College. Associated
conference workshops are on March 15 and 16. A banquet will be held on
Friday, March 18.
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| ABOUT THIS WEB SITE |
| This web site will be updated from time to
time. A list of participants
will be posted approximately one week before the beginning of the
conference.
Please bookmark this site.
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