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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

Sponsored by The NSF and The Courant Institute

Check-In: Check in will be Sunday morning March, 13, 2005

Schedule 
Day   Time Event
Sunday 3/13 9 am
Breakfast and Registration at the Courant Institute
Rm 109

10 am
Peter Teichner, UC Berkeley
Whitney Towers and Milnor's Invariants
Rm 109

11 am
Morning Break
  11:30 am
Jeff Cheeger, Courant Institute NYU
Singular Einstein 4-manifolds
Rm 109

12:30
Lunch Break
  2 pm
Helmut Hofer, NYU Courant
Polyfolds and Fredholm Theory with Operations
Rm 109

3 pm
Afternoon Break
  3:30 pm
Robert MacPherson, Institute of Advanced Study
On Spec of the Equivariant Cohomology
Rm 109

4:45 pm
Kent Orr, Indiana University
A Julius retrospective
Rm 109

7:00 pm Banquet
The Village Crown
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Monday 3/14 8:30
Breakfast

9:00 am
Shelly Harvey, MIT
Homology cobordisms of manifolds and L2 Signatures
Rm 101

10:30 am
Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
Harmonic Cohomology
Rm 101

11:30 am
Coffee Break

12 noon
Jacob Rassmussen, Princeton
Deformations of the Khovanov Homology
Rm 101

1 pm
Lunch Break

2:30 pm
Laurentiu Maxim, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Invariants of Hypersurface Compliments
Rm 101

3:30 pm
Afternoon Break

4 pm
Rob Schneiderman, Courant Institute NYU
Pulling apart 2-spheres in 4-manifolds
Rm 101



Tuesday 3/15 8:30
Breakfast

9 am
Frank Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Topology of 4-manifolds
Rm 101

10 am
Morning Break

10:30 am
Michael Farber, University of Durham
Topology in Robot Motion Planning
Rm 101

12 noon
Lunch

1:30 pm
Marcus Banagl, Heidelberg
Computing Twisted L-Classes of Non-Witt Spaces
Rm 101

2:30 pm
Afternoon Break

3:00 pm
Greg Friedman, Yale University
Singular Chains in Intersection Homology
Rm 101

4:30 pm
Problem Session
Rm 101

5:30 pm
Reception
13th Floor Commons



Wednesday 3/16 8:30 am
Breakfast

9 am
Tim Cochran, Rice University
Concordance of classical knots
Rm 101

10:30 am
Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
Pushing Manifolds together in Gromov-Hausdorff Space
Rm 101

11:30 am
Morning Break

11:45 am
Blaine Lawson, SUNY Stoney Brook
Projective Linking and Boundaries of Varieties in P^n
Rm 101