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Workshop on:
Algebraic Topology of String Theory and Moduli Space of Riemann Surfaces Stony Brook, New York August 11-15, 2003 |
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| Algebriac Topology of String Theory and Moduli Space of Riemann Surfaces Workshop Schedule | |||||
| SUNY Stony Brook August 11 - 15, 2003 | |||||
| Date/Time | Monday 8/11 | Tuesday 8/12 | Wednesday 8/13 | Thursday 8/14 | Friday 8/15 |
| 9:00 | Ib Madsen, Aarhus University, The Generalized Mumford Conjecture | Bob Penner, Univ. So. California, Survey of the use of graphs in the study of moduli spaces | Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University, Automorphisms of free groups and mapping class groups - comp. techniques | Antonio Ramirez, Stanford University, Open String Topology | N. Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins Univ., Tate K-theory and positive energy bundles over loop spaces |
| 10:00 | COFFEE | ||||
| 10:15 | Veronique Godin, Stanford University, Spaces of graphs and their applications to string topology | ||||
| 10:30 | COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE | |
| 11:00 | Moira Chas, SUNY Stony Brook, Closed String Operations | John Klein, Wayne State, Fiber product generalizations of string topology | Paolo Salvatore, University of Rome, II, String topology and rational maps | Po Hu, Wayne State Univ., Homotopy theoretic aspects of string topology | |
| 11:30 | S. Galatius, Aarhus Univ., Calculations in stable homology of moduli space | ||||
| 12:30 | BEACH PICNIC | ||||
| 2:00 | Sheldon Katz, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Gromov-Witten theory of open and closed strings | Jacob Shapiro, Stanford University, D-branes via Gromov-Witten theory | |||
| 3:00 | Ernesto Lupercio, Univ. Wisconsin, Spin bundles on loop spaces and conformal field theory | Igor Kriz, Univ. Michigan, Conformal field theories and elliptic objects | |||
| 3:15 | Thomas Tradler, Stanford University and CUNY, A-infinity inner products and string topology | J. Terilla, SUNY Stony Brook, Hochschild homology and deformation theory | |||
| 4:00 | TEA | TEA | |||
| 4:15 | TEA | ||||
| 4:30 | Luc Menichi, U. Angres, Hochschild homology and loop spaces | Nathalie Wahl, Aarhus University, Use of operads in moduli spaces | TEA | ||
| 4:45 | Andrew Stacey, Stanford University, Differential topology of loop spaces | C.F. Bodigheimer, Univ. Bonn, Slit domain models of moduli space | |||
| 6:30 | BANQUET | ||||
| 8:00 | A. Voronov, Univ.of Minnesota, Topological field theories and string backgrounds | Discussion and problem session, led by D. Sullivan, R. Cohen and J. Li | |||