Strings in Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen

February 15-19, 2010

 

Organizers: David Ayala, Alexander Berglund and Nathalie Wahl


External Participants:

  • Hossein Abbaspour (Nantes)
  • Andres Angel (Bonn)
  • Gregory Ginot (Paris 6)
  • Pascal Lambrechts (Louvain)
  • Luc Menichi (Anger)
  • Carlos Moraga (Nantes)
  • Iver Ottosen (Aalborg)
  • Don Stanley (Regina)

 

Programme

 Mon 

  9:30 - 9:50   Introduction and coffee

  10:00-12:00  Comparing (\infty,1)-categories  

  13:00-15:00  Model(s) for (\infty,n)-categories

Ayala

Abbaspour

Berglund 

 Tue

 10:00-12:00  Bordism categories as (\infty,n)-categories and dualizability

 14:00-16:00  Graph complexes

Ayala

Wahl

 Wed

 10:00 (second) breakfast - discussion

 13:00-15:00  Inductive formulation of the bordism hypothesis

 16:00-18:00  String operations a la Godin

 

 Ayala

Hepworth

 Thu

 10:00-12:00  Umkehr maps

 14:00-16:00  String topology a la Luc/Lurie

Bargheer

Menichi

 Fri

 10:00-12:00 Topological chiral homology

 13:00-15:00 Chiral homology and configuration spaces

Ginot

Lambrechts

 

Location: The introduction will take place in the coffee room on the fourth floor. All talks are in room 04.4.01 except the first talk, which will take place in A102.

 

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