Workshop on Stacks in Geometry and Topology

May 14 - 18, 2007, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

SPEAKERS:

Matt Ando (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Clark Barwick (University of Oslo)
Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ian Grojnowski (University of Cambridge)
Max Lieblich (Princeton University)
Wendy Lowen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Jacob Lurie (Harvard University)

Niko Naumann (University of Regensburg)
Behrang Noohi (FSU and MPI)
Charles Rezk (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Markus Spitzweck (University of Goettingen)
Bertrand Toën (CNRS - Université Paul Sabatier)
Michel Vaquié (Universite Toulouse 3)
Angelo Vistoli (Universita di Bologna)
Chenchang Zhu (Fourier Institute)

Of note during the week of May 14-17
Distinguished Lecture Series MICHAEL HOPKINS (Harvard)
May 14, 4:30 pm Classical and quantum invariants of manifolds
May 15, 4:30 pm Homotopy invariance of string topology
May 17, 4:30 pm The topological WZW space of conformal blocks

Schedule

Monday, May 14th, 2007
09:30 to 10:30	Higher Equivariance and Loop Group Representations Jacob Lurie, Harvard University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee
11:00 to 12:00	Compact moduli of projective bundles Max Lieblich, Princeton University
12:00 to 14:30	Lunch
14:30 to 15:30	Lie theory of Lie algebroids via higher structures in differentiable geometry Chenchang Zhu, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and University of Goettingen
15:30 to 16:30	Coffee

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
09:30 to 10:30	Fulton-MacPherson bivariant theories and string topology for stacks Behrang Noohi
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee
11:00 to 12:00	Differential Calculus in Spectral Algebraic Geometry Clark Barwick
12:00 to 14:30	Lunch
14:30 to 15:30	P-adic modular forms and the string orientation of Topological Modular Forms Matt Ando, Univeristy of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign
15:30 to 16:30	Coffee

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
09:30 to 10:30	Morava E-theory of commutative S-algebras and the Frobenius congruence Charles Rezk, University of Illinois
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee
11:00 to 12:00	Essential dimension and algebraic stacks Angelo Vistoli, University of Bologna

Thursday, May 17th, 2007
09:30 to 10:30	Deformations of ringed spaces as algebroid prestacks Wendy Lowen
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee
11:00 to 12:00	Characterization of algebraic spaces by their derived category Michel Vaquié, University of Toulouse III
12:00 to 14:30	Lunch
14:30 to 15:30	Integral derived fundamental groups for Tate motives Markus Spitzweck
15:30 to 16:30	Coffee

Friday, May 18th, 2007
09:30 to 10:30	Topological Automorphic Forms Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee
11:00 to 12:00	Homotopical finiteness of smooth and proper dg-algebras Bertrand Toën, University of Toulouse
12:00 to 14:30	Lunch
14:30 to 15:30	Arithmetically defined dense subgroups of Morava stabilizer groups Niko Naumann, Universität Regensburg