Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK

EuroWorkshop

ELLIPTIC COHOMOLOGY AND CHROMATIC PHENOMENA & HIGHER CHROMATIC PHENOMENA

Monday 9 December to Friday 20 December 2002


Confirmed Speakers



SPEAKER
BACKGROUND PAPERS
Matthew Ando (Champaign) "The sigma orientation for analytic circle-equivariant elliptic cohomology", "Elliptic spectra, the theorem of the cube, and the Witten genus"
Dan Freed (Austin) "The Verlinde algebra is twisted equivariant K-theory", "Twisted K-theory and loop groups", "Twisted equivariant K-theory with complex coefficients"
Paul Goerss Northwestern)
Vassily Gorbunov (Lexingon) "The Chiral de Rham Complex\ and Positivity of the Equivariant Signature of the Loop Space"
John Greenlees (Sheffield) "Rational S1-equivariant elliptic cohomology"
Ian Grojnowski (Cambridge)
Mike Hopkins (MIT) "Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms - DVI"; "Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms - PDF"; "Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms - PS"
Mikhail Kapranov (Toronto)
Gerd Laures (Heidelberg) Some papers: "An E_infty splitting of spin bordism", "K(1)-local topological modular forms", "On cobordism of manifolds with corners"
Geoff Mason (Santa Cruz) "Modular-invariance of trace functions in orbifold theory and generalized Moonshine", "Compact automorphism groups of vertex operator algebras", "Twisted representations of vertex operator algebras" "Abstract of talk"
Greg Moore (Rutgers) "Background Papers"
Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins) "HKR characters and higher twisted sectors", "A renormalized Riemann-Roch formula and the Thom isomorphism for the free loop space"
Charles Rezk (Champaign) "Notes on the Hopkins-Miller theorem", "Notes on topological modular forms"
John Rognes (Oslo) "Elliptic cohomology and algebraic K-theory of 2-vector spaces"
Graeme Segal (Oxford)
Stephan Stolz (Notre Dame)
Neil Strickland Sheffield)
Burt Totaro (Cambridge) "Chern numbers and elliptic homology", "Topology of singular algebraic varieties"