Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

A Newton Institute Workshop

Elliptic Cohomology and Chromatic Chenomena \& Higher Chromatic Phenomena

8 Dec - 21 Dec 2002

Timetable:

List of participants

Monday 9 December

08.15-09.00 Registration

09.00-10.00 MJ Hopkins (MIT)

Topological aspects of elliptic cohomology

10.00-11.00 J Rognes (Oslo)

Two-vector bundles and elliptic objects  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 S Stolz (Notre Dame)

The spinor bundle on the free loop space  More info

17.30-18.30 Wine & Beer Reception

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Tuesday 10 December

09.00-10.00 I Grojnowski (Cambridge)

Hilbert schemes and integrable system: the cohomology ring of a
compactification of configuration space

10.00-11.00 P Goerss (Northwestern)

The tangent complex for the moduli stack of formal groups  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 G Segal (Oxford)

What is an elliptic object?

16.30-17.30 G Mason (California)

Orbifold conformal field theory and cohomology of the monster  More info

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Wednesday 11 December

09.00-10.00 J Greenlees (Sheffield)

Algebraic groups and equivariant cohomology theories  More info

10.00-11.00 D Freed (Texas)

Loop groups and twisted K-theory

11.00-11.30 Coffee

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 G Moore (Rutgers)

On the M-theory action on a manifold with boundary  More info

16.30-17.30 V Gorbounov (Kentucky)

Gerbes of chiral differential operators  More info

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Thursday 12 December

09.00-10.00 N Strickland (Sheffield)

Equivariant veresion of elliptic spectra  More info

10.00-11.00 G Laures (Heidelberg)

K(1)-local topological modular forms, the Witten orientation and
E_\infty cellular structures  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 C Rezk (Champaign)

Hecke operators and logarithmic cohomology operations  More info

16.30-17.30 B Totaro (Cambridge)

The elliptic genus of a singular variety  More info

19.45- . Conference Dinner at Trinity Hall  More info

Friday 13 December

09.00-10.00 M Ando (Champaign)

Elliptic genera and Thom classes  More info

10.00-11.00 J Morava (John Hopkins)

Complex orientations and Motivic Galois theory  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea

15.30-16.30 M Weiss (Aberdeen)

Cohomology of the stable mapping class group

16.30-17.30 Discussion Session

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Monday 16 December

10.00-11.00 G Nishida (Kyoto)

A note on Hopkins-Kuhn-Ravenel character
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room

11.00-11.30 Coffee at the Isaac Newton Institute

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

14.00-15.00 C Thomas (Cambridge)

Spin bordism, contact structure and the cohomology of p-groups?
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room  More info

15.00-15.30 Tea at the Isaac Newton Institute

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Tuesday 17 December

10.00-11.00 H-W Henn (IRMA)

Resolutions of the K(2) - local sphere
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee at the Isaac Newton Institute

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea at the Isaac Newton Institute

15.30-16.30 J Devoto (ITBA)

What are the elliptic objects of K3 cohomology
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room  More info

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Wednesday 18 December

10.00-11.00 D Ravenel (Rochester)

Towards higher chromatic analogues of elliptic cohomology: curves with
high formal group laws. Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee at the Isaac Newton Institute

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea at the Isaac Newton Institute

15.30-16.30 N Minami (Nagoya)

Hierarchy of morava K-theories?
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room  More info

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Thursday 19 December

10.00-11.00 A Baker (Glasgow)

Gamma-cohomology and $E-infinity$ structures on some periodic spectra
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room  More info

11.00-11.30 Coffee at the Isaac Newton Institute

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea at the Isaac Newton Institute

15.30-16.30 K Johnson (Dalhousie)

Cooperations in elliptic homology and E(n) homology
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)

Friday 20 December

10.00-11.00 M Mandell (Chicago)

E-infinity maps between Spanier-Whitehead duals
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room

11.00-11.30 Coffee at the Isaac Newton Institute

12.30-13.30 Lunch at Wolfson Court

15.00-15.30 Tea at the Isaac Newton Institute

15.30-16.30 G Vezzosi (Bologna)

An idea of homotopical algebraic geometry
Talk being held in the CMS - Wolfson Room  More info

18.45-19.30 Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents Only)


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