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March 29, 2024

THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

June 8-9, 2015
Unstable Homotopy Theory:

A Conference in Honour of Paul Selick

hosted by the Fields Institute at the University of Toronto

Organizers:
Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto
Don Stanley,University of Regina
Stephen Theriault, University of Southampton

Online registration has now closed.
On-site registration available during conference. Registration: $25, Banquet tickets: $60/each

Overview

This two day conference will celebrate the career of Paul Selick. It will gather together many of Paul's coworkers, students and friends, and give an opportunity for both senior and more junior leaders in homotopy theory and related areas to discuss both past achievements and future directions. There will be five talks each day with ample time left for free discussion. A conference dinner will provide a valuable social occasion.

Speakers

Tom Baird (Memorial University)
Peter Bubenik (Cleveland State University)
Eddy Campbell (University of New Brunswick)
Steve Halperin (University of Maryland)
Megumi Harada (McMaster University)
Rick Jardine (University of Western Ontario)
Derek Krepski (University of Manitoba)
Joe Neisendorfer (Rochester University)
Jim Shank (University Kent)
Jie Wu (National University of Singapore)

 

Schedule

Monday June 8
10:00-11:00
Joe Neisendorfer, What is loop multiplication anyhow?
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:30 Rick Jardine, Path categories and algorithms
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Jie Wu, Combinatorial approach to the exponents
3:00-3:30 Tea/Coffee
3:30-4:30 Jim Shank, Modular invariants of elementary abelian p-groups
4:45-5:45 Eddy Campbell Invariant Theory of GLn(F) x F*
7:00 Banquet

 

Tuesday June 9
10:00-11:00
Steve Halperin, Rational homotopy theory for non-nilpotent spaces
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:30 Megumi Harada, The cohomology of Hessenberg varieties and representations of the symmetric group
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Tom Baird, Classifying spaces of twisted loop groups
3:00-3:30 Tea/Coffee
3:30-4:30 Derek Krepski, On surface group representations and prequantization
4:45-5:45 Peter Bubenik, Topological Data Analysis and Representation Theory

 

Abstracts

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