Friday Evening Welcome : Bailey Hall 204
Invited Addresses : Bailey Hall 207
Algebraic Topology Sessions : 2nd Floor Bailey Hall
Friday 4/29/11
7:00 - 9:00
Reception
Saturday 4/30/11
11:30 - 12:30
Julie Bergner, UC Riverside
Homotopy theories and higher categories
4:30 - 5:30
Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University
Logical approaches to higher-order quantum information theory
Sunday 5/1/11
11:30 - 12:30
Margaret Cheney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Introduction to radar imaging
Saturday 4/30/11
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00 - 9:30
Shaun Ault, Fordham University
Elements partially annihilated by the Steenrod algebra9:40 - 10:10
Somnath Basu, Stony Brook University
Transversal string topology and invariants of manifolds10:20 - 10:50
Olga Stroilova, MIT
The dual of L(n)
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address I
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Bill Lawvere, University of Buffalo
Categorical dynamics2:40 - 3:10
Benjamin Balsam, Stony Brook University
Turaev-Viro theory, extended TQFTs and topological quantum computation3:20 - 3:50
Daniel Bravo Vivallo, Wesleyan University
The stable derived category of a ring
4:00 - 4:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
4:30 - 5:30
Invited Address II
6:30 - 10:00
Banquet and Party
Sunday 5/1/11
8:30 - 9:00
Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00 - 9:30
Jeremy Brazas, University of New Hampshire
The fundamental group as topological group9:40 - 10:10
Courtney Thatcher, Penn State Altoona
On the classification of free Z_p actions on products of spheres10:20 - 10:50
Kristine Pelatt, University of Oregon
Geometric representatives of cycles and cocycles in spaces
of knots
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address III
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Mark Behrens, MIT
The odd primary EHP sequence2:40 - 3:10
Mark Johnson, Penn State Altoona
On minimal higher homotopy operations