Eleventh NRW Topology Meeting

BIELEFELD (GERMANY)

Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9, 2009

Schedule of talks

Friday, May 8
11.00	Brent Doran (Oxford)	Applications of A¹ -topology to problems in classical algebraic geometry
12.00	Fabian Morel (München)	Serre classes of A¹-homotopy sheaves and the Friedlander-Milnor conjecture
	Lunch break
14.30	Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen (Aarhus)	The Hitchin connection, Toeplitz operators and TQFT
15.30	Selman Akbulut (East Lansing, Michigan)	Corks, Plugs and exotic structures on 4-manifolds
	Tea/Coffee break
17.00	Aravind Asok (Los Angeles)	Rational connectivity and A¹-connectivity

Saturday, May 9
9.00	Matthias Wendt (Freiburg)	Homotopy theory of algebraic groups
10.00	Edward Segal (London)	B-branes in Landau-Ginzburg models
	Tea/Coffee break
11.30	Andriy Haydys (Bielefeld)	Instantons, monopoles and dualities
12.30	Andrei Teleman (Marseille)	Donaldson classes on instanton moduli spaces over negative definite 4-manifolds

The sessions will take place at lecture hall H 3 Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld .

There is no formal registration, but please send an email to "zaeper (at) mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de" so that we can estimate the number of participants; please indicate whether you want to join us for dinner on May 8. There will be a buffet dinner at the Rosenhof on 8 May, starting at 6.30 pm (Euro 17,- + beverages per person), with a party at Waldhausen's afterwards.

Please contact Mrs Zäpernick "zaeper (at) mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de" if you require assistance finding accommodation.

How to get here

Previous NRW-Topology Meetings:

10. NRW Topology Meeting Bochum, November 7/8

9. NRW Topology Meeting Münster, May 18/19, 2008

8. NRW Topology Meeting, Bonn, November 2007

7. NRW Topology Meeting, Osnabrück, April 2007

6. NRW Topology Meeting, Düsseldorf, November 2006

5. NRW Topology Meeting, Bielefeld, April 2006

4. NRW Topology Meeting Wuppertal, October 2005

3. NRW Topology Meeting Bochum, April 2005

2. NRW Topology Meeting Muenster, November 2004

1. NRW Topology Meeting Bonn, April 2004