GTP @ Pitt: Schedule

Wednesday May 14

  9 - 9:50 AM Jack Morava The Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson model and Gerstenhaber 2-algebras
  10 - 10:50 Ralph Kaufmann    The geometry and algebra of master equations, BV operators and Feynman transforms
  11 - 11:50 Nitu Kitchloo The stable symplectic category and symmetries
   lunch

  2 - 2:50 PM Sam Ballas The structure of properly convex manifolds
  3 - 3:50 Grant Lakeland Systoles and Dehn surgery for hyperbolic manifolds
  4 - 4:50 Kathryn Mann Surface groups, representation spaces, and rigidity
 


Thursday May 15

  9 - 9:50 AM Jeff Danciger Moduli spaces of constant curvature spacetimes
  10 - 10:50 Jonah Gaster Sageev's dual cube complex and maximal complete 1-systems of curves on surfaces
  11 - 11:50 Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann Topological charges and the geometry of momentum space
   lunch

  2 - 2:50 PM Jonathan Rosenberg Twisted KR-theory and orientifold string theories
  3 - 3:50 Craig Westerland Twisted Morava K-theory
  4 - 4:50 David Carchedi A differential graded approach to derived manifolds
 

All talks in 704 Thackeray Hall. We will have coffee and bagels in Thackeray 705 at about 8:45 AM, and coffee there at about 1:45 PM.