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| December 5, 2025 |
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Homotopy Theory ProgramWorkshop on Homotopy, Geometry and Physics
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| 2:00 pm: | John Jones, Warwick |
| Operad Theory | |
| 3:30 pm: | Jacques Hurtubise, McGill | Moduli spaces and particle spaces. II |
| 9:30 am: | Raoul Bott, Harvard |
| Topological aspects of the Feynman rules | |
| 11:00 am: | Fred Cohen, University of Rochester, |
| Configuration Spaces and Mapping Class groups | |
| 2:00 pm: | Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico |
| Stability Theorems for Spaces of Rational Curves | |
| 3:30 pm: | Pawel Gajer, Texas A&M |
| Geometry of higher line bundles, Deligne cohomology, and algebraic cycles |
| 9:30 am: | Jim Milgram, Stanford |
| Holomorphic maps from a Riemann surface to complex projective space | |
| 11:00 am: | Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University |
| The homology of the moduli spaces M_{1,n} and their compactifications | |
| 2:00 pm: | Takashi Kimura, Boston University |
| Moduli Spaces, Graph Complexes, and Their Representations | |
| 3:00 pm: | Alexander A. Voronov, University of Pennsylvania |
| Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras in topological field theory | |
| 4:30 pm: | John Jones, Warwick |
| Equivariant maps between spheres and the 11/8 conjecture |
Sunday, April 21
| 9:30 am: | Jack Morava, Johns Hopkins |
| Topological gravity and quantum cohomology | |
| 11:00 am: | Lisa Jeffrey, McGill |
| Quantization commutes with reduction | |
| 2:00 pm: | Stefan Stolz, Notre Dame |
| Manifolds of positive scalar curvature -- a survey | |
| 3:00 pm: | Ruth Lawrence, Michigan |
| A Holomorphic version of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant | |
| 4:30 pm: | Robert MacPherson, IAS, (Fields Distinguished Lecture) |
| Topology of Spaces with Torus Action |
Monday April 22
| 9:30 am: | TBA |
| 11:00 am: | Paulo Lima-Filho, Texas A&M |
| Euler-Chow series and projective bundle formulas | |
| 2:00 pm: | Michael Kapranov, Northwestern University |
| Rational curves in flag varieties, Eisenstein-Langlands series and affine quantum groups | |
| 3:30 pm: | Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina |
| Compactifications of configuration and moduli spaces |