SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Workshop on Rational homotopy theory and its applications May 29-31, 2012 at the University of Ottawa Local organizers Rick Blute, Barry Jessup, Paul-Eugène Parent
Scientific Advisory Committee Aniceto Murillo (University of Malaga, Spain) John Oprea (Cleveland State University, USA)

Purpose

This workshop will be held in honour of Yves Félix's 60th birthday (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium). We wish to pay tribute to his exceptional career and hugely influential contribution to this field of research.

One-hour lectures given by invited speakers. Participants that have already accepted to contribute a talk are:

Peter Bubenik (Cleveland State University, USA)
David Chataur (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France)
Fred Cohen (University of Rochester, USA)
Octav Cornea (Université de Montréal)
Steve Halperin (University of Maryland, USA)
Kathryn Hess (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Pascal Lambrechts (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Vicente Muñoz (University of Madrid, Spain)
Paolo Salvatore (University of Rome, Italy)
Sam Smith (Saint Joseph's University, USA)
Don Stanley (University of Regina)
Daniel Tanré (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France)
Lucile Vandembroucq (University of Minho, Portugal)

The introductory lectures in rational homotopy theory will be given jointly by Steve Halperin and Jonathan Scott. These will be held on
Monday the 28th of May.

Abstracts available here

Workshop Program

Monday May 28th, 2012
Introductory Talks
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	Registration
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Rational Homotopy Theory I Steve Halperin (Univeristy of Maryland)
11:00 - 12:00 noon	Rational Homotopy Theory II Jonathan Scott (Cleveland State Universtiy)
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.	Rational Homotopy Thoeory III Stevel Halperin (University of Maryland)
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Rational Homotopy Theory IV Jonathan Scott (Cleveland State University)
Tuesday Mary 29th, 2012
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Steve Halperin (University of Maryland) The Growth of the Rational Homotopy Groups and Loop Space Homology of a Finite Complex
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.	Don Stanley (University of Regina) TBA
11:30 - 12:30 noon	Paolo Salvatore (University of Rome) Cellular decompositions of con guration spaces
12:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Lunch
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.	Sam Smith (Saint Joseph's University) Fibrewise Rational Homotopy Theory
3:45 - 4:45 p.m.	David Chataur ( Universit e des Sciences et Technologies de Lille) Loop spaces and duality
Wednesday May 30th, 2012
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Kathryn Hess (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne) Duality descent and extensions
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.	Octav Cornea ( Universite de Montreal) Some enumerative invariants in Lagrangian topology and the free loop space
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.	Lucile Vandembroucq : University of Minho Topological Complexity and DGA modules
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.	Fred Cohen (University of Rochester) Moment-angle complexes, Polyhedral products and their applications
3:45 - 4:45 p.m.	Pascal Lambrechts (Universit e catholique de Louvain) TBA
Thursday May 31, 2012
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Aniceto Murillo (University of Malaga) The second Bernoulli number, endpoints of a path, and models of non- connected spaces
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.	Jonathan Scott (Cleveland State University) TBA
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.	Daniel Tanre (Universit e des Sciences et Technologies de Lille) TBA

Map of University of Ottawa campus

Participant List

First Name	Last Name
Aniceto	Murillo
Antonio	Garvin
Aradhana	Kumari
Bernard	Badzioch
Bora	Ferlengez
David	Chataur
Dionicio	Ibarias
Don	Stanley
Francisco	Belchí Guillamón
Fred	Cohen
Giovanni	Bazzoni
Gregory	Lupton
Hector	Cordova
Huygens	Ravelomanana
John	McCleary
John	Oprea
Jonathan	Scott
Jose Gabriel	Carrasquel Vera
Kathryn	Hess
Lucile	Vandembroucq
Mark W.	Johnson
Martin	Frankland
Marzieh	Bayeh
Matthew	Miller
Mehdi	Garrousian
Michael	Ching
Miguel A.	Xicotencatl
Mitsunobu	Tsutaya
My Ismail	Mamouni
Nick	Scoville
Octav	Cornea
Paolo	Salvatore
Pascal	Lambrechts
Paul Arnaud	Songhafouo
Philip	Egger
Qusay	Al-Zamil
Samuel	Smith
Sergio	Huerta Lara
Stephen	Halperin
Urtzi	Buijs Martin
Victor	Turchin
Wojtek	Dorabiala

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