OSU GEOMETRY - TOPOLOGY
                                 CONFERENCE

                             Columbus, Ohio

                          December 6-7, 1997


All lectures in EA160

Saturday December 6

9:30-10:00 COFFEE MW 724

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Janos Kollar (University of Utah)
Title : Real Algebraic Varieties

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Noel Brady (Cornell Univ.)
Title: Combing Kernels of Right-angled Artin Groups

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mikhail Kapranov (Northwestern Univ.)
Title : Rozansky-Witten invariant

3:00-3:30 p.m. COFFEE MW 724

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thang Le (SUNY, Buffalo)
Title : Relation Between Finite Type and Quantum Invariants of 3-Manifolds

Banquet 6:30 p.m.

Party 8:30 p.m.

Sunday December 7

9:00-10:00 a.m.
Harold G. Donnelly (Purdue University)
Title: Dirichlet Problem for Harmonic Maps

10:30-11:30 a.m.
Bruce Kleiner (Univ. Pennsylvania)
Title: Ideal Boundary of Hadamard Spaces



For more information contact: Dan Burghelea, burghele@math.ohio-state.edu

See also announcement on OSU Math. Dept. Web Page:
 http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/Announcements/GeometryTopologyConf.html

For more information about Ohio State see: www.ohio-state.edu



For accommodations call: The Red Roof Inn, Ackerman Rd. (take
Ackerman exit East off of State Route 315 ) 614-267-9941,
614-777-1070;

Holiday Inn, 328 W Lane Av (Lane exit East off of SR315), 614-294-4848

Red Roof is cheaper (long walking distance)

Holiday Inn is closer (but more expensive)

(Other hotels are listed in the web page announcement.)

Funding: There should be some support for graduate students available
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Date:         Wed, 17 Dec 1997 08:04:11 -0500
Reply-To:     Midwestern Topology Seminar Discussions <MWTOPSEM@VMA.CC.ND.EDU>
Sender:       Midwestern Topology Seminar Discussions <MWTOPSEM@VMA.CC.ND.EDU>
From:         laurence taylor <taylor@laotse.helios.nd.edu>
Subject:      Winter Midwest

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     MIDWEST TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
           (first announcement)
               January 24, 1998
         Northwestern University


 9:30-10:00AM Coffee


 10:00-11:00 John Palmieri, University of Notre Dame
 Title: "Stable homotopy over a p-group"


 11:30-12:30 Igor Kriz, University of Michigan
 Title: "Toward a geometric construction of elliptic cohomology"


 Lunch


 2:30-3:30 Ian Hambleton, McMasters University
 Title: "Controlled topology, class numbers, and non-linear similarity"


 4:00-5:00 Vladimir Voevodsky, Northwestern University
 Title: "TBA"


 Party 5:30

 All talks will be in Coon Forum located in Leverone Building
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 or Mark Mahowald, mark@math.nwu.edu.

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Sent Tue Dec 16 16:58:45 EST 1997
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Date:         Sat, 27 Dec 1997 11:44:38 -0500
Reply-To:     Midwestern Topology Seminar Discussions <MWTOPSEM@VMA.CC.ND.EDU>
Sender:       Midwestern Topology Seminar Discussions <MWTOPSEM@VMA.CC.ND.EDU>
From:         laurence taylor <taylor@laotse.helios.nd.edu>
Subject:      Winter Midwest, second announcement

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     MIDWEST TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
           (second announcement)
               January 24, 1998
         Northwestern University


 9:30-10:00AM Coffee


 10:00-11:00 John Palmieri, University of Notre Dame
 Title: "Stable homotopy over a p-group"


 11:30-12:30 Igor Kriz, University of Michigan
 Title: "Toward a geometric construction of elliptic cohomology"


 Lunch


 2:30-3:30 Ian Hambleton, McMasters University
 Title: "Controlled topology, class numbers, and non-linear similarity"


 4:00-5:00 Vladimir Voevodsky, Northwestern University
 Title: "Classifying spaces of finite groups from algebro-geometrical point of
     view"


 Party 5:30

 All talks will be in Coon Forum located in Leverone Building
 immediately south of Lunt Building, the Math Department.
 For more information contact Stewart Priddy, priddy@math.nwu.edu
 or Mark Mahowald, mark@math.nwu.edu.

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