There will be a conference March 24-28, 2002, held here at Northwestern
University. The theme will echo that of the emphasis year: to develop some
of the new connections between homotopy
theory and other areas of mathematics, including algebraic geometry,
cohomology of groups, algebraic K-theory, and A(1) homotopy theory.
This conference is partially funded by the National Science Foundation,
and, as such, there will be a certain amount of support for
conference participants.
There were will be an opportunity for forty-five minute talks to be held
in parallel sessions.
The conference will begin at 10AM on Sunday, March 24.
Proceedings
There will be a proceedings for the conference, to be published
in the AMS Contemporary Math Series. If you'd like to submit
a paper, get in touch with one of the organizers. The deadline
is 30 September 2002.
Registration
If you'd like to attend and, especially, if you'd like either
to give a talk, have us book you a room, or if you'd like financial
support, it would be helpful if you filled out the following
(electronic) registration form for the conference. And even
if you don't need any of these, if you register we can get
touch about the banquet and so on.
There will be a banquet Tuesday, March 26 and it would be helpful
to have reservations by Friday, March 22. Here is further
information:
The registration form gives directions for submitting talks, and
asks for a choice of hotels. It also includes an application for
support. General information on hotels can be found at
But note that the conference lodging rates are lower. See the registration
form. More general information on getting to Northwestern, on Evanston, and
so forth, can be found at
A map of Evanston, including the hotels (with addresses and phone numbers)
and the math department can be found at
A preliminary and tentative schedule, subject to modification and change;
at present it shows only times of the invited lectures listed below.
A list of people who have registered for the conference:
Plenary Speakers
- Alejandro Adem (Wisconsin)
Constructing and Deconstructing Finite Group Actions
- Ralph Cohen (Standford)
String field theory from a homotopy point of view
- Bill Dwyer (Notre Dame}
Cellular approximation in algebra and topology
- Benoit Fresse (Nice)
Koszul duality of operads and homotopical algebra in
positive characteristic
- John Greenlees (Sheffield)
Rational S^1-equivariant elliptic cohomology
- Lars Hesselholt (MIT)
K-theory of a henselian discrete valuation field with non-perfect
residue field
- Mike Hopkins (MIT)
The multiplicative group of elliptic cohomology
- Ran Levi (Aberdeen)
p-local finite groups - the homotopy theory of fusion systems
- Ib Madsen (Aarhus)
The generalized Mumford Conjecture
- Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins)
HP^\infty_{-\infty} and a 4D analog of Madsen-Tillmann
- Jim McClure (Purdue)
Batalin-Vilkovisky structures in Hochschild cohomology
- Birgit Richter (Bonn)
Topological Andre'-Quillen cohomology -- an overview
- Burt Totaro (Cambridge)
The weight filtration for algebraic varieties, and topology
- Mark Walker (Nebraska)
Interpolating algebraic and topological $K$-theory
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