Program

 

January 15-17, UNIGE Room U259, Uni Dufour.jpg

 

Conference Venue info link: Room: U259, Uni Dufour

 

 

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Monday 15th

09:30 - 10:30 Claude Weber (Geneva)   Title: The first years
10:30 - 11:00  Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:00 François Laudenbach (Nantes) Title: A foliated proof of Γ4 = 0  Abstract: Link
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break  
13:30 - 14:30 Jean-Claude Hausmann (Geneva) Title: Differentiable rigidity: André Haefliger's contribution  Abstract: Link
14:45 - 15:45 Étienne Ghys (ENS Lyon) Title: Homeomorphisms of the sphere  Abstract: Link
15:45 Coffee break  
16:30 Memories and Music Place:  Conservatoire de Genève
18:30 Reception

Tuesday 16th 

09:30 - 10:30 Pierre de la Harpe (Geneva) 

Title: Laplacien et géométrie spectrale des variétés et des graphes  Abstract: Link

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:00 Marc Burger (ETH Zurich) Title: Compactifications of Teichmueller Spaces in the light of real Algebraic Geometry  Abstract: Link
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break  
14:00 - 15:00 Rui Fernandes (Urbana-Champaign) Title: Invariant Kähler metrics for toric fibrations  Abstract: Link
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 - 16:30 Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford) Title: Topology of spaces of high-dimensional Legendrian knots  Abstract: Link

Wednesday 17th

09:30 - 10:30 David Carchedi (George Mason)   Title: Haefliger structures, orbifolds, topoi, and classifying spaces  Abstract: Link
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:00 André Henriques (Oxford)   Title: The Segal-Neretin semigroup of annuli  Abstract: Link
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break  
14:00 - 15:00 Marc Troyanov (EPFL)   Title: Asymptotic Geometry in SOL  Abstract: Link
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 - 16:30 Martin Bridson (Oxford) Title: CAT(0) spaces, fixed points, and finite shadows of infinite groups  Abstract: Link