Virginia Conference on Algebraic Topology
Topics of the conference
- Interactions between functor calculus, operad theory, higher category theory, and periodic homotopy.
- Generalized homology and cohomology operations and their connections to commutative ring theory, number theory, and group cohomology
Confirmed Speakers
- Natalia Castellana (University Autonoma of Barcelona)
- Michael Ching (Amherst College)
- Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University)
- John Greenlees (University of Sheffield)
- Andrey Lazarev (University of Leicester)
- Kathryn Lesh (Union College)
- Jacob Lurie (Harvard University)
- Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins University)
- Charles Rezk (University of Illinois)
- Birget Richter (University of Hamburg)
- Lionel Schwartz (University of Paris 13)
- Antoine Touze (University of Paris 13)
- Bruno Vallette (University of Nice)
There will be additional spaces for interested speakers. If you would like to give a talk, please indicate a tentative title when registering.
Organizers
- Greg Arone (zga2m [at] virginia) UVA
- Bill Dwyer (dwyer.1 [at] nd) Notre Dame
- Mike Hill (mikehill [at] virginia) UVA
- Nick Kuhn (njk4x [at] virginia) UVA
- Kathryn Lesh (leshk [at] union) Union College
- Victor Turchin (turchin [at] ksu) Kansas State University
Pragmatics
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Funding
Funding for the conference comes from NSF Focused Research Group grant 0967649 "The Calculus of Functors and the theory of Operads: Interactions and Applications".
Additional funding is being provided by UVA Department of Mathematics and the UVA College of Arts and Sciences.
About UVA
Charlottesville is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains about 100 miles southwest of Washington, DC, and is accessible by plane and train. The central grounds of the University of Virginia were designed by American president and Univeristy founder Thomas Jefferson, and together with Jefferson's home Monticello, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
