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Introductory Workshop: Algebraic Topology January 27, 2014 - January 31, 2014

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Jan 27, 2014
Monday
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
  Welcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Introduction to operads
William Dwyer (University of Notre Dame)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Goodwillie's calculus of functors
Michael Ching (Amherst College)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Morita theory in stable homotopy
Brooke Shipley (University of Illinois at Chicago)
03:00 PM - 03:20 PM
  Tea
04:10 PM - 05:00 PM
  MSRI/Evans Lecture: Topological cyclic homology (Evans Hall, UC Berkeley)
Lars Hesselholt (Nagoya University)
Jan 28, 2014
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Chromatic redshift
John Rognes (University of Oslo)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Higher categories and algebraic K-theory
Andrew Blumberg (Columbia University)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Towards explicit models for higher K-theories
Christopher Douglas (University of Oxford)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Models for homotopical higher categories
Julie Bergner (University of Virginia)
04:30 PM - 06:20 PM
  Reception
Jan 29, 2014
Wednesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Computations in the stable homotopy groups of spheres
Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Tea
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Computations in motivic homotopy theory
Daniel Isaksen (Wayne State University)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Views on the J-homomorphism
Craig Westerland (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
Jan 30, 2014
Thursday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Local structure of groups and of their classifying spaces
Bob Oliver (Université de Paris XIII (Paris-Nord))
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Equivariant homotopy and localization
Michael Hopkins (Harvard University)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Homotopy theory of Kac-Moody groups
Nitya Kitchloo (Johns Hopkins University)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Topological automorphic forms
Tyler Lawson (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  Problem Session
Jan 31, 2014
Friday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Representation stability and applications to homological stability
Thomas Church (Stanford University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Stability of moduli spaces of manifolds
Oscar Randal-Williams (University of Cambridge)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Stable homology of moduli spaces of manifolds
Soren Galatius (Stanford University)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Loop Groups, TQFTs and algebraic geometry
Constantin Teleman (University of California, Berkeley)