Great Lakes Geometry Conference
April 28-29, 2001
Northwestern University
All talks are in Swift 107
Saturday, April 28, 2001
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Yu. I. Manin (MPI Bonn)
Quantum theta functions and abelian varieties
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Y.-G. Oh (Madison)
Chain level Floer theory and Hofer's geometry of
Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group
1:00 Lunch
2:30 R. Thomas (Imperial College and Oxford)
3:30 Coffee
4:00 M. Hopkins (MIT)
Twisted K-theory and the Verlinde algebra
6:30 Dinner
Sunday, April 29, 2001
9:00 Coffee
9:30 M. Marino (Rutgers)
New invariants for links from string theory
10:45 L. Katzarkov (Irvine)
New braid invariants of symplectic 4 folds and applications
12:00 E. Witten (IAS and Caltech)
M-theory on a manifold of G_2 holonomy