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