Vanderbilt University,
Department of Mathematics
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Workshop
ON
NIL
PHENOMENA IN TOPOLOGY
APRIL 14
AND 15, 2007
Schedule
(click here)
List of
abstracts (click here)
Problem
List (click here)
The Workshop on Nil Phenomena in Topology will focus on the following
topics in the theory of surgery and manifold theory:
- Splitting homotopy
equivalences between manifolds
- Controlled topology
and Bass's Nil groups
- Calculation of
Waldhausen's Nil groups
- Calculation of
Cappell's UNil groups
- The Isomorphism
Conjectures
- Decomposition of
Waldhausen's A-theory
- Supersimple L-theory
Invited Speakers
- Jim Davis, Indiana University “Some
Remarks on Nil groups in Algebraic K-theory”
- Joachim Grunewald,
Bonn “Operations on Nil terms” Slides
- Ian Hambleton, McMaster University “Computations of the Bass Nil groups”
- Daniel Juan-Pineda,
IM-UNAM, Morelia
“Vanishing and non-vanishing results for Nils”
- Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University “Lower
algebraic K-theory of lattices in hyperbolic space, I”
- Ivonne Ortiz, Miami University
(Ohio) “Lower algebraic K-theory of
lattices in hyperbolic space, II”
- Erik Pedersen, Binghamton University
and University
of Copenhagen “Identifying
assembly maps”
- Stratos Prassidis, Canisius College “Nils of pseudoisotopies”
- Andrew Ranicki, University of Edinburgh “Nilpotence
= torsion” Slides
- Ross Staffeldt, New Mexico State University “The connecting homomorphism for K-theory of generalized free products” Slides
- Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame “From
Geometric to Algebraic Nil”
Other Participants
- Doug Anderson, Syracuse University
- Allegra Berliner, University of Notre Dame
- Frank Connolly, University of Notre Dame
- Stefan Forcey, Tennessee State University
- Jim Fowler, University of Chicago
- Stacy Hoehn, University of Notre Dame
- Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University
- Qayum Khan, Vanderbilt University
- Christine Kinsey, Canisius
College
- Dan Ramras, Stanford University
- Larry Taylor, University of Notre Dame
- Marco Varisco, Binghamton University
- Xiangdong Xie, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University
Organizers
The workshop is being sponsored by the National
Science Foundation and the Shanks Endowment of the Department of
Mathematics at Vanderbilt
University.
We strongly encourage graduate students, junior faculty, women, minorities, and
persons with disabilities to participate and to apply for support.
Further Information
Further information may be obtained from the following
sources.
Last update 27 June 2007