Institute for Mathematical Sciences Event Archive
International Conference on Combinatorial and Toric Homotopy
(24 - 28 August 2015 )
Venue: IMS Auditorium
on the occasion of Professor Frederick Cohen's 70th Birthday
Jointly organized with Department of Mathematics, NUS
Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue
Monday, 24 Aug 2015 |
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09:10am - 09:20am |
Registration |
09:20am - 10:20am |
On representations of virtual braid group by automorphisms of some groups |
10:20am - 10:30am |
--- Group Photo & Coffee Break --- |
10:30am - 11:30am |
Exact sequences for braid and mapping class groups |
11:30am - 11:40am |
-- Break --- |
11:40am - 12:40pm |
The inclusion of the configuration space into the product for the sphere and the projective plane |
12.40pm - 02:30pm |
--- Lunch --- |
02:30pm - 03:30pm |
Quotient construction of toric orbifolds and its applications to torus cobordism of lens spaces and equivariant formality of toric orbifolds |
03:30pm - 03:40pm |
--- Break --- |
03:40pm - 04:10pm |
Self-dual binary codes from small covers and simple polytopes (PDF) |
04:10pm - 04:15pm |
--- Break --- |
04:15pm - 04:45pm |
Toric elements in some bordism groups (PDF) |
Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 |
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09:50am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Golod and minimally non-Golod moment-angle complexes (PDF) |
11:00am - 11:10am |
--- Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
Higher whitehead product: computations and applications (PDF) |
12.10pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch --- |
02:00pm - 03:00pm |
The role of the Moore space in the unstable homotopy groups of spheres |
03:00pm - 03:10pm |
--- Break --- |
03:10pm - 04:10pm |
Orbit type filtrations of torus manifolds and combinatorics of simplicial posets |
04:10pm - 04:15pm |
--- Break --- |
04:15pm - 04:45pm |
Toric topology of fullerenes (PDF) |
05:00pm |
Professor Frederick Cohen's 70th Birthday Celebrations |
Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 |
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09:10am - 09:20am |
Registration |
09:20am - 10:20am |
On the cohomology of partial quotients of moment-angle manifolds (PDF) |
10:20am - 10:30am |
--- Break --- |
10:30am - 11:30am |
Koszul complexes and Toric manifolds |
11:30am - 11:40am |
-- Break --- |
11:40am - 12:40pm |
Cohomology of regular Hessenberg varieties and representations of symmetric groups |
12.40pm - 02:30pm |
--- Lunch --- |
Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 |
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09:15am - 09:30am |
Registration |
09:30am - 10:00am |
Skype session with Frederick Cohen |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Braids and Lie algebras (PDF) |
11:00am - 11:10am |
--- Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
Generalized dimension subgroups and derived functors (PDF) |
12.10pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch --- |
02:00pm - 03:00pm |
Embedding theorems for quasitoric manifolds (PDF) |
03:00pm - 03:10pm |
--- Break --- |
03:10pm - 04:10pm |
Algebraic models for configuration spaces (PDF) |
06:00pm |
Dinner (Volunteer and self paid) |
Friday, 28 Aug 2015 |
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09:50am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
The dual polyhedral product, cocategory and nilpotence (PDF) |
11:00am - 11:10am |
--- Break --- |
11:10am - 12:10pm |
On nontriviality of homotopy groups of spheres (PDF) |
12.10pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch --- |
02:00pm - 03:00pm |
Linearization of algebraic structures via functor calculus (PDF) |
03:00pm - 03:10pm |
--- Break --- |
03:10pm - 04:10pm |
Characteristic classes of surface bundles and configuration spaces (PDF) |
Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue