Workshop on
Topology, Operads
& Quantisation

Programme

Lectures will take place in Room 2 of the Mathematics Institute

 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:30 Arrival
&
Registration
Gutt Jones 2 Léandre Xu
Coffee  
11:30 Jones 1 Tillmann Arnal * 10:50 * Voronov
Lunch   Departure
14:00   Hudson  
Tea  
16:00 Waldmann Markl Tsygan Sternheimer
D. Arnal (Dijon)
Star products on foliated Poisson manifolds
S. Gutt (Brussels)
Symplectic Connections of Ricci Type
R. Hudson (Nottingham Trent)
Deformation calculus on enveloping algebras and quantisation of Lie bialgebras
J. Jones (Warwick)
1. String homology
2. On the definition of operads
R. Léandre (Nancy)
Algebraic structures in infinite dimensional analysis
M. Markl (Prague)
Resolutions of PROPs and operads
D. Sternheimer (Dijon)
Deformation theory, a powerful tool for modeling physical reality
U. Tillmann (Oxford)
The Riemann surface operad and infinite loop spaces
B. Tsygan (Penn State)
Some open questions in deformation quantisation
A. Voronov (Minnesota)
Brane Topology
S. Waldmann (Freiburg)
Morita equivalence of star products
P. Xu (Penn State)
Quantization of dynamical r-matrices