Proposed Talks / Abstracts


The following 30 talks have been proposed by participants of the conference. Please note that the final selection of
talks for the program will be made at the beginning of the conference.

Kojun Abe  (Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan)
The equivariant diffeomorphism groups of G-manifolds and the smooth structure of the orbit spaces / Abstract

Alejandro Adem 
(University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
Periodic methods, fixity and group actions / Abstract 

Mehdi Alaeiyan  (Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran)
Improved bound on the movement of permutation groups
/ Abstract 

Sergey Antonyan  (UNAM Ciudad Universitaria Circuito Exterior, México, México)
The topology of the Banach-Mazur compacta / Abstract

William Browder 
(Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
Finite dimensional G-spaces / Abstract

Dan Burghelea 
(The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
G-Morse theory revisited / Abstract

Gunnar Carlsson 
(Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA)
Varieties of square zero matrices and free torus actions on finite complexes / Abstract 

Sylvain E. Cappell 
(Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, New York, New York, USA)
Calculations of representation-theoretic & analytic invariants of some three manifolds / Abstract

James F. Davis 
(Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Propagation and actions on products of spheres / Abstract

Anand Dessai 
(Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany)
Cyclic actions, elliptic genera and curvature / Abstract 

Matthias Franz 
(Université Genoble I, Grenoble, France)
Koszul duality and equivariant cohomology / Abstract

Roman Goebel  (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
Straightening Lemma Revisited / Abstract

Ian Hambleton 
(McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)
Surgery and group actions: some history and current trends / Abstract

Bernhard Hanke  (Universität München, München, Germany)
Equivariant Gysin maps and pulling back fixed points (with V. Puppe) / Abstract

Jean-Claude Hausmann (University of Genève, Genève, Switzerland)
On the Chevalley involution on co-adjoint orbits of a compact semi-simple Lie group (with T. Holm) / Abstract

©árka Ho¹ková  (Military Academy Brno, Brno, Czech Republic)
Abelianization of join spaces of affine transformations of ordered field with proximity / Abstract

Rolando Jiménez 
(UNAM Campus Cuernavaca, Morelos, México)
Surgery transfer maps for triples of manifolds (with Y. Muranov) / Abstract

Tuomas T. Korppi  (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
Equivariant triangulations of G-manifolds when G is a group with the discrete topology / Abstract

Frank Kutzschebauch  (Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden)
Holomorphic automorphisms of Cn
/ Abstract 

Mikiya Masuda 
(Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan)   
Theory of toric varieties from the topological viewpoint / Abstract

Takao Matumoto 
(Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan)
On the works of Sören Illman / Abstract

Wac³aw Marzantowicz 
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznañ, Poland)
A decomposition of equivariant stable homotopy clases (with Prieto) / Abstract

Alexandr S. Mishchenko 
(Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)  
Poincaré Duality and signature of topological manifolds / Abstract

Ikumitsu Nagasaki 
(Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan)
The weak isovariant Borsuk-Ulam theorem for compact Lie groups / Abstract

Erik K. Pedersen 
(SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, USA)
Smoothing loop spaces / Abstract

Volker Puppe 
(Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany)
Do manifolds have little symmetry? / Abstract

Frank Quinn 
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA) 
A classification plan for non-differentiable actions on manifolds / Abstract

Eldar Straume 
(NTNU Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim, Norway)
Orthogonal transformation groups on the classical matrix spaces / Abstract

Dong Youp Suh  (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea Republic)
Existence of slice for proper semi-algebraic action and its applications / Abstract

Oleg Viro 
(Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
Topology of involutions in study of the topology of real algebraic varieties / Abstract

Min Yan 
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China)
Periodicity in equivariant surgery (with Weinberger) / Abstract