Introductory School

Dates: May 4-8, 2015
Venue: HIM lecture hall, Poppelsdorfer Allee 45
Organizers: Søren Galatius, Haynes Miller, Stefan Schwede, Peter Teichner

This school provided an introduction to some of the main topics of the trimester program; the lectures were mainly directed at graduate students and postdocs.

The following speakers gave a sequence of lectures, which were complemented by daily problem and discussion sessions.

  • David Ayala: Factorization homology
  • Oscar Randal-Williams: Moduli spaces of manifolds
  • Stefan Schwede: Global equivariant homotopy theory
  • Peter Teichner: Ring spectra from geometric field theories

Schedule
Participants

Participants of the Introductory School (click to enlarge)