Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar Cascade Topology Seminar 2002 Joint Spring Meeting University of Washington  Seattle, WA  Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12, 2002

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Revised Schedule

Saturday, May 11
10:00 - 11:00	Coffee and snacks (Thomson 119)
11:00 - 12:00	Deane Yang (Polytechnic University) Geometry, analysis, and information theory (slides)
12:00 - 12:30	Problem session
12:30 -   2:30	Lunch
2:30 -   3:30	Laura Scull (UBC) Rational Equivariant Homotopy
4:00 -   5:00	Ralph Cohen (Stanford) Duality phenomena in loop spaces and conformal field theory
5:00 -   5:30	Problem session
6:00 -   9:00	Conference dinner at Sea Garden Restaurant*
Sunday, May 12
8:30 -   9:00	Coffee and snacks (Thomson 119)
9:00 - 10:00	John Baez (UC Riverside) Categorified gauge theory
10:30 - 11:30	Dan Christensen (University of Western Ontario) Quantized geometry via representation theory
12:00 -   1:00	Megan Kerr (Wellesley) A study of homogeneous Einstein metrics
1:00 -   1:30	Problem session

*Conference dinner Saturday evening:
Sea Garden Restaurant
509 7th Avenue S.
Seattle, WA 98104-2905
(206) 623-2100

Participants wishing to attend the dinner must sign up at the conference on Saturday morning.

For more information:

• UW
• UW Mathematics Department
• UW Campus maps
• Hotels
• Information for visitors
• Travel grants for participants

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For more information about this program, contact Jack Lee <lee@math.washington.edu> (206-543-1735).

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