Program

Monday, May 28, 2007

09:00 -- 09:30 Registration
09:30 -- 10:00 Openining Ceremony
10:00 -- 11:00 Tom Lada (North Carolina State University), "Brace and Infinity Algebras"
11:00 -- 11:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
11:30 -- 12:30 Geoffrey Powell (Université Paris 13), "On affine morphisms of Hopf algebroids"
12:30 -- 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -- 16:00 Alex Patchkoria (NCST and RMI), "On the freeness of projective semimodules"
16:00 -- 16:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
16:30 -- 17:00 Mikael Johansson (University of Iena), "A-infinity structures in group cohomology"
17:15 -- 17:45 Zurab Janelidze (University of Cape Town), "Categorical criteria for solvability of systems of linear equations in rings and more generally in algebraic theories"

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

10:00 -- 11:00 Birgit Richter (University of Hamburg), "2-vector bundles and algebraic K-theory of topological K-theory"
11:00 -- 11:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
11:30 -- 12:30 Jens Hornbostel (University of Regensburg), "Rigidity theorems for A^1-representable theories"
12:30 -- 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -- 16:00 Tornike Kadeishvili (RMI), "C (infinity)-algebra structure in cohomology and rational homotopy type"
16:00 -- 16:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
16:30 -- 17:00 Aurelian Djament (Université Paris 13), "Grassmannian functors, generic representations of linear groups and Krull filtration"
17:15 -- 17:45 Julien Federinov (University of Louvain-la-Neuve), "Realization of groups as groups of classes of homotopy self-equivalence"

Wednsday, May 30, 2007

10:00 -- 11:00 Ralf Meyer (University of Göttingen), "From non-commutative topology to non-commutative algebraic geometry"
11:00 -- 11:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
11:30 -- 12:30 Andrew Baker (University of Glasgow/University of Oslo), "Topological Andre-Quillen homology as a cellular theory and some applications"
12:30 -- 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -- 16:00 John Hubbuck (University of Aberdeen), "Homotopy Theory"
16:00 -- 16:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
16:30 -- 17:00 Leonard Mdzinarishvili (Georgian Technical University), "Continuous singular cohomology"
17:15 -- 17:45 Malkhaz Bakuradze (NCST and RMI), "Characteristic classes and transfer relations in cobordism"

Thursday, May 31, 2007

10:00 -- 11:00 Ron Umble (Millersville University), "The A-infinity bialgebra structure on the homology of K(Z,3) mod 3"
11:00 -- 11:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
11:30 -- 12:30 Andrey Lazarev (University of Leicester), "Topological conformal field theories and the 'dual construction' of Kontsevich"
12:30 -- 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 -- 16:00 Tamaz Kandelaki (NCST and RMI), "On an analogue of Karoubi's Conjecture"
16:00 -- 16:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
16:30 -- 17:00 Dali Zangurashvili (NCST and RMI), "Effective codescent morphisms in some varieties of universal algebras"
20:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, June 1, 2007

10:00 -- 11:00 Hellen Colman (Wilbur Wright College), "Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory for orbifolds as groupoids"
11:00 -- 11:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
11:30 -- 12:00 Suliko Khazhomia (RMI), "On the obstruction functor"
12:15 -- 12:30 Break (coffee, tea, biscuits)
12:30 -- 13:00 Levan Tsinadze (Tbilisi State University), "Epireflection of completion of locally quasi-uniform spaces"
13:00 -- 13:30 Tariel Kemoklidze (Kutaisi State University), "The lattice of fully invariant subgroups of group Ext(Z(p^\infty),T)".
13:30 -- 15:00 Lunch break

Saturday, June 2, 2007

10:00 EXCURSION
1. Visit to the old capital of Georgia "Mtskheta".
2. Visit to "Shiomgvime".
3. Lunch in "Armazi".