Groups of Diffeomorphisms 2006

September 11-15, 2006

University of Tokyo, Japan

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The participants are required to complete the On-Site-Registration.
The registration counter is open at the conference cite from 14:00 to 18:00 on Sunday 10th September,
from 9:00 to 17:30 on Monday 11th September and on the regular conference hours.
 Banquet Page

Time Table

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
10:00 - 11:00 Richard Hain Toshiyuki Akita

Kaoru Ono Leonid Polterovich
11:30 - 12:30 Joan Birman Takuya Sakasai

Dieter Kotschick Koji Fujiwara
14:30 - 15:10 Nariya Kawazumi Takashi Tsuboi 12:30 - 13:30
Karen Vogtmann 		Hisaaki Endo 13:00 -14:00
Etienne Ghys
15:30 - 16:10 Teruaki Kitano Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu 14:00 - 15:00
Kiyoshi Igusa 		Hitoshi Moriyoshi
16:40 - 17:40 Robert Penner Ulrike Tillmann 15:30 - 16:30
Shigeyuki Morita		 Sergio Fenley

Schedule and Titles

Sept. 10, Sun
      14:00 - 18:00 Registration    See the entrance for Sunday.

Sept. 11, Mon     See the entrance for weekday
      9:00 - Registration
      9:50 - 10:00 Opening
  
  • Richard Hain (Duke University)
        Weight filtrations on completions of mapping class groups,   
  • Joan Birman (Columbia University)
         Heegaard splitting and 3-manifold invariants from the Johnson-Morita homomorphisms,   
  • Nariya Kawazumi (University of Tokyo)
        A higher analogue of the period matrix of a compact Riemann surface,   
  • Teruaki Kitano (Soka University)
        L2-torsion invariants and the Magnus representation of the mapping class group,   
  • Robert Penner (University of Southern California)
        Mapping class actions on profinite and pronilpotent completions of surface groups

    Sept. 12, Tue   
  • Toshiyuki Akita (Hokkaido University)
        On mod p Riemann-Roch formulae for mapping class groups,   
  • Takuya Sakasai (University of Tokyo)
        Johnson's homomorphisms and the rational cohomology of subgroups of the mapping class group,   
  • Takashi Tsuboi (University of Tokyo)
        On the group of real analytic diffeomorphisms,   
  • Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu (Chuo University)
        Asymptotic linking pairing and foliated cohomology,   
  • Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford University)
        Classifying spaces of cobordism categories and maps between them.

    Sept. 13, Wed   
  • Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University)
        Morita cycles in the homology of Out(Fn),   
  • Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis University)
        Higher torsion and exotic smooth structures on manifold bundles,   
  • Shigeyuki Morita (University of Tokyo)
        Higher symplectic pairings and invariants for three groups beyond the mapping class group,

         Evening: Banquet to celebrate Professor Shigeyuki Morita's 60th birthday at KOMABA-EMINENCE, expected fee is \10,000/person and \6,000/person for students. The registration for the banquet is required.

    Sept. 14, Thu   
  • Kaoru Ono (Hokkaido University)
        Floer-Novikov cohomology and its applications   
  • Dieter Kotschick (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
        Characteristic classes and extended flux homomorphisms   
  • Hisaaki Endo (Osaka University)
        A generalization of Chakiris' fibrations,   
  • Hitoshi Moriyoshi (Keio University)
        The Hirzebruch-Morita invariants on Sasakian manifolds,   
  • Sergio Fenley (Florida State University)
        Ideal boundaries of pseudo-Anosov flows and uniform convergence groups

    Sept. 15, Fri   
  • Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University)
        The group of symplectomorphisms: from algebra to function theory,   
  • Koji Fujiwara (Tohoku University)
        Quasi-homomorphisms on mapping class groups   
  • Etienne Ghys (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
        Groups of diffeomorphisms: a selection of open problems,

    Symposium on Groups of Diffeomorphisms, 2006
    Email: org.gd2006@gmail.com