Subject: Talbot Workshop Announcement, for topology list
From: jnkf@math.mit.edu
Date: 03 Oct 2006 19:16:24 -0400

2007 TALBOT WORKSHOP: TOPOLOGICAL MODULAR FORMS
March 25 - 31, 2007
North Conway, New Hampshire

This posting announces the 2007 Talbot Workshop, Topological modular 
forms, mentored by Michael Hopkins.

The workshop will constitute a weeklong retreat with talks and organized 
discussions during the mornings and evenings; the afternoon schedule will 
be kept clear for informal discussions and collaborations. The talks will 
involve, but not be limited to, the construction and basic properties of 
the spectrum TMF and its relations to derived algebraic geometry, the 
Witten genus and string cobordism, classical modular forms and lattices, 
and homotopy groups of spheres. The workshop discussions will have an 
expository character and will be aimed at advanced graduate students and 
junior faculty interested this area.

Further information about the workshop will become available at:

http://www-math.mit.edu/~jnkf/talbot

This website also contains information about the past Talbot workshops:
Automorphisms of manifolds (mentored by Michael Weiss),
The geometric Langlands program (mentored by David Ben-Zvi), and
Geometric models of elliptic cohomology (mentored by Stephan Stolz).

If you may be interested in participating and would like to receive future 
communications about the workshop, please email Andre Henriques 
(henrique@math.uni-muenster.de). Thanks to an NSF grant, we expect to be 
able to subsidize participants' travel and lodging expenses. Please note 
that the number of participants will be strictly limited.

Conference Organizers:

Chris Douglas (cdouglas@math.stanford.edu)
John Francis (jnkf@math.mit.edu)
Andre Henriques (henrique@math.uni-muenster.de)
Mike Hill (mikehill@virginia.edu)