Workshop Programme

Abstracts of talks can be found here .

Monday 7th January 2002
9:30-9:45   Refreshments

9:45-10:00    Opening

10:00-11:00    Ross Street (Macquarie University)
Basic structures for higher-dimensional algebra
Lecture 1: Substitudes and convolution.

11:00-12:00    Daniel Stevenson (Adelaide University)
The K-theory of Bundle Gerbes

12:00-14:00    Lunch Break

14:00-15:00    Valerio Toledano (University of Paris, Jussieu, Paris)
Lectures on Operator Algebras and Conformal Field Theory

15:00-15:30    Refreshments

15:30-16:30    Alexei Davydov (Macquarrie University)
K-theory of braided monoidal categories

Tuesday 8th January 2002
10:00-11:00    Ross Street (Macquarie University)
Basic structures for higher-dimensional algebra
Lecture 2: Higher dimensional categories.

11:00-12:00    Paolo Piazza (La Sapienza, Rome)
Dirac index classes and the non commutative spectral flow

12:00-14:00    Lunch Break

14:00-15:00   Krzysztof Wysocki (Melbourne University)
Pseudoholmorphic curves and Hamiltonian dynamics

15:00-15:15    Refreshments

15:15-16:00   Peter Bouwknegt (Adelaide University)
Branes on Group Manifolds and Fusion Rules

16:00-16:10    Concluding remarks