Surgery and Geometric Topology
International Conference, Sept. 17 -- 21, 1996,
Josai University, Sakado, Saitama, Japan
supported by Josai University and also by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A) of The Ministry of
Education, Science, Sports and Culture
Organizers:
- Andrew Ranicki and Masayuki Yamasaki
List of Speakers and Titles:
- Toshiyuki Akita (Fukuoka Univ.)
Cohomology and Euler Characteristics of Coxeter Groups,
- Francis Connolly (Univ. of Notre Dame)
An End Theorem for Manifold Stratified Spaces,
- Bruce Hughes (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Stratified Spaces and Approximate Fibrations,
- Steven Hutt (Seoul National University) !!!!! CANCELLED !!!!!
A Sheaf-Theoretic Proof of the Topological Invariance of the Rational
Pontrjagin Classes,
- Tsuyoshi Kato (Kyoto Univ.)
Asymptotic Method on the Novikov Conjecture,
- Masaharu Morimoto (Okayama Univ.)
On Fixed Point Data of Smooth Actions on Spheres,
- Eiji Ogasa (Tokyo Univ.)
On the Intersection of Spheres in a Sphere,
- Erik Pedersen (SUNY at Binghamton)
Simplicial and Continuous Control,
- Frank Quinn (Virginia Tech.)
Problems with Surgery and Handlebodies in Low Dimensions,
- Andrew Ranicki (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Chain Duality,
- John Roe (Oxford Univ.)
Surgery and Operator Algebras,
- Yongjin Song (Inha Univ.)
The Braid Structure of Mapping Class Groups,
- Tatsuhiko Yagasaki (Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
Infinite-dimensional Manifold Triples of Homeomorphism Groups,
- Masayuki Yamasaki (Josai Univ.)
Epsilon Control and Perl,
program.dvi (in English),
programj.dvi (in Japanese)
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