Programme

of

7th Conference on
Geometry and Topology of Manifolds

The Mathematical Legacy of Charles Ehresmann

the hundredth anniversary of Charles Ehresmann’s birthday

May 8-15, 2005 Będlewo, Poland

Under the auspices of Prof Jan Krysiński

Rector of the Technical University of Łódź

the jubilee of the 60th anniversary of existence of

the Technical University of Łódź · 1945-2005

MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY

MONDAY May 9, 2005
9.00-9.10		Opening
"The Mathematical Legacy of Charles Ehresmann" Session I
9.10-10.10		P. Libermann, "C.Ehresmann concepts in Differential Geometry"
10.30-11.00		A. Ehresmann, "How Charles Ehresmann's vision of Geometry developed with time” (will be read by Ronni Brown)
11.00-11.10		letters from P. Molino and Wu Wen-Tsun (will be read by Ronni Brown)
11.10-11.40		free reminescences on Professor Ehresmann
12.00-13.00		Ch.-M. Marle, "The works of Charles Ehresmann on connections: from Cartan connections to connections on fibre bundles and their modern applications"
"The Mathematical Legacy of Charles Ehresmann" Session II
16.00-16.50		R. Brown, "Local-to-global, Higher dimensions: Three themes in the work of Charles Ehresmann"
17.10-18.00		I. Kolář, "Functorial Prolongations of Lie Groupoids"
18.10-19.00		A. Kock, "Pregroupoids and their enveloping groupoids"

Begin

TUESDAY May 10, 2005
"The Mathematical Legacy of Charles Ehresmann" Session III
9.00-10.00		J. Pradines, "In Ehresmann's footsteps: From Group Geometries to Groupoid Geometries"
10.15-11.15		B. Monthubert, "Groupoids and Index Theory in the singular manifolds setting"
11.45-12.45		A. Rodrigues, "Contact and Equivalence of Sub Manifolds of Homogeneous Spaces"
"The Mathematical Legacy of Charles Ehresmann" Session IV
16.00-16.50		G. Meigniez, "The nature of fibrations and of bundles"
17.10-18.00		M. Zisman, "Quasi-commutative cochains in Algebraic Topology"
18.10-19.00		J.-C. Hausmann, Control of robot arms and Moebius transformation"
20.00		Gala Banquet

Begin

WEDNESDAY May 11, 2005
9.00-9.45		MINICOURSE, A. Mishchenko, "K-theory over C*-algebras" Lecture 1: " Some elementary and evident examples"
10.00-10.45		W. Zhang, "Bergman kernel and symplectic reduction"
11.15-12.00		P. Lecomte, "From a euclidian space to Cartan geometries: how to rebuild differential operator from their principal symbol?"
12.10-12.30		S. Hansoul, "Existence of natural and projectively equivariant quantizations"
12.30-13.00		P. Mormul, "Nilpotent algebras hidden in special multi-flags"

14.00-19.00		EXCURSION

THURSDAY May 12, 2005
9.00-9.45		MINICOURSE, A. Mishchenko, "K-theory over C-algebras" Lecture 2: "Almost flat bundles from the point of view of C-algebras"
10.00-10.45		J. Huebschmann, "Stratified Kaehler structures on adjoint quotients"
11.15-12.00		D. Roytenberg, "Higher Lie algebras in Poisson geometry and elsewhere"
12.15-13.00		K. Abe, "On the first homology group of the group of diffeomorphisms of a smooth orbifold and its applications"

ROOM A
15.30-16.15		G. Khimshiashvili, "Loop spaces and Riemann-Hilbert problems" (joint results with B. Bojarski)
16.35-17.20		S. Maksymenko, "Homotopy type of stabilizers and orbits of Morse functions on surfaces"
17.30-18.15		R. Léandre, "Stochastic Poisson-sigma model"
18.20-19.00		A. Panasyuk, "Algebraic Nijenhuis operators and Kronecker Poisson pencils"
ROOM B
15.30-16.15		N. Poncin, "On the Chevalley-Eilenberg cohomology of some infinite-dimensional algebras of geometric origin" together with Janusz Grabowski
16.35-17.20		K. Pawałowski, "A proof of the Laitinen Conjecture"
17.30-18.15		B. Capelletti Montano, "On Legendrian foliations on almost S-manifolds"
18.20-19.00		R. Wolak, "Minimality and Poincare duality for basic cohomology of singular riemannian foliations"
19.30		BONFIRE with a local folk band

FRIDAY May 13, 2005
9.00-9.45		MINICOURSE, A. Mishchenko, "K-theory over C*-algebras" Lecture 3: "Twisted K-theory due to M.Atiyah and G.Segal"
10.00-10.45		J. Eichhorn, "Characteristic numbers and the Novikov conjecture for open manifolds"
11.15-12.00		A. Prykarpatski, "Ergodic measures of Boole type dynamical systems on axis: analytical aspects" (with Jacek Feldman)
12.15-13.00		N. Teleman, "Linear Quasi-connections"

ROOM A
15.30-16.15		J. Szenthe, "Invariant Lagrangians on homogeneous manifolds"
16.35-17.20		A. Ermolitski, "On universality of Kaehlerian manifold"
17.30-18.00		N. Zhukova, "Ehresmann connections and holonomy groups for singular foliations"
18.10-18.35		P. Popescu, "On the high order geometry on osculator spaces and anchored vector bundles"(with M. Popescu)
18.40-19.00		B. Balcerzak, "Secondary characteristic classes for extensions of anchored Leibniz algebras"
ROOM B
15.30-16.15		W. Tulczyjew, "Modernization of Ehresmann jet theory"
16.35-17.20		H. Żołądek, "Classification of complex plane affine algebraic curves with zero Euler Characteristic" (with M. Borodzik)
17.30.18.00		C. Vizman, "A geometric construction for abelian Lie group extensions"
18.10-18.35		J. Lech, "Perfectness at infinity of diffeomorphism groups on open manifolds" (with T. Rybicki)
18.40-19.00		T. Rybicki, "Commutators of equivariant homeomorphisms on G-manifolds with one orbit type"

SATURDAY May 14, 2005
9.00-9.45		P. Severa, "Dirac structures and deformation quantization"
10.00-10.45		I. Nikonov, "On Hopf-type cyclic cohomology with coefficients"
11.15-12.00		R. Nest, "The geometry of the calculus of Fourier integral operators"
12.15-13.00		J. Janyška, "Higher order Utiama's theorem"

ROOM A
16.00-16.30		D. Szeghy, "Conjugate and focal points in semi-Riemann geometry"
16.50-17.20		M. Sadowski, "Complete flat manifolds"
17.30-18.00		T. Popelenski, TBA
18.00		Closing ceremony
ROOM B
16.00-16.30		Z. Škoda, "Equivariant sheaves and torsors beyond groupoids"
16.50-17.20		M. Bobieński, "On SO(3) geometry in dimension five" (joint work with P. Nurowski)