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Graduiertenkolleg Gruppen
und Geometrie |
Bunsenstr. 3-5 |
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Workshop and Miniconference "Smooth Fibre Bundles and Higher Torsion Invariants" September 1 - 7, 2003 |
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The workshop consisted of four interdependend courses:
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Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis): |
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Michael Weiss (Aberdeen): |
An index theory without operators |
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Bruce Williams (Notre Dame): |
Reidemeister torsion via Riemann Roch |
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Sebastian Goette (Regensburg): |
The following miniconference
consisted of about nine lectures about current results and ongoing
research in the different areas dealing with higher torsion
invariants and applications:
W. Doriabiala:
Product and sum theorems for parametrized Franz-Reidemeister torsion
J. Heitsch:
Riemann Roch Grothendieck and torsion for foliations
K. Igusa: Characterisation of
higher torsions
J.R. Klein: Homotopical
intersection theory
K. Köhler: Quaternionic torsion
X. Ma: Torsion for manifolds
with boundary
H. Reich: Algebraic K-theory of group rings and
topological cyclic homology
M. Weiss: Cohomology of the
stable mapping class group
B. Williams:
Lefschetz-Riemann-Roch for K-theory
of spaces