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This event will take place in the Hicks Building, with all talks in lecture theatre 7 on floor E, and reception/coffee/tea in the common room on floor I.
Here are the abstracts of the talks.
| Friday, 20 January | |
| 09:30 | reception/coffee/tea |
| 10:00 | Richard Hepworth (University of Aberdeen) String topology of classifying spaces |
| 11:00 | coffee/tea |
| 11:30 | Nathalie Wahl (University of Copenhagen) TCFTs and the Hochschild category of a category |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:10 | Ulrike Tillmann (University of Oxford) Homology stability for symmetric diffeomorphisms |
| 15:10 | short break |
| 15:15 | John Jones (University of Warwick) Models, Hochschild homology, and string homology |
| 16:15 | tea/coffee |
| 16:45 | Jelena Grbić (University of Manchester) The homotopy rigidity of the functor ΣΩ |
| Saturday, 21 January | |
| 09:30 | coffee/tea |
| 10:00 | Konrad Waldorf (University of Regensburg) Transgression to loop spaces and its inverse |
| 11:00 | coffee/tea |
| 11:30 | Andrew Stacey (NTNU-Trondheim) Piecewise smooth loops |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:10 | David Gepner (University of Regensburg) Brauer groups of commutative ring spectra |
| 15:10 | short break |
| 15:15 | Birgit Richter (University of Hamburg) Algebraic K-theory and determinants |
| 16:15 | tea/coffee |
| 16:45 | Sadok Kallel (Lille 1 University/American University of Sharjah) The free loop space of Euclidean configuration spaces |
| 19:30 | conference dinner |
| Sunday, 22 January | |
| 09:30 | coffee/tea |
| 10:00 | Kathryn Hess (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) An algebraic model for the power map on a free loop space |
| 11:00 | coffee/tea |
| 11:30 | Ralph Cohen (Stanford University) Koszul duality, loop spaces, and topological field theories |