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Cascade Topology Seminar

October 2-3, 1999

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Mathematics

Host: PIMS-UBC
Sponsor: PIMS, NSF
Homepage: http://www.pims.math.ca/sections/activities/cascade.html

Organizers: Kee Lam, Dale Rolfsen

Description:
The 24th meeting of the Cascade Topology Seminar is sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (Canada) and the National Science Foundation (USA). This meeting will honor the mathematical contributions of Prof. Erhard Luft, recently retired from UBC.

Speakers: Dusan Repovs (University of Ljubljana) "Special 2-Polyhedra and Whitehead Asphericity Conjecture", Leila Schneps (ENS Paris) "Diffeomorphisms of topological surfaces and the absolute Galois group", Alejandro Adem (University of Wisconsin) "Periodicity, Euler classes and group actions", John Palmieri (University of Washington) "Stable homotopy theory and the Steenrod algebra", Denis Sjerve (UBC) "On the mathematical contributions of Erhard Luft.

Date received: September 30, 1999

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