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Host: Mathematical Research and Conference Center
Sponsor: Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center
Homepage: http://www.impan.gov.pl/BC/02Geom.html
Email: banach@impan.gov.pl
Organizers: T. Grundhöfer (Würzburg, Germany), H. Hähl (Stuttgart, Germany), R. Löwen (Braunschweig, Germany), M. Moszynska (Warsaw, Poland), H. Salzmann (Tübingen, Germany)
Description:
Topology and geometry provide two different approaches to spatial reality as we perceive it. As is to be expected, the two subjects meet and interact in many ways, and several
interesting and rich theories have developed along their common borders.
For example, this interaction is the main driving force of topological geometry (dealing, e.g., with compact projective planes). The same interaction has also proved extremely fruitful in the geometry of convex sets, or, more generally, in the geometry and topology of hyperspaces, and it is essential in the intrinsic geometry in the sense of Borsuk, as well as in other branches of geometry.
It is the aim of the conference to make visible some of the extent of this border area, and to bring together people working in different parts of it. The emphasis is on those topics explicitly mentioned above. We hope that this will provide the different groups with a welcome opportunity to learn about and from each other.
Speakers: Peter Gruber (Vienna), Irmina Herburt (Warsaw), Wlodzimierz Kuperberg (Auburn, Alabama), Wolfgang Kühnel (Stuttgart), Harald Löwe (Braunschweig), Markus Stroppel (Stuttgart)
Date received: December 02, 2001
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