Brazilian Topology Meeting: Encontro Brasileiro de Topologia

Month: July 2008

Date: July 28--August 1

Name: Brazilian Topology Meeting: Encontro Brasileiro de Topologia

Location: Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, Brazil.

Description

This is the 16th Brazilian Topology Meeting, an event which takes place every two years. It brings together many Brazilian topologists, as well as a number of international participants.

Scientific Committee

Daciberg Lima Gonçalves (IME-USP, Brazil); Derek Hacon (PUC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); John Guaschi (Université de Caen, France); Nathan Moreira dos Santos (UFF, Niterói, Brazil); Peter Zvengrowski (University of Calgary, Canada); Peter Wong (Bates College, Lewiston, EUA).

Three mini-courses will be given

Twisted K-theory by Prof. Max Karoubi (Paris 7, Denis Diderot); Locally-free actions of the affine group by Nathan Moreira dos Santos (UFF); Lie groups and homogeneous space (in Portuguese), by Fernanda Cardona (IME, USP). In addition, there will be a number of talks of 30 and 50 minutes by the participants of the meeting.

Information

e-mail: daniel@dm.ufscar.br; http://www.dm.ufscar.br/~ebt2008.