From cornick@math.ohio-state.edu Mon Nov 10 13:18:38 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:56:10 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: conference announcement (second attempt)


Apologies for the (very) long list of recipients you received with the
first announcement of this conference. Anyway here is the announcement again

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                       OSU GEOMETRY - TOPOLOGY
                                 CONFERENCE

                             Columbus, Ohio

                          December 6-7, 1997


All lectures in EA160

Saturday December 6

9:30-10:00 COFFEE MW 724

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Janos Kollar (University of Utah)
Title : Real Algebraic Varieties

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Noel Brady (Cornell Univ.)
Title: Combing Kernels of Right-angled Artin Groups

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mikhail Kapranov (Northwestern Univ.)
Title : Rozansky-Witten invariant

3:00-3:30 p.m. COFFEE MW 724

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thang Le (SUNY, Buffalo)
Title : Relation Between Finite Type and Quantum Invariants of 3-Manifolds

Banquet 6:30 p.m.

Party 8:30 p.m.

Sunday December 7

9:00-10:00 a.m.
Harold G. Donnelly (Purdue University)
Title: Dirichlet Problem for Harmonic Maps

10:30-11:30 a.m.
Bruce Kleiner (Univ. Pennsylvania)
Title: Ideal Boundary of Hadamard Spaces



For more information contact: Dan Burghelea, burghele@math.ohio-state.edu

For more information about Ohio State see: www.ohio-state.edu



For accommodations call: The Red Roof Inn, Ackerman Rd. (take
Ackerman exit East off of State Route 315 ) 614-267-9941,
614-777-1070;

Holiday Inn, 328 W Lane Av (Lane exit East off of SR315), 614-294-4848

Red Roof is cheaper (long walking distance)

Holiday Inn is closer (but more expensive)

Funding: There should be some support for graduate students available




From cornick@math.ohio-state.edu Thu Nov 13 18:09:09 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:01:28 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: final announcement: geometry and topology conference at OSU

Further information about the Geometry and Topology Conference at
Ohio State University Dec 6-7:

Accommodation: (Block rooms reserved for Dec 5 and 6 under "Topology
Conference", until Nov 21)

OSU Cross Country Inn South, 614-766-0037, 1445 Olentangy River Road (At
King Ave.).

Take I-71 to the Fifth Ave. exit and go west about 2 miles to Olentangy
River Road.
Turn right on Olentangy, the C.C.I. is at the intersection of Olentangy and
King Avenue.
You may find a shorter route on a map but be warned that Rte. 315 is
closed south of campus.

Conference details: The motel is about 1.5 miles southwest of
the Math Tower (MW) and Eighteenth Avenue Classroom Building attached (EA). All
talks are in EA160 and EA170. The buildings MW and EA are at 231 West 18th
Avenue.

Parking on Campus: You can park in the OSU stadium lot
(at Cannon Dr. and Woody Hayes Dr.) for free at the weekend . Parking
closer may
result in a ticket.

>From the stadium walk East past the bookstore and cross Neil Ave to 18th
Ave, MW and EA
will be on your right.

I hope this will be the last announcement. For further details please
contact either myself
or Dan Burghelea   burghele@math.ohio-state.edu.