GeoTop logo

Opening Symposium - Centre for Geometry and Topology

Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology (GeoTop),
The University of Copenhagen
27 Aug 2020

Programme

11:00 - 12:00

Welcome and introductory talks:

Welcome by Professor Michael Sørensen, Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Talks:
Rector Henrik C. Wegener, University of Copenhagen,
Director, Søren-Peter Olesen, The Danish National Research Foundation
Dean Katrine Krogh Andersen, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.
Professor Nathalie Wahl, Director of the Copenhagen Centre for Geometry and Topology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

The talks were streamed on zoom.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 17:00

Academic Symposium (Chair: Nathalie Wahl)

The talks can be seen below.

13:00 - 14:00

Professor Tobias Holck Colding, MIT, GeoTop member
“Stable structures”.

14:00 - 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 - 15:30

PostDoc Markus Land, Universities of Regensburg and Copenhagen, GeoTop Member,
“Manifolds, algebraic K-theory, and excision”. 

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00

Reader Oscar Randal-Williams, University of Cambridge, GeoTop member “Diffeomorphisms of discs” (online lecture).