Workshop on Nil Phenomena in Topology at Vanderbilt University

April 14-15, 2007

Speakers:
Frank Connolly, University of Notre Dame,  "UNil and the Arf Invariant"
Jim Davis, Indiana University,   "Some Remarks on Nil groups in 
Algebraic K-theory"
Daniel Juan-Pineda, IM-UNAM, Morelia,   "Vanishing and non-vanishing 
results for Nils"
Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University
Ivonne Ortiz, Miami University (Ohio)
Erik Pedersen, Binghamton University and University of 
Copenhagen,   "Identifying assembly maps"
Stratos Prassidis, Canisius College, "Nils of pseudoisotopies"
Andrew Ranicki, University of Edinburgh,   "Nilpotence = torsion"
Ross Staffeldt, New Mexico State University,   "The connecting 
homomorphism for K-theory of generalized free products"
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame,   "From Geometric to Algebraic Nil"

Organizers: Bruce Hughes and Qayum Khan

For more information: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~hughescb/Nil07.htm

The Workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation and 
Vanderbilt University.
The conference is committed to the strengthening and enrichment of 
the mathematics personnel base.
We will be able to offer some support for expenses.
Graduate students, junior faculty, women, minorities, and persons 
with disabilities are
especially encouraged to participate and to apply for support.

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