| participant | 
institution | 
title of abstract | 
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| ando, matthew | 
univ of illinois at urbana | 
a renormalized riemann-roch formula & thom isomorphism for the free loop space | 
| bisch, dietmar | 
uc santa barbara | 
subfactors and symmetry  | 
| cattaneo, alberto | 
zurich university, switzerland | 
deformation quantization and poisson sigma model | 
| chas, moira | 
cuny graduate center | 
the string lie bialgebra of a manifold | 
| cochran, tim | 
rice univ | 
knot concordance, whitney towers and l2-signatures | 
| cohen, ralph | 
stanford univ | 
a linearization of the stable moduli space | 
| conant, jim | 
uc san diego | 
gropes | 
| driver, bruce | 
uc san diego | 
path integrals on manifolds | 
 
| edwards, robert | 
ucla | 
the world of compact non-lie group actions | 
| freed, dan | 
univ of texas | 
three-dimensional tqft and twisted k-theory | 
| freedman, mike | 
ucsd, microsoft | 
quantum computation and modular functors | 
| frohman, charlie | 
univ of iowa | 
understanding the kauffman bracket skein module | 
| garoufalidis, stavros | 
georgia tech univ | 
boundary links, localization and the kontsevich integral | 
| kimura, takashi | 
boston univ | 
the topology of the moduli spaces of curves and cohomological field theories | 
| krushkal, slava | 
yale univ | 
on topological classification of 4-manifolds | 
| landweber, greg | 
microsoft  | 
dirac operators on homogeneous loop spaces | 
| longoni, riccardo | 
 universita' degli studi di milano  | 
topological quantum field theories and cohomology of knot spaces in any dimension | 
| morava, jack | 
johns hopkins univ | 
superspace revisited or, who ordered the metric? | 
| orr, kent | 
indiana univ, bloomington | 
knot concordance, whitney towers and l2-signatures | 
| ranicki, andrew | 
univ of edinburgh, scotland | 
circle valued morse theory | 
| roberts, justin | 
ucsd | 
rozansky-witten weight systems | 
 
| rozansky, lev | 
yale univ | 
beyond the alexander polynomial | 
| segal, graeme | 
oxford | 
topological field theories and boundary conditions | 
| sinha, dev | 
brown univ | 
the topology of spaces of embeddings of the circle | 
| stasheff, jim | 
univ of no carolina, chapel hill | 
operads in homotopical physics | 
| sullivan, dennis | 
cuny and stony brook | 
string topology | 
| thurston, dylan | 
uc berkeley | 
wheels and wheeling | 
| tillmann, ulrike | 
oxford, uk | 
moduli space of riemann surfaces and conformal field theory | 
| wang, zhenghan | 
indiana univ | 
quantum computation | 
| weinberger, shmuel | 
univ of chicago | 
computational complexity, entropy, and moduli spaces |