July 23-26, 2013
Nipissing University

28th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications

Dedicated to Professor E. D. Tymchatyn

Sponsored by the Fields Institute,
the National Science Foundation,
and the City of North Bay.

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The 28th Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications took place on the campus of Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario.

The conference featured the following speakers, workshops, and special sessions.

Plenary Speakers

  • Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University, California, USA)
  • Dikran Dikranjan (University of Udine, Italy)
  • Akira Koyama (Waseda University, Japan)
  • Lex Oversteegen (University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)
  • Edward D. Tymchatyn (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
  • Stevo Todorcevic (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Michael Yampolsky (University of Toronto, Canada)

Workshops

 Homogeneous Spaces – Jan van Mill (VU-Amsterdam) and Vesko Valov (Nipissing University, Canada)

 Coarse Topology with Connections to Geometric Group Theory – Jerzy Dydak (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA) and Alexander Dranishnikov (University of Florida-Gainesville, USA)

Semi-plenary Speakers

  • Taras Banakh (Ivan Franko National University, L’viv, Ukraine)
  • Phillip Boyland (University of Florida-Gainesville, USA)
  • Alex Clark (University of Leicester, England)
  • Jean Goubault-Larrecq (LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan)
  • Kazuhiro Kawamura (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
  • Chris Mouron (Rhodes College, Memphis, USA)
  • Todor Tsankov (Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France)
  • Michael Zarichnyi (Ivan Franko National University, L’viv, Ukraine)

Special Sessions

 Asymmetric Topology
Session Organizers: Lawrence Michael Brown (Hacettepe U., Ankara), Michael Bukatin (Nokia Corp., Boston, USA), Ralph Kopperman (City College of CUNY, USA)

 Continuum Theory and Dynamical Systems
Session Organizers: Logan Hoehn (Nipissing University, Canada), John C. Mayer (U. of Alabama-Birmingham, USA), Lex Oversteegen (U. of Alabama-Birmingham, USA)

 Geometric Topology
Session Organizers: Nikolay Brodskiy (U. of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA), Alexander Dranishnikov (U. of Florida-Gainesville, USA), Jerzy Dydak (U. of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA), Danuta Kolodziejczyk (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

 New Trends in Topology
Session Organizers: Tomasz Kaczynski (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), James Keesling (U. of Florida-Gainesville, USA), Krystyna Kuperberg (Auburn University, Alabama, USA)

 Set-Theoretic Topology, Analysis, and Related Areas
Session Organizers: Alan Dow (U. of North Caroline-Charlotte, USA), Juris Steprans (York University, Canada), Paul Szeptycki (York University, Canada)


Scientific Advisory Committee

Krystyna Kuperberg, John C. Mayer, Jan van Mill, Lex Oversteegen, Juris Steprans, and E.D. Tymchatyn

Local Organizing Committee

Logan Hoehn <loganh@nipissingu.ca>
Alex Karassev <alexandk@nipissingu.ca>
Ihor Stasyuk <ihors@nipissingu.ca>
Murat Tuncali <muratt@nipissingu.ca>
Vesko Valov <veskov@nipissingu.ca>