Workshop on
Topology and Geometry of Foliations

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
November 24 - Decemeber 6, 2008

National Board
for Higher Mathematics

Programme

The inauguration and the lectures will be held in the Lecture Hall in the ground floor of
A. N. Kolmogorov Bhavan.


The first three days of the workshop will be completely devoted to the general theory of foliations.


Apart from that there will be lectures on the following topics :


  1. Foliations, laminations and flows in 3-manifolds -- Sergio Fenley

  2. Singular foliations on surfaces -- Mahan Mj

  3. Orbifolds -- Mainak Poddar

  4. Lie groupoids and Lie Algebroids -- Bernardo Uribe

In the second week there will be series of lectures by the following speakers :


  1. Rui L. Fernandes -- Stability in Poisson Geometry

  2. Debashish Goswami & S. Sundar -- Foliations and non-commutative geometry
    Lecture 1 , Lecture 2 , Lecture 3 , Lecture 4

  3. Kirill Mackenzie -- Lectures on Lie Groupoid Theory
    Lecture 1, Lecture 2 , Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6

  4. Amiya Mukherjee -- Characterisitc classes and Integrability
    Lecture 1, Lecture 2