Subject: conference announcement Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:32:19 +0100 (MET) From: Sarah Whitehouse ----------------- A school on Characteristic Classes in Topology and Geometry will take place at the Universite d'Artois in Lens (North of France) on 21-24 of May 2002. This school will consist of two short courses: "Characteristic classes of surface bundles", by Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford) "The classifying space for foliations", by Elmar Vogt (Berlin) There will be lectures in the mornings and exercise sessions in the afternoons. The problem sessions will be run by Paolo Salvatore (Rome) and Michel Belliart (Lille). Everybody is most welcome, especially young researchers in topology and PhD students. We hope to be able to provide some financial support for young researchers. You can find more information on: http://www-gat.univ-lille1.fr/~whitehou/univ-artois/cours02.html Participants may wish to note that there is a homotopy theory conference in Lille (close to Lens) the following week: http://www.univ-lille1.fr/math/homotopy.html Anyone interested should contact one of the organizers: whitehouse@euler.univ-artois.fr lambrechts@agel.ucl.ac.be Sarah Whitehouse Pascal Lambrechts