Real Analytic and Nash Functions
and Related Topics

Pisa February 16-21, 2009


Program


Monday 16

10.00-10.30
Opening
10.30-11.30
J.J.Risler   On the total curvature of a real affine algebraic variety
11.30-12.00
Coffee break
12.00-13.00
F. Acquistapace   Global semianalytic sets
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14.30-15.30
M.Edmundo  Poincare'-Verdier duality in o-minimal structures
15.30-16.30
L.Prelli  Sheaves on subanalytic sites
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-18.00
L.Broecker   Minimal description of polytopes


Tuesday 17

10.30-11.30
E.Bierstone   Resolution except for minimal singularities
11.30-12.00
Coffee break
12.00-13.00
W.Pawlucki On a theorem of Guillome Valette
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14.30-15.30
M.E.Alonso Stable deformations of zero-dimensional algebras
15.30-16.30
J.Fernando On the ring of Nash functions on a semialgebraic set
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-18.00
D.Mady The semialgebraic h-cobordism and s-cobordism theorems


Wednesday 18

10.30-11.30
A.Parusinski   The weight filtration for real algebraic varieties 
11.30-12.00
Coffee break
12.00-13.00
G.Fichou  On blow-Nash equivalence
13.00-14.30
Lunch


Thursday 19

10.30-11.30
J. Huisman  On the topology of nonsingular compact affine real algebraic hypersurfaces
11.30-12.00
Coffee break
12.00-13.00
L. Pernazza On the regularity of well-chosen roots of parameter-dependent polynomial
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14.30-15.30
A.ElKhadiri  Weierstrass division in quasianalytic local rings
15.30-16.30
I.Karolkiewicz  An algebraic formula for the intersection number of a polynomial immersion
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-18.00
A.Nowel  Immersions of spheres and algeraically constructible  functions


Friday 20

10.30-11.30
S.Spodzieja   On the Lojasiewicz exponent at infinity of a polynomial mapping
11.30-12.00
Coffee break
12.00-13.00
D.Gondard  On the number of connected components of smooth real varieties
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14.30-15.30
C.Delzell  A new, simpler finitary construction of the real closure of a 'discrete' ordered field
15.30-16.30
A.Prestel   On the Connectedness Conjecture in dimension 2