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The principal speaker for the workshop is Professor Alexander Dranishnikov of the University of Florida. He will present a series of three one-hour lectures with the title "Dimension Theory: local and global."

Abstract
I will speak about the Alexandroff Problem, both local and global, and its relation to geometric topology and in particular to the Novikov Higher Signature Conjecture.

In addition, Professor Jerzy Dydak of the University of Tennessee will give an invited one-hour talk on Friday afternoon. His title is "The algebra of dimension theory."