Wayne State Topology Seminars

Date	Speaker and Title
Sep 12	Daniel Isaksen, WSU Motivic Hopf Maps
Sept 19	John R. Klein, WSU Poincare Surgery Rehabilitated
Oct 3	John R. Klein, WSU Periodicity in the Poincare Category
Oct 10	John R. Klein, WSU Periodicity in the Poincare Category, II
Oct 23	Stefan Schwede, Bonn & MIT (Colloquium) Rigidity of the stable homotopy category
Oct 24	Paul Goerss, Northwestern Picard spaces and Picard groups at chromatic level 2
Oct 31	John R. Klein, WSU On the existence of the tangent bundle of a Poincare space
Nov 21	John R. Klein, WSU Finite spaces and simple homotopy type
Nov 28	Kate Ponto, University of Chicago Fixed point theory and trace for bicategories
Dec 5	Bert Guillou, University of Chicago Steenrod Operations in Motivic Cohomology

Date	Speaker and Title
Jan 10	Daniel Biss, University of Chicago On the zero-divisors in the Cayley-Dickson algebras
Jan 17	Robert Bruner, WSU What I heard in Sheffield last week
Jan 24	Po Hu, WSU Open/Closed CFTs and their deformations
Jan 31	John Klein, WSU What does a classifying space classify?
Feb 7	Tatiana Bandman, Bar Ilan University Local systems and maps into hyperbolic curves
Feb 14	Jesper Grodal, University of Chicago Homotopical Group Theory, II (Visiting Scholar)
Feb 15	Jesper Grodal, University of Chicago Homotopical Group Theory, III (Visiting Scholar) (joint with algebra seminar)
Mar 6	Holger Reich, Universitaet Muenster Algebraic K-theory and hyperbolic groups (Colloquium/Topology Seminar)
Mar 28	John Klein, WSU Strung up Poincare spaces
Apr 5	Florin Dumitrescu, Notre Dame Superconnections and Super Parallel Transport (joint with Algebra Seminar)
Apr 18	Dan Dugger, University of Oregon On the Milnor Conjecture
Apr 25	Jim McClure, Purdue University Toward E-infinity structures for Quinn's bordism type spectra

Date	Speaker and Title
Sept 27	Claude Schochet, Wayne State University Twisted K-theory
Oct 11	Mark Behrens, MIT continuation of Colloquium lecture
Nov 1	John Klein, WSU Twisted K-theory: a gentle introduction
Nov 8	Georg Biedermann, Western Ontario Model structures for calculus of functors
Nov 22	Igor Kriz, University of Michigan Index theory, topological modular forms and physical theories in dimensions 11 and 12
Nov 29	John Oprea, Cleveland State University Free Circle Actions, Contractible Orbits and LS Category
Dec 6	John Klein, WSU Homotopical Fixed Point Theory
Dec 12	Paul Kirk, Indiana University Minimizing Euler characteristics of 4-manifolds with abelian fundamental groups
Dec 13	Jesus Gonzalez, CINVESTAV (Mexico City) On the BP<n>-homology of Z2e x Z2e

Date

Speaker and Title

Sept 27

Claude Schochet, Wayne State University
Twisted K-theory

Oct 11

Mark Behrens, MIT
continuation of Colloquium lecture

Nov 1

John Klein, WSU
Twisted K-theory: a gentle introduction

Nov 8

Georg Biedermann, Western Ontario
Model structures for calculus of functors

Nov 22

Igor Kriz, University of Michigan
Index theory, topological modular forms and physical theories in
dimensions 11 and 12

Nov 29

John Oprea, Cleveland State University
Free Circle Actions, Contractible Orbits and LS Category

Dec 6

John Klein, WSU
Homotopical Fixed Point Theory

Dec 12

Paul Kirk, Indiana University
Minimizing Euler characteristics of 4-manifolds with abelian fundamental groups

Dec 13

Jesus Gonzalez, CINVESTAV (Mexico City)
On the BP<n>-homology of Z2e x Z2e

Date	Speaker and Title
January 16	Bob Bruner, Wayne State University 2-categorical K-theory
January 23	Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University Subalgebras of the hexadecanions
February 6	Alejandro Adem, University of British Columbia Toroidal orbifolds and cohomology of crystallographic groups
February 13	Oliver Roendigs, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Stable homotopy types of smooth projective curves
February 20	Ron Fintushel, Michigan State University Surgery on nullhomologous tori in 4-manifolds
February 27	Doug Ravenel, University of Rochester An introduction to elliptic cohomology and topological modular forms
March 1	Doug Ravenel, University of Rochester Toward higher chromatic analogs of elliptic cohomology and topological modular forms
March 6	Tom Fiore, University of Chicago The homotopy theory of double categories
April 3	Seva Joukhovitski, Louisiana State University What an algebraist can (and should) learn from the topologists
April 10	Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University The motivic J-homomorphism