WSU

Department of Mathematics
Topology Seminar 2012-2013

Wayne State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


Talks are held Tuesdays at 2:00 PM in the Nelson Room unless otherwise noted.
The organizers for 2012-13 are Robert Bruner and Dan Isaksen.

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Old Topology Seminar schedules:
2001-02,  2002-03,  2003-04,  2004-05,  2005-06,  2006-07,  2007-08,  2008-09,  2009-10,  2010-11,  2011-12 

Winter 2013

All talks are at 2 PM unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker and Title
Jan 22
Bengt Arnetz, WSU Department of Family Medicine and Public Health,
Complex stress exposure and disease: Need to develop more advanced statistical models (Abstract)
Jan 29
Kirsten Wickelgren, Harvard University
Splitting varieties for triple Massey products in Galois cohomology (Abstract)
Feb 12
Hugo Bacard, University of Western Ontario
Pursuing Segal categories: co-Segal categories (Abstract)
Mar 19
Yifei Zhu, University of Minnesota
Computing power operations in Morava E-theory at height 2 for the prime 3 (Abstract)
Apr 2
Kate Ponto, University of Kentucky
Additivity of traces and derivators (Abstract)
April 30
1:00 PM
Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
The Grothendieck-Teichmuller group and the stable symplectic category (Abstract)

Fall 2012

Date Speaker and Title
Sept 4 Ben Antieau, UCLA
Topological Azumaya algebras (Abstract)
Oct 2
2 PM
Scott Bailey, Clayton State University
Toward a splitting of the Tate spectrum of tmf (Abstract)
Oct 9
3 PM
Dan Dugger, University of Oregon
Motivic stable homotopy groups of spheres (Abstract)
Oct 16
2:30 PM
Topology caucus
Oct 23
2 PM
Eric Finster, Institute for Advanced Study
Opetopic Syntax: Towards a Logic of Higher Categories (Abstract)
Oct 30
2 PM
Kirsten Wickelgren, Harvard University (Rescheduled for January 29.)

Nov 13
2 PM
Emily Riehl, Harvard University
Homotopy coherent adjunctions of quasi-categories (Abstract)
Nov 27
Oliver Roendigs, Universitaet Osnabrueck
The slice filtration for hermitian K-theory (Abstract)