Wayne State Topology Seminars

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Below are old schedules from the topology seminar of the Department of Mathematics at Wayne State University.

Current topology seminar schedule

Old topology seminar abstracts

Winter 2010

Date	Speaker and Title
January 26	Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon Rigidification of quasi-categories
March 9	Philip Hackney, Purdue University Homology operations in the spectral sequence of a cosimplicial space
March 23	Ben Williams, Stanford University Motivic cohomology and problems in commutative algebra
March 30	Kyle Ormsby, University of Michigan The motivic alpha family over p-adic fields
April 13	Chris French, Grinnell College Equivariant cannibalistic classes
April 20	Rekha Santhanam, Johns Hopkins University Equivariant gamma-spaces
April 20	Diarmuid Crowley, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, Bonn An introduction to the Manifold Atlas Project: www.map.him.uni-bonn.de and Modified surgery and the Kervaire invariant

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker and Title
September 22	Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University Composition methods in motivic homotopy groups of spheres
October 6	Po Hu, Wayne State University On 2-completed motivic stable homotopy theory
October 13	John Klein, Wayne State University Codimension one phenomena
October 20	Kijti Rodtes, University of Sheffield The connective K-theory of finite groups
November 3	Robert Bruner, Wayne State University Variants on Pic(A(1)) with applications to ko-theory of projective space

Winter 2009

Date	Speaker and Title
February 3	Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University Ostvaer's C^-homotopy theory*
February 17	John Klein, Wayne State University Higher Reidemeister torsion
March 3	Son Nguyen, Wayne State University The complex connective K-theory of some symmetric groups
Thursday March 12	Pascal Lambrechts, Université de Louvain Rational homology of spaces of smooth embeddings
April 7	Peter Bubenik, Cleveland State University Models and van Kampen theorems for directed homotopy theory
April 21	Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University The cohomology of motivic A(2)

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker and Title
September 9	John Klein, Wayne State University Periodicity and duality
September 16	Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago Uniqueness of Morava K-theory
September 23	Nguyen V. H. Hung, Wayne State University and Vietnam National University The conjecture on spherical classes and the Lannes-Zarati homomorphism
September 30	Robert Bruner, Wayne State University The homology and cohomology of cyclic groups
October 14	Mike Hill, University of Virginia Motivic THH of Eilenberg-MacLane spectra
October 28	David Gepner, University of Illinois Chicago Multiplicative structures on Thom R-module spectra
November 4	Andrew Toms, York University Dynamics, C^-algebras, and K-theoretic rigidity*
November 11	Mark Johnson, Penn State Altoona On modified Reedy structures
November 18	Armira Shkembi, Wayne State University Computations of Ext groups over motivic A(1)
December 9	Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Congruences between modular forms and the divided beta family

Winter 2008

Date	Speaker and Title
Wednesday January 16, 3pm	Atabey Kaygun, Ohio State University Morita invariance of Hopf equivariant cohomology of (co)algebras
January 29	José Manuel Gómez, University of Michigan Stringy bundles and ring spectra
February 12	Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University Motivic homological algebra
February 26	Ian Putnam, University of Victoria A homology theory for chaotic systems
March 18	Claude Schochet, Wayne State University Bundles of C^--algebras and a theorem of Eilenberg and Steenrod*
March 25	Son Nguyen, Wayne State University Atiyah-Segal completion theorem
April 1	Aravind Asok, University of Washington Highly A¹-connected hypersurfaces
April 15	John Harper, University of Notre Dame Quillen homology of modules over operads

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker and Title
September 11	Bert Guillou, University of Chicago Massey products in motivic cohomology
September 25	Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University Computational motivic homotopy theory
October 2	Chris Phillips, University of Oregon Crossed products of irrational rotation algebras by finite groups
October 23	Joint Analysis/Topology Seminar Cornel Pasnicu, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Continuous fields of Kirchberg C^-algebras*
October 30	John Klein, Wayne State University Bundle structures and algebraic K-theory
November 6	Valentina Joukhovitski, University of Michigan Topological modular forms and level structures
November 13	Michael Mandell, Indiana University E_n ring spectra and their module categories
November 20	Joint Analysis/Topology Seminar Guihua Gong, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Classification of inductive limit C^-algebras*
November 27	Dave Handel, Wayne State University Group cohomology products via explicit diagonal approximations
December 4	Andrew Salch, University of Rochester Local class field theory in the stable homotopy of spheres

Winter 2007

Date	Speaker and Title
January 16	Robert 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

Fall 2006

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

Winter 2006

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

Fall 2005

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

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