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Title: Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces
Speaker: Professor Nathalie Wahl
Speaker Info: University of Chicago
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We prove that the homology of the mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces stabilizes with the number of copies of RP^2 in the decomposition of the surface. Using the Madsen-Weiss machinery, we compute the stable rational cohomology of these groups.