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Title: Transchromatic Generalized Character Maps
Speaker: Nathaniel Stapleton
Speaker Info: UIUC
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In the 80's Hopkins, Kuhn, and Ravenel studied cohomology rings of the form E^*(BG) in terms of generalized group characters. By using the algebraic geometry of p-divisible groups we will construct a family of generalizations of their character map.