Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Topology Seminar
Year 1997-1998


Monday, September 22, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Charles Rezk,   Northwestern University
Title: Spaces of Natural Transformations
Special Note: The talk in not at the usual time
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Monday, September 29, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor William Richter,  
Title: The Segal conjecture and the multiplicativity of stable splittings of BSp and \Omega SU(n)
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Monday, October 6, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Stephen Wilson,   Johns Hopkins University
Title: Unstable BP homology
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Monday, October 13, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ib Madsen,   Aarhus University
Title: On the K-theory of local fields
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Monday, October 20, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Stewart Priddy,   Northwestern University
Title: Stably decomposing products of classifying spaces
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Monday, October 27, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Fred Cohen,   University of Rochester
Title: Free groups and self-maps of double loop spaces
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Monday, November 3, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Mahowald,   Northwestern University
Title: The Kervaire invariant and Minami's theorem
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Monday, November 10, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ran Levi,   Northwestern University
Title: Loop structures on homotopy fibres of self maps of a sphere
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Monday, November 17, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor John Martino,   University of Western Michigan
Title: An Introduction to Topological Graph Theory
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Monday, November 24, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Dmitri Orlov,   Steklov Institute
Title: Equivalences of derived categories of coherent sheaves
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Monday, December 1, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jason Douma,   Northwsetern University
Title: Stably Decomposing B(PxQ): an Algebraic Perspective
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Wednesday, December 3, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ioanid Rosu,   MIT
Title: The Rigidity Theorems of Witten via Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
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Monday, January 12, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Gregory Arone,   University of Chicago
Title: Tits buildings, partition posets and symmetric product spectra
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Monday, January 19, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Gary Gutman,   Northwestern University
Title: Elliptic Spectra and Group Actions
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Monday, January 26, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Igor Kriz,   University of Michigan
Title: The equivariant mod 2 Steenrod algebra and Real cobordism
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Monday, February 2, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jonathan Cornick,   Ohio State University
Title: Group actions on finite dimensional complexes and cohomological finiteness conditions
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Thursday, February 12, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk,   Northwestern University
Title: Brown-Comenetz duality and localization
Special Note: THE TALK IS NOT IN THE USUAL DAY OF THE WEEK AND IN A DIFFERENT ROOM
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Monday, February 16, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor John Palmieri,   University of Notre Dame
Title: The structure of the Bousfield lattice
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Monday, February 23, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Vassily Gorbounov,   University of Kentucky
Title: On the splitting of the formal completion of Jacobians of curves from the point of view of analysis
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Thursday, March 5, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Professor Clarence Wilkerson,   Purdue University
Title: Lie groups and friends at the prime 2
Special Note: The talk is not in the usual place and day of the week.
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Monday, March 9, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor John Klein,   University of Bielefeld
Title: a compression theorem for embeddings
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Friday, April 17, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm
Professor Paul Shick,   John Carroll University
Title: Toward the stable homotopy of finite complexes
Special Note: Special session, not in the standard time or day
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Monday, April 20, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor William Richter,  
Title: Poincare surgery and nonfiberwise homotopy theory
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Thursday, April 30, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm
Professor David Hunter,   North Central College
Title: Characterizing spectra with $U$-injective cohomology which satisfy the Brown-Gitler property
Special Note: The session is not in the usual time and place
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Monday, May 4, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss,   University of Washington
Title: Hopf rings, Dieudonn\'e modules, and E_\ast \Omega^2 S^3
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Monday, May 11, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Vassily Gorbounov,   University of Kentucky
Title: Formal groups obtained from \Theta functions
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Monday, May 18, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Brooke Shipley,   University of Chicago
Title: Classification of stable model categories
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Wednesday, May 27, 1998

Topology Seminar       Lunt 102, 4:10pm
Professor Brayton Gray,   University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: The EHP spectral sequence for V(0)
Special Note: Special session. Note the different day.
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