Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Topology Seminar
Year 2005

Monday, January 3, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet; Title: New constructions for the K-theory of categories
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Monday, January 10, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: David Gepner, University of Illinois; Title: The Thom Isomorphism in Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
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Monday, February 7, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Jacob Lurie, Harvard University; Title: Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Algebraic Geometry
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Monday, February 28, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Julie Bergner, University of Notre Dame; Title: Three models for the homotopy theory of homotopy theories
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Monday, March 28, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame; Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
Special Note: CANCELLED
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Monday, April 11, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Sunil Chebolu, University of Washington; Title: A K-theoretic approach for refining the chromatic towers
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Thursday , April 14, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Kathryn Lesh, Union College; Title: A filtration of bu with analogies to symmetric powers of spheres
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands); Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 1 of 2 talks)
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Monday, April 25, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Chris Dwyer, University of Wisconsin; Title: Twisted equivariant K-theory and twisted Bredon cohomology
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands); Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 2 of 2 talks)
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Orsola Tommasi, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Title: Title: Computing the rational cohomology of complements of discriminants (part 3 of 3 talks)
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Monday, May 9, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Elke Markert, University of Notre Dame; Title: A spectrum for ko from euclidean field theories
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Monday, May 16, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Rochelle Pereira, University of Chicago; Title: Higher Order Cohomology Operations and Minimal Atomicity
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Monday, May 23, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Soren Galatius, Stanford University; Title: Classifying spaces of cobordism categories
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Monday, September 26, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Craig Westerland, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Title: Equivariant operads and string topology
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Monday, October 17, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Steffen Sagave, Mathematisches Institut Bonn; Title: Universal Toda brackets of ring spectra
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Monday, November 7, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Daniel Biss, University of Chicago; Title: Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras
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Monday, November 14, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Nathalie Wahl, University of Chicago; Title: Mapping class groups of non-orientable surfaces
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Monday, November 28, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 3:00pm: Mike Hill, MIT; Title: A New Hopf Algebra for Computing tmf Homology and the tmf Homology of B\Sigma_3
Special Note: Note the time change: this talk is at 3 pm, not 4:10 pm
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Monday, December 5, 2005

Topology Seminar Lunt 104, 4:10pm: Professor Tyler Lawson, MIT; Title: Ring spectra associated to Shimura varieties and the K(n)-local sphere
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