Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Topology Seminar
Year 2014-2015


Monday, September 29, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Guozhen Wang,   MIT
Title: Monochromatic unstable homotopy theory
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 6, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Michael Andrews,   MIT
Title: Non-nilpotent elements in motivic homotopy theory
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 13, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Omar Antolin Camarena,   Harvard
Title: The universal property of the multiplicative structure of Thom spectra
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 20, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Saul Glasman,   MIT
Title: The Cyclotomic Hodge Filtration
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 24, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Emanuele Dotto,   MIT
Title: On higher versions of Quillen's theorem B
Special Note: An informal talk before tomorrow's Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available


Saturday, October 25, 2014

Topology Seminar       Swift 107, 10:00am
Emanuele Dotto,   MIT
Title: Trace methods in Real algebraic K-theory
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar       Swift 107, 11:30am
Greg Arone,   University of Virginia
Title: Bredon homology of partition posets, a theorem of Kuhn, and its $ku$ analogue
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Abstract and details available
Topology Seminar       Swift 107, 2:30pm
Teena Gerhardt,   Michigan State University
Title: An approach to the algebraic K-theory of Z[C_2]
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Contact info here
Topology Seminar       Swift 107, 4:00pm
Mike Hill,   University of Virginia
Title: On the spectrum of an equivariant commutative ring
Special Note: Midwest Topology Seminar
Contact info here


Monday, October 27, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Prasit Bhattacharya,   Indiana University
Title: Higher Associativity of Moore spectra
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 3, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Eric Peterson,   University of California Berkeley
Title: Determinantal K-theory and an application
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 10, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rune Haugseng,   Bonn
Title: The higher Morita category of E_n-algebras
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 17, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Rick Jardine,   University of Western Ontarios
Title: Cocycles and pro-objects
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 24, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Zhen Huan,   University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
Title: Quasi-elliptic cohomology
Abstract and details available


Monday, December 1, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Michael Donovan,   MIT
Title: Operations in the Adams spectral sequence for simplicial F_2-algebras
Abstract and details available


Thursday, December 4, 2014

Topology Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm
Joshua Greene,   Boston College
Title: Dehn surgery, combinatorial methods, and Floer homology
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 5, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Tony Elmendorf,   Purdue University Calumet
Title: A Presheaf Construction for Generalized Multicategories
Abstract and details available


Thursday, January 8, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm
Sucharit Sarkar,   Princeton
Title: A Khovanov stable homotopy type
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 16, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm
Jennifer Hom,   Columbia University
Title: The knot concordance group
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 26, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Charmaine Sia,   Harvard University
Title: Structures on forms of K-theory
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 2, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Ben Knudsen,   Northwestern University
Title: Rational homology of configuration spaces via factorization homology
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 9, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Zhouli Xu,   University of Chicago
Title: Homotopy groups of spheres and the strong Kervaire invariant problem in dimension 62
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 16, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Deborah Vicinsky,   University of Oregon
Title: Stabilizations of categories and graphs
Abstract and details available


Thursday, February 26, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Birgit Richter,   Hamburg
Title: Higher topological Hochschild homology of rings of integers in number fields
Special Note: Note unusual day and UPDATED time!
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 2, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Kate Ponto,   University of Kentucky
Title: Amazing consequences of simple properties of the trace
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 6, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Bena Tshishiku,   University of Chicago
Title: Point-pushing and Nielsen realization
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 13, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
John Francis,   Northwestern University
Title: Formal consequences of stratified regularity
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 20, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Inna Zakharevich,   University of Chicago
Title: CANCELLED
Contact info here


Thursday, April 30, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 107, 3pm
Agnes Beaudry,   University of Chicago
Title: The Chromatic Splitting Conjecture at $n=p=2$
Special Note: Note unusual day, time and room!
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 4, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins,   Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles I
Contact info here


Monday, May 11, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins,   Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and motivic vector bundles II
Contact info here


Thursday, May 21, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins,   Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and Motivic Vector Bundles III
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Mike Hopkins,   Harvard University
Title: Algebraic and Motivic Vector Bundles IV
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Contact info here



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