Purdue University

Department of Mathematics
Topology Seminar

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Fall 2008
Time and place: Thursdays 3:20-4:20 in REC 117 (New Time, we meet 10 min earlier!)

Organizer for Fall 2008: Ralph Kaufmann. Contact organizer.


Schedule

Date
Speaker
Title
09/04
James McClure (Purdue)
Cup product in intersection cohomology
09/11
Ben Walter (Purdue)
Cooperads and Coalgebras, or What is a Cofree Coalgebra?
09/18
Ben Walter (Purdue)
Cooperads and Coalgebras, or What is a Cofree Coalgebra? Part 2
09/25
Ralph Kaufmann (Purdue)
From graphs to actions
10/16
Ben Walter (Purdue)
A new model for Harrison homology
10/30
Clarence Wilkerson (Purdue)
Free (Z/2)^r actions on products of spheres
11/06
Vigleik Angeltveit (U of Chicago)
Uniqueness of Morava K-theory
11/13
Stephan Stolz (Notre Dame)
Supersymmetric Euclidean field theories and generalized cohomology
11/20
Tom Fiore (U of Chicago)
A Thomason Model Structure on nFoldCat
12/04
Tony Elmendorf (Purdue, Calumet)
Permutative categories, multicategories, and algebraic K-theory


Abstracts.



Schedule Spring 2007