Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Topology Seminar
Year 2004-2005


Monday, September 27, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Daniel Biss,   University of Chicago
Title: K_g is not finitely generated
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Monday, October 11, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Behrens,   MIT
Title: The K(2)-local sphere and isogenies of elliptic curves
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Monday, October 18, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Andrew Mauer-Oats,   Northwestern University
Title: Derivatives of Monoids in Func(SimpGp,SimpGp)
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Monday, November 1, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Fred Cohen,   University of Rochester
Title: Self-maps of loop spaces
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Monday, November 8, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Mahowald,   Northwestern University
Title: The construction of a v_2^{32} self map of M(1,4) and applications
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Monday, November 15, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Donald Yau,   University of Illinois
Title: Cohomology and deformations of lambda-rings
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Monday, November 22, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Randy McCarthy,  
Title: On the Witt group of a bimodule
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Monday, December 6, 2004

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Michael Mandell,   Cambridge University
Title: Monoidal categories from ring spectra
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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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