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    M.I.T. Topology Seminar Fall 2001

    Monday, 4:30-5:30PM
    Room 2- 131


    • September 10, 2001
      Lars Hesselholt (MIT)
      K-theory of Local Fields
    • September 17, 2001
      Holiday -- No Seminar
    • September 24, 2001
      Jean Lannes (Ecole Polytechnique & MIT)
      Sturm Sequences and Bott Periodicity
    • October 1, 2001
      Constantin Teleman (Cambridge)
      Twisted K-theory with complex coefficients and the complex Verlinde algebra
    • October 8, 2001
      Holiday -- No Seminar
    • October 15, 2001
      Clarence Wilkerson (Purdue)
      Linear codes and Lie groups
    • October 22, 2001
      Peter May (University of Chicago)
      Operadic categories, A(infinity)-categories, and n-categories
    • October 29, 2001
      Dan Dugger (Purdue)
      Hypercovers and simplicial presheaves
    • November 5, 2001
      Lev Borisov (Columbia)
      Elliptic genera of singular varieties
    • November 12, 2001
      Holiday -- No Seminar
    • November 19, 2001
      Gabriel Katz (MIT)
      Taut maps M^3 -> S^1 and 2-cycles, realizing the Thurston Norm
    • November 26, 2001
      Paul Kirk (Indiana and Harvard)
      Knot concordance and mutation and twisted Alexander polynomials
    • December 3, 2001
      Stanley Chang (Wellesley)
      Curvature in noncompact manifolds: a coarse approach to index theory
    • December 10, 2001
      Dan Isaksen (Notre Dame)
      Etale realization on the A^1-homotopy theory of schemes

    Wonder who spoke last year? Check out the schedule from Spring 98 , Fall 98 , Spring 99 , Fall 99, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, and Spring 2001.
    Questions? Send an email to Daniel Biss.
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