Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Topology Seminar- Fall 2005

Monday, 4:30-5:30PM
Room 2-142



  • September 12, 2005
    Mark Behrens (MIT)
    Cohomology Theories Associated to Shimura Varieties      Abstract

  • September 19, 2005
    No Seminar


  • September 26, 2005
    Doug Ravenel (University of Rochester)
    Toward higher chromatic analogs of tmf    Abstract


  • October 3, 2005
    Lars Hesselholt (MIT)
    Witt Vectors of Non-commutative Rings Revisited

  • October 10, 2005
    No Seminar -- Columbus Day


  • October 17, 2005
    Veronique Godin (Harvard University)
    Combinatorics and the Homology of Mapping Class Groups


  • October 24, 2005
    Tyler Lawson (MIT)
    Homotopy Theory of Stable Simultaneous Similarity of Matrices


  • October 31, 2005
    Ieke Moerdijk (Utrecht)
    The ubiquity of the Boardman-Vogt resolution


  • November 7, 2005
    Kari Ragnarsson (University of Aberdeen)
    A Segal conjecture for p-completed classifying spaces.     Abstract


  • November 14, 2005
    Erik Pedersen (SUNY Binghamton)
    Smoothing Loop Spaces


  • November 21, 2005
    Kevin Costello (University of Chicago)
    Constructing the Gromov-Witten potential associated to a topological conformal field theory      Abstract


  • November 28, 2005
    Daniel Biss (University of Chicago)
    K_g is not finitely generated


  • Decmber 5, 2005
    Brenda Johnson (Union College)
    Robinson's complex and the rank filtration of a functor


  • Decmber 6, 2005
    (NOTE: 4pm in 2-132)
    Soren Galatius (Stanford University)
    The Space of Graphs and Stable Homology of Aut(F_n)


  • December 12, 2005
    Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis University)
    Axiomatic higher torsion invariants and its consequences      Abstract



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