Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Topology Seminar- Spring 2003

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



  • February 10, 2003
    Jaume Aguade (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
    Kac-Moody groups from a homotopy point of view

  • February 24, 2003
    Birgit Richter
    $E_\infty$-structures on some periodic ring spectra

  • March 3, 2003
    Kyoshi Igusa (Brandeis University)
    Graph cohomology and its relationship to Miller-Morita-Mumford
    classes and higher Franz-Reidemeister torsion


  • March 10, 2003
    Igor Kriz(University of Michigan)
    Conformal field theory, D-branes and Elliptic cohomology

  • March 31, 2003
    Mark Hovey (Wesleyan Univ)
    Comodules and Landweber exactness

  • April 7, 2003, time, place changed to 3:00 pm, Rm 2-139
    Junho Lee (Univ of Minnesota)
    Invariants of K3 surfaces

  • April 14, 2003
    Don Davis (Lehigh University)
    v1-periodic homotopy groups of compact simple Lie groups

  • April 28, 2003
    Christian Schlichtkrull (Stanford University)
    Topological Hochschild homology of Thom spectra and free loop spaces

  • May 5, 2003
    Kathryn Lesh (Union College)
    The cohomology of symmetric groups and the Quillen map at odd primes

  • May 12 , 2003
    Jon Pakianathan
    Nilpotent Ideals in the Cohomology Ring of a Group

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