Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Topology Seminar- Spring 2005

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



  • February 7, 2005
    no seminar


  • February 14, 2005
    Ralph Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
    Cell operads for moduli spaces and actions on the Hochschild complex

  • February 21, 2005
    no seminar - Presidents' Day


  • February 28, 2005
    no seminar - Talbot House Workshop


  • March 7, 2005
    Kathryn Lesh (Union College)
    A filtration of bu with analogies to symmetric powers of spheres

  • March 14, 2005
    Jacob Lurie (Harvard University)
    Elliptic Cohomology and Derived Algebraic Geometry

  • March 21, 2005
    no seminar - spring break


  • March 28, 2005
    Jie Wu (Singapore)
    The exponent problem and Cohen groups

  • April 4, 2005
    Soren Galatius (Stanford University)
    Classifying spaces of cobordism categories

  • April 11, 2005
    Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford University)
    Topology of point cloud data with examples

  • April 18, 2005
    no seminar - Patriots' Day


  • Thursday April 21, 2005 at 2:30pm in 2-338
    Michael Ching (MIT): Thesis defense
    Bar constructions for topological operads and the Goodwillie derivatives of the identity

  • April 25, 2005
    no seminar


  • May 2, 2005
    Andre Henriques (MIT): Thesis defense
    Orbispaces

  • May 9, 2005
    Chris Douglas (MIT): Thesis defense
    Twisted stable homotopy theory


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