- February 16
No seminar - President's Day.
- February 23
Jerry Levine (Brandeis University)
Finite-type invariants of 3-manifolds and the mapping class group.
- March 2
Peter Magyar (Northeastern University)
Homology of prehomogeneous spaces: an easy example.
- March 9
Peter May (University of Chicago)
Applied $E_\infty$ ring theory: Characteristic classes for topological bundles and cobordism groups of topological manifolds. (CANCELLED)
- March 16
Peter Ozsvath (IAS)
Adjunction inequalities and the symplectic Thom conjecture.
- March 18
At 2pm in 2-146:
Peter May (University of Chicago)
Applied $E_\infty$ ring theory: Characteristic classes for topological bundles and cobordism groups of topological manifolds.
At 4pm in 2-151:
Dan Christensen (Johns Hopkins University)
Phantom maps: all or nothing.
- March 19
At 11am in 4-231:
Neil Strickland (Cambridge University)
Chromatic cohomology of toric varieties.
- March 23
No seminar - Spring Break.
- March 30
At 3.45pm in 2-147:
Octavian Cornea (University of Lille)
Flows, Thom spaces and Im(J).
At 5pm in 2-142:
Burt Totaro (University of Chicago)
Chern numbers for singular varieties and elliptic homology.
- April 6
Tibor Beke (MIT)
Homotopy theory and Topoi.
- April 13
Nitu Kitchloo (MIT)
The topology of Kac-Moody groups.
- April 20
No seminar - Patriots Day.
- April 27
Mark Mahowald (Northwestern)
Brown-Comenetz duality in the Adams spectral sequence.
- May 4
Igor Kriz (University of Michigan)
Real-oriented spectra in stable homotopy theory.
- May 11
At 3.45pm in 2-143:
Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins)
Some commutative A_{\infty} operads.
At 5pm in 2-142:
Ioanid Rosu (MIT)
Equivariant elliptic cohomology and rigidity.
M.I.T. Topology Seminar
Monday, 4:30pm-5:30pm
Room 2-142
Questions? Send email to
ggranja@math.mit.edu
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