Topological modular forms

pretalbot -- Talbot workshop prep seminar

Spring 2007







  • February 15 at 4pm, room 2-135
    Haynes Miller
    Introduction
  • February 21 at 4:30pm, room 2-139
    Veronique Godin
    The ring of modular forms
  • February 22 at 3pm, room 24-110
    John Duncan
    Elliptic genera and the Witten genus
  • February 28 at 4:30pm, room 2-139
    Matthew Gelvin
    Lubin-Tate deformation theory of formal groups laws
  • March 1 at 3pm, room 36-144
    Matthew Gelvin
    Lubin-Tate theory, cont.
  • March 7 at 4:30pm, room 2-139
    Ricardo Andrade
    The Landweber exact functor theorem
  • March 8 at 3pm, room 36-144
    John Francis
    The Hopkins-Miller theorem I: Lubin-Tate homology theories
  • March 14 at 4:30pm, room 2-139
    John Francis
    The Hopkins-Miller theorem II: Goerss-Hopkins obstruction theory
  • March 15 at 3pm, room 36-144
    John Francis
    The Hopkins-Miller theorem III: E-infinity operads and Andre-Quillen cohomology
  • March 21 at 4:30, room 2-139
    Mark Behrens
    Axioms for tmf, the chromatic Hasse square, & K(2)-local tmf
  • March 23 at 3pm, room 36-144
    Mark Behrens
    K(1)-local tmf and the construction of tmf

  • References:

    Click here for the extensive list Nora Ganter compiled.


    Questions? Email John Francis .

    To see last year's page, on automorphisms of manifolds: pretalbot2005.

    To see the previous year's page, on geometric Langlands: talbot2005.

    Also have a look at the topology seminar; juvitop; babytop.