Juvitop is a topics seminar on algebraic topology organized by graduate students at MIT.
This term we will be going over Bill Dwyer's
notes
on Homotopical Group Theory from the
Workshop in Copenhagen.
The seminar will meet (unless noted otherwise) on Wednesdays at 4 pm in room 2-142 starting September 10.
At the moment we haven't finalized the list of talks. If you have any suggestions please contact the organizers.
This is the list of talks:
| Date | Speaker | Title | Lecture # |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 10 | Mark Behrens | Homotopy Theories | 1 |
| September 17 | Inna Zakharevich | Models for the Homotopy Theory of Homotopy Theories | 1 |
| September 24 | Anatoly Preygel | Homotopy limits and colimits - Spaces from categories | 2 and 3 |
| October 1 | Sam Isaacson | Thomason's theorem and Bousfield localization | 3 and 5 |
| October 8 | Jennifer French | Cohomology of function spaces - Maps between classifying spaces | 6 and 7 |
| October 15 | Larry Smith | Local cohomology, Poincare duality algebras, and Macaulay dual systems | Special |
| October 22 | Samik Basu | Homology decompositions, part I | 4 |
| October 29 | Olga Stroilova | Homology decompositions, part II | 4 |
| November 5 | Martin Frankland | Intro to linking systems and p-local classifying spaces | Intro to 8 |
| November 12 | Dev Sinha | Configuration spaces and homotopy theory | Special |
| November 19 | Matt Gelvin | BLO2: The Fusioning | 8 |
| November 26 | No seminar - Thanksgiving | ||
| December 3 | Revision of the notes | ||
| December 10 | Revision of the notes |
References here
Please email the organizers with any suggestions, concerns, questions, or to be added to the mailing list.
Angelica Osorno (aosorno at math dot mit dot edu)
Inna Zakharevich (zakh at math dot mit dot edu
Some previous versions of Juvitop:
Spring 2008: Segal conjecture
Fall 2007: Goodwillie calculus
Spring 2007: Floer homology
Fall 2006: Adams spectral sequence
Spring 2006: Stacks in topology and
homotopy theory
Fall 2005: Surgery theory
Other topology seminars at MIT: