MIT Topology Seminar- Spring 2006

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

  • February 13, 2006
    Eric Rains (UC Davis)
    The Cohomology Ring of the Real Locus of {\bar M}_{0,n} Abstract


  • February 20, 2006
    No Seminar - President's Day


  • February 27, 2006
    No Seminar - Talbot Workshop


  • March 6, 2006
    Georg Biedermann (University of Western Ontario)
    Model Structures for Goodwillie Calculus Abstract


  • March 13, 2006
    Mike Mandell (Indiana University)
    THH for Waldhausen Categories

  • March 20, 2006
    Paul Goerss (Northwestern)
    Picard spaces and Picard groups at chromatic level 2

  • March 27, 2006
    No Seminar - Spring Break
     

  • April 3, 2006
    Bob Bruner (Wayne State University)
    Homotopy Fixed Points of Equivariant S-Algebras Abstract

  • April 10, 2006
    Matt Ando (UIUC)
    Applications of S^1-equivariant elliptic cohomology: the two-variable genus and the sigma orientation.


  • April 11, 2006
    Special Tuesday Seminar
    Peter Teichner (UC Berkeley)
    A definition of super symmetric field theories over a manifold.

  • April 17, 2006
    No Seminar - Patriot's Day

  • April 24, 2006
    John Hopkinson (MIT): Thesis Defense
    Universal polynomials in lambda rings and the K-theory of the infinite loop space tmf Abstract

  • May 1, 2006
    Mike Hill (MIT): Thesis Defense
    Computational methods for higher real K-theory with applications to tmf Abstract
    NOTE Special Time and Location: 3:15pm, in 26-210

  • May 8, 2006
    James McClure (Purdue)
    Toward an E_\infty structure for symmetric L-spectra
    NOTE Special Time and Location: 3:15pm, in 1-134

  • May 8, 2006
    Vigleik Angeltveit (MIT): Thesis Defense
    Noncommutative ring spectra Abstract

  • May 15, 2006
    Charles Rezk (UIUC)
    Calculations of the Bousfield-Kuhn functor


Questions? Send an email to Mike Hill or Teena Gerhardt .

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