Spring 2002 University of Chicago Algebraic Topology Seminar Calendar

The algebraic topology seminar is held in Eckhart Hall room 203, on Tuesdays at 4:30PM, unless otherwise specified. All are welcome to attend. The seminar is preceeded by the department tea 4:00-4:30. If you're giving a talk here is some practical information.
March 26 NO SEMINAR Because of the Northwestern Conference  
April 1
(NB Monday at 4 in E206)		 4:00 Benoit Fresse, University of Nice  
           Title: A prismatic decomposition of the Barratt-Eccles operad
April 2 NO SEMINAR . Monday seminar instead.  
April 9 4:30 Nguyen H. V. Hung, Wayne State University  
           Title: A conjecture on the Dickson classes in the Ext group
April 16 4:30 Craig Westerland, Univ. of Michigan  
           Title: Cohomology of configuration spaces and mapping spaces
April 20 Midwest Topology Seminar
April 23 4:30 Ivan Panin, Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg  
           Title: Riemann-Roch theorem for oriented cohomology
April 30 4:30 Tony Elmendorf, Purdue University Calumet  
           Title: Modelling connective spectra using permutative categories
May 7 4:30 Tilman Bauer, MIT  
           Title: p-compact groups as framed manifolds
May 14 3:00 Dave Benson, Univ. of Georgia  
           Title: Phantom maps in algebra and topology
4:30 Kevin Lee, Purdue University Calumet  
           Title: TBA
May 21 3:00 Kathryn Lesh, Union College  
           Title: The cohomology of symmetric groups and the Quillen map at odd primes
4:30 Dave Benson, Univ. of Georgia  
           Title: Modules over Tate cohomology and DGAs
May 28 4:30 Tibor Beke, Univ. of Michigan  
           Title: Ruminations on Milnor's conjecture on the homology of Lie groups made discrete
If you have a request for a future speaker or any questions, please contact Jesper Grodal (jg@math.uchicago.edu) or Po Hu (pohu@math.uchicago.edu).
Wonder who spoke last year? Check out the schedule from Fall 98, Winter 99, Spring 99, Fall 99, Winter 00, Spring 00, Fall 00, Winter 01, Spring 01, Fall 01, Winter 02,
Still not satisfied? Luckily there are other seminars at Chicago which might interest you. Here is a link to the complete seminar list. Or check out the seminars at Northwestern , or the MIT topology seminar, or Stanford topology seminar, or....