University of Chicago Algebraic Topology Seminar

The Algebraic Topology Seminar is held in Eckhart Hall room 203 on Tuesdays at 4:00pm, after tea. Topologists come from all over the world to speak in the seminar on their current research. All are welcome to attend.

An Algebraic Topology Proseminar in Eckhart 308 often preceeds the Algebraic Topology Seminar at 2:30, before tea. The proseminar is more informal than the seminar and is indended to prepare students and non-topologists for seminar talks or for discussion of other topics in current topological research. The proseminar is primarily intended for members of the department, but all are welcome to attend. 

Autumn 1999 Seminar Calendar

Sept 28 2:30 Proseminar: Peter May, "Introduction to Simplicial Sets"
October 5 2:30 Proseminar: Michael Mandell, "The Model Category of Simplicial Sets"  

4:00 Vassily Gorbounov, University of Kentucky  
           Title: Gerbes of Chiral Differential Operators
October 12 2:30 Proseminar: Fabien Morel, "Introduction to Stable A1-Homotopy Theory" 

4:00 Paul Goerss, Northwestern University 
           Title: The Cohomology of the Morava Stabilizer Group, After Lazard 
October 19 2:30 Proseminar: Po Hu, more on stable A1-homotopy theory 

4:00 Fabien Morel, l'Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot. 
           Title: On the Nature of Stable Algebraic Homotopy Groups 
October 26 2:30 Manos Lydakis, Brown University       (in room E308) 
           Title: THH and Gamma Spaces 
4:00 Wojciech Chacholski, Yale University  
           Title: Homotopy Meaningful Constructions
November 2  2:30 Proseminar: Peter May, "Brown's Representability Theorem and Adams' Variant" 

4:00 Amnon Neeman,  The Australian National University, Canberra  
           Title: A Counterexample to Brown Representability 
November 9  2:30 Proseminar: Mark Behrens, "An Elementary Proof of Bott Periodicity" (after Aquilar and Prieto) 

4:00 Igor Kriz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  
           Title: On Conformal Field Theory and Elliptic Cohomology
November 16  2:30 Proseminar: Adam Przezdziecki, "Phantom Phantom Maps and Applications" 

4:00 Jesper Grodal, M.I.T. 
           Title: Higher Limits and Group Cohomology
November 23  4:00 Brayton Gray, University of Illinois, Chicago 
           Title: On the Homotopy Groups of 2-Cell Complexes
November 30  4:00 Bernard Badzioch, University of Notre Dame  
           Title: Algebraic Theories in Homotopy Theory 
If you have a request for a future speaker or any questions, please contact Michael Mandell (mandell@math.uchicago.edu). 

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