Winter 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. (Click here to see the location of Eckhart Hall, and here for driving directions to University of Chicago.)
January 8 4:30 Donald Yau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
           Title: Localization Genus of Classifying Spaces
January 15 4:30 Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
           Title: Representations and K-theory of the Braid Groups
January 22 NO SEMINAR because of the Unni Namboodiri Lecture Series in Geometry and Topology .
January 29 4:30 Vahagn Minasian, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign  
           Title: Functional equations and their related operads
February 5 4:30 Bernardo Uribe, University of Wisconsin-Madison  
           Title: Loop groupoid and gerbes with connection over orbifolds
February 12
(New Year Special)		 4:30 Jean-Louis Loday, University of Strasbourg (visiting Northwestern)  
           Title: On a duality between the family of standard simplices and the family of Stasheff polytopes
February 19 NO SEMINAR since Kontsevich is giving the Albert Lecture .
February 26 4:30 Wojciech Gajda, Poznan University (visiting Northwestern)  
           Title: Special elements in K-theory and the cyclotomic extensions of Q
March 5 NO SEMINAR Thursday seminar instead  
March 7
(NB: Thursday at 3pm)		 3:00 John Baez, University of California, Riverside  
           Title: n-Categories in Algebraic Topology
March 12 4:30 Joana Ventura, Stanford University  
           Title: Ext and Tor for Green functors
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,
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....