WSU

Department of Mathematics
Topology Seminar 2011-2012

Wayne State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


Talks are held Tuesdays at 2:00 PM in the Nelson Room unless otherwise noted.
Contact Robert Bruner or Dan Isaksen for more information.

All seminars
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Old Topology Seminar schedules

Winter 2012

Date Speaker and Title
Jan. 10 Romie Banerjee, Tata Institute
Categories of modules and their deformations (Abstract)
Jan. 17 Jeff Strom, Western Michigan University
A Homotopy-Theoretical Approach to the Sullivan Conjecture (Abstract)
Jan. 24 Anna Marie Bohmann, Northwestern University
Global equivariant homotopy theory (Abstract)
Jan. 31 John Peter, Wayne State University
Stabilization and Classification of Embedded Thickenings (Abstract)
Feb. 7 Marc Levine, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen
Motivic and classical stable homotopy theory (Abstract)
Feb. 14 Gereon Quick, Harvard University
Hodge filtered complex cobordism (Abstract)
Feb. 21 Sean Tilson, Wayne State University
Power operations and the Kunneth Spectral Sequence (Abstract)
Feb. 28 Nat Stapleton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Transchromatic Generalized Character Maps (Abstract)
Mar. 6 Bjørn Jahren, Universitetet i Oslo
H-cobordant manifolds (Abstract)
Mar. 10 Winter Midwest Topology Seminar at Northwestern
Mar. 13 Spring Break
Mar. 20 Ivo Dell'Ambrogio, Universitaet Bielefeld
Morita homotopy theory of C*-categories (Abstract)
Mar. 27 Angelica Osorno, University of Chicago
Stable homotopy 1-types and symmetric Picard groups (Abstract)
Apr 17 Ben Antieau, UCLA
TBA (Abstract)
Apr. 24 Classes End (Study Day)
Apr 28-29 Spring Midwest Topology Seminar at Purdue

Fall 2011

Date Speaker and Title
Sept. 13 Robert Bruner, Wayne State University
The Finiteness Conjecture (Abstract)
Sept. 27 Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University
Reverse-engineering the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence from motivic homotopy (Abstract)
Oct. 4 Marcy Robertson, University of Western Ontario
Spaces of Operad Structures (Abstract)
Oct. 11 Dan Ramras, New Mexico State University
The topological Atiyah-Segal map (Abstract)
Oct. 18 John Lind, Johns Hopkins University
Higher geometry and algebraic K-theory (Abstract)
Oct. 25 Crichton Ogle, Ohio State University
B-bounded cohomology for weighted G-sets (Abstract)
Nov. 1 Niles Johnson, University of Georgia
Obstruction theory for T-algebra maps (Abstract)
Nov. 8 Vesna Stojanoska, MIT
Duality for Topological Modular Forms: the 2-torsion case (Abstract)
Nov. 15 Dan Christensen, University of Western Ontario
The homotopy theory of smooth spaces (Abstract)
Dec. 13 Tyler Lawson, University of Minnesota
Formal group laws and multiplicative ring spectra (Abstract)