The University of Minnesota Topology Seminar


Schedule of talks in spring 2008:

January 28 Donald Kahn
University of Minnesota
Homotopy theory as localization, after G. Maltsiniotis and D.-C. Cisinski, I
February 4 Donald Kahn
University of Minnesota
Homotopy theory as localization, after G. Maltsiniotis and D.-C. Cisinski, II
February 11 Paul Goerss
Northwestern University
The geometry of the moduli stack of formal groups and chromatic convergence
February 18 Tyler Lawson
University of Minnesota
Trace methods in algebraic K-theory, I
February 25 Tyler Lawson
University of Minnesota
Trace methods in algebraic K-theory, II
March 3 Peter Oman
University of Minnesota
Forcing methods in topos theory
March 10
No seminar this week
March 24 Scott Wilson
University of Minnesota
Multiplying distributions via methods in homotopical algebra
March 31 Donald Kahn
University of Minnesota
Work of Alex Heller on the homotopy category
April 7
No seminar this week
April 14 Tian-Jun Li
University of Minnesota
Framed bordism invariants in Non-linear Fredholm theories
April 21 Tyler Lawson
University of Minnesota
Homotopical obstruction theory for groups acting on spaces
April 28 Scott Wilson
University of Minnesota
Chain co-algebras as monoidal functors
May 5 Albert Marden
University of Minnesota
Limits of PSL(2,C) representations of a surface group: an exposition


Schedule of talks in fall 2007:

September 10 Donald Kahn
University of Minnesota
The Group of Homotopy Self-Equivalences I
September 17 Donald Kahn
University of Minnesota
The Group of Homotopy Self-Equivalences II
September 24 Peter Oman
University of Minnesota
Goodwillie calculus and a geometric interpretation of homotopical categories
September 25
570 Vincent Hall, 11:15 am
De Witt Sumners
Florida State University
Applied Mathematics Seminar
Random Knotting and Viral DNA Packing: Theory and Experiments
October 1 Kaoru Ono
Hokkaido University
Joint Topology/Geometry Seminar
The flux conjecture and its analog for Lagrangian submanifolds
October 8 Peter Oman
University of Minnesota
Models for the Maclaurin tower of a functor
October 15 Scott Wilson
University of Minnesota
The algebraic topology of manifolds
October 22 Ralph Kaufmann
Purdue University
Chain operads and actions
October 29 Michael Penkava
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Moduli spaces of algebras are stratified by orbifolds
November 5 Tyler Lawson
University of Minnesota
Complex cobordism and elliptic curves
November 12 Tyler Lawson
University of Minnesota
Complex cobordism and elliptic curves, II
November 19 Alexander Voronov
University of Minnesota
The n-category of cobordisms and TQFTs
November 26 Alexander Voronov
University of Minnesota
The n-category of cobordisms and TQFTs, II
December 3 Alexey Zhubr
University of Minnesota
On "exotic" invariant for 6-manifolds
December 10 Mark Feshbach
University of Minnesota
Recollections on the Segal conjecture



Donald Kahn
Tyler Lawson
Alexander A. Voronov