Topology Seminar

The University of Minnesota Topology Seminar

Schedule of talks in spring 2009:

January 26	Alexander Voronov University of Minnesota	Motives and Quantum Cohomology
February 2	Donald Kahn University of Minnesota	Some forgotten topology: Ehresmann's fibre bundles
February 9	Tyler Lawson University of Minnesota	Spaces parametrizing group representations
February 16	William Messing University of Minnesota	Les ombres de Grothendieck and the commuative cochain problem.
February 23	David Treumann University of Minnesota	Basics of intersection homology
March 2	No seminar this week
March 9	No seminar this week
March 16	Spring Break
March 23	Michael Hopkins Harvard University	Duality in higher category theory
March 25 2:30pm in VinH 207	Michael Hopkins Harvard University	Duality in higher category theory II
March 26	Michael Hopkins Harvard University	Colloquium: Classification of Topological Field Theories
March 30	Tyler Lawson University of Minnesota	Localization and completion in algebra and homotopy theory
April 6	David Treumann University of Minnesota	Localization and Induction for Springer's representations
April 13	Scott Wilson CUNY	Hochschild-like complexes and applications
April 20	Donald Kahn University of Minnesota	Simplicial objects in the category of manifolds
April 27	Dan Ramras Vanderbilt University	Gauge theory and homotopical representation theory
May 2-3 (Weekend)	Clark Barwick William Dwyer Teena Gerhardt John Klein Charles Rezk Victor Turchin	Midwest Topology Seminar

Schedule of talks in fall 2008:

September 1	No speaker (Labor Day)
September 8	Donald Kahn University of Minnesota	Acyclic spaces
September 15	Donald Kahn University of Minnesota	Acyclic spaces II
September 22	Mark Behrens Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Orientations and Eisenstein series
September 29	Tyler Lawson University of Minnesota	Basics of stable homotopy theory
October 6	Alexander Voronov University of Minnesota	Basics of cobordism with corners Note new time and location!
October 13	Peter Webb University of Minnesota	The Schur multiplier of a category
October 20	No seminar this week
October 27	David Treumann University of Minnesota	Sheaves and stratified homotopy type
November 3	Tyler Lawson University of Minnesota	Morava K-theories
November 10	Undirected discussion (no official seminar)
November 17	Donald Kahn University of Minnesota	Fiberwise homotopy theory
November 24	Alexander Voronov University of Minnesota	Basics of string topology
December 1	Tian-Jun Li University of Minnesota	A bivariant functor and Pontrajagin-Thom construction
December 8	No speaker this week
December 15	Michael Hill University of Virginia	Geometric Approaches to Homotopy Fixed Point Spectral Sequences

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

Alexander A. Voronov