ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
SPRING 2011
THURSDAY 3:00-4:00 pm
Fine Hall 314
**Please note special day and time
DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Feb. 17
Ciprian Borcea,
Rider University
Geometry and combinatorics for revolute-jointed robot arms
Feb. 24
Fred Cohen
University of Rochester and IAS
On spaces of homomorphisms and spaces of representations
Mar. 3
Martin Bendersky
The City University of New York
The Unstable Chromatic Spectral Sequence
Mar. 10
Don Davis
Lehigh University
Nonimmersions of real projective spaces and tmf
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special day and time:
M
ar. 22, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m.
Larry Taylor
IAS
Massey Triple Products
Mar. 24
Matthias Franz
University of Western Ontario
Equivariant cohomology and orbit structure
Mar. 31
Jack Morava
Johns Hopkins University
An integral lift of the Gamma-genus
**special day and time:
Apr. 5, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m.
Sylvain Cappell
NYU
Compact aspherical manifolds whose fundamental groups have center
Apr. 7
Taras Panov
Moscow State University
Moment-angle complexes from simplicial posets
**special day and time:
Apr. 12, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m.
Dmitri Tymoczko
Princeton University,
Dept. of Music
The Geometry of Music
Apr. 14
Sam Gitler
IAS
On the rational homotopy type of Moment-angle complexes
Apr. 21
Chuck Weibel
Rutgers University
Unstable operations in etale and motivic cohomology
Apr. 28
Victor Buchstaber
Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Integral and Rigid Elliptic Genera