ND Topology Seminar

Notre Dame Topology Seminar

Spring 2006 Schedule:

Date	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
January 10	Laszlo Feher Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary	"Relations among Thom Polynomials"
February 21	Mike Hill MIT	A New Hopf Algebra for Computing $tmf$ Homology and the $tmf$ Homology of $B\Sigma_3$. abstract
Thurs,February 23 10am Hurley 258	Holger Reich Muenster	Algebraic K-theory and hyperbolic groups abstract
March 21	Matt Hedden Princeton University	“A Survey of Smooth Knot Concordance Invariants” abstract
March 28	Linus Kramer Darmstadt, Germany	"Buildings and central extensions of classical groups"
April 4	Steve Rosenberg Boston College	"Chern-Simons classes on loop spaces"
April 8-9	AMS Sectional Meetings	Special Session in Topology and Physics
April 11 Double seminars!	Jack Morava Johns Hopkins University Mike Mandell Indiana University	"The 4D spin cobordism category in the `high-temperature' limit" "Localization sequences for K-theory and THH of ring spectra"
April 18	David Radnell University of Michigan	"Rigged moduli spaces and mapping class group actions" abstract
April 25	Pokman Cheung Stanford University	"Categories of field theories and generalized cohomology"
May 2	Steve Ferry Rutgers	"Deforming manifolds in Gromov-Hausdorff Space" abstract

Last Semester's Schedule:

Date	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
September 27	Bjorn Jahren University of Oslo, Norway	"Topological classification of free involutions on S^1xS^n" abstract
October 4	Bjorn Jahren University of Oslo, Norway	Continuation: "Topological classification of free involutions on S^1xS^n" abstract
October 11	Daniel Davis Purdue University	"Interesting examples in the theory of spectra with a continuous action by a profinite group" abstract
October 25	Florin Dumitrescu Notre Dame	"Quillen connections and super parallel transport" abstract
THURSDAY, October 27 9:45 AM	Corbett Redden Notre Dame	"String Structures and Torsion Connections" abstract
November 1	Frank Connolly Notre Dame	"The Obstructions to Fibering a Manifold over S^1" abstract
November 8	Frank Connolly Notre Dame	Continuation: "The obstructions to fibring a manifold over the circle"
November 15	Jim McClure Purdue University	"The chain-level intersection pairing for PL-manifolds"
November 22	Stephan Stolz Notre Dame	"Cohomology theories and supersymmetric field theories, Part I"
November 29	Stephan Stolz Notre Dame	"Cohomology theories and supersymmetric field theories, Part II"
December 2 3:00 PM in 258	Tom Lada North Carolina State University	"Symmetric Brace Algebras" abstract
December 6	Stephan Stolz Notre Dame	"Cohomology theories and supersymmetric field theories, Part III"