Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Topology Seminar
Year 1997


Monday, January 27, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Eric Friedlander,   Northwestern University
Title: Graphing integral cycles and Poincare duality
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Monday, February 3, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Dikran Karagueuzian,   Northwestern University
Title: Essential Cohomology of Finite Groups
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Monday, February 10, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor John Klein,   University of Bielefeld and Purdue University
Title: Recent progress in the theory of embedding
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Monday, February 17, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jeff Strom,   University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: A Special Case of Ganea's Conjecture
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Monday, February 24, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Dev Sinha,   Stanford University
Title: Computations of Equivariant Bordism Rings: A Geometric Approach
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Monday, March , 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm
Professor James Milgram,  
Title: TBA
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Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Laurent Piriou,   Northwestern University
Title: "Injectivity of the cohomology of an Eilenberg-MacLane space"
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Monday, March 3, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Katsumi Shimomura,   Tottori University
Title: The Adams Novikov $E_2$ term for $\pi_*(L_2M)$ at the prime 2
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Monday, March 7, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor James Milgram,   Stanford University
Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of Symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
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Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor James Milgram,   Stanford University
Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of Symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
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Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jim Milgram,   Stanford University
Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
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Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jim Milgram,   Stanford University
Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
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Monday, March 10, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Laurent Piriou,   Northwestern University
Title: "Injectivity of the cohomology of an Eilenberg-MacLane space"
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Wednesday, March 19, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Hans-Werner Henn,   Max Plank Inst. Bonn
Title: The L_2 localization of V(1) for P=3
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Monday, April 7, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor James Milgram,   Stanford University
Title: The cohomology of 2-fold covers of symmetric and alternating groups and relations to homotopy theory
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Thursday, April 17, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 2:00pm
Professor Robert Oliver,   University of Paris 13
Title: Equivariant K-theory for propoer actions of infinite groups
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Monday, April 21, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Mahowald,   Northwestern University
Title: Formal group of height 2 over F_4
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Monday, April 28, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Feshbach,   University of Minnesota
Title: The mod 2 cohomology rings of the symmetric groups
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Monday, May , 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Dikran Karagueuzian,   Northwestern Univesrsity
Title: Introduction to MAGMA
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Monday, May 5, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Bill Richter,  
Title: A Cartan formula for $\Omega U(n)$ and double coset formulas from the point of view of Dold's work
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Monday, May 12, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Alejandro Adem,   University of Wisconsin
Title: Free group actions, extensions and cohomology
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Monday, May 19, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Gregory Arone,   University of Chicago
Title: TBA
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Wednesday, May 21, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor William Dwyer,   University of Notre Dame
Title: Homology decompositions of classifying spaces
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Monday, June 2, 1997

Topology Seminar       105, 4:10pm
Professor Dikran Karagueuzian,   Northwestern University
Title: Introduction to MAGMA
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Monday, September 22, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm
Professor Charles Rezk,   Northwestern University
Title: Spaces of Natural Transformations
Special Note: The talk in not at the usual time
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Monday, September 29, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor William Richter,  
Title: The Segal conjecture and the multiplicativity of stable splittings of BSp and \Omega SU(n)
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Monday, October 6, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Stephen Wilson,   Johns Hopkins University
Title: Unstable BP homology
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Monday, October 13, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ib Madsen,   Aarhus University
Title: On the K-theory of local fields
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Monday, October 20, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Stewart Priddy,   Northwestern University
Title: Stably decomposing products of classifying spaces
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Monday, October 27, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Fred Cohen,   University of Rochester
Title: Free groups and self-maps of double loop spaces
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Monday, November 3, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mark Mahowald,   Northwestern University
Title: The Kervaire invariant and Minami's theorem
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Monday, November 10, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ran Levi,   Northwestern University
Title: Loop structures on homotopy fibres of self maps of a sphere
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Monday, November 17, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor John Martino,   University of Western Michigan
Title: An Introduction to Topological Graph Theory
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Monday, November 24, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Dmitri Orlov,   Steklov Institute
Title: Equivalences of derived categories of coherent sheaves
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Monday, December 1, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Jason Douma,   Northwsetern University
Title: Stably Decomposing B(PxQ): an Algebraic Perspective
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Wednesday, December 3, 1997

Topology Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:10pm
Professor Ioanid Rosu,   MIT
Title: The Rigidity Theorems of Witten via Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
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