Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Topology Seminar
Year 1999

Monday, January 11, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Lee Nave,   University of Washington
Title: On the non-existence of Smith-Toda complexes
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Monday, January 18, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Laura Scull,   U. of Chicago
Title: Rational S^1-equivariant homotopy theory
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Monday, January 25, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Mike Mandell,   MIT
Title: Topological Andre-Quillen homology
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Monday, February 01, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss,   Northwestern
Title: Obstructions to finding a space with specified homotopy groups (after Dwyer, Kan, and Stover)
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Monday, February 8, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Stephen Theriault,   U. of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Homotopy exponents of mod-2^r Moore spaces
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Monday, February 15, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Fred Cohen,   Rochester (visiting Wisconsin-Madison)
Title: On self-maps of double loop spaces, the gravity filtration, and a conjecture of Barratt
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Monday, February 22, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Alex Adem,   U. Wisconsin
Title: Periodic Complexes, Euler Classes and Group Actions
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Monday, March 01, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Stewart Priddy,   Northwestern
Title: Quillen complexes, Mobius functions, and stable decompositions for compact Lie groups
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Topology Seminar       Lunt, room TBA, 4:10pm
Professor Rick Jardine,  
Title: A^1-local symmetric spectra
Special Note: Note special day
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Monday, March 29, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Charles Rezk,   Northwestern
Title: Examples of modular forms in homotopy theory
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Monday, April 5, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Nitu Kitchloo,   Northwestern
Title: Homotopy uniqueness of BSO(3) x S^n
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Thursday, April 15, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt, room TBA, 4:10pm
Professor Rick Jardine,  
Title: A^1-local symmetric spectra
Special Note: SPECIAL DAY
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Monday, April 19, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Brayton Gray,   University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Idempotents and coefficients
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Monday, May 03, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern University
Title: Another E-infinity operad
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Monday, May 10, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Benoit Fresse,   Nice
Title: The theory of Koszul operads and the homology of Poisson algebras
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Monday, May 17, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Brooke Shipley,   Purdue University / University of Chicago
Title: Rational S^1 equivariant homotopy theory
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Monday, May 24, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Benoit Fresse,   Nice
Title: On homotopy operations for simplicial algebras over an operad
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Thursday, July 22, 1999

Topology Seminar       Annenberg G32, 2pm
Professor Vincent Franjou,   Nantes
Title: Polynomial Mackey Functors
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Topology Seminar
Topology Seminar       Annenberg G32, 3.30pm
Professor Hans-Werner Henn,   Strasbourg
Title: Euler characteristics of Orthogonal groups over Z[1/2]
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Monday, October 4, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Vassily Gorbanov,   University of Kentucky
Title: Gerbes of Chiral Differential Operators
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Monday, October 11, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Fabien Morel,   Universite Paris 7
Title: An Introduction to A^1-Homotopy Theory
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Monday, October 18, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Paul Goerss,   Northwestern University
Title: A_\infty ring spectra under MU
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Monday, October 25, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Po Hu,   University of Chicago
Title: Real and Algebraic Hopf invariant one elements
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Monday, November 1, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Amnon Neeman,   Australian National University
Title: Determinants, K_1, and recent improvements
Special Note: Joint Algebra/Topology Seminar !
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Monday, November 8, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Kimberly Pearson,   Valparaiso University
Title: The p-chain spectral sequence and Whitehead groups of Fuchsian groups
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Monday, November 15, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Jesper Grodal,   M.I.T
Title: Higher limits, subgroup complexes and group cohomology
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Monday, November 22, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Bernard Badzioch,   University of Notre Dame
Title: Algebraic theories in homotopy theory
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Monday, November 29, 1999

Topology Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:10pm
Professor Brooke Shipley,   University of Chicago
Title: The uniqueness of stable homotopy theory
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