Algebraic Topology
2006 spring
Seminar program
Tuesday, June 13, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Benoit Fresse, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
The bar construction of an E-infinity algebra
15.30-16.30 Michael Mandell, Bloomington, Indiana
Smash product on the derived category of an $A_\infty$ ring spectrum
Thursday, June 8, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Kasper Andersen, University of Aarhus
The classification of 2-compact groups
15.30-16.30 Jesper Grodal, University of Chicago
Uncompleting classifying spaces
Tuesday, June 6, 2006: Institute seminar
15.30-16.30 Jeffrey Smith, Purdue University
K-theory of pushout rings
Tuesday, May 30, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Boris Chorny, ETH, Zürich
Calculus of functors and model categories
15.30-16.30 Jean Lannes, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
On the degree of rational functions
Thursday, May 25, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Jerome Scherer, Universitat Autonóma de Barcelona
A cohomological closure property for H-fibrations
15.30-16.30 Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame
Family Hirzebruch signature theorem with converse
Tuesday, May 23, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Holger Reich, Universität Münster
Algebraic K-theory and hyberbolic groups
Thursday, May 18, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Ben Walter, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Operads and jets in homotopy calculus of functors
15.30-16.30 John R. Klein, Wayne State University, Detroit
Homotopical intersection theory
Thursday, May 11, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Carles Broto, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
$p$-local finite groups
15.30-16.30 Christian Ausoni, Universität Bonn
On the algebraic $K$-theory of mod $p$ $K$-theory
Tuesday, May 9, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Clemens Berger, Université de Nice
Iterated wreath product of the simplex category and iterated loop spaces
Thursday, May 4, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Andrew Korzeniewski, University of Edinburgh
The signature of fibrations
15.30-16.30 Nathalie Wahl, University of Chicago
Homological stability, Morse theory and a coloring lemma
Tuesday, May 2, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Michael Weiss, University of Aberdeen
Classifying spaces, sheaves and mapping class groups
Thursday, April 20, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Halvard Fausk, University of Oslo
Local homology
15.30-16.30 Johann Sigurdsson, University of Sheffield
Some applications of parametrized homotopy theory
Tuesday, April 11, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Tore A. Kro, NTNU, Trondheim
Twisted involutions on $S\lbrack\Omega M\rbrack$ via operads
15.30-16.30 Björn I. Dundas, University of Bergen
Excision in the algebraic $K$--theory of $S$--algebras (joint with Harald Kittang)
Thursday, April 6, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Sunil Chebolu, University of Western Ontario
The last conjecture of Frank Adams
15.30-16.30 Hans-Werner Henn, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
The homotopy of the K(2)-local mod 3 Moore spectrum; Shimomura's calculations revisited
Thursday, March 30, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 John Josef Leth, University of Aalborg
Morse theory and the space of broken flow lines
15.30-16.30 Andrew Baker, University of Glasgow
Quasi-symmetric functions and $\Omega\Sigma\mathbb{C}P^\infty$
Thursday, March 23, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Stefan Schwede, Universitätet Bonn
On the homotopy groups of symmetric spectra
15.30-16.30 Morten Brun, Universitetet i Bergen
Equivariant cobordism and Witt vectors
Thursday, March 16, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Jelena Grbic, Aberdeen University
The homotopy type of the complement of the coordinate subspace arrangement
15.30-16.30 Christian Schlichtkrull, Universitetet i Bergen
Cyclic algebraic K-theory and the cyclotomic trace
Thursday, March 9, 2006: Institute seminar
14.00-15.00 Jakob Jonsson, KTH, Stockholm
Torsion in the homology of matching complexes
15.30-16.30 Nasko Karamanov, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
On Hopkins Picard group Pic_2 at prime 3
Thursday, March 2, 2006: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Natalia Castellana, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Structure theorems for H-spaces with finiteness conditions
15:30-16:30 Samuel Wüthrich, University of Sheffield
Infinitesimal thickenings of Morava K-theories
Thursday, February 23, 2006: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Pascal Lambrechts, Institut Mathématique, Louvain-la-Neuve
Rational homology of spaces of smooth embeddings
15:30-16:30 Andrew Blumberg, Stanford University
THH of Thom spectra
Thursday, February 16, 2006: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Albert Ruiz, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Some examples of exotic p-local finite groups
15:30-16:30 Kari Ragnarsson, University of Aberdeen
Homotopy theory of fusion systems
NOTE THE DAY! Tuesday, February 7, 2006: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Daniel Davis, Purdue University
Examples of spectra with continuous profinite group actions
15:30-16:30 Vigleik Angeltveit, MIT, Cambridge
The cyclic (co)bar construction on A-infinity objects and THH
Thursday, February 2, 2006: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Michelle Bucher Karlsson, KTH, Stockholm
Simplicial volume and bounded cohomology
15:30-16:30 Rafael Wisniewski, University of Aalborg
Section cones and concurrency
Thursday, January 26, 2006: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Carsten Schultz, Technische Universität Berlin
Cohomology rings of complex projective subspace arrangements
15:30-16:30 Jean-Philippe Jourdan, Université de Lille 1
Homotopy models of configuration spaces
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