Spring 2021

Topic: Embedding calculus

Mini-course given by: Bridget Schreiner, Connor Malin, and Nikolai Konovalov

Syllabus:

Schedule of Talks

2/12/21: Introduction to Embedding Calculus (Bridget Schreiner)

2/19/21: The Taylor tower for embeddings (Bridget Schreiner)

2/26/21: Homotopy Sheaves and Embedding Calculus (Connor Malin)

3/5/21: Operads and Embedding Calculus (Connor Malin)

3/12/21: Some finiteness results for groups of automorphisms of manifolds Part 1 (Nikolai Konovalov)

3/19/21: Some finiteness results for groups of automorphisms of manifolds Part 2 (Nikolai Konovalov)

3/26/21: Concepts of derived geometry for linear field theories Part 1 (Philippe Mathieu)

4/9/21: Concepts of derived geometry for linear field theories Part 2 (Philippe Mathieu)

4/16/21: The H-principle method and Nakade's application to manifold calculus (Hari Rau-Murthy)

4/23/21: Homological Stability for Arithmetic Groups (Matthew Scalamandre)

4/30/21: An introduction to model categories and homotopy limits (Lorenzo Riva)