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Room: 6493
Time: Tuesday 4:45-5:45
Goal: This seminar is designed for graduate students to give expository talks as well as talks on their research.
Past talks:
4/05/2014
Speaker: Jeremy Miller
Topic: Improved homological stability range for configuration spaces after inverting 2.
4/28/2014
Speaker: Yuan Gao
Topic: L^2 cohomology Part 2.
4/07/2014
Speaker: Yuan Gao
Topic: L^2 cohomology Par 1.
3/31/2014
Speaker: Manuel Rivera
Topic: The cyclic cohomology of Frobenius algebras.
3/24/2014
Speaker: Jeremy Miller
Topic: Madsen-Weiss Part 3: The monoids are group-like.
3/17/2014
Speaker: Martin Bendersky
Topic: The unstable Adams-Novikov spectral sequence.
2/24/2014
Speaker: Jeremy Miller
Topic: Madsen-Weiss Part 2: Outline of the proof.
3/03/2013
Speaker: Aron Fischer
Topic: Geometric homology
2/18/2014
Speaker: Elizabeth Vidaurre
Topic: Polyhedral products over composed simplicial complexes
2/10/2014
Speaker: Arthur Parzygnat
Topic: Monoidal categories, the fundamental 2-group, and H-spaces
2/04/2014
Speaker: Jeremy Miller
Topic: Madsen-Weiss Part 1: Statement of the Mumford Conjecture
12/09/2013
Speaker: Manuel Rivera
Topic: Kontsevich's lie algebra model of moduli space.
12/02/2013
Speaker: Jeremy Miller
Topic: Homological stability for braid groups
Paper: ARNOL'D, V. I., On some topological invariants of algebraic functions. Trudy Moskov Mat. Obsc., 21 (1970) (A.M.S. Translation: Trans. Moscow Math. Soc., 30-52).
Notes: Braid notes.
11/25/2013
Speaker: Martin Bendesrky
Topic: Formal group laws and MU part 2
11/18/2013
Speaker: Martin Bendesrky
Topic: Formal group laws and MU part 1
11/11/2013
Speaker: Jeremy Miller
Topic: Scanning and the topology of spaces of J-holomorphic maps
Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7377v1.pdf.
9/23/2013
Speaker: Manuel Rivera
Topic: Cobordism groups are equal to homotopy groups of Thom spectra part 1
Expository paper: Tom Weston's notes on cobordism can be found here http://www.math.umass.edu/~weston/ep.html.
10/07/2013
Speaker: Manuel Rivera
Topic: Cobordism groups are equal to homotopy groups of Thom spectra part 2
Expository paper: Tom Weston's notes on cobordism can be found here http://www.math.umass.edu/~weston/ep.html.
10/21/2013
Speaker: Aron Fischer
Topic: Cohen-Jones approach to string topology
Paper: http://math.stanford.edu/seminars/pastevents/moduli/stringhtpy.pdf.
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