Fall 2016 Midwest Topology Seminar

Host institution: Purdue University

Location: Mathematical Sciences Building, 150 North University Street, West Lafayette, Indiana

Date: 9/17/2016-9/18/2016

Schedule:

Note that Purdue is in the Eastern timezone. All talks will be in Room 175 of the Math building which is located on the north side of the breezeway. Refreshments will be served in the Math Library Lounge on the 3rd floor. To reach it you have to cross to the south side (the side with elevators) using the breezeway or use the second floor.

Saturday

9:15	Refreshments in the Math Library lounge
10:00	Ben Knudsen (Harvard)	Higher enveloping algebras and configuration spaces of manifolds
11:30	Jennifer Wilson (Stanford)	Higher order stability in the configuration spaces of a manifold
2:30	Ralph Kaufmann (Purdue)	Feynman categories
4:00	Paul Goerss (Northwestern)	Understanding chromatic splitting

Sunday

9:15	Refreshments in the Math Library lounge
10:00	Clark Barwick (MIT)	How to rationalize an exact category
11:15	Sarah Yeakel (Maryland)	Operads with Homological Stability
1:30	Chris Schommer-Pries (Notre Dame)	Tori detect invertible topological field theories

Abstracts

Parking and Transpiration:

Parking Information

Transportation Information

Campus Map (the math building is labeled MATH)

Organizers:

Ralph Kaufmann rkaufman@purdue.edu

David Gepner dgepner@purdue.edu

Jim McClure mcclurej@purdue.edu

Jeremy Miller jeremykmiller@purdue.edu

The conference is supported by the NSF and the Purdue Department of Mathematics.

Abstracts Midwest Fall 2016.pdf

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