The homotopy seminar is a graduate student run seminar for all topologists and geometers in the department. Our goal is to make these talks accessible to graduate students.
We meet during the academic year on Tuesday from 10:00 - 10:50 in Deady 210.
Spring Quarter, 2006
- April 4 - No seminar this week
- April 11 - Chad Giusti
The Milnor-Moore-Serre-Cartan theorem
- April 18 - Sammy Black
The Alexander polynomial
- April 25 - No seminar this week
- May 2 - Matt Miller
Reidemeister torsion and lens spaces (WETSK)
- May 9 - Sammy Black
Three manifolds and the mapping class group (WETSK)
- May 16 - Aaron Leeman
Localization in the category of spectra
- May 23 - Bill Kronholm
Equivariant cohomology theories (WETSK)
- May 30 - No seminar this week
- June 6 - Aaron Leeman
The nilpotence theorem (WETSK)
Winter Quarter, 2006
- January 10 - Organizational meeting
- January 17 -
- January 24 - John Collins
Ripping apart categories
- January 31 - Bill Kronholm
The usual model structure on topological spaces
- February 7 - Chad Giusti
Rational homotopy theory
- February 14 - John Carter
The Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence for Morava K-theory
- February 21 - Mark Walsh
Plumbing construction
- February 28 - Aaron Leeman
Stable homotopy calculations using the Adams spectral sequence
- March 7 - Matt Miller
What is a spectral sequence?
- March 14 - John Collins
The Grothendieck spectral sequence
Fall Quarter, 2005
- September 27 - Organizational meeting
- October 4 - Mark Walsh
Killing homotopy groups
- October 11 - Matt Miller
Something about higher gauge theories
- October 18 - Paul Allen
Gauge Freedom in Einstein's Field Equations
- October 25 - Paul Allen and Corey Dunn
Informal discussion about conformal geometry
- November 1 - Sammy Black
Transversality and general position
- November 8 - Chad Giusti
Chen integrals
- November 15 - Bill Kronholm
Homotopy theories and model categories
- November 22 - Dev Sinha
Simplicial and cosimplicial objects
- November 29 - Mark Walsh
Obstruction theory
If you wish to speak in the homotopy seminar or have questions please contact Matt Miller at mmiller7@uoregon.edu
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