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This seminar is held on Tuesdays at 3pm in 210 Deady.

Fall Quarter, 2011


See the new webpage.

Spring Quarter, 2011


  • March 29 - None.
  • April 5 - None.
  • April 12 - Nathaniel Rounds (Purdue University), What is the algebraic structure of manifolds? Cleck here for an abstract.
  • May 17 - Hal Sadofsky, The Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel Detection Theorem

Winter Quarter, 2011


  • January 11 - Vadim Vologodsky, The higher Hochschild cohomology of commutative algebras and the cohomology of the Mapping Spaces.
  • January 18 - None.
  • January 25 - Phil Hackney (UC Riverside), Operations in the spectral sequence of a cosimplicial space. Click for an abstract.
  • February 1 - None (seminar preempted by hiring meeting)
  • February 8 - Dev Sinha, The structure of the mod-2 cohomology of QS^0 as an algebra over the Steenrod algebra
  • February 15 - Dev Sinha, The structure of the mod-2 cohomology of QS^0 as an algebra over the Steenrod algebra, Part II
  • March 1 - Inna Zakharevich (MIT), Scissors Congruence as K-Theory. Click for an abstract.

Fall Quarter, 2010


  • September 28 - no seminar.
  • October 5 - Hal Sadofsky, An introduction to the Kervaire invariant one problem.
  • October 12 - Dan Dugger, A second look at the Kervaire invariant one problem.
  • October 19 - Hal Sadofsky, Browder's theorem on the Kervaire invariant.
  • October 26 - No seminar.
  • November 2 - No seminar.
  • November 9 - Dan Dugger, The slice spectral sequence for Z/2-equivariant cobordism.
  • November 16 - Postponed until the 30th.
  • November 23 - None.
  • November 30 - Discussion of Geometry/Topology offerings for 2011-2012.

Previous quarters: W10 F09 F08 S08 W08 F07 S07 W07 F06 F05-S06 F04-S05 F03-S04 F02-S03 F00-S01 F99-S00 F98-S99 F98-S99 F97-S98