University of Oregon: Department of Mathematics

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

October 23 - Organizational meeting.
October 30 - Dev Sinha (UO)
The geometry of Mumford classes in the cohomology of mapping class groups.
November 6 - Soren Galatius (Stanford University)
Homological stability for diffeomorphism groups.
November 13 - David Spivak (MIT)
Operads in computer programs and brains.
November 20 - Deb Vicinsky (UO)
The derivatives of the identity functor on DGL.
November 27 - No seminar.
December 1-2 - Hosting the Cascade Topology Seminar
December 4 - David Ayala (CalTech)
The Ran complex and Theta_n

January 15 - Bill Goldman (University of Maryland)
Complete affine 3-manifolds, Lorentzian and hyperbolic geometry
February 5 - Nathan Perlmutter (UO)
Cobordism categories of manifolds with singularities
February 12 - Organizational meeting to discuss paper reading series.
February 19 - Dev Sinha (UO)
The Atiyah completion theorem
February 26 - Dan Dugger (UO)
The statement of the Segal Conjecture
March 5 - Hal Sadofsky (UO)
Lin's theorem as a statement about Ext groups
March 12 - Ivan Horozov (Washington Univ. St. Louis)
Reciprocity laws on algebraic varieties via iterated integrals.
March 15 - Johannes Ebert
Characteristic classes for higher Torelli groups.
March 19 - Hal Sadofsky (UO)
The proof of the Ext version of Lin's theorem.

April 9 - Dan Dugger (UO)
An introduction to equivariant (stable) homotopy theory.