Cohomology of Groups Spring 2005

First class: Monday March 28.
Instructors: Daniel Biss and Jesper Grodal
Webpage: www.math.uchicago.edu/~jg/group.cohom.html.
Email: daniel at math... or jg at math....

We meet Monday and Wednesday 15:00-16:20. In Eckhart Room 207 on Mondays and E 308 on Wednesdays. NEW ROOM!!!!!

Textbooks: We'll start off using Brown: "Cohomology of groups" and Benson: "Representations and Cohomology II". We'll also look at Quillen's paper "Homotopy properties of the poset of non-trivial p-subgroups of a group" as well as other research articles.

Various practical information and course plan:

HERE is a rough outline of what we plan to do.

This page will probably not be updated with exact info about what we are doing. If you want to know, show up or send an email. Also send an email if you want to be on the mailing list for this course. In any case make sure that you are on the "topology" mailing list, see http://zaphod.uchicago.edu:8080/mailman/listinfo/topology, whereto most of the announcements will probably be directed.