Proseminar on algebraic topology Spring 2005

Instructors: Daniel Biss, Jesper Grodal, and Peter May
Website: www.math.uchicago.edu/~jg/prosem.html
Time and place: We meet Tuesday and Thursday 13:30-15:00 in Eckhart Room 203
Audience: Graduate students in their second year or higher, with an interest in algebraic topology
Textbooks: We'll use various books and research articles as detailed in the course plan below.

Various practical information and course plan:

Here is a list of topics which might be covered depending on interest. If you are interested in giving a talk about one of them, drop us a line.

Also, email Daniel (daniel), Jesper (jg), or Peter (may) if you want to receive updates on what's happening in this course. Likewise you should sign up for the mailing list "topology" by going to http://zaphod.uchicago.edu:8080/mailman/listinfo/topology

UPCOMING TALKS:
Tue March 29: ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Thu March 31: Nielsen Fixed Point Theory (Kate Ponto)
Tue April 5: Stability theorems (Nathalie Wahl)
Thu April 7: Cobordism categories, Grassmannians and other background material for the Namboodiri lectures (Nathalie Wahl)
Tue April 12: Infinite loop structures on the Mapping class group (Ben Wieland)
Thu April 14: h-principles (Mohammed Abouzaid)
Tue April 19: NAMBOODIRI
Thu April 21: Structured ring spectra I (Niles Johnson)
Tue April 26: Structured ring spectra II (Niles Johnson)
Thu April 28: Homotopy colimits (Mike Shulman)
Tue May 3: Homotopy colimits II (Mike Shulman)
Thu May 5: THESIS Defense: Andrew Blumberg
Tue May 10: THESIS Defense: Rochelle Pereira
Thu May 12: Elliptic cohomology (Justin Noel)
Tue May 17: Elliptic cohomology II (Justin Noel)
Thu May 19: Fixed point theory (Kate Ponto)
Tue May 24: No seminar
Thu May 26: Etale homotopy and cohomology (Bert Guillou)
Tue May 31: Lens spaces (Courtney Morris)
Thu June 2: Short meeting: What's happing next year??


PRACTICE TALKS:
Everyone should give at least one practice talk before their real talk, and giving as well as attending practice talks is an integral part of the course. Niles Johnson (niles at math...) is in charge of arranging the time and place for the practice talks. Contact him for more information.

LINK TO WINTER 2005
LINK TO FALL 2004

OTHER STUFF: Here's a link to the student topology seminar at MIT , and here is a link to their Kan seminar