Proseminar on algebraic topology Winter 2005

Instructors: Daniel Biss, Jesper Grodal, and Peter May
Website: www.math.uchicago.edu/~jg/prosem.html
Time and place: We meet Wednesday and Friday 15:00-16:20 in Eckhart Room 308
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:
Wed Jan 5: Morse Homology (Mohammed Abouzai)
Fri Jan 7: Triangulated categories and stable model categories (Mike Shulman)
Wed Jan 12: Computations in the Adams Spectral Sequence (Megan Guichard)
Fri Jan 14: Complex oriented cohomology theories (Niles Johnson)
Wed Jan 19: The Image of J (Justin Noel)
Fri Jan 21: Algebraic Chromatic Picture (Bert Guillou)
Wed Jan 26: Topological Chromatic Picture (Bert Guillou)
Fri Jan 28: The EHP Sequence and the unstable homotopy groups of spheres (Ben Wieland)
Wed Feb 2: Fixed point theory (Kate Ponto)
Fri Feb 4: Construction of Morava K-theories (Niles Johnson)
Wed Feb 9: Whitehead torsion (Jim Fowler)
Fri Feb 11: Waldhausen K-theory of spaces (Justin Noel)
Wed Feb 16: No meeting (VIGRE site visit)
Fri Feb 18: Localization in model categories (Mike Shulman)
Wed Feb 23: Bousfield-Kan completion (Kate Ponto)
Fri Feb 25: Localization in diagram categories (Mike Shulman)
Wed Mar 2: A^1 homotopy theory (Bert Guillou)
Fri Mar 4: A^1 homotopy theory cont.
Wed Mar 9: The h-cobordism theorem (Jim Fowler)
The transfer map (SIGN UP FOR THIS)
Infinite loop space structures on the mapping class group (SIGN UP FOR THIS)


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 FALL 2004

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