Algebra/Topology Seminar by Philip Tosteson

Talk by Philip Tosteson (University of Michigan)

Title: Stability for Singular Configuration Spaces
Abstract: We discuss a relationship between the homology of the partition lattice and the cohomology of configuration space.  We use this relationship to show that the cohomology of configurations of points in a topological space X stabilizes as the number of points grows, if X is in some sense greater than 1 dimensional.