Purdue
                  University

Department of Mathematics
Topology Seminar

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Spring
2012
Time and place: Thursdays 4:30-5:30 in MATH 731

Organizer for Spring 2012: Ralph Kaufmann. Contact organizer.


Schedule

Date
Speaker
Title
2/2
Joe Lipman (Purdue)
Grothendieck duality via Brown representability
2/16
Stephan Stolz (Notre Dame)
Traces in monoidal categories
2/23
Special Room Rec 123
Mike Mandell (Indiana U)
Quillen Cohomology of Operadic Algebras and  Obstruction Theory
2/28
Special Tuesday Seminar
Room BRNG 1248
Time: 3:30
Tom Church (Stanford)
Representation Theory and Homological Stability
3/1
Symplectic geometry/topology seminar
Room REC 123
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris (AIM/Stanford) Lefschetz fibrations and open books - using topology to
understand symplectic manifolds.
3/8
Sean Lawton (UTPA) Topology of Character Varietites of Abelian Groups
3/29
Andrew Toms (Purdue)
Homotopy groups of rank-banded matrices
4/19
Room REC 123
Lizhen Qin A Bona Fide CW Decomposition of Compact Manifolds Resulting from Morse Theory








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