UO Math Dept Geometry-Topology Seminar

The topology/geometry seminar of the Mathematics Department of the University of Oregon meets Tue. from 11:00-11:50 each week during the academic year in 209 Deady.
  • Last year's seminars (2001-02)

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Fall 2002

    Date Speaker Title
    October 1,2002 No seminar.
    October 8, 2002 Jon Brundan Cohomology of GL(m|n).
    October 15, 2002 No seminar (Niven lectures)
    October 22, 2002 Dan Dugger An introduction to motives
    October 29, 2002 Dan Dugger Motivic Homotopy Theory
    Cascade Topology Seminar: November 2-3, Vancouver
    November 5, 2002 Hal Sadofsky Modules, comodules and derived functors
    November 12, 2002 Arkady Vaintrob Introduction to Quantum Cohomology
    November 19, 2002 Arkady Vaintrob TBA
    November 26, 2002 Arkady Vaintrob Associativity of the quantum product
    December 3, 2002 Greg Landweber Twisted Equivariant K-Theory
    No Seminar.

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Winter 2003

    January 7, 2003 Brian Munson, Brown University Embeddings and the Whitney trick
    January 14, 2003 No seminar
    January 21, 2003 Dev Sinha Compactifications of configuration spaces
    January 28, 2003
    February 4, 2003 Dev Sinha Compactifications of configuration spaces I.5
    February 11, 2003 Dev Sinha Compactifications of configuration spaces II
    February 18, 2003 David Pengelley New Mexico State University Global structure theorems for unstable algebras over the Steenrod algebra
    February 25, 2003 Chris Phillips Lifting order two automorphisms of K-theory to order two automorphisms of purely infinite simple C*-algebras
    March 4, 2003 Dan Dugger Topological equivalences of DGAs
    March 11, 2003 Peter Gilkey Nilpotent pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Spring 2003

    April 1, 2003 No seminar
    April 8, 2003 Krzysztof Galicki University of New Mexico Transverse Fano Structures, Ricci Curvature, and Einstein Metrics
    April 15, 2003 Ilya Zakharevich Berkeley Linear algebra in smooth settings and fatness
    April 22, 2003 Peng Lu Metric transformation and the cigar soliton
    April 29, 2003 Hal Sadofsky Morava K-theory of products of spectra
    May 6, 2003 No seminar.
    May 13, 2003 Dev Sinha Constructing free G-actions on manifolds: a recipe involving plumbing and the Koszul complex for local cohomology
    May 20, 2003 Iva Stavrov Spectral geometry of the Riemannian curvature tensor
    May 27, 2003 Dev Sinha Constructing free G-actions on manifolds: a recipe involving plumbing and the Koszul complex for local cohomology, II
    June 3, 2003

  • List subject to change.
  • Information as of May 2003
  • Organizer for 2002-2003: Hal Sadofsky email: sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu
    Mathematics Department of the University of Oregon Eugene Oregon 97403 USA 1-541-346-4705
    Webmaster: Peter Gilkey email: gilkey@math.uoregon.edu