UO Math Dept Geometry-Topology Seminar

The topology/geometry seminar of the Mathematics Department of the University of Oregon meets Tuesdays from 11:00-11:50 each week during the academic year in 210 Deady.
  • Last year's seminars (2003-04)

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Spring 2005

    Date Speaker Title
    March 29, 2005 No seminar.
    April 5, 2005 no seminar.
    April 12, 2005 Ryan Budney Long Knots I
    April 19, 2005 Ryan Budney Long Knots II
    April 26, 2005 Ryan Budney Long Knots III
    May 3, 2005 Gregor Masbaum University of Paris VII Integral lattices in TQFT: Topological aspects and applications
    NOTE SPECIAL THURSDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR INSTEAD OF TUESDAY MORNING
    May 12, 2005. 3pm Jim McClure Purdue University String Topology
    May 17, 2005 Hayden Harker The Cohomology of the subalgebra D of the Steenrod Algebra
    May 24, 2005 Charles Doran University of Washington Classification of integral variations of Hodge structure underlying one parameter families of Calabi-Yau threefolds
    May 31, 2005 Gregor Masbaum, University of Paris, VII Perturbative expansion of mapping class group representations in TQFT<
    NOTE SPECIAL THURSDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR
    June 2, 2005, 1pm David Pengelley, New Mexico State University The odd-primary Kudo-Araki-May algebra of algebraic Steenrod operations, and invariant theory

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Fall 2004

    Date Speaker Title
    September 28, 2004 No seminar.
    October 5, 2004 No seminar.
    October 12, 2004 Ryan Budney Topology of knot spaces in dimension 3
    October 19, 2004 Dan Dugger Characteristic classes of quadratic bundles
    October 26, 2004 Peter Gilkey Generalized plane wave manifolds
    November 2, 2004
    Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar: November 6-7, Eugene
    November 9, 2004
    Cascade Topology Seminar: November 13-14, Corvallis
    November 16, 2004 Sunil Chebolu University of Washington Triangulated Subcategories of Finite Spectra
    November 23, 2004 Hayden Harker On the cohomology of a Hopf algebra related to the Steenrod Algebra
    November 30, 2004 Corey Dunn A study of Algebriac Invariants of Curvature Tensors

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Winter 2005

    Date Speaker Title
    Jan 4, 2005 Organizaional meeting for topology/geometry grad courses.
    Jan 11, 2005 Steve Mitchell University of Washington Steifel-Whitney classes for real embeddings of number rings.
    Jan 18, 2005 No seminar.
    Jan 25, 2005 No seminar.
    Feb 1, 2005 No seminar.
    Feb 8, 2005 No seminar.
    Feb 15, 2005 Ryan Budney and Matt Miller The homotopy type of configuration spaces and lens spaces
    Feb 22, 2005 Hal Sadofsky Morava K-theory of products of spectra
    March 1, 2005 no seminar
    March 8, 2005 Christian Haesemeyer Institute for Advanced Study An informal talk on K-theory
    NOTE SPECIAL JOINT ALGEBRA/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
    March 8, 2005, 4pm Christian Haesemeyer Institute for Advanced Study Cyclic homology and K-theory of singularities
  • List subject to change.
  • Information as of September 2003
  • Organizer for 2003-2004: Hal Sadofsky email: sadofsky@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