Math 395: Classics in Geometry and Topology

Course Schedule

We will meet MW2.15-3.15, and also F2.15-3.15 on selected weeks, in ECON106. (The economics building is at 579 Serra Mall, just east of the quad.)

Wed 1/10: Organizational meeting.

Fri 1/12: Dan Ramras: Segal, Classifying spaces and spectral sequences.

Mon 1/15: Holiday.

Wed 1/17: Josh Genauer: Milnor, The Steenrod algebra and its dual.

Fri 1/19: Anssi Lahtinen: Wall, Finiteness conditions for CW complexes.

Mon 1/22: Josh Genauer: Milnor, SAD Part II.

Wed 1/24: Eric Malm: Atiyah, K-theory.

Mon 1/29: Penka Georgieva: Milnor-Stasheff on Stiefel-Whitney Classes.

Wed 1/31: Jonathan Lee: Milnor-Stasheff on Chern Classes.

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Fri 2/2: David Ayala: Becker-Gottlieb, The transfer map and fiber bundles.

Mon 2/5: Dan: May, The geometry of iterated loop spaces.

Wed 2/7: Dan: May, GILS Part II.

Fri 2/9: Josh: Adams, On the groups J(X). IV.

Mon 2/12: Anssi: Milnor, On manifolds homeomorphic to the 7-sphere.

Wed 2/14: Eric: Serre, Cohomologie modulo 2 des complexes d'EM.

Fri 2/16: Penka: Milnor, Whitehead Torsion.

Mon 2/19: Holiday.

Wed 2/21: Jonathan: Adams, GHSH on Formal Groups and Complex Cobordism.

Fri 2/23: David: The Adams conjecture.

Mon 2/26: Josh: The trace map from A to THH.

Wed 2/28: Anssi: Quillen, Homotopical Algebra.

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Mon 3/5: Eric: Atiyah-Bott-Shaprio, Clifford Modules.

Wed 3/7: Penka: Adams, GHSH on Spanier-Whitehead Duality.

Mon 3/12: Jonathan: Quillen, Higher Algebraic K-Theory I.

Wed 3/14: David