Topology seminars: Fall 2008

Seminars will meet from 4:00-5:00 PM in Hylan 1101 and tea is served before hand at 3:30 PM in the common room on the 9th floor.

Date	Speaker	Title
Friday, Sep 19.	Stratos Prassidis, (Canisius College).	On the linearity of the holomorph of the free group on two generators.
Friday, Sep 26.	John Harper, (University of Rochester).	On the 5-primary component of the homotopy groups of spheres.
Friday, Oct 17.	Fred Cohen, (University of Rochester).	Toric topology, Young subgroups of the symmetric groups, and robotic motion.
Friday, Oct 24. (Joint with Geometry Sem.)	Selman Akbulut, (Michigan State University).	Corks, Plugs and Exotic smooth structures.
Friday, Oct 31.	Terry Bisson, (Canisius College).	A homotopical algebra of graphs related to zeta series.
Friday, Nov 7.	Charles Frohman, (University of Iowa).	Link Homology based on the Kauffman bracket for Links in a Homology 3-sphere.
Friday, Nov 14.	Bernard Badzioch, (University of Buffalo).	Localizations of mapping spaces.
Friday, Nov 21.	Scott Bailey, (University of Rochester).	On the Tate spectrum of tmf at the prime 2.