Topology seminars: Spring 2008

Seminars will meet from 4:00-5:00 PM in Hylan 1106B and tea is served before hand at 3:30 PM in the common room on the 9th floor.

Date	Speaker	Title
Friday, Jan 25.	Fred Cohen, (University of Rochester).	Moment Angle Complexes and their Applications.
Friday, Feb 1.	Ergun Yalcin, (Bilkent University, Turkey).	Group Cohomology and Group Actions.
Friday, Feb 8.	Joseph Neisendorfer, (University of Rochester).	Samelson Products over Loops on H-spaces.
Friday, Feb 15.	Enrique Torres, (University of British Columbia, Canada).	Commuting Elements and Group Cohomology.
Friday, March 7.	Fred Cohen, (University of Rochester).	When is a Group Linear?
Friday, March 21.	Qibing Zheng (Nankai, China).	The Cohomology of the Lie Algebra of Integral Upper Triangular Matrices and GAD Graphs.
Friday, April 11.	Matthew Miller, (Bucknell University).	Rational Models for Configuration Spaces of Lens Spaces.
Thursday, April 17. 2-3pm in Hylan 1106A	Sun Qiang, (University of Rochester).	TBA.
Tuesday, April 22. 1-2pm in Hylan 1106A (Note special time/loc).	Steve Halperin, (University of Maryland).	The Ranks of the Homotopy Groups of a Finite 1-connected CW-complex.
Friday, April 25.	Asli Guclukan, (Bilkent University).	The Euler Class of a Subset Complex.