Topology seminars: Spring 2009

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, Jan 23.	Mike Hill, (University of Virginia).	Large Scale Phenomena in the Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres.
Friday, Jan 30.	Rob Thompson, (Hunter College).	Unstable operations in v_n-periodic homotopy groups and v_n-periodic Pi-algebras.
Thursday, Feb 26. 4-5 PM in Hylan 1106A	Jason Cantarella, (University of Georgia, Athens).	A cohomological construction of the helicity of vector fields.
Friday, Feb 27.	Jason Cantarella, (University of Georgia, Athens).	Shortest curves of bounded curvature and tight knots.
Tuesday, March 3. 2-3pm in Hylan 1106A.	Rama Mishra, (IISER Pune, India).	From Polynomial Knots to Projective Knots. Here are some images from the talk: CLICK
Thursday, March 19. 2-3 PM in Hylan 1106A	Steve Halperin, (University of Maryland).	The size and structure of the homotopy Lie algebra of a finite dimensional CW-complex.
Friday, March 20.	Fred Cohen, (University of Rochester).	Spaces of homomorphisms and representations.
Friday, April 24.	Vasileios Metaftsis, (University of the Aegean).	The linearity of HNN-extensions of abelian groups.