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University Park
Altoona

Thursday, November 17, 2005
5:30pm, 260 Hawthorn (Altoona)

Bernard Badzioch

Classical and parametrized Whitehead torsion

Abstract: The classical Whitehead torsion is one of the most important invariants of the geometric topology. It gives classifications of simple homotopy types of finite CW-complexes and cobordisms of manifolds. The talk will give an overview of of these results. It will also describe how they can be extended using Waldhausen K-theory of spaces.

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We meet weekly on Thursday afternoons, with the third meeting of each month in Altoona. If you are interested in giving a talk in our seminar please contact one of the coordinators for the Fall 2005 semester: Aissa Wade and Wojciech Dorabiala.

 

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