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Altoona

Thursday, April 20, 2006
5:30pm, 164 Hawthorn (Altoona)

Julie Bergner
Kansas State University

Transversality and the inverse image of a submanifold with corners

Abstract: Certain kinds of algebraic structures on spaces can be described via algebraic theories, or particular diagrams given by free objects. This approach is useful in that it enables us to compare strict algebraic structures with those only given up to homotopy. In certain cases, we can replace algebraic theories with "simpler" diagrams encoding the same algebraic information. The question then becomes whether we still have the same relationship between strict and homotopy structures. I'll begin by describing the algebraic theory approach and then discuss examples of these other kinds of diagrams.

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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 Spring 2006 semester: Aissa Wade and Wojciech Dorabiala.

 

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