Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology

Special Session at an AMS Sectional Meeting

Southeastern Section, Fall 2007

Tentative Schedule for Session I, Saturday morning:

8:00 Stefan Forcey: Multiplihedra: polytopes, pasting, and parametrized enrichment
8:30 Julie Bergner: Homotopy fiber products of homotopy theories
9:00 Nick Gurski: Preliminary Report: Loop spaces and coherence for braided monoidal bicategories
9:30 Kate Ponto: Fixed point theory and trace for bicategories
10:00 Christopher L. Douglas: Clifford Algebras and Conformal Nets
10:30 A. D. Elmendorf: Representing objects in algebraic K-theory

Tentative Schedule for Session 2, Saturday afternoon:

2:30 Christopher Dwyer: Twisted Equivariant K-theory and the Baum-Connes isomorphism conjecture
3:00 Michael A. Hill: Computational work towards K(ko)
3:30 Leticia Zarate: On the ku-homology of Z_2^e × Z_2^e
4:00 Michael C. Ching: Chain rules for Goodwillie calculus of functors
4:30 Sunil K. Chebolu: Finite generation of Tate cohomology and Freyd's generating hypothesis
5:00 James M. Turner: Recovering a simplicial algebra from its normalized chains

Informal Dinner Saturday evening (6:15, see below)

Tentative Schedule for Session 3, Sunday morning:

8:00 Christopher P. French: A splitting of Q_GS⁰ at a prime p
8:30 Teena Gerhardt: Equivariant homotopy and algebraic K-theory
9:00 Valentina Joukhovitski: Level structures and topological modular forms
9:30 Paul Thomas Pearson: Homology of topological modular forms
10:00 Scott M. Bailey: The splitting of bo "smash" tmf
10:30 Jeff Strom: Categorical Sequences and the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category of Spaces with Free Fundamental Groups

Tentative Schedule for Session 4, Sunday afternoon:

2:30 Vigleik Angeltveit: Uniqueness of Morava K-theory
3:00 Wojciech Dorabiala: Categorical algebra of mapping spaces
3:30 Bernard Badzioch: Smooth parametrized Reidemeister torsion - a manifold approach

Speakers and Participants

This is a list of confirmed speakers and those who have indicated they intend (or hope) to participate, updated fairly regularly.

Informal Dinner

We are trying to put together an informal group dinner for Saturday evening, more or less immediately following the afternoon session. We have reserved a private room at the Bangkok Cafe, which is a Thai restaurant recommended to us by a local mathematician. Anyone who plans to attend the session is welcome to join us for dinner, but please contact either of the organizers so we can get a reasonably accurate head count. We currently have reserved the room starting at 6:15PM, with a guess of 20-25 people, but have no plans to make specific menu selections, provide transportation, or get involved with handling money.

AMS meeting website

This link will direct you to the AMS meeting wesite. The invited addresses for this meeting are also available.

Listings for Job Seekers

This is a place where those seeking employment can add a very brief biography, along with a link to a personal website with more information about their work and interests. Feel free to send comments (to Mark) or ask to be added if you will be seeking employment in algebraic topology sometime in the next few years.

Organizers

Comments and questions on this website should be addressed to Mark W. Johnson.