Spring 2002 Midwest Topology Seminar

The University of Chicago

Saturday, April 20, 2002

All talks in Ryerson 251

9:00 Coffee in Eckhart 209 (``The Tea Room'')
 
10:00 Steve Ferry
Pushing manifolds together in Gromov-Hausdorff space

 
11:30 Heather Johnston
Topology of homology manifolds

 
2:30 Zbigniew Fiedorowicz
The Smith filtration on the symmetric bar construction

 
4:00 Hans-Werner Henn
Aspects of K(2)-local homotopy theory

 
5:30 Party in Ryerson 352 (``The Barn'')

If you have any questions, please contact Jesper Grodal (jg@math.uchicago.edu) or Michael Mandell (mandell@math.uchicago.edu).
Click here to see the location of Eckhart Hall, here for the location of Ryerson Physical Laboratory (adjacent and connected to Eckhart Hall), here for a brief primer on getting here from the two airports, and here more directions, including driving directions.
Check out the schedule for our regular topology seminars on Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
Still not satisfied? Luckily there are other seminars at Chicago which might interest you. Here is a link to the complete seminar list. Or check out the seminars at Northwestern , or the MIT topology seminar, or Stanford topology seminar, or....