Midwest Topology Seminar

Midwest Topology Seminar
Saturday, February 21, 2004

All talks will be held in G40 Leverone Hall the large building immediately south of Lunt Hall, the Math Department

9:00-10:00 -- Coffee, Doughnuts, and Bagels

10:00-11:00 -- Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University,

"Atiyah duality for loop spaces"

11:00-11:30 -- Coffee break

11:30-12:30 -- Paul Seidel, University of Chicago,

"Lagrangian submanifolds and problems of linear algebra"

12:30-2:30 -- Lunch

2:30-3:30 -- Dan Freed, University of Texas,

"Twisted K-theory, Dirac families and the Verlinde algebra"

3:30-4:00 -- Tea

4:00-5:00 -- Geoffrey Powell, University of Paris13,

"Endomorphisms in unstable modules of the cohomology of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces"

5:15-- ---- Party in Lunt Common Room