The Notre Dame
Pre-Talbot Seminar on Automorphisms of Manifolds
Organizer:
Bruce Williams
Webmaster: Allegra Berliner
The main goal of this seminar is to prepare people to
attend the 2006 Talbot workshop, "Automorphisms of
manifolds," mentored by Michael Weiss. Anyone is of course
welcome to attend and contribute to the seminar.
More information
about Talbot can be found at the workshop website:
http://www-math.mit.edu/~jnkf/talbot
Note:
there is now a link to a detailed reading list at the Talbot site.
Talbot dates: February 26-March 4,
2006
SCHEDULE
Meetings
will be on Thursdays at 12:30 in Hurley 258.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
February 2 |
Bruce Williams |
An informal overview of ideas from WW1 |
February 9 |
Stacy Hoehn |
Surgery on Simply-Connected Manifolds |
February 16 |
Stacy Hoehn |
Surgery theory and Automorphisms of Manifolds |
February 23 |
(ten) Allegra Berliner |
The A-theory assembly map and stabilized h-cobordisms |
Last Semester's Talks: |
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November 3 |
Bruce Williams |
Overview of the Subject |
November 17 |
Bruce Williams |
Surgery and Concordance |
December 1 |
Bjorn Jahren |
Some calculations of rational homotopy of diffeomorphism groups |
December 8 |
Bruce Williams |
Assembly maps and automorphisms of manifolds |
Click here to access
the directory of scanned notes from our talks
ND
Topology seminar
Graduate
Topology seminar