Winter 2011 Topology Seminar Schedule

The Topology seminar in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Michigan meets (unless otherwise noted) on Thursday afternoon, 3:00–4:00 PM in 2866 East Hall.

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
January 13, 2011	Tom Baird Memorial University	GKM-sheaves and equivariant cohomology	Juan Souto
January 20, 2011	Anna Marie Bohmann University of Chicago	The Equivariant Generating Hypothesis	Igor Kriz
January 27, 2011	Patrick Reynolds UIUC	Trees in the boundary of Outer space and their dual laminations	Juan Souto
February 3, 2011 Cancelled	Matt Rathbun MSU	Tunnel One, Fibered Links	Dick Canary
February 17, 2011	Alireza Salehi Golsefidy Princeton University	Counting lattices in a simple Lie group	Gopal Prasad
February 24, 2011	Nina White UMichigan	Bounds on eigenvalues of the Laplacian for certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds.	Juan Souto
March 10, 2011	Thomas M. Fiore University of Michigan-Dearborn	Euler Characteristics of Categories and Homotopy Colimits	Igor Kriz
March 17, 2011	Spencer Dowdall University of Chicago	Dilatation vs self-intersection number for point-pushing pseudo-Anosovs	Ralf Spatzier
March 24, 2011	John Lind University of Chicago	Higher bundle theory and algebraic K-theory	Igor Kriz
March 31, 2011	Jim Fowler Ohio State University	TBA	Christopher Mooney
April 7, 2011	Robert Lipshitz Columbia University	A faithful mapping class group action from Heegaard Floer theory	Yongbin Ruan
April 14, 2011	Alejandro Adem UBC	Equivariant K-theory for Actions with Maximal Rank Isotropy	Yongbin Ruan
April 21, 2011	Juan Souto University of Michigan	Abstract commensurator of the Johnson kernels	-

For more information, contact Khalid Bou-Rabee khalidb[at]umich(dot)edu