Topology Date:  Thursday, November 01, 2012 Location:  3866 East Hall (3:00 PM to 4:00 PM) Title:  Spaces of homomorphisms, homotopy colimits and filtrations of the classifying space of a compact Lie group Abstract:   In the first part of this talk we introduce spaces of homomorphisms in Lie groups and discuss some results related to these spaces. Then we show how one can get a natural filtration of BG using spaces of homomorphism. The first space in this flltration is particularly interesting and we show how to study it using homotopy colimits. Some applications and computations will be provided. Speaker:  Jose Manuel Gomez Institution:  Johns Hopkins University Event Organizer:        Edit this event (login required). Add new event (login required). For access requests and instructions, contact math-webmaster@umich.edu Back to previous page Back to UM Math seminars/events page.