This seminar is held on Tuesdays at 11am in 210 Deady.

Fall Quarter, 2006

• September 25 – Alex Suciu – Northeastern University and MSRI.
  Cohomology of jumping loci and fundamental groups of projective varieties.
  Note special date, place and time: Fenton 322, 1pm.
• September 26 – Bruno Vallette – University of Nice.
  Operads and partition posets.
• October 3 – Organizational Meeting.
• October 10 – David Spivak – University of California at Berkeley.
  Quasi-smooth derived manifolds.
• October 17 – Matt Miller – University of Oregon.
  Rational models for orbit configuration spaces of Lens spaces.
• October 24 – Graham Denham – University of Western Ontario and MSRI. Partial product complexes.
• October 31 – open
• November 7 – Nick Proudfoot – Columbia University.
  A topological approach to algebraic combinatorics.
• November 14 – open
• November 21 – Michael Dyer – University of Oregon. Constructing elements of the second homotopy group from subgroups of the fundamental grop.
• November 28 – Kate Gruher – Stanford University. A duality between string topology and fushion.