Summer Reading Seminar

Reading Seminar in Geometry and Topology

3:00 -4:00 PM Tuesday and 2:00 -3:00 PM Thursday in 243 Altgeld Hall

Plan of Seminar

On Tuesdays we have two 20 minute talks summarizing the two papers picked for that week. * People have to volunteer for this of course :)
On Thursdays we all go over it in detail ( a one and half hrs max).
The papers will be in the broad area of Topology and Geometry.

Calendar
Date	Talk I		Talk II
	Speaker	Paper	Speaker	Paper
Tuesday, June 13	Rosona Eldred	n categories	Patrick Szuta	Constructing topological spaces combinatorially ( Chapter 2)
Thursday, June 15	Discussion
Tuesday, June 20	David Lipsky	Operads and PROPS	Nathaniel Stapleton	A combinatorial definition of Homotopy groups
Thursday, June 22	Discussion
Tuesday, June 27	Tamas Forgacs	Kobayashi Metric (first four sections)	Barry Walker	Hirzeburch-Reimann Roch Theorem ; Notes on index by Barry ; Atiyah-Singer Index
Thursday, June 28	Discussion
Tuesday, July 11	Marc Harper	Topos of Graphs; Homotopy Theory of Category of Graphs
Thursday, July 13	Discussion
Tuesday, July 18	Rekha Santhanam	Characters and Elliptic Cohomology
Thursday, July 20	Discussion
Tuesday, July 25	David Lipsky	Clifford Modules
Thursday, July 27	Discussion
Tuesday, Aug 1	Patrick Szuta	Motives	Barry Walker	Dirac Operators
Thursday, Aug 3	Discussion

For more information and to be added to the mailing list email to

Barry Walker (bjwalker at math.uiuc.edu) or
Rekha Santhanam (rekha at math.uiuc.edu)

Last modified: Mon Jul 10 16:15:16 CDT 2006