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The homotopy seminar is a graduate student run seminar for all topologists and geometers in the department. Our goal is to make these talks accessible to graduate students.

We meet during the academic year on Tuesday from 10:00 - 10:50 in Deady 210.

Fall Quarter, 2009

  • September 29 - Organizational Meeting
  • October 6 - Sammy Black
    Representations of the Braid Group and Markov Traces
  • October 13 - Andy Conner
    Hochschild Cohomology and Higher Multiplications
  • October 20 - No Seminar
  • October 27 - Marcy Robertson (UIC)
    Enriched Category Theory from the Point of View of Operads
  • November 3 - Chad Giusti
    The unstable Vassiliev spectral sequence
  • November 10 - No Seminar
  • November 17 - Patrick Schultz
    Introduction to higher dimensional algebra
  • November 24 - Aaron Bennett
    Homology and Two-Dimensional Covering Problems
  • December 1 - Ralph Hutchison


If you wish to speak in the homotopy seminar or have questions please contact Chad Giusti at cgiusti@uoregon.edu