STABLE HOMOTOPY THEORY AND FORMAL GROUPS

Speaker(s)

Tilman Baue

Affiliation

Vrije Universiteit

Date

Oct. 21, 2009, 4 p.m.

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Seminar

Seminar Algebraic Topology

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Constructing homology theories from algebraic groups: K- theory and elliptic cohomology Summary: I will apply the ideas from the second talk to construct (with some details omitted) homology theories from formal groups that arise in nature. This will lead, for example, to various versions of K- theory and to the recent new theory of elliptic cohomology and topological modular forms.

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