Seiberg-Witten and stable homotopy theory

Talks will be given by a variety of speakers and will be weekly on:

Mondays, 3.00PM - 4.30PM,
PK5115, UQÀM, 201 Avenue du Président-Kennedy, Montréal

Talk schedule

• 16/02/17 - Introduction to the triangulation conjecture (Patrick Orson)
• 20/02/17 - Principal bundles and classifying spaces (Matthias Nagel)
• 27/02/17 - Clifford algebras (Assaf Bar-Natan)
• 06/03/17 - Spinor bundles and Dirac operators (Patrick Orson)
• 13/03/17 - Spin, Spin^c and obstructions (Patrick Orson)
• 20/03/17 - Fredholm operators and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem (Matthias Nagel)
• 27/03/17 - The Seiberg-Witten equations (Matthias Nagel)
• 03/04/17 - Linear plus compact operators and stable homotopy invariants (Matthias Nagel)
• 10/04/17 - Cohomotopy groups with virtual bundle coefficients (Patrick Orson)
• 18/04/17 - The monopole map and the Coulomb slice (Patrick Orson)
• 24/04/17 - Equivariant stable homotopy theory and the Seiberg-Witten invariant (Matthias Nagel)