Research seminar

The seminar for the second part of the semester will be about topological cyclic homology.

  • Time and place: Fridays 10:15-12:15 Huygensgebouw room HG03.085 (Hilbert's room).

Schedule for the talks >

  • Talk 01, 13/11/15: Hochschild homology via Quillen homology (Matan Prasma)
  • Talk 02, 20/11/15: Introduction to topological Hochschild homology (Steffen Sagave)
  • Talk 03, 27/11/15: Model structures for symmetric spectra (Joost Nuiten)
  • Talk 04, 04/12/15: The algebraic K-theory spectrum of a symmetric ring spectrum (Javier J. Gutiérrez)
  • Talk 05, 11/12/15: Cyclic K-theory (Matan Prasma)

References >

  • B.D. Dundas, T.G. Goodwillie and R. McCarthy, The Local Structure of Algebraic K-Theory, Algebra and Applications, vol. 18, Springer, 2012 (pdf)
  • C. Schlichtkrull, The cyclotomic trace for symmetric ring spectra. New topological contexts for Galois theory and algebraic geometry (BIRS 2008), 545–592, Geom. Topol. Monogr., 16, Geom. Topol. Publ., Coventry, 2009.



The seminar for the first part of the semester will be about formality of operads. The plan is to read the manuscript "Formality of the little N-disks operad" by P. Lambrechts and I. Volić.

  • Time and place: Fridays 10:00-12:00 Huygensgebouw room HG03.085 (Hilbert's room).

Schedule for the talks >

  • Talk 01, 02/10/15: Formality for operads (Javier J. Gutiérrez)
  • Talk 02, 09/10/15: The Fulton-MacPherson operad (Ieke Moerdijk)
  • Talk 03, 16/10/15: Cohomology of configuration spaces (Joost Nuiten)
  • Talk 04, 23/10/15: The cooperad of admissible diagrams (Joost Nuiten)

References >

  • P. Lambrechts and I. Volić, Formality of the little N-disks operad. Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 230 (2014), no. 1079. (pdf)

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