Seminars

Friday's Topology Seminar 2021-2022

2021-09-21T17:35:26Z

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Speaker: Luca Pol (University of Regensburg)
Title: The universal property of bispans
Place: Room Seminar C3b (C3b/158)
Date: Thursday Seotember 23rd, 9:30

Abstract: Many algebraic definitions and constructions can be made in a derived or homotopy invariant setting and as such make sense for ring spectra. Dwyer-Greenlees-Iyengar (followed by Barthel-Heard-Valenzuela) showed that one can make sense of local Gorenstein duality for ring spectra. In this talk, I will show that cochain spectra C*(BG;R) satisfy local Gorenstein duality surprisingly often, and explain some of the implications of this. When R=k is a field this recovers duality properties in modular representation theory conjectured by Benson and later proved by Benson-Greenlees. However, the result also applies to more exotic coefficients R such as Lubin-Tate theories, K-theory spectra or topological modular forms, showing that chromatic analogues of Benson’s conjecture also hold. This is joint work with Jordan Williamson.

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Infinity categories seminar for young mathematicians

2020-10-14T15:58:45Z

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The algebraic topology PhD students of the UAB are organizing a infinity categories seminar for
young mathematicians. The aim of the seminar is to study the main concepts of infinity category theory
from a perspective accessible to everyone, regardless of the research area.

The seminar will be held online on a weekly basis every Thursday from 17:00 to 18:00 (Spanish time).
The links of the talks will be sent during the corresponding weeks.

The schedule is the following:

0. Motivation (Wilson Forero, October 15).
1. Kan complex (Thomas Mikhail, October 22).
2. $\infty$-categories (Thomas Mikhail, October 29).
3. Mapping spaces (Wilson Forero, November 5)
4. Fibrations (Alex Cebrian).
5. (Co)Limits for $\infty$-categories (Guille Carrion).
6. $\mathcal{S}$, the $\infty$-category of spaces. (Wilson Forero).
7. Presheaves of $\infty$-categories.
*dates are subject to change

Organizers: Wilson Forero, Thomas Mikhail, Guille Carrion, Alex Cebrian

Friday's Topology Seminar 2019-2020

2019-09-06T08:39:33Z

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GONG SHOW (Part 1): 12/06/2020 de 12:00 a 13:30

Jaume Aguadé

Alex Cebrian: Plethysms and operads

Guille Carrión: A la cerca de functors baixets

Joachim Kock

GONG SHOW (Part 2): 19/06/2020 de 12:00 a 13:30

Natàlia Castellana

Albert Ruiz

Wilson Forero: Gálvez-Kock-Tonks Conjecture for discrete decomposition spaces

Wolfgang Pitsch

Carles Broto

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Friday's Topology Seminar 2018-19

2018-11-30T13:12:02Z

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Speaker: Matt Feller (University of Virginia)

Title: New model structures on simplicial sets
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday July 5th, 12h-13h

Abstract: In the way Kan complexes and quasi-categories model up-to-homotopy groupoids and categories, can we find model structures on simplicial sets which give up-to-homotopy versions of more general objects? We investigate this question, with the particular motivating example of 2-Segal sets. Cisinski's work on model structures in presheaf categories provides abstract blueprints for these new model structures, but turning these blueprints into a satisfying description is a nontrivial task. As a first step, we describe the minimal model structure on simplicial sets arising from Cisinski's theory.

Speaker: Marc Stephan (MPI, Bonn)
Title: A multiplicative spectral sequence for free p-group actions
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday May 24th, 12h-13h

Abstract: Carlsson conjectured that if a finite CW complex admits a free action by an elementary abelian p-group G of rank n, then the sum of its mod-p Betti numbers is at least 2^n. In 2017, Iyengar and Walker constructed equivariant chain complexes that are counterexamples to an algebraic version of Carlsson’s conjecture. This raised the question if these chain complexes can be realized topologically by free G-spaces to produce counterexamples to Carlsson’s conjecture. In this talk, I will explain multiplicative properties of the spectral sequence obtained by filtering the mod-p cochains of a space with a free p-group action by powers of the augmentation ideal and deduce that the counterexamples can not be realized topologically. This is joint work with Henrik Rüping.

Speaker: Sune Precht Reeh (BGSMath-UAB)
Title: A formula for p-completion by the way of the Segal conjecture
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday May 10, 10h-11h

Abstract: A variant of the Segal conjecture (theorem by Carlsson) gives a correspondence between homotopy classes of stable maps from BG to BH and the module of (G,H)-bisets that are H-free and where the module is completed with respect to the augmentation ideal I(G) in the Burnside ring of G. The details of this correspondence change depending on whether you add a disjoint basepoint to BG, BH, or both, and it is also not a priori clear what algebraic consequences the I(G)-adic completion has for the module of (G,H)-bisets.
Separately, we have the functor of p-completion for spaces or spectra. We can apply p-completion to each classifying space BG, and according to the Martino-Priddy conjecture (theorem by Oliver) the p-completed classifying space depends only on the saturated fusion system F_p(G) of G at the prime p.
Saturated fusion systems also have modules of bisets, and so it is not unreasonable to ask how p-completion interacts with the Segal conjecture: Suppose we are given a (G,H)-biset, we can interpret the biset as a stable map from BG to BH. Apply p-completion to get a stable map from BF_p(G) to BF_p(H). By the Segal conjecture for fusion systems, that stable map corresponds to an (F_p(G), F_p(H))-biset -- up to p-adic completion. Which (F_p(G),F_p(H))-biset do we get?
This innocent question was the starting point for a joint paper with Tomer Schlank and Nathaniel Stapleton, and in my talk I will give an overview of all the categories involved and how they fit together with functors. If time permits, we will even see how p-completion and fusion systems can help us understand the I(G)-adic completion for any finite group -- and I suppose we might even consider that "a formula for the Segal conjecture by way of p-completion".

Speaker: Matthew Gelvin (Bilkent University, Ankara)
Title:Fusion-minimal groups
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday April 27, 12h-13h

Abstract: Every saturated fusion system $\mathcal{F}$ on the $p$-group $S$ has an associated collection of characteristic bisets. These are $(S,S)$-bisets that determine $\mathcal{F}$, and are in turn determined by $\mathcal{F}$ up to a more-or-less explicit parameterization. In particular, there is always a unique minimal $\mathcal{F}$-characteristic biset, $\Omega_\mathcal{F}$. If $G$ is a finite group containing $S$ as a Sylow $p$-subgroup and realizing $\mathcal{F}$, then $G$ is itself, when viewed as an $(S,S)$-biset, $\mathcal{F}$-characteristic. If it happens that $_SG_S=\Omega_\mathcal{F}$ is the minimal biset for its fusion system, we say that $G$ is \emph{fusion-minimal}.

In joint work with Sune Reeh, it was shown that any strictly $p$-constrained group (i.e., one that satisfies $C_G(O_p(G))\leq O_p(G)$) is fusion minimal. We conjecture that converse implication holds. In this talk, based on joint work with Justin Lynd, we prove this to be the case when $p$ is odd and describe the obstruction to a complete proof. Along the way, we will draw a connection with the module structure of block algebras and how this relates to the question at hand.

Speaker: Joshua Hunt (University of Copenhagen)
Title: Lifting G-stable endotrivial modules
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday April 12, 12h-13h

Abstract: Endotrivial modules of a finite group G are a class of modular representations that is interesting both because endotrivial modules have enough structure to allow us to classify them and because such modules give structural information about the stable module category of G. They form a group T(G) under tensor product, and Carlson and Thévenaz have classified the endotrivial modules of a p-group. We examine the restriction map from T(G) to T(S), where S is a Sylow p-subgroup of G, and provide an obstruction to lifting an endotrivial module from T(S) to T(G). This allows us to describe T(G) using only local information and to provide a counterexample to some conjectures about T(G). This is joint work with Tobias Barthel and Jesper Grodal.

Speaker: Antonio Díaz (Universidad de Málaga)
Title: Fusion systems for profinite groups
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday March 29, 10h-11h

Abstract: For both finite groups and compact Lie groups, there exist algebraic structures that encode their fusion patterns as well as their classifying spaces at a given prime. In this talk, I will introduce similar ideas for profinite groups and, in particular, for compact p-adic analytic groups. In particular, we will study classifying spaces and stable elements theorem for continuous cohomology. We will provide some concrete continuous cohomology computations. This is an ongoing joint work with O. Garaialde, N. Mazza and S. Park.

Speaker: Jesper Moller (University of Copenhagen)
Title: Counting p-singular elements in finite groups of Lie type
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday January 25, 12h-13h

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group and $p$ a prime number. We say that an element of $G$ is $p$-singular of its order is a power of $p$. Let $G_p$ be the {\em set\/} of $p$-singular elements in $G$, i.e. the union of the Sylow $p$-subgroups of $G$. In 1907, or even earlier, Frobenius proved that $|G|_p \mid |G_p|$: The number of $p$-singular elements in $G$ is divisible by the $p$-part of the order of $G$. The number of $p$-singular elements in a symmetric group is known. In this talk we discuss the number of $p$-singular elements in a finite (untwisted) group of Lie type in characteristic $p$.
The situation in the cross-characteristic case will maybe also be considered.

Speaker: Letterio Gatto (Politecnico di Torino)
Title: Hasse-Schmidt Derivations on Exterior Algebras and how to use them
Place: Room Seminar C3b
Date: Friday January 18, 12h-13h

Abstract: In the year 1937, Hasse & Schmidt introduced the so-called higher derivations in Commutative Algebra, to generalize the notion of Taylor polynomial to positive characteristic. Exactly the same definition can be phrased in the context of exterior algebras, by replacing the ordinary associative commutative multiplication by the wedge product. Hasse-Schmidt derivations on exterior algebras embody a surprisingly rich theory that candidates itself to propose a unified framework for a number of theories otherwise considered distincts, such as, e.g., (quantum, equivariant) Schubert Calculus for complex Grassmannians. In the talk we shall focus on one of the simplest but most powerful tools of the theory, the integration by parts formula. It will enable us to guess the shape of the vertex operators arising in the representation theory of certain infinite dimensional Lie algebras. In spite of the fancy vocabulary used in the abstract, the talk shall be entirely self-contained and no special prerequisite, but elementary multi-linear algebra, will be required.

Speaker: Branislav Jurco (Charles University)
Title: Quantum L-infinity Algebras and the Homological Perturbation Lemma
Date: 17/9/2018
Time: 12:00
Web: http://mat.uab.cat/~topalg
Abstract: Quantum homotopy Lie algebras are a generalization of homotopy Lie algebras with a scalar product and with operations corresponding to higher genus graphs. We construct a minimal model of a given quantum homtopy Lie algebra algebra via the homological perturbation lemma and show that it is given by a Feynman diagram expansion, computing the effective action in the finite-dimensional Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. We also construct a homotopy between the original and this effective quantum homotopy Lie algebra.

Speaker: Thomas Poguntke (Bonn)
Title: Higher Segal structures in algebraic K-theory
Date: 14/9/2018
Time: 12:00
Web: http://mat.uab.cat/~topalg

Speaker: Louis Carlier (UAB)
Title: Hereditary species as monoidal decomposition spaces
Date: 7/9/2018
Time: 12:00
Web: http://mat.uab.cat/~topalg
Abstract: Schmitt constructed an important family of combinatorial bialgebras from what he called hereditary species: they are combinatorial structures with three different functorialities. The species of simple graphs is an example. These bialgebras do not fit into the standard theory of incidence algebras of posets or categories. We show Schmitt's hereditary species induce decomposition spaces, the more general homotopical framework for incidence algebras and Möbius inversion introduced recently by Gálvez, Kock, and Tonks, and we show that the bialgebra associated to a hereditary species is the incidence bialgebra of the corresponding monoidal decomposition space.

Friday's Topology Seminar 2017-2018

2017-07-25T07:50:49Z

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Speaker: Nitu Kitchloo (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: Stability for Kac-Moody Groups
Place: C3b/158
Date: 20th July at 12:00

Abstract: In the class of Kac-Moody groups, one can extend all the exceptional families of compact Lie groups yielding infinite families, as well as other infinite families. We will show that these exceptional families stabilize in a homotopical sense and that the (co)homology of their classifying spaces is torsion free for all but a finite set of primes that is determined by the family (and not the individual groups in the family).

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Friday's Topology Seminar 2016-2017

2016-12-08T15:03:54Z

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Speaker: Ramón Flores (Universidad de Sevilla)
Title: Espacios clasificadores de grupos de trenzas.
Place: Seminari C1/366
Date: 28th July at 10:00.
Abstract: En esta charla mostraremos cómo se puede calcular la dimensión del espacio clasificador de los grupos de trenzas respecto de la familia de grupos virtualmente cíclicos. Las herramientas utilizadas incluyen el modelo de Lück-Weiermann de estos espacios, la clasificación de trenzas de Nielsen-Thurston, y resultados homológicos sobre los conmensuradores de los subgrupos cíclicos.

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Friday's Topology Seminar 2015-2016

2014-07-04T07:33:37Z

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This semester we will read Benson-Greenlees paper "Stratifying the derived category of cochains on BG for G a compact Lie group".

Our aim will be study the results and see if we can generalize them to the p-compact case. The tentative schedule is the following:

1) February 19th. W. Pitsch. Overview
2) March 4th. L. Carlier. Tensor triangualted categories
3) April 1st. T. Lozano. p-compact groups
4) April 15th. W. Pitsch. Stratification I
5) April 29th. W. Pitsch Stratification II
6) May 6th. J. Kock Pointfree Topology on Spec R and support I
7) May 13rd. J. Kock Pointfree Topology on Spec R and support II
8) May 20th W. Pitsch Some results on D(R) for R a ring spectrum
9) June 3rd N. Castellana Noetherianity in cohomology
10) July 1st N. Castellana Chouinard's theorem for finite p-local groups and p-compact groups

Date and place: Fridays 12h00-13h00, CRM Room A1.

Friday's Topology Seminar 2014-2015

2016-01-27T12:08:16Z

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Date and place: July 10, 2015. 12:00. CRM Aula A1.
Speaker : Ramsés Fernandez Valencià (Swansea University)
Title: Sobre teorías topologicas conformes de campos no orientadas.
Abstract: En la charla se aboradará el concepto de TCFT no orientada (KTCFT). Concretamente, se dará una nueva demostración para la clasificación de KTCFTs abiertas, se introducirá la extensión universal de KTCFTs abiertas a teorías abierto-cerradas y se aboradará la relación de la parte cerrada de una KTCFT abierto-cerrada con el complejo de Hochschild involutivo.

Date and place: June 19, 2015. 12:00. CRM Aula A1.
Speaker : Leandro Lombardi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Title: Álgebras de cactus compatiblemente bigraduadas
Abstract: Se mostrará una correspondencia entre la estructura de álgebra sobre el operad (de cadenas celulares del operad topológico) de cactus y el álgebra asociativa libre subyacente, en presencia de una bigraduación compatible.
En toda álgebra de cactus puede considerarse un producto pre-Lie. En el caso de que este álgebra sea de la forma T V para V un espacio vectorial, este producto, restringido a V, resulta asociativo. Se muestra que una estructura de álgebra de cactus en TV induce una estructura de biálgebra asociativa y coasociativa en H = V + 1 donde 1 es la unidad formal de dicho producto. Esto muestra, junto con trabajos previos de Kadeishvili y Menichi que estas estructuras están en correspondencia biunívoca con las estructuras álgebra de cactus en TV (que extienden la de álgebra asociativa) con cierta condición de compatibilidad con la graduación, propiedad motivada por el ejemplo del complejo de Hochschild.

Friday's Topology Seminar 2013-2014

2013-10-03T18:29:12Z

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Date and place: July 18, 2014. 12am. CRM, small lecture room.
Speaker : Shizuo Kaji (Yamaguchi U)
Title: A product in equivariant homology for compact Lie group actions
Abstract: The Tate cohomology for a finite group integrates group homology and cohomology into one theory. It is equipped with a cup product, which coincides with the usual one on cohomology and gives a ring structure on homology. A few attempts have been made to generalise this product structure on homology. We follow the line of Kreck and Tene. Kreck defined a product on H_*(BG;Z) for a compact Lie group G based on his geometric homology theory and Tene showed it coincides with the cup product on the Tate cohomology when G is finite. We will generalise this product to one on the equivariant homology of a manifold with a nice action of a Lie group. Our construction is simple and purely homotopy theoretical. This is a joint work with Haggai Tene.

Date and place: June 20, 2014. 12am. CRM, small lecture room.
Speaker : Conchita Martínez (U Zaragoza)
Title: On dimension invariants for groups admitting a cocompact model for proper actions.

Friday's Topology Seminar 2012-2013

2012-01-10T13:44:56Z

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Friday June 7th, 2013, CRM (Aula petita):

12:00 Dietrich Notbohm : Depth and homology decompositions

Abstract: Homology decomposition techniques are
a powerful tool used in the analysis of the homotopy theory of (classifying)
spaces. The associated Bousfield-Kan spectral sequences involve higher
derived limits of the inverse limit functor. We study the impact of
depth conditions on the vanishing of these higher limits and apply our theory
in several cases,. In particular we will dicuss our theory in the context of group cohomology and of polynomial invariants.

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