New perspectives in A-theory Group Seminar

Venue: HIM lecture hall, Poppelsdorfer Allee 45, Bonn (unless stated otherwise)
Organizers: Cary Malkiewich, Mona Merling, Georgios Raptis

9:30 - 10:30 Georgios Raptis: Bivariant A-theory and A-theory Euler characteristics of smooth bundles

11:00 - 12:00 Cary Malkiewich: The transfer map of free loop spaces

15:00 - 16:00 Nathaniel Stapleton: Transchromatic character maps

16:30 - 17:30 Justin Noel: Galois descent and red-shift in algebraic K-theory

15:00 - 16:00 Michael Weiss: Diffeomorphism groups of exotic spheres: Homotopical formulations of some geometric questions (after O. Sommer)

16:30 - 17:30 Michael Weiss: Relations between algebraic K-theory and L-theory, and a glimpse of applications to diffeomorphism group of exotic spheres

15:15 - 16:15 Wolfgang Steimle: On the universal property of Waldhausen's K-theory

15:00 - 16:00 Heng Xie: Hermitian K-theory of quadric hypersurfaces

16:30 - 17:30 Daniel Schäppi: Geometric tensor categories and Adams stacks