Seminar series
Date
Wed, 10 Jun 2009
Time
11:30 -
12:30
Location
ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Speaker
Tobias Barthel
Organisation
University of Oxford
Using the theory of formal groups, Landweber´s exactness theorem provides means to construct interesting invariants of topological spaces out of geometric objects. I will illustrate the resulting connection between algebraic geometry and stable homotopy theory in the special case of elliptic curves.