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Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 3:30pm

James Stasheff and Aakash Parikh

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

(1) Stasheff: After a brief review of fiber bundles and the history of characteristic classes, I will emphasize the Covering Homotopy Property and the universal bundle point of view.  I will also comment on the generalization to fibre spaces defined as having the covering property.

(2) Parikh: I will discuss the Hurewicz Theorem, which connects homotopy theory with homology theory.