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November 21, 2011
Monday, November 21
Geometry and Topology
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University)
Title: "Cyclotomic spectra and computations in algebraic K-theory"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: In this talk I will describe joint work with Vigleik Angeltveit, Mike Hill, and Ayelet Lindenstrauss, yielding new computations of algebraic K-theory groups. Techniques from equivariant stable homotopy theory are often key to algebraic K-theory computations. In this case we use n-cubes of cyclotomic spectra to compute the topological cyclic homology, and hence K-theory, of truncated polynomial algebras in several variables.