TTT5: Sheffield Strickland Sandwich meeting

The meeting featured a series of lectures by Neil Strickland (Cambridge) on subjects related to his preprint 'Functorial philosophy for formal phenomena', available from the Hopf archive, including The Big Picture, and applications.

Date

3–4 June 1996

Speakers

Neil Strickland
New foundations in stable homotopy theory (an exposition of EKMM and related things)

Paul Turner
Rational Morava E-theory and the symmetric groups

Neil Strickland
E-theory of DS^0 and subgroups of formal groups I

Terrence Bisson (Buffalo)
Adem and Nishida relations in (unoriented) cobordism'

Neil Strickland
E-theory of DS^0 and subgroups of formal groups II

Katsumi Shimomura (Tottori)
Towards $\pi_*(L_2S^0)$ at small prime numbers

Neil Strickland
Elliptic spectra
An introduction to the diagram of A_\infty elliptic spectra, eo_2 as its homotopy inverse limit, the Witten genus and the theorem of the cube etc.

Further information

The meeting was partially supported by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society and by the University of Sheffield.