The "Seminar Algebra & Topologie" takes place every Friday from 10.30 to 12.00 in the "Kleiner Hörsaal" (Mathematisches Institut, Rheinsprung 21) unless there is a Basel-Freiburg-Strassburg Seminar. For questions please contact Stéphane Vénéreau or Pierre-Marie Poloni.

Programm Herbstsemester 2008

19. September: Programmdiskussion

26. September: Daan Krammer (University of Warwick): A Garside type structure on the combed mapping class group (abstract)

3. Oktober: Ivo Dell'Ambrogio (ETH Zürich): Tensor triangular geometry and Kasparov's equivariant KK-theory (abstract)

10. Oktober: No Talk

17. Oktober: Theo Bühler (Göttingen): A theorem of Gromov and a conjecture of Matsumoto-Morita (abstract)

24. Oktober: Boris Pasquier (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn): On some two-orbits varieties with Picard number one (abstract)

31. Oktober: Carlo Rossi (ETH Zürich): Kontsevich's and Tsygan's formality and Caldararu's conjecture (abstract)

7. November: Allen Knutson (Berkeley): Limits of varieties: subschemes vs. branchvarieties (abstract)

14. November: Lucy Moser-Jauslin (Université de Bourgogne): Inequivalent embeddings of the Koras-Russell threefold (abstract)

21. November: Frank Kutzschebauch (Universität Bern): Holomorphic factorization of maps into the special linear group (abstract)

25. November (Tuesday):
      16:00 Mihaela Popoviciu Draisma (Universität Basel): Finding systems of parameters for the invariants of binary forms (abstract)
      17:30 Jan Draisma (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven): Set-theoretic finiteness for the k-factor model (abstract)

28. November: No Talk (Dies academicus)

5. Dezember: Stéphanie Cupit-Foutou (Köln): Invariant Hilbert schemes and Wonderful varieties (abstract)

12. Dezember: Stefan Gille (München): Rost cycle modules and Suslin (singular) homology (abstract)

19. Dezember: Daan Krammer (University of Warwick): The braid group of Z^n (abstract)