The goal of this seminar is to introduce participants to operads and delooping machinery. The format of the seminar was a four-part introductory minicourse followed by individual talks by participants.

Organizers: Jens Jakob Kjaer and J.D. Quigley
Seminar: Wednesday, 2:00-3:00pm, Hurley 258
Problem session: Friday, 9:30-10:30am, Hurley 258

Schedule

• August 30
  Minicourse: Part 1 (J.D. Quigley) Notes Problems
• September 6
  Minicourse: Part 2 (J.D. Quigley) Notes Problems
• September 13
  Minicourse: Part 3 (J.D. Quigley) Notes Problems
• September 20
  Minicourse: Part 4 (J.D. Quigley) Notes Problems
• September 27
  Dyer-Lashof operations (Jens Jakob Kjaer) Notes Problems
• October 4
  Steenrod operations following McClure, part one (Tim Campion) Notes Problems
• October 11
  Steenrod operations following McClure, part two (Tim Campion) Notes Problems
• October 18
  No seminar (Fall Break)
• October 25
  Operads in physics (Laura Wells) Notes Problems
• November 1
  Eoo rings, the Steiner operad, and operad pairs (Jens Jakob Kjaer) Notes Problems
• November 8
  Homology of Little n-Disks and an Integral Homology operation on E_n Spaces(Taylor Sutton) Notes Problems
• November 15
  Hochschild homology via factorization homology (Jeremy Mann) Notes Problems
• November 22
  No seminar (Thanksgiving break)
• November 29
  Basics of factorization homology II (Jeremy Mann) Notes Problems
• December 6
  Basics of factorization homology III (Jeremy Mann) Notes Problems
• December 13
  Gamma-spaces, Gamma-categories, and the Barratt-Priddy Theorem (PJ Jedlovec) Notes Problems