Symposium on
Ring Spectra, K-Theory and Trace Invariants

In connection with the NFR-project "Algebraic K-theory and topology" there will be a symposium on ring spectra, K-theory and trace invariants at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, on March 26th-28th 1998.

Program

The following titles and times are planned.

Thursday March 26th

• Stavros Tsalidis (Oslo): "Etale descent for TC and K-theory, II"
  14.15-15.15 in B62 (=topology seminar)
• Coffee break
• Bjørn Dundas (Trondheim): "The trace map for symmetric monoidal categories"
  16.00-17.00 in B62

Dinner at Restaurant Victor on Thursday at 19.00. Departure from the Institute at 18.30.

Friday March 27th

• Christian Schlichtkrull (Oslo): "A free group functor for cyclic stable homotopy theory"
  12.15-13.15 in B70
• Coffee break at 13.45, before the colloquium talk:
• Bjørn Dundas (Trondheim): "What's purple and commutes ?"
  14.15-15.00 in B70

Departure from the Institute at 16.45 (sharp).

Saturday March 28th

• John Rognes (Oslo): "Cohomology of the smooth Whitehead spectrum"
  12.15-13.15 in B62
• Morten Brun (Odense/Oslo): "Fixed points of THH(Z/p^n)"
  13.30-14.30 in B62