22/03/2007, 15:00 — 16:00 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Jérôme Scherer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Deconstructing Hopf spaces
Hopf spaces were introduced in the 50s by Serre in order to understand Lie groups from a homotopical point of view. In this talk I will give some highlights of the subject, give basic examples and applications. I will then report on recent work with N. Castellana and J. A. Crespo on structure theorems for "large" Hopf spaces.
