22/09/2011, 15:00 — 16:00 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building Pedro Brito, University of Aberdeen
Enriched manifold calculus and operads
Goodwillie-Weiss' manifold calculus is, in some sense, an extension of Gromov's -principle. Given a topological presheaf , it produces a tower of (homotopy) sheafifications of , where the first sheafification corresponds to Segal's scanning map. In this talk I will present a continuous (as in enriched over spaces) formulation of manifold calculus and discuss an interesting connection to operads along the way. This is joint work with Michael Weiss.
