Topological K-Theory

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Shane Scott – Georgia Tech – scottsha@gatech.edu
Organizer
Shane Scott
To any compact Hausdorff space we can assign the ring of (classes of) vector bundles under the operations of direct sum and tensor product. This assignment allows the construction of an extraordinary cohomology theory for which the long exact sequence of a pair is 6-periodic.