MIDWEST TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
April 10, 1999
Northwestern University


All talks will be in 107 Swift Hall immediately behind Lunt Hall.

Program

9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:00 Ralph Grieder, Northwestern University
``Finite group actions on Riemann surfaces, G-equivariant bordism and G-signature"
11:30-12:30 Stephen Theriault, University of Illinois at Chicago
`` Homotopy exponents of mod-$2^r$ Moore spaces "
12:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:30 Benson Farb, University of Chicago
``The asymptotic geometry of groups"
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:00 Bill Dwyer, University of Notre Dame
``Ohkawa's Theorem"

A banquet in honor of Michael Barratt's retirement was held at the Double Tree Hotel in Skokie.


All talks will be in 107 Swift Hall immediately behind Lunt Hall, For more information contact Stewart Priddy, priddy@math.nwu.edu or Paul Goerss, pgoerss@math.nwu.edu .


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