Algebraic K-theory Reading Seminar

This is a reading group meeting with Professor Jeremiah Heller weekly.

Fall 2023
DateSpeakerTopicReference
Aug. 29N/AOrganizational meetingN/A
Sept. 5Introductory reading of K-theoryWeibel, The K-book, Ch. 1-2.
Sept. 12
Sept. 26
Oct. 3Juhan KimThe space $F\psi^q$Quillen, "On the Cohomology and K-Theory of the General Linear Groups Over a Finite Field" (1972)
Mitchell, Notes on the K-theory of Finite Fields
Oct. 10Jiantong LiuThe Brauer lift
Oct. 17Haoran YinVanishing of the rational and mod-$p$ homology of $\textbf{BGL}\mathbb F_q$
Oct. 24Juhan KimMod-$l$ homology
Oct. 31Haoran YinGraded algebras and indecomposable elements
Nov. 7Jiantong LiuQuillen's detection theorem
Nov. 14Juhan KimMod-$2$ cohomology of $\textbf{GL}_2\mathbb F_q$
Nov. 24Haoran YinQuillen's theorem A and BQuillen, Higher Algebraic K-theory: I (1972)
Nov. 26Jiantong LiuQuillen's devissage theorem and localization theorem
Nov. 28Suslin's rigidity theoremSuslin, On the K-theory of Algebraically Closed Fields (1983)
Dec. 5
Spring 2024
DateSpeakerTopicReference
Jan. 26N/AOrganizational meetingN/A
Feb. 2Jiantong Liu$+=Q$ theoremGrayson, Higher Algebraic K-theory: II (1976)
Feb. 9
Feb. 16Haoran YinWaldhausen S-constructionWaldhausen, Algebraic K-theory of Spaces (1983)
Feb. 23Waldhausen additivity
Mar. 1
Mar. 8Juhan KimChow group and Bloch's formulaQuillen, Higher Algebraic K-theory: I (1972)
Mar. 29Levi PoonSpectral categories and stable $\infty$-categoriesBlumberg, Gepner, and Tabuada, A Universal Characterization of Higher Algebraic K-theory (2013)
Apr. 5Symmetric monoidal structure and dualizable objects
Apr. 12Timmy FengMorita theory
Apr. 19Exact sequences, additivity
Apr. 26Levi PoonConnective and non-connective K-theory