Date & Time: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 16:00-17:00.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Title: Topology of Kac-Moody Groups
Speaker: Nitu Kitchloo, UC San Diego
Abstract: I'll describe the topological nature of Kac-Moody groups and their classifying spaces. My aim is to show that they behave much like Lie groups in terms of their cohomology.