Talks were held on Saturday, October 5 in 509 Lake Hall.

Schedule:

10:00-10:50 Ismar Volic (Wellesley College), “Graph complexes and the cohomology of braids”

11:00-11:50 Jenny Wilson (University of Michigan), “The Steinberg module of the special linear group of a number ring”

Lunch

2:30-3:20 Dev Sinha (University of Oregon), “Configuration spaces and Hopf invariants”

3:30-4:20 Melody Chan (Brown University), “The S_n-equivariant top-weight Euler characteristic of M_{g,n}”