University of Georgia
Department of Mathematics

Seminar Schedule
January 8, 2004

All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.

THURSDAY, January 8, 2004

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00p.m., Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

Colloquium
3:30p.m., Room 304
Speaker: Mark Feshbach
Title of talk: "The cohomology of Coxeter groups"
Abstract: Coxeter groups are well known for having very pleasing properties. In this talk we show that the mod two cohomology of finite Coxeter groups is quite nice as well. The main result is that a map defined by Quillen is an isomorphism. In practice this means that one can understand the cohomology of these groups more easily than most. The result is joint work with Jean Lannes.