KTH/SU Mathematics Colloquium
07-03-28
Wojciech Chacholski, KTH
How to quantify complexity of fibrations of topological spaces
In this talk I will illustrate how to use modern homotopy theory
to quantify complexity of fibrations of topological spaces.
To quantify something means to compare it with something
else which is presumed to be more fundamental. In our case
we take amalgamated sums as such fundamental operations.
I will illustrate in these terms the nilpotence theorem of Devinatz,
Hopkins and Smith.