The dual Steenrod algebra

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Robert Krone – Georgia Tech – krone@math.gatech.edu
Organizer
Robert Krone

Please Note: For Prof. Wickelgren's Stable Homotopy Theory class

The Steenrod algebra consists of all natural transformations of cohomology over a prime field. I will present work of Milnor showing that the Steenrod algebra also has a natural coalgebra structure and giving an explicit description of the dual algebra.