Homotopy theory via algebraic geometry and group representations : proceedings of a Conference on Homotopy Theory, March 23-27, 1997, Northwestern University / Mark Mahowald, Stewart Priddy, editors
Preface -- Plenary talks -- Buildings, group extensions and the cohomology of congruence subgroups -- Heeke algebras acting on elliptic cohomology -- Some root invariants and Steenrod operations in ExtA(F2, F2) -- Toward homology operations for mapping class groups -- Spanier-Whitehead duality and critical points -- Comparing completions of a space at a prime -- Toward the homotopy groups of the higher real K-theory E02 -- Skew symmetric bundle maps -- The Adams spectral sequence for Minami's theorem -- Applications of the Minami-Webb formula to splitting classifying spaces
Brave new worlds in stable homotopy theory -- The stable splitting of BM12 and related groups -- On the Kervaire invariant problem -- Schur Q-functions and a Kontsevich-Witten genus -- Stable splittings of classifying spaces of amalgams of finite groups -- What we still don't know about loop spaces of spheres -- A topological calculus for formal power series -- Notes on the Hopkins-Miller theorem -- Commutative Morava homology Hopf algebras -- Problems
