Homotopy Invariant Algebraic Structures : A Conference in Honor of Mike Boardman.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Publications of J. Michael Boardman -- Some History -- Letter from R. Thorn -- Higher homotopies, Pacts, and the bar construction -- The hare and the tortoise -- Cobordism of involutions revisited, revisited -- Grafting Boardman's cherry trees to quantum field theory -- My time as Mike Boardman's student and our work on infinite loop spaces -- Research Papers -- Stabilizing the lower operations for mod two cohomology -- Conditionally convergent spectral sequences -- Introduction -- Part I - Tools -- Part II - Convergence -- Part III - Examples -- References -- On K( n )-equivalences of spaces -- Tesselations of moduli spaces and the mosaic operad -- Hopf rings, Dieudonné modules, and E*Ω2S3 -- The structure of the Bousfield lattice -- Transfinite spectral sequences -- The Z/p-equivariant complex cobordism ring -- Hopf constructions, Samelson products, and suspension maps -- Embedding homotopy spheres and the Kervaire invariant -- Adjoining roots of unity to E∞ ring spectra in good cases - a remark -- Grothendieck topology and the Picard group of a complex orbifold -- Formal schemes and formal groups -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Schemes -- 3. Non-affine schemes -- 4. Formal schemes -- 5. Formal curves -- 6. Formal groups -- 7. Ordinary formal groups -- 8. Formal schemes in algebraic topology -- References -- Simplicial commutative Fp-algebras through the looking-glass of the Fp-local spaces -- The swiss-cheese operad -- K(n + 1) equivalence implies K(n) equivalence.

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