Advances in Homotopy Theory
Papers in Honour of I M James, Cortona 1988

This volume records the lectures given at a conference to celebrate Professor Ioan James' 60th birthday.

S. Salamon (Edited by), B. Steer (Edited by), W. Sutherland (Edited by)

9780521379076, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 December 1989

192 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.298 kg

This volume records the lectures given at a conference to celebrate Professor Ioan James' 60th birthday. Ioan James has made significant contributions to homotopy theory, highlighting problems and initiating new methods. The present volume contains papers from internationally distinguished researcher workers which lead on from recent and exciting breakthroughs. It will be important for all homotopy theorists as both a statement of current research and as a signpost for new directions.

Preface
Publications of I. M. James
1. Homotopy fixed points in the algebraic K-theory of certain infinite discrete groups G. Carlsson
2. Applications of loop spaces to some problems in topology F. R. Cohen
3. Invariants spheres and critical points M. C. Crabb
4. Bitangent spheres and critical points Duan H.-E. Rees
5. The enveloping ring of a II-algebra W. G. Dwyer and D. M. Kan
6. Cohomologie des groupes symétriques et application de Quillen J. H. Gunawardena, J. Lannes and S. Zarati
7. Looping Massey-Peterson towers J. R. Harper and H. R. Miller
8. Characters and elliptic cohomology M. J. Hopkins
9. Self maps of H-spaces J. R. Hubbuck
10. Character rings in algebraic topology N. J. Kuhn
11. The rank filtration of Quillen's Q-construction S. A. Mitchell
12. Obstruction theory and the strict associativity of Morava K-theories C. A. Robinson
13. Loop groups and harmonic maps G. B. Segal
14. An almost groupoid structure for the space of (open) strings and implications for string field theory J. D. Stasheff
15. Steenrod squares of polynomials R. M. W. Wood.

Subject Areas: Algebraic topology [PBPD]