Equivariant Cohomology

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Iman Setayesh, Princeton University
Fine Hall 314

A cohomology theory is a way of associating a complex of abelian groups to a topological space. Study of such complexes gives geometric information about the structure of the space. Moreover if we have an action of a suitable group on a space we can associate another such complex to that space which carries more information. I will sketch main ideas of this construction and provide some examples.