Homotopy Invariant Algebraic Structures AMS SpecialsSession on Homotopy Theory, January 1998, Baltimore, MD

Jean-Pierre Torrell is a Dominican priest of the Toulouse province and professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg. From 1973 to 1981, he taught at the Gregorian University in Rome and was a member of the Leonine Commission, where he contributed to research on and editing of Aquinas's works.

Some history: Note by R. Thom Higher homotopies, pacts, and the bar construction by S. Mac Lane The hare and the tortoise by J. P. May Cobordism of involutions revisited, revisited by J. Morava Grafting Boardman's cherry trees to quantum field theory by J. Stasheff My time as Mike Boardman's student and our work on infinite loop spaces by R. M. Vogt Research papers: Stabilizing the lower operations for mod two cohomology by T. P. Bisson, D. J. Pengelley, and F. Williams Conditionally convergent spectral sequences by J. M. Boardman On $K(n)$-equivalences of spaces by A. K. Bousfield Tessellations of moduli spaces and the mosaic operad by S. L. Devadoss Hopf rings, Dieudonne modules, and $E_/ast/Omega^2S^3$ by P. G. Goerss The structure of the Bousfield lattice by M. Hovey and J. H. Palmieri Transfinite spectral sequences by P. Hu The $/mathbb{Z}/p$-equivariant complex cobordism ring by I. Kriz Hopf constructions, Samelson products, and suspension maps by K. Morisugi Embedding homotopy spheres and the Kervaire invariant by D. Randall Adjoining roots of unity to $E_/infty$ ring spectra in good cases-A remark by R. Schwanzl, R. M. Vogt, and F. Waldhausen Grothendieck topology and the Picard group of a complex orbifold by B. Steer and A. Wren Formal schemes and formal groups by N. P. Strickland Simplicial commutative $F_p$-algebras through the looking-glass of $F_p$-local spaces by J. M. Turner The Swiss-cheese operad by A. A. Voronov $K(n + 1)$ equivalence implies $K(n)$ equivalence by W. S. Wilson.