Cobordisms and the Thom Spectrum
Summary:
In the first part, I give a whimsical introduction to cobordisms, what they do for algebraic topologists, and how they come up in mathematics. In the second, I construct the Thom spectrum associated to the cobordism cohomology theory, using the Pontryagin-Thom construction.
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Here’s a video of the first half of this talk: