Speaker: Andrey Lazarev from the University of Leicester, UK

Title: Models for function spaces

Abstract: This work gives rational homotopy models for function spaces F(X,Y), where Y is a nilpotent complex. It relies on the notion of a Maurer-Cartan element and one not entirely obvious idea. The result is not particularly surprising and gives a conceptual explanation of several other related results (by Haefliger, Sullivan, Anderson et al).