Albert Jinghui Yang, University of Pennsylvania
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CMU 230
In this talk, I will discuss the construction of a spectral sequence known as the Bousfield–Kan spectral sequence (BKSS). As an example, I will briefly introduce an important tool (my favorite one!) called the descent spectral sequence, which is a variant of the BKSS used in computations of THH (topological Hochschild homology) of local fields. Using this technique, I will outline the idea behind the computation of THH of local fields without carrying out the full calculation. No background in THH will be assumed.