Date: Friday 2 December 2011, 4:30pm Location: Hempfield High School, Room 213 Speaker: Ron Umble, Millersville University Title: Non-operadic operations on loop cohomology Abstract. We construct a space X whose (base pointed) loop cohomology H = H*(ΩX;Z2) comes equipped with a nontrivial operation ω :H x H → H x H. This is the first known example of a loop space with an induced non-operadic operation on its cohomology.