| Abstract: | Central in the topological approach to toric geometry are several important spaces which include moment-angle complexes, the Davis-Januszkiewicz space and toric manifolds. In any complex-oriented cohomology theory, the cohomology rings of many of these spaces have elegant descriptions in terms of the underlying combinatorics. For KO-theory however the situation is more complex. Even so, a surprising amount of the structure does survive from the complex-oriented case. Necessary for the calculation is an explicit computation of the ring structure of KO-theory of an arbitrary product of infinite dimensional projective spaces. A report of joint work with: Luis Astey, Martin Bendersky, Fred Cohen, Don Davis, Sam Gitler, Mark Mahowald, Nigel Ray and Reg Wood. |