Manchester Geometry Seminar 2002/2003

We meet about 3.45 to collect tea, then take it to the seminar room, where there will be biscuits. Each lecture begins at 4 p.m. and must end, including questions, by 5.30 p.m. Visit the main page to find more information about the seminar.

• September 26:
  Dr Taras Panov (Moscow State University): Cobordism invariants of manifolds with finite group actions
• October 3:
  Prof Mark Hovey, (Wesleyan University and the Newton Institute): Chromatic comodules in algebraic topology
• October 10:
  Prof Douglas Ravenel, (University of Rochester): The telescope conjecture in stable homotopy theory
• October 17:
  Mr Vitalij Kurlin, (Moscow State University): Three-page presentations for links and knotted graphs in the three-space
• October 24:
  Prof Brooke Shipley, (Purdue University): Rings up to homotopy
• October 31:
  Dr Theodore Voronov, (UMIST): Algebra of densities and geometric structure of differential operators on manifolds
• November 7: No seminar. UMIST reading week
• November 14:
  Prof Yuri Safarov, (King's College London): Birkhoff's theorem for weighted graphs
• November 21:
  Prof Victor Buchstaber, (Steklov Mathematical Institute): Polynomial Lie algebras
• November 28:
  Prof Mary Rees, (University of Liverpool): Geodesics in Teichmüller space, and applications
• December 5:
  Prof John McCleary, (Vassar College): Hochschild homology and the closed geodesics problem

Merry Christmas!

Western Christmas: 25 December (Gregorian), Orthodox Christmas: 25 December (Julian) = 7 January (Gregorian)