Manchester Geometry Seminar 2004/2005.

(There is an accompanying postgraduate seminar: Geometry and Mathematical Physics)

(Follow this link from UMIST home page if you need directions.)

We meet about 3.45 to collect tea, then take it to the seminar room, where there will be biscuits. Each lecture begins at 4pm. Visit the main page to find more information about the seminar.

• October 14:
  Prof Victor Buchstaber, (Steklov Mathematical Institute): Hyperelliptic addition law
• October 21: No seminar
• October 28: Transferred to Friday, as a joint meeting with the NBFAS and K-theory Day
  Friday 29 October, Room 2.11 Maths Tower on Oxford Road
  Prof John Roe, (Penn State):
  Talk 1 (2pm): Generalized amenability and assembly maps
  Talk 2 (3.30pm): The analytic structure set
• November 4: No seminar (UMIST reading week)
• November 11:
  Dr Theodore Voronov, (University of Manchester): Homotopy theory of Lie superalgebras and derived brackets
• November 18:
  Dr Ivan Cheltsov, (University of Edinburgh): On factoriality of nodal threefolds
• November 25:
  Dr David Calderbank, (University of Edinburgh): Toric selfdual Einstein metrics
• December 2:
  Dr David Wraith, (NUI Maynooth): New surgery techniques for positive Ricci curvature
• December 9:
  Prof D. Gurevich, (Université de Valenciennes): Quantum algebras in noncommutative geometry
• December 16: No seminar. Owens Maths Tower farewell party

The seminar resumes its work in February 2005.

Merry Christmas!