Manchester Geometry Seminar
and
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar
2009/2010: Semester 2
Time: Thursdays 4.15pm (for the Manchester Geometry Seminar)
Thursdays 3.00pm (for the Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar)
Location: The Frank Adams Room (Room 1.212), the Alan Turing building (FA 1 or FA 2).
Starting from 2009-2010, we run the two seminars in combination. Visit the main page to find more information, in particular, programmes of talks for previous years. For the Manchester Geometry Seminar, we meet about 3.45 to collect tea, then take it to the seminar room (FA 1), where there will be biscuits; each lecture begins at 4.15pm.
- February 4: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2, and 4.15pm, FA 1.
Special Programme on Double and Multiple Structures
Kirill Mackenzie: Integration of Lie algebroids. II
Kirill will give a recap of last semester and outline the
next stages in the proof of the Crainic-Fernandes result.
- February 11: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
Dr James Montaldi, (University of Manchester): Morse theory for invariant functions
- February 18: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
Dr Jean-Philippe Michel, (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1): Quantization and conformal geometries of the supercotangent and spinor bundles.
- February 25: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
Prof. Victor Buchstaber, (Steklov Mathematical Institute and University of Manchester):
Polytopes, Hopf Algebras, and Quasi-Symmetric Functions
- March 4: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2, and 4.15pm, FA 1.
Special Programme on Double and Multiple Structures
Ted Voronov: More on Q-manifolds and Lie algebroids
Ted will recall the language of Q-manifolds for Lie algebroids and their morphisms with the aim of understanding integration. Then "non-linear Lie algebroids" and a "non-Abelian Poincaré lemma" will be discussed.
- March 11: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
Mr Qusay Al-Zamil, (University of Manchester): Witten-Hodge theory for manifolds with boundary and a torus action
- March 18: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
Prof. John Rawnsley, (University of Warwick): Symplectic connections
- March 25: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2, and 4.15pm, FA 1.
Special Programme on Double and Multiple Structures
Ted Voronov: More on Q-manifolds and Lie algebroids. II
Ted wishes to discuss the "non-Abelian Poincaré lemma" and its application to Lie algebroids, which we had no time for at the previous meeting, and he will also try to say more on integration of Lie algebras to Lie groups using Q-manifolds.
Easter break: Saturday 27 March to Sunday 18 April. [Latin Easter and Orthodox Easter fall on the same day: Sunday 4 April (= 22 March in Julian calendar).]
Ted Voronov. 14 (27) April 2010