Manchester Geometry Seminar 1999/2000

Semester 2

Attention! Please notice the COW algebraic geometry seminar on May 30 at UMIST.

• January 20:
  Prof Nigel Ray, ( University of Manchester): Toric manifolds and stably complex structures
• January 27:
  Dr Theodore Voronov, ( UMIST): Quantization of forms on the cotangent bundle
• February 3:
  Prof John Rawnsley, (University of Warwick): Symplectic connections
• February 10: No seminar
• February 17:
  Dr Victor Abrashkin, (Steklov Institute and the University of Cambridge ): A local analogue of the Grothendieck Conjecture
• February 24:
  Prof Ivan Fesenko, (University of Nottingham ): Sequential methods in number theory
• March 2:
  Dr Oganes Khudaverdian, (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and UMIST): Differential-geometric invariants of odd symplectic structures and Quantum Field Theory
• March 9:
  Dr Ulrike Tillmann, (University of Oxford): Characteristic classes of surface bundles and wrong way maps
• Joint session with the Manchester Algebra Seminar
  Tuesday, March 14, UMIST Maths Tower, Room M14, 4 p.m.:
  Dr Pavol Ševera, (University of Oxford): Kramers-Wannier duality and 3d topology
• March 16:
  Dr Victor Goryunov, (University of Liverpool): Function singularities and complex reflection groups
• March 23:
  Prof Sergei Vostokov, (S.-Petersburg State University): Explicit reciprocity laws - yesterday and today
• March 30:
  Dr Kirill C.H. Mackenzie, (University of Sheffield): A unified approach to Poisson reduction (More, in PDF format.)
• Joint session with the Manchester Algebra Seminar
  Tuesday, April 4, UMIST Maths Tower, Room M14, 4 p.m.:
  Prof Askar Dzhumadil'daev, (Institute of Mathematics, Kazakhstan National Academy of Sciences): Cohomologies, deformations and identities of Lie algebras of vector fields
• April 6:
  Prof Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, (Ecole Polytechnique): Odd Poisson manifolds

April 8 -- May 1: Easter break. (Orthodox Easter: 30 April, Latin Easter: 23 April)

• May 4: Special session
  Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, (University of Cambridge):
  • Rational points on diagonal cubic surfaces. Usual time and location
  • Designing efficient Liapounov functions. UMIST Maths Tower, Room M12, 4.30 p.m.
• May 11:
  Prof Alexander Reznikov, (University of Durham): Analytic topology of groups and spaces
• May 18:
  Prof Peter McMullen, (University College London): Convex polytopes: algebra and combinatorics.
• May 25:
  Mr Yusuf Civan, ( University of Manchester): Topology of torus actions on varieties and manifolds
• Tuesday, May 30, UMIST Maths Tower, Room M12, 1 p.m :
  COW Algebraic geometry seminar