Manchester Geometry Seminar 2000/2001

Normally we meet about 2.45 to collect tea, then take it to the seminar room, where there will be biscuits. Each lecture begins at 3 p.m. and must end, including questions, by 4.30 p.m.

• October 5:
  Prof John Jones, (University of Warwick): String homology and Hochschild cohomology
• October 12:
  Dr Paul Turner, (Heriot-Watt University): Homotopy quantum field theories
• October 19:
  Dr Theodore Voronov, (UMIST): Graded manifolds and Drinfeld classical doubles
• October 26:
  Prof Oleg Smolyanov, (Moscow State University): Diffusion on Riemannian manifolds via surface measures
• November 2:
  Dr Oleg Chalykh, (Moscow State University and Loughborough University): Root systems and Macdonald polynomials
• November 9:
  Dr Adrian Langer, (University of Warwick): Orbifold Chern classes with applications
• November 16:
  Dr Martin Crossley, (University of Wales Swansea): Higher conjugation in commutative Hopf algebras
• November 23:
  Dr Hovhannes Khudaverdyan, (UMIST and Joint Institute of Nuclear Research): Double complexes and cohomological hierarchy in the space of weakly invariant Lagrangians of mechanics
• November 30:
  Dr Gregory Arone, (University of Aberdeen): Calculus of functors, spaces of embeddings, and a touch of Vassiliev knot invariants
• December 7:
  Prof Victor Buchstaber, (Moscow State University): The Gelfand map, symmetric products and multisymmetric polynomials. Part 1
• December 14:
  Prof Elmer Rees, (University of Edinburgh): The Gelfand map, symmetric products and multisymmetric polynomials. Part 2