Manchester Geometry Seminar 2001/2002
Semester 1
Time: Thursdays 3pm
Location: N6 Mathematics Tower, UMIST, Manchester M60
1QD.
(Follow this link from
UMIST home page
if you need directions.)
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. Visit the main page to find more information about the seminar.
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October 11:
Dr Johannes Kellendonk, (University of Cardiff): The Integer Quantum Hall Effect and Bott periodicity in non-commutative topology: linking bulk and boundary
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October 18:
Dr Bill Lionheart,
(UMIST): Geometric electromagnetics
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October 25:
Prof Dmitry Alekseevsky, (University of Hull): A twistor construction of (minimal) Kähler submanifolds of a quaternionic Kähler manifold
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November 1:
Prof Neil White, (University of Florida): Grassmann-Cayley algebra and instantaneous robotics
- November 8:
Dr Peter Eccles: (University of Manchester): Double point surfaces of immersions
- November 15:
Prof Victor Buchstaber, (Moscow State University): Universal fibrations of the symmetric powers of algebraic curves. Classical problems and modern applications
- November 22:
Dr Kirill C. H. Mackenzie, (University of Sheffield): 2-Groupoids, double groupoids, and flatness
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November 29:
Prof Hugh Morton, (University of Liverpool): Skein theory and the Murphy operators
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December 6:
Prof Tim Porter, (University of Wales, Bangor): Fibrations, crossed modules and higher-dimensional algebra
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December 13:
Prof Robin Tucker, (Lancaster University): Non-Riemannian gravity - an overview
Ted Voronov.
7 December 2001