Manchester Geometry Seminar 2001/2002

Each lecture begins at 3pm and must end shortly after 4pm. Normally we have tea and biscuits after the lecture and enjoy informal discussion.

More information about the seminar is on the main page.

• January 24:
  Dr Arkady Skopenkov, (Independent University of Moscow): On embeddings of 4-manifolds into R⁷
• January 31:
  Dr Reg Wood, (University of Manchester): The Steenrod algebra and the hit problem
• February 7, 21: No seminar. Visiting day at the University of Manchester
• February 14:
  Dr Juan-Pablo Ortega, (Institut Non Linéaire de Nice): Singular dual pairs and optimal momentum maps
• February 28:
  Prof Peter Giblin, (University of Liverpool): Medial axes and other symmetry sets
• March 7, 21: No seminar. Visiting day at the University of Manchester
• March 14:
  Prof David Elworthy, (University of Warwick): Geometric analysis on path spaces of Riemannian manifolds
  Easter break: 25 March -- 12 April. (Latin Easter: 31 March)
• April 18: No seminar
• April 25:
  Dr Andrew Baker, (University of Glasgow): Cores of spectra
• Tuesday, 30th April (Manchester Algebra Seminar):
  Dr Joel Segal (Canterbury): Invariant theory on the algebra of divided powers
• May 2: No seminar. Orthodox Great Thursday (Orthodox Easter: 22 April/5 May)
• May 9:
  Prof John C. Wood, (University of Leeds): Jacobi fields along harmonic maps
• May 16: (two talks, both at the usual location):
  
  1. Dr Mikhail Bondarko, (S.-Petersburg State University): Explicit classification of formal groups over local fields
     Extra talk, 1.45pm
  2. Dr J. V. Armitage, (University of Durham): Gauss sums and quantum mechanics
     Regular talk, 3pm
• May 23:
  Dr Jean Gillibert, (Université de Caen): Hopf-Galois theory and elliptic curves
• May 30:
  Dr Tom Leinster, (University of Cambridge): Higher categorical structures for topology and geometry