Manchester Geometry Seminar 2003/2004
Semester 1
Time: Thursdays 4pm
Location: N6 Mathematics Tower, UMIST, Manchester M60
1QD.
(Follow this link from
UMIST home page
if you need directions.)
We meet about 3.45 to collect tea, then take it to the seminar room, where there will be biscuits. Each lecture begins at 4pm and must end, including questions, by 5.30pm. Visit the main page to find more information about the seminar.
Geometry and Mathematical Physics (postgraduate seminar)
- October 9:
Dr Theodore Voronov, (UMIST): Higher derived brackets and homotopy algebras
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October 16:
Prof Dmitri Alekseevsky, (University of Hull): Quaternionic and para-quaternionic CR manifolds
- October 23:
Prof Roger J. Plymen, (University of Manchester): Geometry of the smooth dual of GL(n)
- October 30, November 6: No seminar. UMIST reading week
- November 13:
Dr Kirill C.H. Mackenzie, (University of Sheffield): Duality for triple and multiple structures
- November 20:
Prof Victor Buchstaber, (Steklov Mathematical Institute): Cohomology of unipotent groups
- November 27:
Dr James Montaldi, (UMIST): Local geometry of the momentum map
- December 4:
Prof Dmitri Vassiliev, (University of Bath): Do we really live in a Riemannian world?
- December 11:
Prof John Hunton, (University of Leicester): Invariants for aperiodic order
- December 18:
Prof Vladimir Manuilov, (Moscow State University): Almost representations and asymptotic representations of discrete groups, and K-theory
Ted Voronov.
16/29 November 2003